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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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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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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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Pragmatism, Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Critical Horizons, 2008AbstractThis paper explores the tension between pragmatism and utopia, especially in the concept of "realistic utopianism". It argues that historically, the pragmatic and gradualist rejection of utopia has been anti-utopian in effect, notably in the case of Popper.
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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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2023
La cultura contemporanea, dominata dalla disillusione e da un cinico realismo, è pervasa dall’idea che il mondo così com’è non possa essere cambiato. La percezione comune è quella di un presente egemonico, non più interpretato come il frutto della lenta evoluzione del passato, ma neppure come il “ponte” che ci lega a un futuro possibile e ...
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La cultura contemporanea, dominata dalla disillusione e da un cinico realismo, è pervasa dall’idea che il mondo così com’è non possa essere cambiato. La percezione comune è quella di un presente egemonico, non più interpretato come il frutto della lenta evoluzione del passato, ma neppure come il “ponte” che ci lega a un futuro possibile e ...
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2015
Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present ...
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Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present ...
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2022
The concept of utopia is highly contested and, in many respects, problematic, but it remains indispensable for the prefiguration of an alternative society, for moving beyond a system of power perceived as unjust, oppressive, obscure. Utopia is problematic for its polysemic meaning (as illusion, the impossibility to achieve, a critical tool, a project ...
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The concept of utopia is highly contested and, in many respects, problematic, but it remains indispensable for the prefiguration of an alternative society, for moving beyond a system of power perceived as unjust, oppressive, obscure. Utopia is problematic for its polysemic meaning (as illusion, the impossibility to achieve, a critical tool, a project ...
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2005
AbstractThis chapter reflects on the possibilities for reclaiming and rethinking progressive utopian thought in light of the experiences of both Amish and Salvadoran experiences in creating environmentally sustainable and socially just communities. The distinctive contributions of religion to these experiences are explored, as well as the significance ...
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AbstractThis chapter reflects on the possibilities for reclaiming and rethinking progressive utopian thought in light of the experiences of both Amish and Salvadoran experiences in creating environmentally sustainable and socially just communities. The distinctive contributions of religion to these experiences are explored, as well as the significance ...
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