If people agree on what the term means, and they can read a book and detect (or not) colonial alienation, and thus have a test for post-utopianism, and different people will reach the same conclusions about any given book
By hypothesis, none of those things are true. If those things happen to be true for “post-utopianism” in the real world, substitute a different word that people use inconsistently and doesn’t refer to anything useful.
you can nonetheless take many literary professors and separately show them new pieces of writing by unknown authors and they’ll all independently arrive at the same answer, in which case they’re clearly detecting some sensory-visible feature of the writing.
By hypothesis, none of those things are true. If those things happen to be true for “post-utopianism” in the real world, substitute a different word that people use inconsistently and doesn’t refer to anything useful.
But, from the article:
Seems like what I was saying...