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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Indigenous Literature Bites Back]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Postmodern Culture’s Impact on Arthur Miller’s View of Humanity]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Issue Editors’ Notes: Introduction to the 2026 Spring Issue Including the Thematic Block Utopia and Democracy]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Decoding the Aesthetes with Hungarophilia and Homophilia]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: “You have to do what you think is of value”]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shankari Chandran’s The Barrier (2017) and the Complex Stakes of Decolonizing Dystopian Writing]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The article analyzes the Australian-Sri Lankan writer Shankari Chandran’s novel The Barrier (2017) as a dystopian novel, exploring how it sets up stakes around pandemics and the political use of the Ebola virus and vaccines in a near-future world divided by a barrier between East and West. With its many twists and turns, the novel, I argue, critiques an unequal and dystopian global order, with both Eastern and Western Alliances participating in injustices. The novel makes a powerful decolonial claim, based on the sacred text the Bhagavad Gita, for faith (not organized religion) as a generative human capacity, and compellingly entangles this in its plotline. I analyze this from the perspective of the complex stakes of decolonizing knowledge as well as dystopian fiction, and argue that Chandran’s work is part of a wider lineage of South Asian women-authored utopian and dystopian writing highlighting the importance of inclusivity and faith. (BB)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Simulacrum Reigns Supreme: Andrei Codrescu’s Wakefield and the Utopia of Living Authentically]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Wakefield (2004), a postmodern take on what a Kerouac-inspired journey across America would reveal about the reality of contemporary times, Andrei Codrescu blends the Faustian pact with an ironic portrayal of this country’s contradictory nature, at the end of the twentieth century. While democracy serves as the cornerstone of the American Constitution, Codrescu’s novel criticizes the extreme manifestations of capitalism and globalization that have emerged within this democratic framework. The purpose of this paper is to question the possibility of authentic living within this absurd chronotope, ultimately reaching the conclusion that such an attempt equals utopia in a world which seems to follow Jean Baudrillard’s “simulacrum.” At the same time, Corin Braga’s “anarchetype” will be used as a starting point for a double argument: not only is the search for the essence of life a non-linear and never-ending journey, but metaphysical themes like deals with the devil are nowadays subject to bureaucratic deferments as well, therefore proving that everything can be deconstructed into products within a consumer-driven economy. (MB)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Heidegger, Wordsworth, and the Anecological Nature of Technology]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Heidegger’s essays about technology (“The Age of the World Picture” and “The Question Concerning Technology”) seem radical in the way they push the notion of technics not only beyond mere instrumentality but also beyond human agency and civilization. But they also seem to harbor a certain nostalgia when it comes to a historical division between premodern and modern paradigms. In a similar fashion, Wordsworth’s late sonnets on the impact of the railway (“On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway” and “Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways”) seem to show signs of a thought-provoking ambivalence between an escapist attitude and a more radical thought of technology, conceived uncannily as an “offspring” of nature. The minute reading of these texts (both with and against their authors) might have far-reaching implications for the conceptualization of an “anecological” notion of both nature and technology, one which no longer relies on, and even precedes, the received notion of the “household” (oikos) as an economy based on balance, but allows for asymmetry, irreversibility, or incalculable mutation. (GYF)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Evolution, Utopia, and Satire in Robert Ellis Dudgeon’s Colymbia (1873)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article is devoted to the utopian novel Colymbia (1873), written by the Scottish doctor and homeopath Robert Ellis Dudgeon. The analysis focuses on the work’s indebtedness to the evolutionary discourse of natural selection, the survival of the fittest, and adaptation, which contributes to the vision of Colymbian society as a biopolitical utopia and turns it into a satirical reflection of contemporary Victorian mores and beliefs as regards matters like education, eugenics, and the role of the state. The article also investigates the engagement of Darwinism with the discourse of the empire, informing the novel’s preoccupation with nationhood and race. Finally, the article lays emphasis on the question of scientific progress in Colymbia, which not only enables the state’s aquatic existence through a more sustainable relationship with the natural environment, but also underpins its claims of evolutionary superiority and dominance. (KP)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[“The (Difficult) Arts of Enjoying Life”: Democratic Aesthetics in the Late Nineteenth-Century Utopian Literature of William Morris]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While utopian literature’s emphasis on ordered happiness would seem to stand in an antithetical relation to democratic freedom, the late nineteenth-century writer, designer, and socialist William Morris sought to fashion an account of utopian democratic aesthetics. By analyzing Morris’s utopian novel News from Nowhere (1890) and a few of his key lectures, this essay extrapolates Morris’s democratic aesthetic theory grounded in the sensual experience of both aesthetic consumption and aesthetic production. Situating Morris’s work in the progressive, labor, and aesthetic discourses of his time, and considering its numerous historical and contemporary critiques, this essay draws on the theory of ritualization to outline the stakes and dimensions of a utopian politics based upon artistic practice. Though arising out of the individual—their desires, their actions—and thoroughly speculative, Morris’s utopian democratic aesthetics attempted to inscribe artistic practice into a social and political project centered on the free production of subjectivity and the realization of agency through aesthetic experience, both “utopian” and accessible in everyday life. (HH)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New England’s Puritan Utopia and Its Limits on Democracy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article reexamines the political culture of seventeenth-century Puritan New England by foregrounding the tension between its collective utopian mission and the democratic practices it fostered. Rather than treating congregational autonomy, town meetings, or elective offices as early expressions of popular sovereignty, it argues that these practices emerged as byproducts of an eschatological project grounded in covenant theology. Through close analysis of John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity and the ideological premises of Puritan migration, the article shows how their “errand” to build a godly commonwealth gave rise to communal decision-making and accountable offices while simultaneously imposing strict limits on dissent, pluralism, and individual liberties. Examining their institutional structures reveals a hybrid political order, one blending bottom-up participation and elements of popular will with the authority of an “elective aristocracy” charged with safeguarding the community’s covenantal destiny. The article then traces how this collective mission broadened and transformed in the eighteenth century, on the frontier and during the Revolution, giving rise to more inclusive forms of governance. Highlighting the paradox of a utopian project that both enabled and constrained democratic life, the study raises broader questions about the compatibility of collective missions and liberal democracy. (BB)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Josiah Warren’s Utopia of Individual Sovereignty]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article examines Josiah Warren’s social philosophy as a distinctive form of experimental, anti-statist utopianism grounded in the principle of individual sovereignty. Although Warren is most often remembered as the first American anarchist, this study argues that his thoughts should also be understood within the broader tradition of nineteenth-century American utopian experiments. Warren did not merely critique political authority and capitalist economic relations, but also developed and tested an alternative model of society based on voluntary association and equitable exchange. Drawing on his experiences in Robert Owen’s New Harmony community, Warren rejected communal property and collective governance, concluding that social harmony could only emerge through the preservation of individual autonomy. His utopian project combined a radical anthropology of self-governing individuals with practical experiments such as time stores and equitable commerce, which sought to eliminate profit and ensure labor-based equality without coercion or state intervention. By analyzing Warren’s theoretical writings and experimental communities, this article demonstrates how his utopianism integrated normative vision with institutional practice. At the same time, it highlights the structural limitations of his model, particularly regarding scale, economic sustainability, and conflict resolution. Warren’s work ultimately represents a radical attempt to reconcile individual liberty with social order without recourse to authority, revealing both the emancipatory potential and inherent fragility of utopian projects grounded in absolute individual sovereignty. (MM)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Imaginaries of Planetary Futures: The Expanse and Democracy-to-Come]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article looks at The Expanse (Syfy/Amazon Prime 2015–2022) as an example of Anthropocene television that stages a form of utopianism that is neither naive nor posthumanly nihilistic but aligned with a notion of “democracy-to-come” under the conditions of the Anthropocene. The program text offers parabolic reflections on the underlying capitalistic and colonial logic of Western anthropocentrism in its depictions of the colonization of worlds beyond the Solar System, thus directly challenging the Earth-centric and anthropocentric stances underlying (human) history. The series challenges the binary logic of the (human) “us” vs. the (nonhuman/alien) “them” and gestures towards the inherent heterogeneity of the human itself. Furthermore, the paper comments on the ways The Expanse envisions a future which is always-already deterritorialized and what this means for our lived experiences of crises in relation to concepts of democracy: it comments on what the relation between the pervasiveness of political, economic, and environmental anxieties and the related ethical dilemmas of our present historic time are, and what the nexus between utopianism and democracy reveals about the futures of the human-to-come. (DLP)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[After-Utopia: Political Imaginaries and Rhythmic Praxis in Gardens in the Dunes]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes (1999) reconceptualizes utopia not as a perfected future design but as an ongoing rhythm of care, relation, and endurance. Relying on Miguel Abensour’s political philosophy, particularly his concepts “the new utopian spirit,” “persistent utopia,” and the “dialectic of emancipation,” this essay argues that the novel’s characters enact democratic life not through institutions but through ethical gestures rooted in indigenous knowledge and praxis. Beginning with the rupture of the Ghost Dance and extending through the Sand Lizard women’s cultivation practices, the narrative displaces blueprint utopias in favor of what Abensour calls insurgent democracy: a political imaginary grounded in vulnerability, improvisation, and shared life. Through close readings of gardens and gestures of care across geographic and cultural boundaries, the essay shows how Silko reclaims utopia from the logic of domination and redefines emancipation as relational resilience in the wake of catastrophe. (GV)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Use and Fake History to Attack American Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and Globalism]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Symbiosis as a Key World Building Principle]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Salman Rushdie’s Cacophonous Creativity]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Past and Present in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Issue Editors’ Notes;Introduction to Hybridization and Generic Experiments in Crime Narratives]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Feminist Versions of Greek Tragedy in the Theater of Marina Carr]]></title>
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