Utopia and Crisis

Kelly E. Happe University of Georgia

Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay thinks through the relationship between dystopia and utopia, in particular, how the constellation of past and present in radical demands amid state and economic violence (what Weinbaum calls black feminism's philosophy of history) is that which creates “crisis”—an estrangement from the present, a reclaiming of past insurgency, and the possibilities for other worlds.

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
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2020-06-15
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10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0272
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