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Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System 2013th Edition
Author(s): Kenneth A. Loparo (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
- Publication Date: 26 Feb. 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 127 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230391893
- ISBN-13: 9780230391895
Book Description
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.
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Review
“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.
About the Author
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. He is the translator of Bertrand Westphal s Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces.
