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James Burton: Ambiguous Utopias
Ambiguous Utopias
(S. 185 – 208)
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James Burton

Ambiguous Utopias
Science Fiction and Minor Cosmopolitanism

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  • Kosmopolitik
  • Politik
  • Kunsttheorie
  • Globalisierung
  • Kunst

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James Burton

is a lecturer in Cultural Studies and Cultural History at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research concerns the philosophy and cultural politics of science fiction, memory, post-humanism, ecology and error. A former research fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr University, Bochum, he is the author of The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), and co-editor with Erich Hörl of General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm (London: Bloomsbury, 2017).
Zairong Xiang (Hg.): minor cosmopolitan
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Zairong Xiang (Hg.)

minor cosmopolitan
Thinking Art, Politics, and the Universe Together Otherwise

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PDF, 256 Seiten

Cosmopolitanism is a theory about how to live together. The earliest formulation of cosmopolitanism in the West could be dated to as early as the fourth century BCE in ancient Greece by Diogenes, who famously said that he was a “citizen of the world – kosmopolitês,” an idea later picked up by Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who proposed a philosophy of a world of “perpetual peace.” When cosmopolitanism first emerged as a political idea for modernity in the European Enlightenment, the project embraced the liberal promises of a globalizing economy, yet remained oblivious to, and even complicit with, capitalism, slavery and colonialism. It centered on the male, bourgeois, and white liberal subject, irrespective of the ongoing disenfranchisement, dehumanization, and extermination of its Others.

 

At the dawn of the 21st century, and in the wake of rapid globalization however, academics, politicians and other pundits enthusiastically declared cosmopolitanism to be no longer just a philosophical ideal, but a real, existing fact. Across the globe, they argued, people were increasingly thinking and feeling beyond the nation, considering themselves citizens of the world. Meanwhile, the global ecological crisis worsens, fascism with different outfits returns in many places of the world, the repression of women, sexual, racial, class and other minorities on a global scale persists; the so called “refugee crisis” inundates the mediascape and political spectacle. Not much of those cosmopolitan promises have left it seems. Perhaps precisely because of this, however, it seems to be an absolute necessity for scholars, activists, and artists today to face the complexities and promises cosmopolitanism has raised although not adequately answered. What has happened to the cosmopolitan promise, and who betrayed it?

 

“Minor cosmopolitanisms” wishes to challenge the underlying premises of ‘major’ cosmopolitanism without letting go of the unfulfilled emancipatory potential of the concept at large. It wants to rethink cosmopolitanisms in the plural, and trace multiple origins and trajectories of cosmopolitan thought from across the globe. Regarding cosmopolitanisms as emerging through diverse locally, historically and politically specific practices, minor cosmopolitanisms are predicated on difference without abandoning the quest for a shared vision of conviviality and justice. It seeks to answer: how to live at once with our difference and shared struggle? How to think our complicity with even those we most resist? Who sustains the world’s flourishing despite all this?

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