5/26/2023 0 Comments A dream called home![]() ![]() This thesis takes contemporary neoliberalism’s transformation of social structures and subjectivities to be driving this specific limiting effect on the ability to imagine alternative patterns of social relations and on the scope and potential of the imagination as such. ![]() It argues that these representations of agency, conceptually limited to individual action, occlude the reality and possibility of communal political agency. ![]() This thesis considers this apparent impossibility to be a product of an ontology of atomised individualism that informs texts from mainstream Hollywood blockbusters to more putatively radical works of literature. ![]() The transformation of utopian impulse to utopian programme is traditionally understood to present a representational impossibility-a “break”-and to require a shift into a less rigorous fantastic or magical representational register. This thesis investigates the limitations and capacities of genres of the fantastic in their ability to represent the “break” between agency and structure, specifically the transformation of the former into the latter on the scale of radical social and political change. ![]()
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