Utopia Without Us?
Simon ZB (2020)
Esboços 27(46): 377-389.
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As the prospect of self-authored human extinction increasingly appears as a plausible scenario of
human futures, a growing number of efforts aim at comprehending it as the prospect of the world without
us. Patrícia Vieira convincingly shows in her essay on utopia and dystopia in the Anthropocene that
utopianism has become a prominent interpretive strategy to render the possibility of human extinction
meaningful. This brief reflection argues against the feasibility of considering the world without us in
utopian terms. It identifies three tacit assumptions in utopian interpretations of our disappearance: they
(1) take for granted that prospects of human extinction and post-apocalyptic themes are of the same
kind; (2) presume that the biological character of human extinction needs no special attention when
situating it with the social character of utopian thinking; and (3) remain committed to an anthropocentric
view in assuming that we are the ones to attribute meaning even to the world defined by our absence.
In challenging these assumptions, the essay develops three theses on the relation of utopia and the
prospect of the world without us.
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Zeitschriftentitel
Esboços
Band
27
Ausgabe
46
Seite(n)
377-389
ISSN
1414-722x
eISSN
2175-7976
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2950135
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Simon ZB. Utopia Without Us? Esboços. 2020;27(46):377-389.
Simon, Z. B. (2020). Utopia Without Us? Esboços, 27(46), 377-389. doi:10.5007/2175-7976.2020.e72517
Simon, Zoltán Boldizsár. 2020. “Utopia Without Us?”. Esboços 27 (46): 377-389.
Simon, Z. B. (2020). Utopia Without Us? Esboços 27, 377-389.
Simon, Z.B., 2020. Utopia Without Us? Esboços, 27(46), p 377-389.
Z.B. Simon, “Utopia Without Us?”, Esboços, vol. 27, 2020, pp. 377-389.
Simon, Z.B.: Utopia Without Us? Esboços. 27, 377-389 (2020).
Simon, Zoltán Boldizsár. “Utopia Without Us?”. Esboços 27.46 (2020): 377-389.
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