Description: Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction, this book investigates the commons as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures.
Brief description: Dr Raphael Kabo is an independent researcher investigating cultural production in, and adjacent to, contemporary global activist movements. He is a co-founder of the anarchist close reading collective Beyond Gender and the research network Utopian Acts.
Review Quotes:
"Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature makes a brilliant case for the importance of the utopian imagination in literature and social movements. In readings of contemporary authors like Kim Stanley Robinson, Juliana Spahr, and Mohsin Hamid, Raphael Kabo shows that the dream of a better society isn't a luxury but a necessity." --Christian P. Haines, Associate Professor, Penn State University, USA
"Kabo provides a refreshing look at utopian literature and gestures at the possibility of life beyond capitalism, making this a valuable resource not only for literary scholars or scholars of utopia but also for activists and dreamers everywhere." --Utopian Studies