Utopia, Counter-Utopia  

Oleh:

Osborne, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of the Human Sciences vol. 16 no. 1 (Feb. 2003), page 123–136.
Topik: Walter Benjamin; Michel Foucault; Andrei Platonov; subjectivity; utopia
Fulltext: 123.pdf (77.84KB)

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This article addresses the question of utopia through some reflections on the work of the Russian writer Andrei Platonov (1899–1951). Platonov’s work represents an inspirational series of investigations into the circumstances of utopia: not so much utopia as fantasy, nor utopia as actualized in failure, nor even dystopia, but what is here termed ‘actually existing utopia’. As such his work captures aspects of utopianism that may have been largely opaque to the investigations of either literary versions of the utopian imagination or utopian versions of social science. Platonov shows us an ‘anthropological’ dimension inherent within the utopian impulse: that we are, so to speak, ‘utopological’ beings. And to this dimension of ourselves he applies a critical style that is not straightforwardly anti-utopian or dystopian but what is called here ‘counter-utopian’.

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