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Rozhkova, Zinaida. "From Utopia to Utopian Consciousness: the practice of R. Owen and the propaganda of W. Morris." nauka.me, no. 1 (2024): 16. https://doi.org/10.18254/s241328880026535-2.

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Utopian works accompanied man on the path of his development through the centuries. It is possible to trace this evolution from the times of Antiquity and the &quot;islands of the blessed&quot; to the religious background in utopian works in the Middle Ages and further from the utopias of the Renaissance, which began to have a more real character to the dystopias bearing the stamp of the scientific and technological revolution and the practice of embodying the ideas of utopianism. Thus, humanity is gradually moving away from the theory of utopia to utopian practices. The special signif

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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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Bagchi, Barnita. "Remobilizing Religion in Utopian Studies." Religion and Society 13, no. 1 (2022): 200–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2022.130114.

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Abstract This article explores how factors such as gender and cross-religious communication frame and yield utopian perspectives in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's literature and practice as educator and feminist. The article makes the case that Hossain's body of work envisions utopia in complex, many-layered ways. Early in her creative career, as a member of the Muslim youth herself, Hossain created gender-just utopian visions that also embedded cross-religious dialogue and cooperation. She later became an educator, inspiring youth, particularly Muslim girls and young women, with utopian ideas and

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Shaw, David. "Management Consultancy Firms and Hythloday’s Island: Utopian Visions of the Most Desired of Workplaces." Utopian Studies 35, no. 2-3 (2024): 382–402. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.35.2-3.0382.

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ABSTRACT Many business graduates regard management consultancy firms as a desirable, even utopian, career destination. Hythloday’s description of the island of Utopia identifies several characteristics that resonate with aspects of the management consulting industry. They include its separation from the rest of humanity, the Utopians’ attitude to acquiring knowledge, their commitment to their way of life, their attitude to work, the governance structure of their state, and their attitude to wealth. These characteristics may be compared and contrasted with management consultancy firms’ elite id

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Schienke, Christian. "“Daß er ein Freund, ein Vorbote, ein Diener der Humanität werde, wollen auch wir an unserm unmerklich kleinen Teile befördern.”." Daphnis 50, no. 2-3 (2022): 548–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18796583-12340056.

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Abstract Johann Gottfried Herder’s Briefe zu Beförderung der Humanität are probably the clearest articulation of the utopian intention inherent in his philosophy of history. As a result of the changes in utopian thinking with the beginning of the Enlightenment, this intention aims at humane principles of behavior and life practices instead of an ideal state. At the same time, it urges historical efficacy under the condition of an increasingly skeptical naturalized anthropology. The utopian conditions intended by Herder are therefore no longer presentable in the textual pattern of literary utop

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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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MCKEAN, BENJAMIN L. "What Makes a Utopia Inconvenient? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Realist Orientation to Politics." American Political Science Review 110, no. 4 (2016): 876–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055416000460.

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Contemporary politics is often said to lack utopias. For prevailing understandings of the practical force of political theory, this looks like cause for celebration. As blueprints to apply to political practice, utopias invariably seem too strong or too weak. Through an immanent critique of political realism, I argue that utopian thought, and political theory generally, is better conceived as supplying an orientation to politics. Realists including Bernard Williams and Raymond Geuss explain how utopian programs like universal human rights poorly orient their adherents to politics, but the real

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Song, Mingwei. "A Topology of Hope: Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction." AUC PHILOLOGICA 2021, no. 3 (2022): 107–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.6.

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This essay investigates how utopian thinking met with dystopian variations in contemporary Chinese science fiction. The dystopian gaze into the utopian dreams, the alternative histories contending with the utopian narratives, and the heterotopian experiments challenging ideological orthodoxy are the focus of my analysis. Reading the dystopian fiction by Chan Koonchung and science fiction stories and novels by Han Song, Bao Shu and Hao Jingfang etc., I do not intend to illustrate the utopian/ dystopian interventions in the political sense, but rather to explore the vigorous, multifaceted variat

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RAMACHANDRAN, AYESHA. "New World, No World: Seeking Utopia in Padmanabhan's Harvest." Theatre Research International 30, no. 2 (2005): 161–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883305001161.

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This essay examines the theoretical and practical implications of performance as a utopian gesture, particularly with regard to postcolonial drama. Analyzing Manjula Padmanabhan's futuristic play, Harvest, as a case study, I argue that ‘utopia’ is a crucial critical concept for postcolonial dramatic practice because it stands for the collision and convergence of aesthetic and political interests, using the body itself as a site for representation and resistance. The play explores the extreme outcome of the international trade in human organs as a metaphor for neocolonialism and the constraints

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Rukavina, Katarina. "Utopian Practices and the Post-Avant-Garde Within Rancière's Concept of the Aesthetics." Ars & Humanitas 18, no. 2 (2024): 175–89. https://doi.org/10.4312/ars.18.2.175-189.

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The paper examines the idea of art as a utopian practice by the French philosopher Mikel Dufrenne, and its meaning in the present, in the so-called the post-age where everything exists simultaneous and where history seems to have ended. The idea of utopia always implies temporality - a critique of the present and a projection of the future based on the experience of the past - but temporality as such is called into question in the great NOW, and that makes every utopian practice seem absurd. The focus of the analysis is placed on the new concept of the aesthetic proposed by the contemporary Fr

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Wang, David Der-wei. "Utopian Dream and Dark Consciousness." Prism 16, no. 1 (2019): 136–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-7480357.

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Abstract This article seeks to analyze the contested conditions of modern and contemporary Chinese utopia, as a political treatise, a literary genre, and a social imaginary. It takes a historical perspective from which to describe the rise of utopia in the late Qing era and ponders the contradictions and confluences of its narrative and intellectual paradigms. It proposes that we engage with “dark consciousness,” an idea that deals with the polemics of crisis and contingency ingrained in Chinese thought, in light of modern Chinese literary sources. The last part turns to the scene of the new m

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Kumar, Kriashan. "Utopian thought and communal practice." Theory and Society 19, no. 1 (1990): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00148452.

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García, Luciano García. "Of Utopia and utopias: traces of Thomas More’s Utopia in the enlightened project of the New Settlements of Sierra Morena and Andalusia (Spain, 1767–72)." Moreana 60, no. 1 (2023): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/more.2023.0133.

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The influence of Thomas More on Spanish utopian intellectuals and social reformers extends well into the eighteenth century. This article undertakes a detailed survey and an updating of the textual parallelisms connecting Utopia with the foundation of the New Settlements of Andalusia in 1767. It also presents a socio-historical perspective, which evinces a line of continuity connecting the New Settlements with an early Spanish Christian (Catholic) utopian tradition and practice, as seen in the earlier promoters of settlement programs in Spanish America. This last point is well illustrated by a

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Kaplan, Jonathan. "The Levitical Jubilee as a Utopian Legal Institution." Utopian Studies 33, no. 3 (2022): 495–513. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.33.3.0495.

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ABSTRACT Leviticus 25 details legislation for the regularized practice of economic relief in sabbatical and jubilee years. Earlier scholarship described the jubilee legislation as utopian in order to question its feasibility. In contrast, this article employs the term as a critical lens through which to better appreciate the shape and character of the jubilee legislation. Building on scholarship on utopian literature as well as work on the role of law in utopian literature, the author argues that the author of Leviticus 25 employs distinctive economic practices, an idyllic description of Israe

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Teršek, Andraž. "Political alternatives for constitutional democracy: between utopia, pandemic and dystopia." Open Political Science 4, no. 1 (2020): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/openps-2021-0006.

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AbstractPerhaps there are never too many different theories about the organization of society, ideas about the normative framework of life in a political community and suggestions on how to institutionalize the political system. Perhaps they go out in public too early. This could also apply to those reflections on society and to those political philosophies that bear the label of utopia. There is no doubt about the importance of such human investigations of what is and what should be. And there is no doubt about the usefulness of constantly imagining what it should be. However, analytical and

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Sivkov, Denis Yu. "Cosmopolitics vs Biopolitics: Body, Technoutopia and Access to Space." Sociology of power 35, no. 3 (2023): 95–110. https://doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2003-3-95-110.

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The paper examines the body as a stake in space exploration at the intersection of technology, material practices and utopian imaginaries. Based on an interpretation of the film “Gattaca” in the light of the problem of access to space, the paper opposes two techno-utopian regimes - cosmopolitics and biopolitics. Cosmopolitics assumes an equality of access to space for all beings, while biopolitics links bodily restrictions to the problem of regravitation. Regravitation is the biopolitical practice aimed at preserving the “terrestrial” conditions of the body's existence.

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Sargent, Lyman Tower. "Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice. Vol. 2 of the Ralahine Utopian Studies." Utopian Studies 19, no. 2 (2008): 349–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20719909.

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Sargent, Lyman Tower. "Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice. Vol. 2 of the Ralahine Utopian Studies." Utopian Studies 19, no. 2 (2008): 349–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.19.2.0349.

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Кальней, Марина, and Marina Kalney. "Utopian Mind As Autistic Thinking Form at Artistic Creation Aspect." Scientific Research and Development. Socio-Humanitarian Research and Technology 8, no. 2 (2019): 42–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_5cf50ea597b362.03910729.

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The article gives the analysis of closeness autistic thinking and utopian mind, which releases at desire to displace all the negative sides of social practice not only from reality but also from artistic creation. For this utopian project supposes to change historical and cultural heritage in accordance to utopian ideal. This trends exhibits at modern social mind.

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Farnell, James E. "The Governmental Structure of Utopia." Moreana 34 (Number 130), no. 2 (1997): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/more.1997.34.2.4.

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A close examination of the mechanics of the government of Amaurot shows that it was most closely modelled on the government of the City of London. Departures from its practice incorporate features of Venice and the Roman Republic. The Utopian federation was probably patterned on the constitutionalist tradition of the Netherlands while the national senate incorporated features of the English Parliament. The implications of More’s use of contemporary government archetypes for the interpretation of Utopia are discussed.

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Walker, Stephen. "Framing utopia: Following Warren and Mosley from urban site to textual practice (and back again)." Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 10, no. 2 (2023): 171–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00070_1.

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This article concerns interconnected works by artists Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley, with various collaborators: Planning for Utopia (2007–08), Beyond Utopia (2012) and Utopian Talk-Show (2012–14). It follows their initial proposal to construct an open timber framework tower on a small site near Smithfield Market in London. Discussions with the planning authority there faltered in 2008. In 2012, aspects of the initial project were revisited as a collectively authored, polyphonic book and follow-on instruction-based performance piece. The article will focus on how an initial desire to chall

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Peter Webb and John Lynch. ""Utopian Punk": The Concept of the Utopian in the Creative Practice of Björk." Utopian Studies 21, no. 2 (2010): 313–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/utp.2010.0000.

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Papastephanou, Marianna. "Dystopian Reality, Utopian Thought and Educational Practice." Studies in Philosophy and Education 27, no. 2-3 (2008): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11217-007-9092-9.

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Vieira, Fátima. "Complex Democracy, Complex Utopianism." Utopian Studies 35, no. 2-3 (2024): 318–39. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.35.2-3.0318.

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ABSTRACT Longtime utopian scholar Fátima Vieira draws from a variety of contemporary social theorists, Anglophone and European, to argue for the notion of a “complex” utopianism that departs from previous, traditional models of utopian narrative, thought and practice. To resist the seemingly dystopian spirit of our own time, Vieira argues, we need to define, and then establish, a new “utopian class” akin to (and perhaps coinciding with) Latour’s and Schultz’s proposal for an “ecological class.” Wide-ranging in its theoretical sources, the article invites scholarly conversation about “what’s ne

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Blagojević, Ljiljana. "Architecture utopia realism: Thematic framework." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 6, no. 3 (2014): 138–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1402138b.

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The term or concept of realism seems to be recurring in recent theoretical inquiries, from debates in philosophy and aesthetics to those in theory and practice of architecture. Since 2000, the architectural discourse has been concerned with a wide range of related issues coming from its own post-critical debates on utopianism and realism and the possibility of an 'utopian realism', as suggested by Reinhold Martin (2005). The debates on realism resonate in the architectural theory anew as a reflection on the Manifesto of New Realism by the philosopher Maurizio Ferraris from 2011. The questions

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Joensuu, Eleonora. "Phantoms at the Helm." SFU Educational Review 12, no. 2 (2019): 106–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/sfuer.v12i2.942.

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Educational institutions have held a central role in utopian projects as the vehicle for implementing utopian principles and fashioning the utopian subject. As vehicles for utopian narratives or projects, educational institutions are simultaneously shaped by utopian modes of thought. Modes of thought are not neutral tools that are used as needed, but rather, they are active in how we understand ourselves, others, and the world. This paper draws out the implications and risks of nostalgic and utopian modes of thought to suggest that their mobilization is problematic in education as it directs e

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Noble, Tim. "Nowhere is Better than Here: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Early Sixteenth Century Utopias." Perichoresis 16, no. 1 (2018): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/perc-2018-0001.

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Abstract This article examines the utopian vision present in the eponymous work by Thomas More and in the early Anabaptists. In the light of the discussion on the power and dangers of utopian thinking in liberation theology it seeks to show how More struggled with the tension between the positive possibilities of a different world and the destructive criticism of the present reality. A similar tension is found in early Anabaptist practices, especially in terms of their relationship to the state and their practice of commonality of goods. The article shows that that all attempts to reduce visio

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Webb, Darren. "Educational archaeology and the practice of utopian pedagogy." Pedagogy, Culture & Society 25, no. 4 (2017): 551–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2017.1291534.

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Gärtner, Claudia. "The Monastic Cell as Utopian Niche: The Contribution of Religious Niches to Socio-Ecological Transformation." Utopian Studies 35, no. 1 (2024): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.35.1.0067.

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ABSTRACT This article explores the extent to which Christian traditions, especially the monastic way of life, possess a transformative potential toward a socio-ecological society. Christian ideas are not unbroken utopias, but they possess an eschatological proviso based on God’s otherness. Neither is monastic life a prefiguration of the Kingdom of God, nor do Christians or the Church prefigure a heavenly society, but Christian action and religious communities can be regarded as forms of refigurative practice, which can fail again and again without losing hope. This article describes the relati

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Mueller, Gabriele. "Education (Documentaries) and Utopian Thinking." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 60, no. 2 (2024): 162–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.2.5.

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This article examines three films that comment on public education in Germany. Berlin Rebel High School (Alexander Kleider, 2016 ), Die Kinder der Utopie (Hubertus Siegert, 2019), and Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (Maria Speth, 2021 ) are German documentaries that present a critique of the current educational system and, at the same time, allow glimpses into classrooms that offer alternative educational models. All three films align themselves with the educational theories of utopian, radical, or critical pedagogies and embrace an approach to education that rejects the definition of a static

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Kuźmicz, Karol. "PRAWO W UTOPII KOMUNISTYCZNEJ. ZARYS PROBLEMATYKI." Zeszyty Prawnicze 11, no. 4 (2016): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/zp.2011.11.4.11.

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LAW IN THE COMMUNIST UTOPIA. AN OUTLINE OF TOPIC Summary The Communist Utopia is strictly connected with the philosophical concepts of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th century. It is based on historical and dialectical materialism, which were later developed by younger philosophers who created Communist ideology. The scientific character of Communism was stressed and they claimed that it is possible to reach Communism, which will be the highest achievement of social development of progressive mankind. According to XI thesis about Ludwig Feuerbach “the philosophers have interpreted th

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Suess, Paulo. "Por uma “Terra sem Mal”. Mito guarani e Campanha da Fraternidade 2002." Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira 61, no. 244 (2001): 854. http://dx.doi.org/10.29386/reb.v61i244.2067.

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Entre todos os povos existe um imaginário utópico que inspira a construção de uma nova sociedade. “Mito” e “história”, “escatologia” e “esperança”, “sonho” e “utopia” – eis algumas questões que – a partir da Campanha da Fraternidade 2002, com o lema “Por uma terra sem males” e o tema “Fraternidade e Povos Indígenas” – nos instigam a buscar um sentido comum entre povos indígenas e sociedades não-indígenas na afirmação da diferença; um sentido articulado em torno de um projeto de vida, na prática da sororidade. A luta indígena articulada com a causa dos pobres de hoje revela que os 500 anos não

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Clear, Nic. "Utopian Geometries: Turning Forms and the (Science) Fictions of Utopian Architecture." Architectural Design 93, no. 5 (2023): 112–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.2981.

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AbstractIt is possible to give previous artworks by other artists a new lease of life as the prima materia for further artistic endeavour. Architects Clear + Park, based in West Yorkshire, have been doing just this with a sculpture by the renowned artist Barbara Hepworth – not by renovating or relocating it, but in an act of digital appropriation. Having 3D scanned it, they manipulated the point clouds produced, to create new forms, vectors and speculative interventions of their own originality. Nic Clear, a co‐founder of the practice, explains how.

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Fyodorova, Maria. "Political Practices of Progressivism." ISTORIYA 12, no. 10 (108) (2021): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840017711-1.

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The main subject of the article is progress as a concept and as a political practice. Starting from the idea of a close relationship between the historical and political sections of the social consciousness of the era, the author shows how the emergence and evolution of the concept of progress in the modern era influenced the formation of political practices in the era of modernity through the creation of political projects within the framework of various ideologies. It is shown that changes in the perception of historical time in the second half of the twentieth century led to a significant t

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Booth, Ken. "Security in Anarchy: Utopian Realism in Theory and Practice." International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) 67, no. 3 (1991): 527. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2621950.

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Robinson, Andy. "Book Review: Political Theory: Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice." Political Studies Review 11, no. 1 (2013): 82–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12000_13.

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Wieczorek, Krzysztof T. "In Defence of Utopia: Józef Tischner’s Thinking about the Social Ethos." Philosophy and Canon Law 8, no. 1 (2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/pacl.2022.08.1.02.

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An important trend in Tischner’s philosophical output was the observation of the phenomena that would occur in the current social life of Poles. The trend gained particular significance at the turn of the 1970s and the 1980s, when the processes that finally led to the systemic transformation began. During this period, Tischner made a successful attempt to reconstruct the Polish social ethos. It turned out that its integral element is the presence of utopian projects to rebuild the social order in the country. Tischner stated in his analyses that these utopias play a constructive role in the so

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Nicholson, Matthew. "Re-Situating Utopia." Brill Research Perspectives in International Legal Theory and Practice 1, no. 4 (2018): 1–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24522058-01030004.

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AbstractThis article considers utopian international legal thought. It makes three inter-connected arguments. First, it argues that international law and international legal theory are dominated by a ‘blueprint’ utopianism that presents international law as the means of achieving a better global future. Second, it argues that such blueprintism makes international law into what philosopher Louis Marin describes as a “degenerate utopia” – a fantastical means of trapping thought and practice within contemporary social and political conditions, blocking any possibility that those conditions might

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Sarbanes, Janet. "The Shaker “Gift” Economy: Charisma, Aesthetic Practice and Utopian Communalism." Utopian Studies 20, no. 1 (2009): 121–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20719932.

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Abstract This article considers the Shakers' vibrant, expressive culture, which they referred to as “gifts” ("the gift of song,” “the dancing gift,” “the whirling gift,” and so on), as the source and sustenance of their charismatic communalism. Drawing on Max Weber's discussion of charisma and institution, and Marcel Mauss's famous description of the “gift economy,” I argue that Shaker society harbored a deep flexibility towards and admiration for creativity that allowed charismatic relations to co-exist alongside a strict top-down organization, and indeed, to take precedence at moments when t

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Sarbanes, Janet. "The Shaker “Gift” Economy: Charisma, Aesthetic Practice and Utopian Communalism." Utopian Studies 20, no. 1 (2009): 121–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.20.1.0121.

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Abstract This article considers the Shakers' vibrant, expressive culture, which they referred to as “gifts” ("the gift of song,” “the dancing gift,” “the whirling gift,” and so on), as the source and sustenance of their charismatic communalism. Drawing on Max Weber's discussion of charisma and institution, and Marcel Mauss's famous description of the “gift economy,” I argue that Shaker society harbored a deep flexibility towards and admiration for creativity that allowed charismatic relations to co-exist alongside a strict top-down organization, and indeed, to take precedence at moments when t

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Jackson, Maghan Molloy. ""Reading Too Much into It": Affective Excess, Extrapolative Reading, and Queer Temporalities in MCU Fanfiction." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, no. 1 (2023): 30–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2023.a910958.

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abstract: This article engages José Esteban Muñoz's concept of queer utopian temporality through the heuristic of fanfiction. Beginning with a discussion of accusations of "excessive reading" as a normalizing disciplinary tactic of media viewership, I problematize representations of LGBT+ experience in mainstream television and cinema through Muñoz's figuration of "straight time." I then turn to close readings of several fannish texts created in conversation with the 2014 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo) to demonstrate fanfiction'

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Abramson, Larry. "Hybridity and the Unifying Space of Painting: Larry Abramson in Conversation with Theolonius Marx." Poetics Today 44, no. 4 (2023): 665–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10824240.

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Abstract While the drive toward homogeneous and pure visual languages was at the foundation of early twentieth-century utopian modernist art systems, the Dadaist and Surrealist reaction to this utopianism took the form of extreme and often violent hybridity. Marcel Duchamp's 1913 “readymade” of a bicycle wheel placed atop a kitchen stool is a paradigmatic manifestation of the linguistic hybridity characteristic of post-utopian twentieth-century art. In the 1920s Francis Picabia made paintings constructed of separate and discrete layers of images, which, when viewed together, produced an unsett

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Su, Ping, Mingwen Xiao, and Xianlong Zhu. "Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture." Island Studies Journal 17, no. 2 (2022): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24043/isj.392.

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The trope of the utopian island occurs in a variety of cultural traditions. For example, in the West, the literary imagination of ideal islandness made manifest an imperialist rhetoric and contributed to European exploration and colonization. The tension between utopia and dystopia is an intrinsic feature of Western utopian island imaginations, which were complicit in colonial exploitation and oppression. Western models of island utopias and dystopias have been imposed on non-Western cultures, whose scholars have engaged in decolonial practices by adapting, reshaping, and transforming these co

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Tombaz, Hande. "Superstudio: A Utopia-Driven Projective Architecture." Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge 1, no. 1 (2024): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/dak-sup-002.

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This article will address the claim that Superstudio works, which were part of the reflections of the 1960s’ and 1970s’ search for a new world order regarding architecture, contrary to the widely held view, present a utopia-driven projective architectural approach, rather than a complete rejection of architectural practice. In this context, the members’ work in various fields, belonging to the period after the dissolution of the group, can be seen as a reflection of the theoretical perspective that they had formed up to that day in practice, rather than as a renunciation or defeat. This assess

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Gordon, Avery F., Katherine Hite, and Daniela Jara. "Haunting and thinking from the Utopian margins: Conversation with Avery Gordon." Memory Studies 13, no. 3 (2020): 337–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698020914017.

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Avery Gordon’s work exceeds the limits of disciplinary boundaries and so does her practice. She uses the term ‘itinerant’ to describe her strategies of inhabiting multidisciplinary spaces and of critiquing the worlds, peripheries and fractures produced by racial capitalism. Gordon moves as an intellectual itinerant, creating multidirectional and interdisciplinary dialogues as a sociology scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, while also collaborating with artist. Since 1997, Gordon speaks as a public intellectual on her KCSB FM radio programme, ‘No Alibis’, co-hosted with Eliz

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Wang, Cunxi. "Utopian Romantic Social Belief Recognition, Recognition, and Practice Self-Generation Mechanism." International Journal of Psychophysiology 168 (October 2021): S53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.07.159.

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Wang, Cunxi, QiuChen Xu, Gang Shu Dai, and Qiang Zhu. "Utopian Romantic Social Belief Recognition, Recognition, and Practice Self-Generation Mechanism." International Journal of Psychophysiology 168 (October 2021): S219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.07.591.

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Terracciano, Alda. "Hybridity in the Utopian City: A multisensory performance practice in action." Performance Research 25, no. 4 (2020): 54–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2020.1842031.

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Kohli, Amor. "Questioning as utopian practice in Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite’s Rights of Passage." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 47, no. 3 (2012): 411–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989412456466.

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Paudyal, Ganga Ram. "Spiritual Awakening through Tantra: A Utopian Approach to Aldous Huxley’s Island." Outlook: Journal of English Studies 16 (July 14, 2025): 43–53. https://doi.org/10.3126/ojes.v16i1.81534.

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This paper explores Aldous Huxley’s novel Island in which tantra is depicted to liberate people of the island Pala and to make the island a utopia. The issue concerning how the attempts are made to reflect tantra in the novel as a transformative force to create Pala as an idyllic island. The objective of this paper is to find out how people are trained in Pala and how Will Farnaby undergoes transformation avoiding his vested interest. The paper also aims to find out the role of tantra for maintaining unity, peace and solidarity among people in Pala and attempts are made to make it an ideal sta

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