Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature

Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr Mohsin Hamid Bong Joon-ho Kim Stanley Robinson Lidia Yukavitch and Cory Doctorow this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality political representation mobility and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'.<br/><br/>Through its examination of these writers crises and texts this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.