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Media and Utopia
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ABSTRACT
Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political imagination. This volume addresses those utopian spaces historically constituted through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. Individual essays deal with non-Western histories of technopolitics through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between social form, everyday life, and utopian possibility, and by examining a range of media formats and genres � from print, sound, and film to new media. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of media studies, culture studies, sociology, modern South Asian history, and politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Archive and imagination
part II|70 pages
Genealogy
chapter 4|22 pages
Tracking utopias
chapter 5|30 pages
National becoming, regional variation and everyday moments
part III|86 pages
Nostalgia
chapter 7|20 pages
The labour of self-making
chapter 9|20 pages
Past futures of old media
part IV|52 pages
Newness
chapter 11|16 pages
Media and imagination
chapter 12|17 pages
Radical intervention in dystopian media ecologies
part V|30 pages
Word and the world
chapter 14|28 pages
Populist publics
part VI|37 pages
Political theology