Post-Apocalyptic Cultures: New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity

  1. Julia Urabayen ed. lit. 1
  2. Jorge León Casero ed. lit. 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Navarra
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    Universidad de Navarra

    Pamplona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02rxc7m23

  2. 2 Universidad de Zaragoza
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    Universidad de Zaragoza

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/012a91z28

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

ISSN: 2946-4471,  2946-448X

ISBN: 9783031505096,  9783031505102

Year of publication: 2024

Type: Book

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50510-2 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

Abstract

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.