Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System [Hardcover]

The idea of Utopia has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding, and moving beyond, the current world system.Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: 'A map of the world which does not contain Utopia' 1. The End of Utopia at the Present Time 2. A Meditation on the Impossible 3. Power to the Imagination 4. Mapping the Postnational World System Conclusion: Hic Sunt Dracones Bibliography Index

A timely and significant intervention in contemporary discussions of globalization and utopia. The scope of the book is wide-ranging and ambitious, touching on a richly diverse set of topics, including contemporary critical theory, the figure of the world market, financial derivatives, the spaces of the global city, and narrative. - Phillip E. Wegner, Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar, University of Florida, USA and author of Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity, Life Between Two Deaths, 1989 2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties, and Periodizing Jameson; or, The Adventures of Theory in Post-Contemporary Times.