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Günther, Griselda, and Tania Arroyo. "Crisis Civilizatoria y Utopías: El Buen vivir como posibilidad." Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas 11, no. 1 (2017): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21057/repam.v11i1.24935.

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ResumenEste trabajo tiene por objetivo reflexionar sobre tres cuestiones: ¿Qué son la utopía y el pensamiento utópico?, ¿qué función cumplen ante la crisis civilizatoria actual? y ¿qué tan pertinente es pensar hoy en propuestas como la de Buen vivir como utopía? Para ello se expone brevemente cómo se entienden la utopía y el pensamiento utópico, recuperando el trabajo de algunos autores que se consideran, en este caso, claves. El objetivo es encontrar características comunes que se conjugan para construir una noción actual de utopía y de pensamiento utópico. Posteriormente, se desarrolla la id

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DeCook, Travis. "The charmed circle: identity in Utopia, unethical practices, and Augustine’s two cities." Moreana 59, no. 2 (2022): 208–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/more.2022.0126.

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This article considers Utopia’s unethical practices alongside The City of God’s understanding of the earthly polity’s relationship to eschatology. In Augustine’s view, within the earthly city every person could potentially become a friend of the heavenly city in time, and the existing political situation must always be rendered partial and incomplete against the telos of eternity. These convictions stand in conspicuous contrast with Utopia. The Utopian system is in important ways founded on institutionalized practices which not only exclude non-Utopians (or ex-Utopians), but also habituate the

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Milerius, Nerijus. "UTOPIJOS IR ANTIUTOPIJOS VIZIJOS KINE. FILOSOFINĖS BANALAUS ŽANRO PRIELAIDOS." Problemos 79 (January 1, 2011): 81–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2011.0.1325.

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Straipsnyje tęsiami apokalipsės kino tyrinėjimai, pirmą kartą pristatyti praėjusiame „Problemų“ tome (78). Siekiant detalizuoti apokalipsės kino analizę, pasitelkiami nauji – utopijos ir antiutopijos – kinematografiniai aspektai. Apžvelgiamos utopinio diskurso mitologinės ir religinės prielaidos, parodoma, kaip utopinis diskursas išreiškiamas Platono idealios visuomenės projekte. Thomas More’o „Utopija“ apibrėžiama kaip jungiamoji grandis tarp klasikinių filosofinių ir religinių utopinių vizijų ir vėlesnių mokslinių technologinių pasaulio perkonstravimo modelių. Technologinis pasaulio perkonst

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Zvi, Ehud Ben. "Reading and Constructing Utopias." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 42, no. 4 (2013): 463–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008429813488344.

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This article is meant as an invitation to further the use of the concept of utopia as a heuristic tool among historians of ancient Israel for the purpose of reconstructing the world of ideas of the late Persian period Yehud. To do so, and given that the term “utopia” may be and has been used in different ways, it advances, first, general considerations about an heuristic, pragmatic understanding of “utopia” and “utopian images” that may be particularly helpful for these purposes. Then it advances a number of observations about utopia and utopian images that were evoked when the literati of the

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Fomenko, Anastasiya P. "Utopia in search of the subject, the subject in search of utopia." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, no. 478 (2022): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/15617793/478/7.

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The central concept of this article is the idea of utopia as an optimistic image of a societal order achievable in the distant future. Tracing the process of gradual decline in the emergence of new positive utopias through examples of literary dystopias over the last century, the author proceeds to discuss the topic of the end of utopia. The idea is that, despite its long existence, it is only recently that the absence of new models for a happy future becomes critical, that utopia begins to be recognized as a problem. In this regard, the author proposes to temporarily shift researchers' attent

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Zuolo, Federico. "Utopia and Ideal Theory." Theoria 72, no. 182 (2025): 1–26. https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2025.7218201.

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Abstract In political theory, utopia is traditionally understood as representing a beautiful but impossible state of affairs. By contrast, the majority of scholarly works in utopian studies understand utopia not as a blueprint for a perfect society but as an indirect critique of the contemporary status quo. The aim of this article is to propose a distinction between utopias and ideal theories. To do so, the article adopts a working definition of utopias that emphasises the formal characters of utopian works (detailed narrative), and compares utopias with ideal theories, which are abstract in k

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Höchsmann, Hyun. ""Comme l'esperance est violante". Hope and Utopia in Benjamin, Bloch and Adorno." P.O.I. - Points of Interest 11, no. 2/2022 (2022): 34–52. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10961154.

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Benjamin’s thinking on hope and utopia permeates his philosophical endeavours, from his earliest writings (<em>Zwei Gedichte von Friedrich Hölderlin: “Dichtermut”–“Blödigkeit”</em>, <em>Theologisch-politisches Fragment</em>, and <em>Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften</em>) to <em>Über den Begriff der Geschichte</em>. The fortitude of Bloch’s encyclopaedic work on utopia and hope, sustained in <em>Geist der Utopie</em> and <em>Das Prinzip Hoffnung</em> has been applauded by Benjamin. Adorno, who stated that everything he ever wrote was influenc

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Bermudez Brataas, Delilah. "The blurring of genus, genre, and gender in Margaret Cavendish’s utopias." Sederi, no. 29 (2019): 35–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.34136/sederi.2019.2.

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The Blazing World was the first utopia in English written by a woman, and likely, the first science fiction text in English. Yet it was not Margaret Cavendish’s only utopic text. The separatist spaces of her plays, and the virtual communities of her epistolary collections, were earlier utopias that contributed to her construction of Blazing World. Cavendish established the characteristics of utopian literature through the transgression of categories and hybridity. I consider her blurring of genus, genre and gender in two of her utopic texts, Sociable Letters and Blazing World, and her strategi

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Kuźmicz, Karol. "Utopia Without the Law – Why Is It Impossible?" Studia Iuridica Lublinensia 30, no. 2 (2021): 285. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/sil.2021.30.2.285-304.

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<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB">The academic character of the article is connected with the attempt to answer the question asked in the title: Utopia without the law – is it possible? The theoretical arguments provided by the author lead to an affirmative answer to this question and allow for formulating the following thesis: there is no utopia without the law. The law is not only present in utopias, both positive and negative ones (anti-utopias and dystopias) but also, to a great extent, determines their existence and functioning. As a result, it links utopian thinking to r

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Paniotova, T. S. "Utopian discourse in Latin American culture." Latinskaya Amerika, no. 10 (December 15, 2024): 79–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0044748x24100068.

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The paper considers the utopian discourse in Latin American culture late XX — early XXI centuries. The interpretation of utopia as one of the markers of Latin American identity forces us to pay special attention to this phenomenon. The analysis of the Latin American utopian tradition demonstrates the intensity of utopian thinking on the continent, as well as the productivity of its comprehension in the works of Latin American authors. The conceptual growth of the general Latin American reflection on utopia is associated with its practical aspect, which is at odds with the Anglo-Saxon tradition

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Mazzocchi, Paul. "Beyond the Education of Desire." Theoria 70, no. 176 (2023): 96–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2023.7017604.

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Abstract While critical utopias sought to rescue the political import of utopia, recently scholars have questioned their overemphasis on literary forms and a disempowering pluralism. Challenging the applicability of these claims to one of the instigators of critical utopias, I provide a political reading of Miguel Abensour's understanding of utopia and connect this to councils as a concrete institutional infrastructure. This begins with a re-reading of his influential conception of the ‘education of desire’ in relation to the simulacrum as a utopian ‘model’ that, in rejecting identity-thinking

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Khalutornykh, Olga, and Maria Maksimova. "On the prognostic and modeling functions of the social utopias of Russian cosmists." Socium i vlast 4 (2021): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/1996-0522-2021-2-50-57.

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Introduction. The article is focused on analyzing the utopian direction of Russian cosmism and its influence on the Soviet cosmonautics and the development of society in the USSR. This philosophical theory was created in the period that made it possible to incorporate the applied aspects of utopia into scientific and technological progress and thereby embody a number of steps towards the outer space exploration. The authors have developed criteria and parameters for assessing the utopian component of the Russian cosmism theories, which made it possible to bring this construct to a higher level

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Jameson, Fredric. "Utopiens politik." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 40, no. 114 (2012): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v40i114.15700.

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THE POLITICS OF UTOPIA | The article discusses the continued relevance of utopia in the 21st century as well as the general problems that arise from utopia as a literary and political phenomenon. UtopiaH– both as psychological “wishfulfilment” and as social constructionH– is involved in a contradictory relationship with the political. Utopia presupposes a “suspension” of politics,and hence utopias flourish in periods of social turmoil, but without political agency or direction. The function of utopia is first and foremost negative, in the sense that utopia does not offer a representation of a

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Dr., Reetu Khurana (Sardana). "A Modern Utopia: The Future World State of Authority." Siddhanta's International Journal of Advanced Research in Arts & Humanities 1, no. 4 (2024): 56–62. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11068089.

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H. G. Well's A Modern Utopia is the only utopia which has made some contribution to the Utopian thought & technique, although it is indebted to the utopias of the past. Lewis Mumford calls it "the quintessential utopia, as it is written with a free & critical gesture & with a sufficient similarity towards the more important books that come before it." It has the strict regard for the present realities & is altogether a fine & lucid product of the imagination. A Modern Utopia may be distinguished from all other preceding ideal Commonwealths in many respects. First, it breaks

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BİRİNCİ ERTÜRK, Nazlıcan, Pınar KILIÇ ÖZKAN, and Gaye BİROL. "THE CINE-SPATIAL REFLECTION OF THE CONCEPT OF MICRO-UTOPIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FILM ‘DOWNSIZING’." INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNAL OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, no. 26 (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.17365/tmd.2022.turkey.26.08.

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Within this study, we claim that a relationship can be established between the tendency to minimalization, which stands against the tendency to the consumption-display-luxury, and the micro-utopias that are developed as a reaction to the utopia of mainstream art. Aim: In this study we reconsidered the concept of micro-utopia and aim to extend the conceptual and spatial meanings of it through the analysis of the film “Downsizing”. Method: We focused on the minimalist lifestyle within the framework of the relational aesthetic theory, which looks at art as a tool to create new possibilities throu

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Uhlenbruch, Frauke. "Reconstructing Realities from Biblical Utopias." biblical interpretation 23, no. 2 (2015): 191–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00232a03.

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This article addresses two specific issues in reading the Hebrew Bible drawing on utopian theory: the possibility of reconstructing historical reality by reading a text as a utopia, and the variable of changing audiences throughout time and their impact on utopian readings. Suvin’s and Roemer’s definitions of utopia are used, but it is acknowledged that no one definition of utopia is necessarily more correct than another. Approaching the concept of utopia as a flexible ideal type, rather than with a strict definition, is advocated. Utopia is seen as a specific response by the author(s) to a p

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Kassens-Noor, Eva. "From Ephemeral Planning to Permanent Urbanism: An Urban Planning Theory of Mega-Events." Urban Planning 1, no. 1 (2016): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v1i1.532.

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Mega-events like the Olympic Games are powerful forces that shape cities. In the wake of mega-events, a variety of positive and negative legacies have remained in host cities. In order to bring some theoretical clarity to debates about legacy creation, I introduce the concepts of the mega-event utopia, dystopia and heterotopia. A mega-event utopia is ideal and imaginary urbanism embracing abstract concepts about economies, socio-political systems, spaces, and societies <em>in</em> the host <em>during</em> events. The mega-event utopia (in contrast to other utopian visio

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Zvjagintseva, M. M. "UTOPIC IDEAS IN RUSSIAN ARCHTECTURE IN CULTURAL ASPECT." Proceedings of the Southwest State University 21, no. 4 (2017): 32–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21869/2223-1560-2017-21-4-32-38.

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Utopia is one of the most stable archetypical cultural concepts because it reflects the mankind’s desire to improve their world, find a better way of social organization and return to the paradise lost. The idea of the “general welfare domain” had been present in myths and religions of different peoples long before the term “Utopia” appeared as such. Utopian ideals were extremely typical of the European culture due to its extroversion and the aspiration for a more rational existence. Utopia demonstrates a number of very typical features including commonality, special isolation, timelessness (a

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Amelina, Anna V. "Theoretical Aspect of Studying the Literary Utopias and Dystopias of the First Decades of the 20th Century (on the Genre Identification Problem)." Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts 25, no. 4 (2023): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2023.25.4.061.

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This article examines the theoretical problems of studying literary utopias and dystopias. Since utopia and dystopia exist far beyond fiction, it is proposed to approach the analysis of a literary work as a particular case of the manifestation of a universal model of utopian/dystopian consciousness. First, in the texts under consideration, their elements should be identified with the support of research in social philosophy — the structure of utopian consciousness is outlined in the article, and the structure of dystopian consciousness is derived by the author of the article by analogy. If a w

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Leontyev, Gleb Dmitrievich, and Ludmila Stanislavovna Leontieva. "Praxeology of social utopia: protest-project-practice." Социодинамика, no. 2 (February 2020): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2020.2.30089.

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This article analyzes the phenomenon of utopia as a social alternative in the aspect of its praxeological specificity. Confidence in the idea of the utopian due and despair, justified by dissatisfying real, comprise the existential basis of protest state of mass consciousness. The ideological stimulus to social protest becomes the utopian project that produces a trend to practical development of ideal sociality. Systematic functionality of these praxeological elements of utopia substantiates the goal of determining the specificity of correlation between anti-system protest, socially-constructi

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Davis, Laurence. "Grounded Utopia." Utopian Studies 32, no. 3 (2021): 552–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.32.3.0552.

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Abstract The concept of utopia is from the moment of its inception umbilically tied to modern conceptions of progress that have legitimized settler colonialism, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the violent subordination of women and racial and sexual “others,” ecocide, and a “grow or die” form of civilization that is now threatening the very existence of all life on the planet. Drawing on the critical socialist insights of Gustav Landauer, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin, and the “non-Euclidean” utopianism of Ursula K. Le Guin, this article challenges the common association between utopia

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Vakilian, Hassan. "Constitutional Utopianism: a Case Study of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran: a Case Study of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran." Forum Prawnicze, no. 6(68) (January 20, 2022): 47–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.32082/fp.6(68).2021.903.

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This paper will examine constitutional utopianism in the specific case of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Given that utopianism in constitution-making is inevitable, some constitutionalists place an emphasis on pragmatic utopianism as the acceptable approach towards constitutional utopia. Also, it is stated that the consistency of constitutional values and principles, mostly derived from constitutionalism, is a necessary element for a possible constitutional utopia. Based on this theoretical framework, the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is examined as a case stu

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Prosic, Tamara. "Religious Utopianism: From Othering Reality to Othering People." Religions 15, no. 5 (2024): 595. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15050595.

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This paper intends to make an important contribution to the studies of religious utopianism by considering religions as comprehensive utopian systems which have an ontological and a social utopian mode. It argues that the ontological mode/utopia is related to human finality and that its fantastical content, abstractness and ontological Othering undermine the transformative powers of left religious social utopianism, while it encourages pernicious social Othering in religious fundamentalism. The article has four sections. In Section 1, it clarifies the definition of utopia on which the paper re

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Nikulin, Alexander. "Dreams of the Russian Revolution in the Utopias of Alexander Chayanov and Andrei Platonov." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 17, no. 3 (2018): 256–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2018-3-256-290.

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The Russian Revolution is the central theme of both A. Chayanov’s novel The Journey of My Brother Alexei to the Land of Peasant Utopia and A. Platonov’s novel Chevengur. The author of this article compares the chronicles and images of the Revolution in the biographies of Chayanov and Platonov as well as the main characters, genres, plots, and structures of the two utopian novels, and questions the very understanding of the history of the Russian Revolution and the possible alternatives of its development. The article focuses not only on the social-economic structure of utopian Moscow and Cheve

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McNealy, Grace. "Dispatches from Utopia: Black Queer Nightlife in Shakedown." Women Gender and Families of Color 10, no. 2 (2022): 179–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/23260947.10.2.05.

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Abstract Many critics have discussed the ways in which Cheryl Dunye's groundbreaking 1996 film The Watermelon Woman employs an exploration and interrogation of history as a means of creating and reshaping the present and future, a utopian extraction (which is ultimately an invention) of a symbolic Black lesbian figure who has been obscured and ignored throughout history. In this vein, this essay examines a work that similarly uncovers Black queer utopias of the past and actualizes queer potential for existence in the present: the 2018 documentary Shakedown, directed by Leilah Weinraub, which d

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Abdelbaky, Ashraf. "A Perfect World or an Oppressive World: A Critical Study of Utopia and Dystopia as Subgenres of Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 4, no. 3 (2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v4i3.1201.

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In this article, I investigates the concept of utopia and dystopia in literature since the time of Plato and Thomas More and how it became a significant subgenre of science fiction. I present the kinds of utopia and its fundamental purposes as well as the different explanations for the term utopia and dystopia by numerous critics. I stress the function of science fiction as a literary tool to depict the grim picture and the weaknesses of current societies, dystopias, and to provide a warning for the future of these societies by presenting alternative peaceful societies; utopias. Therefore, I s

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Płachciak, Adam. "Utopistyczny wymiar rozwoju zrównoważonego." Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym 14, no. 1 (2011): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1899-2226.14.1.09.

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Utopian consciousness is defined as an expression of opposition against actual status quo with simultaneous tendency towards creating alternative projects guarantying possibilities which are not found in actual reality. Utopias usually are recognized as negative concepts. They may often glare with simple and artificial examples or faith their believers in realization of imagined world. Utopists are often called dreamers and people who try to implement unreal ideas into life. Although it can not be forgotten that there is a meaningful difference between abstract utopia and concrete one. In conc

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Greenwood, Martin. "Real Utopia as a Method? Utopian-Sociological Paths from Jameson’s Universal Army to a Postcapitalist Post Office." Sociology 57, no. 2 (2023): 288–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385221133205.

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This article uses Frederic Jameson’s An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army as the inspiration for a utopian-sociological method that brings together aspects of Erik Olin Wright’s ‘Real Utopias’ project and Ruth Levitas’ ‘Imaginative Reconstitution of Society’. It argues that these different approaches can be bridged through presenting fictional sketches of imagined futures of potentially socially transformative institutions alongside more conventional sociological analysis of such. Two concepts associated with the discipline of Utopian Studies – education of desire and concrete

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Copson, Lynne, and Avi Boukli. "Queer utopias and queer criminology." Criminology & Criminal Justice 20, no. 5 (2020): 510–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895820932210.

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Drawing on the concept of utopia to reflect upon the emerging field of queer criminology and José Esteban Muñoz’s account of queer theory as essentially utopian, we draw two conclusions. First, we suggest that queer criminology is currently limited by tinkering at the edges with piecemeal reforms instead of focussing on radical, wholesale changes, and second, that queer theory contains within it the potential for a more holistic reimagining of the social world. In doing so, we question rigid cis/trans binaries and reject accounts of trans/gender that ignore the role of structural harm. We draw

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Fortunati, Vita. "Literary Utopias: My Personal Journey." Caietele Echinox 46 (June 1, 2024): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2024.46.01.

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In my paper I point out that the study of literary utopias has been and still is a constant focus on my scientific research. It has accompanied me in different historical and political contexts, helping in analysing and interpreting their complexity. The metaphor I use is that of Utopia as a tree with deep roots from which many branches spread out. In my first book on this topic, I suggested that Utopia could be considered on the whole as a literary genre, characterized by a continuous metamorphosis over time and space. Within such a theoretical framework, I addressed how a variety of utopian

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Ingerlab, Michail, and Taisiya Paniotova. "Utopia as social psychotherapy." SHS Web of Conferences 72 (2019): 03021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20197203021.

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The article considers the approach to modern utopian works as a means of social psychotherapy. This context is currently poorly developed, although for the first time “psychological utopia”, as a society of perfect mental health, was mentioned by A. Maslow. Utopia, remaining the object of multidisciplinary research, in the era of digitalization and information technology acquires the ability to quicker than before be reflected in the mass consciousness, to acquire the significance of a cultural phenomenon, to determine the values and meanings of the activities of its adherents. The authors ana

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Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. "The Persistence of Utopia: Plasticity and Difference from Roland Barthes to Catherine Malabou." Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 25, no. 2 (2017): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2017.804.

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The theorizing of utopia is a persistent theme throughout several generations of the French continental tradition, and alongside the process theory of Alfred North Whitehead to a large degree recuperates the concept of utopia from its supposed dismissal by Marx and his intellectual descendants. Most recently, attention to the notion of plasticity, popularized (relatively speaking) by Catherine Malabou, extends speculation on utopian possibility. Compelled to answer to Marx’s denigration of utopia as fantasy, the tendency was (still is, for many) to compensate for the absence of a programmatic

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Thaler, Mathias. "Hope Abjuring Hope: On the Place of Utopia in Realist Political Theory." Political Theory 46, no. 5 (2017): 671–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591717740324.

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This essay reconstructs the place of utopia in realist political theory, by examining the ways in which the literary genre of critical utopias can productively unsettle ongoing discussions about “how to do political theory.” I start by analyzing two prominent accounts of the relationship between realism and utopia: “real utopia” (Erik Olin Wright et al.) and “dystopic liberalism” (Judith Shklar et al.). Elaborating on Raymond Geuss’s recent reflections, the essay then claims that an engagement with literature can shift the focus of these accounts. Utopian fiction, I maintain, is useful for com

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Daniel, Antje. "“A simple post-growth life”: The Green Camp Gallery Project as Lived Ecotopia in Urban South Africa." Utopian Studies 33, no. 2 (2022): 274–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.33.2.0274.

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ABSTRACT Utopias in Africa is an emerging academic field. While we are witnessing an increasing number of fictional and ideological utopias, little attention is paid to lived utopias. The Green Camp Gallery Project is such a lived utopia, which predominantly strives for realizing desired future imaginations in daily practices. Localized in the urban context of Durban (South Africa), in a derelict house in the industrial area, the Green Camp strives for a “simple post-growth life,” which is closely related to nature and the philosophy of Ubuntu. In so doing, the Green Camp responds to the overl

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Wenning, Mario. "The Dignity of Utopian Imagination." Social Imaginaries 5, no. 1 (2019): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/si20195110.

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The utopian imagination is ambivalent in that it both escapes from, while also critically engaging with contemporary societies and forms of living. This paper calls to mind the dignity of utopian longing as well as common objections against political interpretations of utopia. Philosophical utopias, it is argued, make deliberative use of the imagination by sharpening a sense of possibility and providing reasons for (or against) utopian thought-images. On this account, utopias draw on irony and satire as constructive modes of imagining unrealized potentials and exposing what falls short of thes

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Montoya Campuzano, Pablo. "Las utopías de Pedro Gómez Valderrama." Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, no. 15 (August 23, 2013): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.16436.

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Resumen: Este artículo hace un recorrido por distintas formas utópicas que alimentan la obra narrativa de Pedro Gómez Valderrama. Entre la indagación histórica y la imaginación literaria, y con una riquísima intertextualidad, el escritor colombiano propone la paradoja propia de las utopías: El impulso entusiasta hacia su concreción y las consecuencias siniestras que generan. Descriptores: Gómez Valderrama, Pedro; Utopía en la literatura; Intertextualidad. Abstract: This article goes through different utopian forms which nourish the narrative production of Pedro Gómez Valderrama. From historica

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Ahmad, Muhammad Mahmood, Sohail Ahmad Saeed, and Ahmad Naeem. "The Dialectics of Utopia and Utopian Impulse." Global Language Review VII, no. I (2022): 180–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(vii-i).16.

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This paper aims to offer a dialectical view of Utopia and utopian impulse in utopian theory. Politically, Utopia is associated with a reductionist leftist politics which overlooks essential human diversity and psycho-social conflicts by imposing harmony and progress through implicit violence. In aesthetic representation, Utopia is seen as an ideal society which offers a glorious transformation of mankind living in a society free of wants and conflicts. However, Utopian theory is essentially different from such meta narratives about Utopia and its pr-axis. Instead of focusing on the political o

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Podaropoulos, Yiorgos. "Beyond Grammars of Utopia: Crisis of Imagination and Utopianism by Negation or Affirmation in James Joyce’s <em>Ulysses</em>." Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities 8, no. 1 (2024): 8–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.180.

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Do utopias emerge from envisioning where we want to live or where we do not want to live? According to Theodor Adorno, polarity, i.e. the grammatical distinction between affirmation and negation, is central to utopian thinking and showcases a crisis of imagination, as we can only conceive a utopian world by negating a given reality (Adorno in Bloch 1975, 68-70). My paper negotiates this idea through a grammatical-conceptual reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). Specifically, it argues that Ulysses first lays out a negative utopianism following Homer’s Odyssey but in the course of the narrat

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Seeger, Sean. "The Postcritical Utopia." Utopian Studies 34, no. 1 (2023): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0001.

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ABSTRACT Taking Yanis Varoufakis’s novel Another Now as a case study, this article introduces and makes an argument for a new concept in utopian studies: the postcritical utopia. It begins by making four claims: (1) that Varoufakis has written a utopian socialist novel; (2) that this represents a retrieval of a historical form of literature; (3) that the utopia at its center takes the form of a utopian blueprint; and (4) that two objections to this utopia, posed by one of its main characters, complicate our understanding of Another Now, with implications for how we ought to classify it. It is

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Pavlov, Alexander V. "Utopia in the Recent Western Marxism: Anomaly, Hope, Science." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 9 (2021): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2021-9-25-36.

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The article investigates the problem of utopia in actual Marxism. It is well known that Marx and Engels opposed their “scientific socialism” to “utopian socialism”. The followers of Marx have long supported this orthodox teaching. However, since the middle of the 20th century, Western Marxists have begun to talk about utopia as the central element of their social philosophy. Sociologist Alvin Goldner called these “anomalies”. They stood out as a separate system of critical Marxism from the theoretical system of “scientific Marxism”. The first person to write about utopia was Ernst Bloch. Then

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Fitting, Peter. "Reconsiderations of the Separatist Paradigm in Recent Feminist Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 19, Part 1 (1992): 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.19.1.032.

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Pamela Sargent’s The Shore of Women (1986), Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean (1986), and Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country (1988) may be read as interlocutors in a dialogue with the feminist utopias of the 1970s. In terms of its setting and plot, Sargent’s The Shore of Women portrays a matriarchal society which dominates and exploits men as a failed utopia; and in its appeal for a reconciliation of the sexes it seems to have accommodated both homophobia and heterosexism through the narrative of a conversion to heterosexuality. The Gate to Women’s Country shifts the utopian focus a

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Zhgileva, Larisa A. "Discourse Space for Studying the Phenomenon of Utopia in Modern Russia: A Paradigmatic Analysis." Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series Humanitarian and Social Sciences, no. 1 (March 1, 2024): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.37482/2687-1505-v323.

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Using the example of Russian discourse, the article demonstrates modern trends in the study of utopias. Research topics are analysed and key conceptual trends are highlighted. The subject of consideration is monographs, dissertations and articles published in scholarly peer-reviewed journals, the selection criteria being relevance, novelty, use of modern methodology, as well as practical significance. The analysis involved general research methods. The works span between 2020 and 2023, which includes the period of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as serious changes in the global political situati

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Konstan, David. "Post-Utopia: The Long View." Humanities 10, no. 2 (2021): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10020065.

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The present article is divided into three parts. The first discusses the nature of utopias and their hypothetical anti-type, dystopias, and also disaster scenarios that are sometimes assimilated to dystopias, with reference also to the idea of post-utopia. An argument is made for the continuity of the utopian impulse, even in an age when brutal wars and forms of oppression have caused many to lose faith in any form of collectivity. Representations of social breakdown and its apparent opposite, totalitarian rigidity, tend to privilege the very individualism that the utopian vision aspires to ov

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Doyle, Charles Clay. "Is It “A Utopia” or “An Utopia”?" Moreana 36 (Number 137), no. 1 (1999): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/more.1999.36.1.4.

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In early texts, when an indefinite article immediately preceded the English noun utopia or utopian or the adjective utopian (or the eu- counterparts of such words), the article was nearly always an, even though (during much of that interval, at least) those “utopian” words were commonly pronounced with an initial consonant /y/, as they are today. Only in the middle of the nineteenth century did constructions like a utopia and a utopian start to appear with any regularity in the written record. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thirty-three recorded instances of an occur before “utop

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Gudilina, Ekaterina Nikolaevna, and Mikhail Mikhailovich Poroshkov. "On the problem of the structure-forming elements of Utopian Discourse and its specifics." Философия и культура, no. 3 (March 2022): 38–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2022.3.37704.

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The subject of the research is utopian discourse, which unites all the variety of concepts related in one way or another to utopia, utopian dimension of reality and understanding of the Future (utopian element, utopian impulse, utopian optics, utopianism, utopian consciousness, utopian thinking, dystopia, etc.). Special attention is paid to the study of the explanatory and predictive potential of utopian discourse, identifying its boundaries and analysis of the relationship with ideological discourse. The conceptualization of utopian discourse is based on an instrumental approach to utopia, wh

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Alexeeva, Ekaterina. "Artificial Intelligence: Utopia and Subjectlessness." ANOTHER ONE 2, no. 1 (2024): 46–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.62988/2949-5202-2024-2-1-46-63.

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The article proposes that some properties of artificial intelligence allow it to become a part of modern utopian thinking. Utopia is understood as accumulated collective desires that can guide the activity of communities in opposition to its classical literary and philosophical meaning. Utopia, on the one hand, is aimed at forming ideas about what does not exist yet. On the other hand, it is aimed at establishing some proper order of things, which is necessary beyond the will of individual subjects. Therefore, it is assumed that one of the key properties of the utopian order of things is subje

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Knop, Karen. "Utopia without Apology: Form and Imagination in the Work of Ronald St. John Macdonald." Canadian Yearbook of international Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 40 (2003): 287–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0069005800008067.

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SummaryThe word “utopia” is a pun on eu topos (a good place) and ou topos (no place). While utopia in the sense of eu topos refers to an ideal society and its realization, utopia in the sense of ou topos emphasizes a mode of narrative rather than a political goal. Traditionally, the utopian form is a traveller’s account of a visit to an imaginary country where the journey is either to a far-off land or to the distant future. This article offers an appreciation of Ronald St. John Macdonald as a practitioner, presenter, and promoter of the utopian form in international law. Beyond the ability of

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Urbańczyk, Agnieszka. "Terra Ignota. Marksizm kosmiczny jako marksizm apofatyczny." Praktyka Teoretyczna 41, no. 3 (2021): 91–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/prt.2021.3.5.

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Tekst poświęcony jest problematyzującemu charakter współczesnych utopii cyklowi Terra Ignota Ady Palmer. Opisywanemu przez Palmer dwudziestemu piątemu wiekowi, w którym zniesiono płeć kulturową, państwa narodowe czy tradycyjny model rodziny, nie znosząc zarazem nierówności, przeciwstawiona zostaje postawa Utopian – niewielkiego ułamka fikcyjnej populacji. Choć ukazywana w powieściach rzeczywistość przez większość bohaterów traktowana jest jako utopia, Utopianie odmawiają przystania na nią, podejmując się nieustającej pracy w imię zerwania ze współczesnością i zobowiązując się poświęcić całe ży

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Guneri, Gizem Deniz. "Peter Cook Beyond Archigram." Prostor 28, no. 1 (59) (2020): 130–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31522/p.28.1(59).8.

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This text visits and manifests the critical utopianism embedded in the praxis of Peter Cook, within which resides a promising mode of architectural thinking based on reflexive inquiries rather than absolute and closed utopias. It aims to revert questions that link utopia and spatial determinism towards questions that revolve around utopian methodologies that become trainings of architectural imagination.

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Bronikov, Ignat, and Irina Khmyrova-Pruel. "INCONSISTENCY OF UTOPIAN CONSCIOSNESS." Studia Humanitatis 20, no. 3 (2021): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j12.art.2021.3763.

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Utopia is undoubtedly an integral part of human culture, since it is impossible to imagine a person who would not dream of paradise shores. But as widespread as utopia is, it is also obscure. Perhaps in order to shed light on the mystery of the essence of utopia, it is necessary to turn to utopian consciousness. Namely we need to analyze utopian consciousness itself, as well as its character and features, hoping to eventually get an unambiguous understanding of what utopian consciousness is and where it originates from, thereby getting closer to utopia itself. The article presents an attempt a

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