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Paying “Utopia” a Subversive Fidelity; or, An Affective Trip to Anarres
- Utopian Studies
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 27, Number 2, 2016
- pp. 129-151
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This article pays “subversive fidelity” to utopia by rethinking what might be meant by the “good,” “no,” and “place” and how they might be brought together in an ambiguous but productive consistency. Specifically, it does this by drawing on Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza’s ethics, Sara Ahmed’s concept of the “affect alien,” and Doreen Massey’s understanding of place. It then applies and develops the theoretical approach through a reading of Anarres, as described in Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel