Utopia/dystopia conditions of historical possibility / Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, and Gyan Prakash, editors.

Other author Gordin, Michael D.
Other author Tilley, Helen, 1968-
Other author Prakash, Gyan, 1952-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Descriptionvi, 293 p. ; 25 cm.
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Contents Utopia as method, or the uses of the future / Fredric Jameson -- Literacy and futurity: millennial dreaming on the nineteenth- century southern African frontier / Jennifer Wenzel -- Bourgeois categories made global: the utopian and actual lives of historical documents in India / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- The utopia of working phones: Rhodesian independence and the place of race in decolonization / Luise White -- Hydrocarbon utopia / Timothy Mitchell -- Techno-utopian dreams, techno-political realities: the education of desire for the peaceful atom / John Krige -- On cosmopolitanism, the avant- garde, and a lost innocence of central Europe / Marci Shore -- The breath of the possible: everyday utopianism and the street in modernist urbanism / David Pinder -- Stalinist confessions in an age of terror: Messianic times at the Leningrad communist universities / Igal Halfin -- The heterotopias of Dalit politics: becoming- subject and the consumption utopia / Aditya Nigam.
General note"Publication in partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University"--P. facing t.p.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN0691146977 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780691146980 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0691146985 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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