Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time 1
4. PART ONE. ANIMA
5. 1. Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future 21
6. 2. Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier 45
7. 3. Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India 73
8. 4. The Utopia of Working Phones: Rhodesian Independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization 94
9. 5. Hydrocarbon Utopia 117
10. PART TWO. ARTIFICE
11. 6. Techno- Utopian Dreams, Techno- Political Realities: The Education of Desire for the Peaceful Atom 151
12. 7. On Cosmopolitanism, the Avant- Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Central Europe 176
13. 8. The Breath of the Possible: Everyday Utopianism and the Street in Modernist Urbanism 203
14. 9. Stalinist Confessions in an Age of Terror: Messianic Times at the Leningrad Communist Universities 231
15. 10. The Heterotopias of Dalit Politics: Becoming- Subject and the Consumption Utopia Contributors 250
16. Contributors 277
17. Index 281