Utopia without us?

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As the prospect of self-authored human extinction increasingly appears as a plausible scenario futures, growing number efforts aim at comprehending it world without us. Patrícia Vieira convincingly shows in her essay on utopia and dystopia Anthropocene that utopianism has become prominent interpretive strategy to render possibility meaningful. This brief reflection argues against feasibility considering us utopian terms. It identifies three tacit assumptions interpretations our disappearance: they (1) take for granted prospects post-apocalyptic themes are same kind; (2) presume biological character needs no special attention when situating with social thinking; (3) remain committed an anthropocentric view assuming we ones attribute meaning even defined by absence. In challenging these assumptions, develops theses relation

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عنوان ژورنال: Esboços

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1414-722X', '2175-7976']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2020.e72517