Introduction

reflections on the demise and renewal of utopia in a global age

1-9

Placing utopia

some classical images

13-27

"Globalization" as collective representation

the new dream of a cosmopolitan civil sphere

28-39

Two post-Marxisms

beyond post-socialism?

40-50

Globalization, reflexive utopianism, and the cosmopolitan social imaginary

51-67

After utopia

notes on an ethics of newness

68-81

Postsecularism

a new global debate

82-98

After 1989

globalization, normalization, and utopia

101-116

Made in America

the unsustainable all-consuming global free-market "utopia"

117-136

Islamutopia, (post)modernity and the multitude

137-155

Utopias without transcendence?

post-left anarchy, immediacy and utopian energy

156-175

Libertarian cyber-utopianism and global digital networks

176-189

(Con)temporary utopian spaces

190-206

Glocalization and the new local transnationalisms

real utopias in liminal spaces

207-219

The grandchildren of Marx and coca-cola

Lefebvre, utopia and the "recuperation" of everyday life

220-236

Concluding reflections

237-242