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History of the Human Sciences, 2003
This article addresses the question of utopia through some reflections on the work of the Russian writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951). Platonov's work represents an inspirational series of investigations into the circumstances of utopia: not so much utopia as fantasy, nor utopia as actualized in failure, nor even dystopia, but what is here termed ...
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This article addresses the question of utopia through some reflections on the work of the Russian writer Andrei Platonov (1899-1951). Platonov's work represents an inspirational series of investigations into the circumstances of utopia: not so much utopia as fantasy, nor utopia as actualized in failure, nor even dystopia, but what is here termed ...
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2003
It is sometimes said that the ability of the writer to imagine a better place in which to live died in the course of the twentieth century, extinguished by the horrors of total war, of genocide and of totalitarianism. The genre of utopia, created unwittingly by Sir Thomas More when he published Utopia in 1516, died when idealism perished, a victim to
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It is sometimes said that the ability of the writer to imagine a better place in which to live died in the course of the twentieth century, extinguished by the horrors of total war, of genocide and of totalitarianism. The genre of utopia, created unwittingly by Sir Thomas More when he published Utopia in 1516, died when idealism perished, a victim to
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History of the Human Sciences, 2009
Opposition to utopianism on ontological and political grounds has seemingly relegated it to a potentially dangerous form of antiquated idealism. This conclusion is based on a restrictive view of utopia as excessively ordered panoptic discursive constructions.
Philippe, Couton, José Julián, López
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Opposition to utopianism on ontological and political grounds has seemingly relegated it to a potentially dangerous form of antiquated idealism. This conclusion is based on a restrictive view of utopia as excessively ordered panoptic discursive constructions.
Philippe, Couton, José Julián, López
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2019
Four different aspects of the anticipation, agency, and complexity conundrum are analyzed: best practices, evidence-based policies, innovation and value creation, and pragmatic utopias. These four aspects are arranged according to their level of simplicity and contentiousness, from the simple and less contentious to the complex and highly contentious ...
Roberto Poli, Marco Valerio
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Four different aspects of the anticipation, agency, and complexity conundrum are analyzed: best practices, evidence-based policies, innovation and value creation, and pragmatic utopias. These four aspects are arranged according to their level of simplicity and contentiousness, from the simple and less contentious to the complex and highly contentious ...
Roberto Poli, Marco Valerio
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Computer, 2014
Utopian science fiction prototypes might not actually be about the world that we want to live in, but rather the people we want to be. The Web extra at http://vimeo.com/81120151 is a video segment in which author Brian David Johnson joins Geek Speaks panelists Cory Doctorow and Henry Jenkins to discuss the roles that science fiction has played, for ...
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Utopian science fiction prototypes might not actually be about the world that we want to live in, but rather the people we want to be. The Web extra at http://vimeo.com/81120151 is a video segment in which author Brian David Johnson joins Geek Speaks panelists Cory Doctorow and Henry Jenkins to discuss the roles that science fiction has played, for ...
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2018
Using landscape as a method to ground utopian methodologies of thought offers a crucial framework with which to face the many problems with which our contemporary global food and agriculture system presents us. Not only does this sequence of mental work give us a way to organise thought about vast problems ranging from the twin challenges of obesity ...
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Using landscape as a method to ground utopian methodologies of thought offers a crucial framework with which to face the many problems with which our contemporary global food and agriculture system presents us. Not only does this sequence of mental work give us a way to organise thought about vast problems ranging from the twin challenges of obesity ...
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Utopias for the impoverished: The Islamicate in the creation of utopias
Journal of Decolonising Disciplines, 2021This paper considers impoverishment and its link to the notion of utopia. It proposes that a utopia can only exist in relation to a dystopia, and it considers how ‘poverty’ is the dystopic outcome in a capitalist quest for the utopia. It then proposes the waqf as a means of addressing impoverishment.
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From a Stark Utopia to Everyday Utopias
German Yearbook of International Law, 2018This article considers the emergence of the Business and Human Rights agenda at the United Nations. It argues that the agenda can be seen as an example of the UN Human Rights Council attempting to institutionalise everyday utopias within an emerging global public domain.
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16th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2007), 2007
Marco Fargetta, Vincenzo Nicosia
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Marco Fargetta, Vincenzo Nicosia
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Utopia, Utopia's Neighbors, Utopia, and Europe
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 1995openaire +1 more source