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  • Demand the Impossible

    Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination

    by Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini, Joachim Fischer, Michael Griffin ...
    Series Book 14 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative ... Read more

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  • Becoming Utopian

    The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation

    by Professor Tom Moylan ...
    A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan – one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies – explores the utopian process in its individual and collective trajectory from dream to realization. Drawing on theorists such as Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou and science fiction ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Dark Horizons

    Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination

    Edited by Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini ...
    First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more terrible than even the reality produced by the neo-conservative backlash of the 1980s and the neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s, utopian horizons ... Read more

    Was $83.99 CAD Now $74.19 CAD

  • Exploring the Utopian Impulse

    Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice

    Edited by Michael J. Griffin, Tom Moylan ...
    Series Book 2 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    Exploring the Utopian Impulse presents a series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors that explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the essays investigate key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices. Even as some critique Utopia, others extend its reach beyond the ... Read more

    $72.69 CAD

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    by Lindsey Pogue, Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Sparks ...
    Series Book 3 - The Ending Series
    The third book in THE ENDING SERIES.Hope brought them together, but it's now fear that drives them...and threatens to tear them apart.Zoe and her companions succeeded in rescuing Dani from the Colony. But not without sacrifice. Beaten and broken, they head west, determined to leave behind the torment and horrors they experienced in Colorado.As Dani and Zoe make the perilous trek home to Bodega Bay ... Read more

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  • Into The Fire

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    by Lindsey Pogue, Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Sparks ...
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    The second book in The Ending Series.The Virus changed them, but that was only the beginning……death…mutation…insanity…corruption…terror……all that remains is hope.In the wake of destruction left behind by the Virus, it took Dani and Zoe months to find each other. But their reunion was short-lived. Dani has been taken, and though little distance separates them, they might as well be worlds apart ... Read more

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  • The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

    by Laurence Davis, Tony Burns, Claire Curtis, Winter Elliot, Chris Ferns, Everett Hamner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Avery Plaw, Andrew Reynolds0, Ellen Rigsby1, Jennifer Rodgers2, Dan Sabia3, Bülent Somay4, Douglas Spencer5, Simon Stow6, Mark Tunick7 ...
    The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman ... Read more

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  • Existential Utopia

    New Perspectives on Utopian Thought

    Edited by Dr. Michael Marder, Dr. Patricia Vieira ...
    Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's politics.The original essays, contributed by key thinkers such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Utopia in the Age of Survival

    Between Myth and Politics

    by S. D. Chrostowska ...
    A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and critique might be leveraged in response to humanity's looming existential challenges.Utopia in the Age of Survival makes the case that critical social theory needs to reinstate utopia as a speculative myth. At the same time the left must reassume utopia ... Read more

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  • Manifestos for History

    Edited by Sue Morgan, Keith Jenkins, Alun Munslow ...
    Written by some of the world’s leading historians and theorists of history, Manifestos for History draws together a series of manifestos that address the question of what kinds of histories we ought to be considering and making in and for the twenty-first century. With a foreword by Joanna Bourke and an afterword by Hayden White, these manifestos – critical, innovative, reflexive, inspirational – ... Read more

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  • Modernism/Postmodernism

    Edited by Peter Brooker ...
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    The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these additionally alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His ... Read more

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  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay ...
    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... Read more

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