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Utopian Studies • Disaster Studies • Critical Theory • Utopian Sci-fi & Science Fiction Studies • Intersectional Political Theory • Philosophy • Anarchism/Communism/Socialism vs Capitalism/Neoliberalism/Fascism
— All at the crossroads between the imagination of disaster and of utopia and at the intersection of the sociology of collapse/apocalypse and of revolution.
“Beloved (or “Extraordinary) Community” or dog-eat-dog ‘Survivalism’?
“Revolutionary Optimism” or ‘Doomerism’/‘Black Pill’?
“Joyful Militancy” or “Rigid Radicalism”/“Capitalist Realism”?
Utopia, or Apocalyptic Dystopia?
— All at the crossroads between the imagination of disaster and of utopia and at the intersection of the sociology of collapse/apocalypse and of revolution.
“Beloved (or “Extraordinary) Community” or dog-eat-dog ‘Survivalism’?
“Revolutionary Optimism” or ‘Doomerism’/‘Black Pill’?
“Joyful Militancy” or “Rigid Radicalism”/“Capitalist Realism”?
Utopia, or Apocalyptic Dystopia?
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
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Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
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Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
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Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future
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Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New Directions in Critical Theory, 17)
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Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society
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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
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3.77 avg rating — 2,298 ratings
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
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The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life
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Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse
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Shane Burley (Goodreads Author)
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Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
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The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos
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Walkaway
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 8,938 ratings
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Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
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The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921
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A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Volume 15) (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
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