U/dystopias: pre/post-modern

[I'm using this orthographic monstrosity "u/dystopia" as a lexeme that denotes the inseparability of utopias and dystopias]
It’s taken me an inordinately long time to formulate some thoughts on u/dystopia, freedom and collectivity, and post-modernity in Huxley. Why, I am not sure. Not because they are anything particularly profound, that much is certain.
The idea of Utopia [...]

The death of the subject; modern and postmodern blackness according to duBois and hooks

Jameson in “Post Modern Consumer Society” shows how unresponsive to and unconcerned with issues of gender and ethnicity most Post Modern discourse can be.  Under his rubric of “the death of the subject” we find that Post Modernity is characterized by a supposed “death” of individualism as it had been previously experienced for most of [...]