SUGGESTED READINGS
The following is a list of readings/films that have been suggested for the reading group. Should have any suggestions or thoughts on readings/films, please contact Mark Steinberg ([email protected]) or Mark Sanchez ([email protected])
Buck-Morss, Susan, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2002)
Claeys, Gregory, Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea (2011)
Cioran, Emil. History and Utopia (1960)
Conklin, Alice. In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950
Cooper, Davina Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces (2013)
Duara, Prasenjit. “The Discourse of Civilization and Pan-Asianism,” Journal of World History 12/1 (2001): 99-130.
Euben, Roxanne, Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism: A Work of
Comparative Political Theory
Galindo, Alberto In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes (New Approaches to the Americas) (2010)
Gallardo, Pere and Elizabeth Russell, ed., Yesterday's Tomorrows: On Utopia and Dystopia (2014)
Geroulanos, Stefanos An Atheism That is not Humanist Emerges in French Thought (2010)
Gordin, Michael, Helen Tilley and Gyan Prakash eds., Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility (2010)
Griffin, Michael and Tom Moylan, eds, Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice (2008)
Harris, Jonathan. The Utopian Globalists: Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919-2009 (2013)
Harvey, David, Spaces of Hope (Berkeley, 2000).
Jameson, Fredric, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2005)
Jones, Angela, A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture) (2013)
Levitas, Ruth The Concept of Utopia (1990); Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society (2013)
Munoz, Jose Esteban, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009)
Paik, Peter From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
Rahnema, Ali, An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shariati
Ramnath, Maia, Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (2011)
Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle (2012)
Ricoeur, Paul, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)
Spieler, Miranda Frances , Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana,
Thompson, Peter and Slavoj Žižek, eds. The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia
Wegner, Philip Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity (2002)
Weitz, Eric A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (2003)
Winter, Jay, Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century (2006)
& “utopian/dystopian” texts?: e.g. Plato, More, Winstanley, Fourier, Saint-Simon, Marx, Bellamy, Morris, Wells, Zamiatin, Orwell, Huxley, Skinner, LeGuin, Piercy, Dick, etc…
FILMS
La Commune—Paris, 1871 (2013)
Red Ant Dream (docum. 2013)
Utopia (docum. 2013)
Que viva Mexico
Metropolis
Forbidden Planet
The following is a list of readings/films that have been suggested for the reading group. Should have any suggestions or thoughts on readings/films, please contact Mark Steinberg ([email protected]) or Mark Sanchez ([email protected])
Buck-Morss, Susan, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2002)
Claeys, Gregory, Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea (2011)
Cioran, Emil. History and Utopia (1960)
Conklin, Alice. In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950
Cooper, Davina Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces (2013)
Duara, Prasenjit. “The Discourse of Civilization and Pan-Asianism,” Journal of World History 12/1 (2001): 99-130.
Euben, Roxanne, Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism: A Work of
Comparative Political Theory
Galindo, Alberto In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes (New Approaches to the Americas) (2010)
Gallardo, Pere and Elizabeth Russell, ed., Yesterday's Tomorrows: On Utopia and Dystopia (2014)
Geroulanos, Stefanos An Atheism That is not Humanist Emerges in French Thought (2010)
Gordin, Michael, Helen Tilley and Gyan Prakash eds., Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility (2010)
Griffin, Michael and Tom Moylan, eds, Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice (2008)
Harris, Jonathan. The Utopian Globalists: Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919-2009 (2013)
Harvey, David, Spaces of Hope (Berkeley, 2000).
Jameson, Fredric, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2005)
Jones, Angela, A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture) (2013)
Levitas, Ruth The Concept of Utopia (1990); Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society (2013)
Munoz, Jose Esteban, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009)
Paik, Peter From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
Rahnema, Ali, An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shariati
Ramnath, Maia, Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (2011)
Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle (2012)
Ricoeur, Paul, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)
Spieler, Miranda Frances , Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana,
Thompson, Peter and Slavoj Žižek, eds. The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia
Wegner, Philip Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity (2002)
Weitz, Eric A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (2003)
Winter, Jay, Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century (2006)
& “utopian/dystopian” texts?: e.g. Plato, More, Winstanley, Fourier, Saint-Simon, Marx, Bellamy, Morris, Wells, Zamiatin, Orwell, Huxley, Skinner, LeGuin, Piercy, Dick, etc…
FILMS
La Commune—Paris, 1871 (2013)
Red Ant Dream (docum. 2013)
Utopia (docum. 2013)
Que viva Mexico
Metropolis
Forbidden Planet