Description
Book SynopsisConsiderable socio-political change has re-configured the discursive space once occupied by ‘
utopia’. Within the cultures of late capitalism and the organisational matrices of bio-political administration, that space is no longer animated by images of idealised states that are yet to come, or by a sense of simple failure in the production of those same states. Rather, it is overdetermined by a condition of differentiation in the representation of reality. The origins of that
differentiation of representation appear to lie deep within the modernist project.
In the Place of Utopia explores how that condition of representation might be animated anew by the
discursive circuits through which modernity has come to operate, so as to enliven the ability of transformative ideas to lever change from within a range of organic crises current to the world system: the financialisation of global capitalism; the subsumption of worker subjectivities to the logic of capital; the broadening of the metabolic rift through industrial-capitalism. Central to this animation of transformative ideas is the relationship between
language and
the body.
Table of ContentsContents: Utopia: What is to be done? – Mapping utopia – Beyond the discursive space of utopia – Back toward totality – The psychic life of ideas – The seeds of times future – For the love of water – The subjectivising effects of discursive spaces – Anxieties of the utopian urge – The sublime object(s) of utopia.
