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A distopia como caminho = Dystopia as a path = La distopía como camino

Letras de Hoje
Neste trabalho, proponho reflexões sobre os possíveis papéis que a distopia pode estar exercendo no mundo contemporâneo e potenciais alternativas para o futuro, que fujam de uma resignação ou resiliência coletiva.
Oliveira, Giovana Silva de
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Utopia and Intellectual Humility: More, Bacon and Swift Appraising Law and Technology

Law, Technology and Humans
Law and frontier technologies have been variously perceived in Western literature’s early classic utopias. Utopias’ diverse narratives and commentaries have applauded law’s interplay with technology or admonished it – utopias have variously imagined ...
Karen Schultz
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Why Should Universities Contribute to New Utopias? [PDF]

, 2016
What would the ideal society look like, and its university? In 1516 the English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect society on a distant island.
Bouckaert, Geert; KU Leuven University
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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BRASIL NO SÉCULO XXI NA GEOPOLÍTICA DA CRISE: para onde apontam as utopias?

Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2016
Set In the historical span of time of capital, at its structural crisis phase, this article discusses the current Brazilian insertion, placing it at the center of a critical evaluation.
Alba Maria Pinho de Carvalho, Eliana Costa Guerra   +1 more
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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A utopia da utopia [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, 2008
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations. [PDF]

Cult Stud Sci Educ, 2023
Jones N.
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