@misc{20271, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) and Jodi Dean (b. 1962) and Saroj Giri and Agon Hamza and Kojin Karatani (b. 1941) and Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) and Frank Ruda and Alberto Toscano (b. 1977) and Kathi Weeks and Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949)}, editor = {Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949)}, title = {"An American Utopia"}, abstract = {
The author discusses his utopia based on a universal army, similar in some ways to Bellamy’s Industrial Army, as the best way to deal with the current economic situation. The utopia was originally given as a keynote address at the 2013 meeting of the Society of Utopian Studies in Charleston, SC, and the utopia in the address was much more detailed than in the published version. The comments are Robinson, “Mutt and Jeff Push the Button” (97-104), which is fiction (see 2016 Robinson); Jodi Dean, “Dual Power Redux” (105-32); Saroj Giri, “The Happy Accident of a Utopia” (133-45); Agon Hamza, “From the Other Scene to the Other State: Jameson’s Dialectic of Dual Power” (147-68); Kojin Karatani, “A Japanese Utopia” (169-82); Frank Ruda, “ Jameson and Method: On Comic Utopianism” (183-210); Alberto Toscano, “After October, Before February: Figures of Dual Power” (211-41); Kathi Weeks, “Utopian Therapy: Work, Nonwork, and the Political Imagination (243-65); and Slavoj Žižek, “The Seeds of Imagination” (267-308); followed by “An America Utopia: Epilogue” by Jameson (309-17).
}, year = {2016}, journal = {An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army}, pages = {1-96}, month = {01/2016}, publisher = {Verso}, address = {London}, language = {eng}, }