Rethinking Utopia av David M. Bell

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<P>Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in ¿ or rather because of ¿ the condition of ¿post-utopianism¿ that supposedly permeates them. In <I>Rethinking Utopia</I> David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian studies, a variety of ¿radical¿ theories and the need for decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within, against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with hope for a better future.</P><P>He proposes paying a ¿subversive fidelity¿ to utopia, in which its three constituent terms: ¿good¿ (eu), ¿place¿ (topos), and ¿no¿ (ou) are rethought to assert the importance of immanent, affective relations. The volume engages with a variety of practices and forms to articulate such a utopianism, including popular education/critical pedagogy; musical improvisation; and uto