Periodical Utopianism: Charles Fourier, Playboy, and Erotic Serialization
| العنوان: | Periodical Utopianism: Charles Fourier, Playboy, and Erotic Serialization |
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| المؤلفون: | Michael Dango |
| المصدر: | Genre. 54:317-340 |
| بيانات النشر: | Duke University Press, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Literature and Literary Theory |
| الوصف: | This article argues that the nineteenth-century utopian writings of Charles Fourier and twentieth-century United States pornography franchises including Playboy participate in the same generic form of serialized eroticism. Although Fredric Jameson argued for a formalist study of utopianism, his writings on Fourier engage only with his “content.” It argues instead that Fourier's project is best understood in the serialized form of his writing, which, as in Playboy, coordinates two different temporal scales: a larger scale on which the drama of world transformation plays out, and a smaller one on which the hope for this transformation is nourished in daily, increasingly erotic labor. What their doubled temporality of promised but deferred pleasure makes possible—when formalized in periodical writing as a comforting, albeit ambivalent, state of suspension—is a kind of utopianism that locates itself in the activity of planning to build the world today, rather than living in the built world tomorrow. |
| تدمد: | 2160-0228 0016-6928 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::707a62b01401082cf8ec3b6a72772912 https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-9407584 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........707a62b01401082cf8ec3b6a72772912 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 21600228 00166928 |
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