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Utopian Studies • Disaster Studies • Critical Theory • Utopian Sci-fi & Science Fiction Studies • Intersectional Political Theory • Philosophy • Anarchism/Communism/Socialism vs Capitalism/Neoliberalism/Fascism
— All at the crossroads between the imagination of disaster and of utopia and at the intersection of the sociology of collapse/apocalypse and of revolution.

“Beloved (or “Extraordinary) Community” or dog-eat-dog ‘Survivalism’?

“Revolutionary Optimism” or ‘Doomerism’/‘Black Pill’?

“Joyful Militancy” or “Rigid Radicalism”/“Capitalist Realism”?

Utopia, or Apocalyptic Dystopia?

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1	The Wind Cries Freedom: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution by Michael Albert 4.99 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 900, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit 3.95 avg rating — 4,157 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson 3.85 avg rating — 277 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman 4.34 avg rating — 964 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson 4.04 avg rating — 611 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics by S.D. Chrostowska 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin 4.26 avg rating — 165,314 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society by Ruth Levitas 4.20 avg rating — 51 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future by Bini Adamczak 4.26 avg rating — 93 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso 4.04 avg rating — 403 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society by Ghassan Hage 4.38 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed by Laurence Davis 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 2,342 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis 4.07 avg rating — 1,553 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life by George Katsiaficas 4.01 avg rating — 140 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse by Shane Burley (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 117 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective by Scott Crow 4.10 avg rating — 181 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos by Subcomandante Marcos 4.41 avg rating — 44 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Walkaway by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 9,499 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter H. Marshall 4.12 avg rating — 1,110 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 by Voline 4.23 avg rating — 125 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) (Volume 15) by Michael Barkun 3.82 avg rating — 256 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars