... radical vindication of utopian thought and experimentation. Everyday Utopia is aimed at the educated lay reader—itself, ... in times of crisis," she laments (xii). Everyday Utopia's second context is the spate of recent ... of "popular neo-utopianism," including Rutger Bregman's Utopia for Realists (2017), Aaron Bastani's Fully Automated ... that subtend these public domains (15).Accordingly, Everyday Utopia devotes its succeeding chapters to examining alternatives to ... realities," Ghodsee opines at the outset of Everyday Utopia (xiv). This assertion rings truer with each subsequent ...
Tópico(s): American Environmental and Regional History
2024 - Penn State University Press | Utopian Studies
Translation of: Utopia. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | The Making of Modern World
... any rate, the topic with Becoming Utopian is utopia, utopia as an abstract notion, influenced by the writings ... upon the defamiliarization promoted by certain ideas of utopia, opening to the reader the possibility of conceiving ... to come; the initial chapter on “Strong Thought: Utopia, Pedagogy, Agency” sets a tone, first autobiographical, Moylan ... s Utopianism and Marxism [1987]) the “ubiquity of utopia” in human attitudes and culture is realized in the creation of utopia. For Bloch, the light drawing us to utopia ...
Tópico(s): Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
2022 - Penn State University Press | Utopian Studies
... of: De optimo reip. statu deque nova insula utopia. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | The Making of Modern World
Ruy Llera Blanes, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen,
... and Jameson demonstrate how that dark sibling of utopia, dystopia, is necessarily intrinsic also to formulations of ... frailty as this absence masks the intensity of utopia's generative, playful and meaning-making engagement with ... analysis by critically addressing the mainstream currency of utopia in present day Western thought, which stems from ... and expectations.11 For a genealogical approach to utopia in the social sciences, see, for example, Maskens ... communities in the USA). The dual impression of utopia as intrinsic to political doctrine or embedded in ...
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2021 - Wiley | Social Anthropology
... is essential to the formation of any modern utopia, its presence within this form of utopia remains unsettling and illustrates utopian contradictions, imperfections, and ... utopian fantasy; however, science and scientists' presence within utopia undermines utopian desirability and perfection.The second part ... Animal,” discusses the biology of human beings in utopia. It argues that, as much as we wish ... the human form is a desirable trait in utopia, the means of achieving it (i.e., eugenics) ... line that also divides civilization from savagery and utopia from reality) and illustrates its elusiveness in prehistory ...
2017 - Penn State University Press | Utopian Studies
Translation of: Utopia. "To this edition is added, A short account of Sir Thomas More's life and his trial." Book.
0000 - Gale Group | The Making of Modern World
Chloë Houston's The Renaissance Utopia: Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society traces two main developments in utopian literature from 1516 until its proliferation in the middle ... seventeenth century. The first is the transition from utopia as philosophical satire to utopia as an imaginative means to achieve social reform. ... work of Nina Chordas, Forms in Early Modern Utopia: The Ethnography of Perfection (2010). Both authors selected ... on, eventually to become a precursor of the utopia novel.Houston examines a series of utopias in ...
Tópico(s): Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
2016 - Penn State University Press | Utopian Studies
Translation of: Utopia. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | The Making of Modern World
... of target sequence-specific non-LTR retrotransposons, designated Utopia. Utopia is found in three supergroups of eukaryotes: Amoebozoa, SAR, and Opisthokonta. Utopia is inserted into a specific site of U2 ... with different strength of specificity for each family. Utopia families from oomycetes and wasps show strong target specificity while only a small number of Utopia copies from reptiles are flanked with U2 snRNA genes. Oomycete Utopia families contain an "archaeal" RNase H domain upstream ... from a plant RNase H gene. Analysis of Utopia from oomycetes indicates that multiple lineages of Utopia ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2015 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
... a heated if polite debate over the “critical utopia.” This takes place in a new introduction and ... us of the political context of the critical utopia, this being the feminist and New Left underpinnings ... 1970s; but Moylan's definition of the critical utopia is not American. As he makes clear in ... Ruth Levitas have argued is an early critical utopia, but for Moylan, the hero or antihero of ... not self-critical enough, nor is its heterosexist utopia equal enough, for it to really contain the ... like Le Guin's Dispossessed, a failed critical utopia because it plays out a heroic rather than ...
Tópico(s): Political and Economic history of UK and US
2015 - Penn State University Press | Utopian Studies
... Levitas published her pathbreaking book The Concept of Utopia, a work that helped to shape the emerging ... published a major new contribution to the field, Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society. Like its predecessor, Utopia as Method is exceptionally well informed, clearly and ... on utopian social thought.The central argument of Utopia as Method is that utopia should be understood as a method and that ... which reprise the argument of The Concept of Utopia that utopia is the expression of the desire ...
Tópico(s): Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
2014 - Penn State University Press | Utopian Studies
... 1. See Manfredo Tafuri, "The International Concept of Utopia," in Modern Architecture, ed. Manfredo Tafuri and Francesco ... Abrams, 1979), 383–410; Manfredo Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development [1973], English translation (Cambridge: ... Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991); Reinhold Martin, Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). 2. Rem Koolhaas, "Utopia Station," in Content, ed. Rem Koolhaas and Brendan ... and reprinted here in the Opinion section as "Utopia: Architecture and the Quest for Political and Social ...
Tópico(s): Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Architectural Education
Caption title. Rare Book copy bound with: An abstract of David A. Wells's proposed system of taxation for the State of New York. [New York? : s.n., 1873?] ...
0000 - Gale Group | MOMW2
Jacqueline Dutton, Lyman Tower Sargent,
In his Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times Krishan Kumar argues that “so far as I have been able to establish, nothing like the western utopia and utopian traditions exist in any non-western ... furthering scholarship on utopian studies: reframing definitions of utopia; reinterpreting “non-western,” indigenous, and postcolonial utopias; and ... body of evidence to support epistemological examinations of utopia. We have already argued against the definition of utopia as confined to a western Judeo-Christian tradition. ...
Tópico(s): Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
2013 - Penn State University Press | Utopian Studies