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Post-Apocalyptic Cultures

New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity

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Editors:
  1. Julia Urabayen

    1. University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

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  2. Jorge León Casero

    1. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

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  • Develops a multidisciplinary approach to current political utopias
  • Argues that the new possibilities created in post-apocalytic cultures
  • Integrates the research of scholars from several countries on four continents

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism (PASU)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Technopolitics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Techno-naturans vs. Terraforming. The Technique-Nature Relationship in Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze, and Benjamin Bratton

      • Jorge León Casero
      Pages 3-20

    3. Cyberculture, U(Dys)topias, and Transformation

      • Rocío Rueda Ortiz
      Pages 21-38

    4. Utopian Smart Cities: Hangovers and Aftermaths

      • Enrique Cano-Suñén, José María Castejón
      Pages 39-55

    5. Returning to Forbidden Planet. Dystopia in the Times of Collapse

      • Andoni Alonso Puelles, Iñaki Arzoz
      Pages 57-73
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About this book

This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a future (apocalyptic ideology). However, this edited collection seeks to show that the post-apocalyptic world in which we live entails a renewed freedom of design for the radical reorganization of institutions. Post-apocalyptic cultures are not obligated to follow the capitalist, anthropocentric, correlationist and sovereign modes of the old political project of emancipation—the Western enlightenment—that has started to collapse. With this in mind, this book is divided into four sections dedicated to the main themes from which to rethink the projects of political emancipation that are possible nowadays: technopolitics; posthumanist biopolitics; non-western politicsl and the crossover between arts and politics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Julia Urabayen

  • University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Jorge León Casero

About the editors

Julia Urabayen is Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain. In recent years, she has mainly studied public-urban space, forms of political violence, citizenship and the city, as well as governance and feminist utopias. She has published several books, book chapters and articles.

Jorge León Casero is Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has been the head researcher of the Social Risk Map project. He is the author of several books, book chapters and articles.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Post-Apocalyptic Cultures

  • Book Subtitle: New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity

  • Editors: Julia Urabayen, Jorge León Casero

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50510-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50509-6Published: 20 March 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50512-6Due: 20 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50510-2Published: 19 March 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4471

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-448X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 288

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural History, History, general, Political History, Modern History

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