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Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: Utopian Interventions and Their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas; Explaining the Title: Why "Performing" "Utopias" in the "Contemporary Americas"; The Origin of Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas; The Contents of the Book; Notes; Works Cited; Part I: Mapping Utopias in Performance: Cross-Cultural (Dis)locations; Chapter 2: A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015; Chapter 3: tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house; Chapter 4: Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis; Note
Works CitedPart II: Indigenizing Utopian Performances: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges; Chapter 5: Writing. First. Contacts?; Critical Moment: Visual Containments; Performance Art Methodologies: Re-Formations of Time/Body/Land; Reflective Moment: Re-Movements and Resumptions; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish; Chapter 7: Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement; Following Che: The FLN Arrives to the Mountain in Chiapas; 1910/1968: Marcos (Re)Defines His Political Identity
Marcos's Masked "I": Building a More Inclusive and "Absolute" DemocracyDemocracy Unmasked: A Zapatista Approach to Utopia in a Post-"Marcos" Era; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Utopic Cannibalism in Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro's As Hiper Mulheres; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Part III: Political Manifestations and the Practice of Utopia: Global Connections; Chapter 9: Real Utopias; Urban Participatory Budgeting; Wikipedia; Worker-Owned Cooperatives; Unconditional Basic Income; Recommended Readings; Also recommended
Chapter 10: No Suture: Rethinking Utopia Through J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, the Occupy Movement, and Idle No MoreCassanova's Trained Incapacity; The Onslaughter of Reality; Casa Supernova: Strategies Against Architecture; Eventualities and Transductive Futility; Antigonizing the Present and the Future; Idle No More: From Conservative Occupational Utopias to Thanatopia; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 11: Utopian Discourse and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin's and Curtis Hanson's Too Big to Fail, and Antonio Muñoz Molina's Todo lo que era sólido; Introduction
Tracing Crisis Management as Utopian Discourse Comes Undone: Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross SorkinA Cinematographic Representation of the Severity and Rapidity of the Crisis: Too Big to Fail by Curtis Hanson; A Brief Look at a Case Outside of the United States: Todo lo que era sólido by Antonio Muñoz Molina and the Spanish Recession; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 12: El Che de los Gays and Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances in Postdictatorship Chile; Escena de avanzada and Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis; Futuristic Kitsch: El Che de los Gays (Santiago, 1997−Present)
Works CitedPart II: Indigenizing Utopian Performances: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges; Chapter 5: Writing. First. Contacts?; Critical Moment: Visual Containments; Performance Art Methodologies: Re-Formations of Time/Body/Land; Reflective Moment: Re-Movements and Resumptions; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish; Chapter 7: Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement; Following Che: The FLN Arrives to the Mountain in Chiapas; 1910/1968: Marcos (Re)Defines His Political Identity
Marcos's Masked "I": Building a More Inclusive and "Absolute" DemocracyDemocracy Unmasked: A Zapatista Approach to Utopia in a Post-"Marcos" Era; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Utopic Cannibalism in Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro's As Hiper Mulheres; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Part III: Political Manifestations and the Practice of Utopia: Global Connections; Chapter 9: Real Utopias; Urban Participatory Budgeting; Wikipedia; Worker-Owned Cooperatives; Unconditional Basic Income; Recommended Readings; Also recommended
Chapter 10: No Suture: Rethinking Utopia Through J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, the Occupy Movement, and Idle No MoreCassanova's Trained Incapacity; The Onslaughter of Reality; Casa Supernova: Strategies Against Architecture; Eventualities and Transductive Futility; Antigonizing the Present and the Future; Idle No More: From Conservative Occupational Utopias to Thanatopia; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 11: Utopian Discourse and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin's and Curtis Hanson's Too Big to Fail, and Antonio Muñoz Molina's Todo lo que era sólido; Introduction
Tracing Crisis Management as Utopian Discourse Comes Undone: Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross SorkinA Cinematographic Representation of the Severity and Rapidity of the Crisis: Too Big to Fail by Curtis Hanson; A Brief Look at a Case Outside of the United States: Todo lo que era sólido by Antonio Muñoz Molina and the Spanish Recession; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 12: El Che de los Gays and Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances in Postdictatorship Chile; Escena de avanzada and Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis; Futuristic Kitsch: El Che de los Gays (Santiago, 1997−Present)