cosmopolitanism
Philip K. Dick, Late Modernism, and the Chinese Logic of American Totality
How did the novel, which shared most of its history with the rise and consolidation of the modern nation-state, adapt to a new world order scrambled by war, colonialism, and migration?
The Uncanny Golden Country: Late-Modernist Utopia in Nineteen Eighty-Four
“My new book is a Utopia in the form of a novel”—this is how George Orwell characterized Nineteen Eighty-Four in a letter to a friend on 4 February 1949. As its reception history abundantly documents, it turned out to be an interpretive challenge to read the novel as a utopia.