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Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect

Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

PhilosophyGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138891339
ISBN13: 9781138891333
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 7 2017
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Returning to the three constituent parts of the word: 'good' (eu), 'place' (topos) and 'no' (ou); Bell reflects how these words might be thought 'nomadically' - via a constellation of theory that asserts the importance of affective relations and posits difference as ontologically prior to identity. The 'good' draws on Deleuze and Spinoza's affective ethical thought; 'place' from contemporary political geography; and the 'no' theorized via a reading of Ahmed's critique of happiness and Foucault's work on power. Among the first to offer an extended reading of utopia through the lens of affect, whilst maintaining a critical stance vis a vis the recent 'affective turn' in the social sciences.

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