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Intro -- Contents -- Thank You -- I. Introduction: Dystopia Today -- II. The Dystopian Genre -- 1. Genre, Etymology, and Definition of Utopian, Eutopian, and Dystopian Fiction -- 2. The History of Dystopian Fiction -- 3. Context, Criticism, and Rahel Jaeggi's Critique of Forms of Life (2014) -- 3.1. Classical Dystopian Fiction, State Totalitarianism, and 'External Criticism' -- 3.2. Contemporary Dystopian Fiction, Neoliberal Capitalism, and 'Immanent Criticism' -- Theorising Neoliberal Capitalism and Globalisation -- Neoliberalism and the Colonisation of the Imagination: Mark Fisher's 'Capitalist Realism' -- The (Im-)Possibility of Criticising Neoliberalism -- Contemporary Dystopian Writing, 'Immanent Criticism,' and David Grewal's Network Power (2008) -- III. 'Crowd-Founded' Dystopia: Dave Eggers' The Circle (2013) -- The Rise of the Circle -- The Company and Network Standards -- The Circlers' Loss of Identity and Longing for Recognition -- The 'Eutopian' Monopoly of the Circle -- IV. The Totalitarian Face of Neoliberalism: Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last (2015) -- The Eutopian Facade of Neoliberalism -- Involuntary Decisions Within Neoliberal Networks -- Totalitarianism as Product of the Free Market -- The Impossibility of Thinking beyond Neoliberal Capitalism -- V. Feeding Neoliberal Capitalism: M. T. Anderson's Feed (2002) -- The Commodification of Life and Nature -- Network Standards, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the Feed -- The Absence of Resistance -- The Inefficiency of 'External Criticism' -- VI. Predatory Capitalism Throughout History: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) -- The History of Capitalism -- Networks and Path Dependence -- Consumption and Its (Narratological) Limits -- Immanent Criticism' as Compass for Reform -- VII. Clones and Free-Market Capitalism: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005). |
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The Commodification of Life, Art, and Sex -- Individuals Within Networks -- The Confusion of Voluntariness and Freedom -- The Failure of 'External Criticism' -- VIII. Dystopia, 'Immanent Criticism,' and its Eutopian Implications -- IX. Bibliography. |
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