We Other Utopians
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We Other Utopians
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Author : Eva Šlesingerová
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-30
We Other Utopians written by Eva Šlesingerová and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with Social Science categories.
We, Other Utopians is the first book to analyze the topics of genome editing/recombinant DNA on the basis of ethnographic research in the post-communist context. The book focuses on the topics of human DNA editing and genome repair on two levels. First, inspired by texts analyzing the concept of life and the body in general, it conceptually and analytically works with various approaches to engineered life and embodiments from the perspective of anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies. Second, it presents an analysis of artificial life, and biotechnological embodiments on concrete technologies – genome editing, recombinant DNA, and biological computing. The book explores the theme of genome editing based on ethnographic research conducted at a biochemical laboratory in the Czech Republic. The fieldwork was carried out from 2017 to 2019, mainly in a lab focusing on DNA damages and genomic risk of complex diseases or genetic vulnerabilities like breast cancer, infertility, and ageing. Recombinant DNA is understood here as the exchange of DNA strands to produce and design new nucleotide sequence arrangements to heal or enhance human bodies and health in the future. The book analyzes various economies of hope, hype, expectations, politics, and poetics of false promises and better or worse predictions from the point of view of sociology, anthropology, and science and technology studies.
The Last Utopians
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Author : Michael Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-28
The Last Utopians written by Michael Robertson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Last Utopians delves into the biographies of four key figures--Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman--who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian writing. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," wrote numerous utopian fictions, including Herland, a visionary tale of an all-female society. These writers, Robertson shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as Robertson describes in entertaining firsthand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat.
Choosing Our Destiny
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Author : Cyril Belshaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Choosing Our Destiny written by Cyril Belshaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
(Table of Contents follows) Also see important information about non-US shipping at the end. If we are honest with ourselves, most of us feel helpless to resolve the world's problems. Cyril Belshaw provides a hopeful wake-up call, showing that a Utopian world is within our grasp. It is a matter of individual and public will, a determination in each of us to Choose Our Destiny. We cannot wave magic wants. W have to think about what we want, rather than passively allow events to overtake us, as if we were automatons. The world is what we make it; so let's take the responsibility. This is no pie in the sky, it is a matter of practicality. Belshaw builds his ideas on three themes. One is that each element in global society relates to each of the others, that is we must have a holistic perspective. We must be aware that family life impinges on crime which impinges on violence which impinges on law which impinges on nation states and global government. Another is that change obviously involves innovation. So what is innovation? How do we as individuals innovate in our personal and public lives? How do governments innovate, to make the globe a better place? Belshaw shows that innovation is with us all the time and explores how it works to show that it is very simple to maximize and manipulate - provided we have the goals in place. The third theme is to abandon our ethnocentric prejudices and to learn and observe from other peoples. Western values are not the be all and the end all. We must and can learn from others. We must not be bound by limited experience, confining our thinking to some sort of bounded box. We must roam freely in our ideas and search for solutions which remove the dysfunctionality from our world and replace it with lives and goals in which we trust. And that is just what Belshaw does. He examines the interlocking parts of global society and culture, its politics and its economics. You will identify with his critiques of family life, legal systems, education, nation states, the roots of poverty, and attempts at global government, among many others. You will NOT AGREE with many of his proposed solutions. That is not his point. But you will be forced to think about them and work out your own solutions, and apply them in a holistic manner to your view of the world, the globe you will be trying to create. Indeed, Belshaw challenges you to do exactly that. And he invites you to send your comments and disagreements in preparation for a potential revised second edition. Here are just a few random hypotheses to titillate your interest and challenge your conventions. Monogamy requires reform. Jealousy and envy are at the root of much crime and violence and must be removed. Schools will be replaced by Youth Maturity Institutes which will address the whole youth, and, among other things, remove violent characteristics, embrace risk, remove boredom, address personality disorders, and encourage cultural skills. Criminal law should be replaced by civil law, restitutional justice and therapy, leading to a merging of health and remedial services. There should b e a zero based re-examination of public finances. This would lead to the removal of all taxes which inhibit enterprise (corporate and personal). Replacement should be levied on consumption. World customs duties should be eliminated. There should be mandatory minimum incomes replacing social subsidies. Nation States should be downgraded in the global hierarchy to become essentially national administrators. Global Government should be strengthened by becoming a parliament of peoples and not a cabal of competing States. Global Government should have a full monopoly of armed force. There are many pros and cons to each of these, and other, hypotheses. They are for you to think about, argue about, and act upon when you have made up your mind. Don't try to ign
Environment And Utopia
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Author : Robert Brownstein
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Environment And Utopia written by Robert Brownstein and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Psychology categories.
to imagine and innovate with our ability to comprehend and manipulate natural and social forces. We must produce constructive contact between our visions of hope and our scientific knowledge of the physical and social environment. This work is an effort to further that contact. We seek to focus upon the future relationship between man and his environment. Specifically, we attempt to synthesize two distinct approaches to this issue: environmental theory and utopian speculation. These two perspectives have rarely, if ever, been deliberately focused upon one an other. We believe that each suggests new questions and hopefully new an swers that would not normally be revealed through the separate insights of the other discipline. Both perspectives have existed in one form or another for centuries. Yet today, there is an increased urgency for their mutual development and interaction. This century, to its loss, has tended to abandon utopian specu lation. We witness "a retreat from constructive thinking about the future in order to dig oneself into the trenches of the present. It is a ruthless elim ination of future-centered idealism by today-centered realism. We have lost the ability to see any further than the end of our collective nose. " 2 At the same time, contemporary research on the environment suggests an urgent need for change in basic patterns of human behavior, for the for mation of new institutions and social structure.
Utopia
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Author : Thomas More
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-03
Utopia written by Thomas More and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-03 with Political Science categories.
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Rethinking Utopia And Utopianism
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Author : Lyman Tower Sargent
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2022
Rethinking Utopia And Utopianism written by Lyman Tower Sargent and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Fiction categories.
«These influential essays by one of the world's leading experts in the field revisit the central methodological debates in Utopian Studies over the past half century. They include recent commentary on the development of key disagreements respecting the concepts of utopia, eutopia and dystopia, as well as the relations between the three 'faces' of the subject, literature, ideas or theory, and intentional communities. Sargent's encyclopaedic knowledge of utopianism is deployed throughout to illuminate many areas of concern. This collection provides an essential starting-point for any student of this vibrant, controversial, increasingly popular, and ever-mutating subject.» (Gregory Claeys, Professor Emeritus of History, University of London) «Utopia is about change, and how better to promote it than to model it? Here a world-leading bibliographer and scholar reconsiders his considerable opus with an open mind but no less passion for his urgently timely topic. The imperfect, critical utopia - whether in fiction, practice, or theory, whether as dystopian warning or eutopian inspiration - is the only one we can trust. Sargent rejects the naysaying of cynics and anti-utopians, urging us to envision and struggle for betterment. 'Utopias will not go away,' he contends. 'They will always remain the conscience of the world.' Indeed they won't, and indeed they will.» (Michael S. Cummings, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Colorado, Denver) «This collection makes available Professor Sargent's most important essays on utopia, particularly those dealing with attempts to define and delimit the genre. This is an absolutely essential work which reveals the full breath of Sargent's contributions to the study of utopia.» (Peter Fitting, Professor Emeritus of French, University of Toronto) «Sargent's contribution to the emergence of Utopian Studies as a distinct field is unparalleled. It comprises encyclopaedic knowledge, theoretical rigour, and tireless support of new work. This volume contains seminal essays notable for their impact, but also for their clarity, originality, and erudition. To have them together in one place, with his reflections on them, is an invaluable resource for both young and established scholars - and essential reading for anyone working in the field.» (Ruth Levitas, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol) Utopianism envisions a significantly different society than the current one and includes utopian literature, intentional communities, and utopian social theory. This volume reprints some of the author's articles on utopianism together with two not previously published and notes on how they came to be written and his reflections from 2021.
A Modern Utopia
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Author : H. G. Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-23
A Modern Utopia written by H. G. Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-23 with categories.
"A Modern Utopia" is one of H.G. Wells' explorations of social problems set in the form of a novel, but it is more a complex investigation of what might be than a mere fictional story. The unnamed narrator and a traveling companion find themselves on a parallel Earth, where the geology, biology, and very people are duplicates of those we know. They differ, however, in their outlook on life, methods of living and organizing themselves, and many other sociological issues. Through the eyes of the two we recognize (and their doppelgangers on this other Earth), we explore the possibilities provided in Wells' utopian society, where people work for the common betterment, rather than personal enrichment. Complex, visionary, and thought-provoking, author Joseph Conrad complained of the book that Wells did not "take sufficient account of human imbecility which is cunning and perfidious." British author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was at home in many genres, including history, politics, and social commentary, as well as the fiction for which he is best remembered today. He was one of the fathers of modern science fiction, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times (in 1921, 1932, 1935, and 1946). He is the author of such enduring classics as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). "A Modern Utopia" is an early one of the 50 novels--and an even greater number of nonfiction works--H.G. Wells produced during a writing career that spanned decades. His first novel, "The Time Machine," appeared in 1895, while his last followed in 1941, "You Can't Be Too Careful." His non-fiction books debuted with a "Text-Book of Biology" in 1893, through a discussion of "Marxism vs Liberalism" in 1945.
A Modern Utopia Illustrated
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Author : H Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-04
A Modern Utopia Illustrated written by H Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-04 with categories.
A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells.Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability"Conception of the workIn his preface Wells forecasts (incorrectly) that A Modern Utopia would be the last of a series of volumes on social problems that he began in 1901 with Anticipations and that included Mankind in the Making (1903). Unlike those non-fictional works, A Modern Utopia is presented as a tale told by a sketchily described character known only as the Owner of the Voice, who, Wells warns the reader, "is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible author who fathers these pages". He is accompanied by another character known as "the botanist". Interspersed into the narrative are discursive remarks on various matters, creating what Wells calls in his preface "a sort of shot-silk texture between philosophical discussion on the one hand and imaginative narrative on the other.". In addition, there are frequent comparisons to and discussions of previous utopian works.In his Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Wells wrote that A Modern Utopia "was the first approach I made to the dialogue form", and that "the trend towards dialogue, like the basal notion of the Samurai, marks my debt to Plato. A Modern Utopia, quite as much as that of More, derives frankly from the Republic."The premise of the novel is that there is a planet (for "No less than a planet will serve the purpose of a modern Utopia") exactly like Earth, with the same geography and biology. Moreover, on that planet "all the men and women that you know and I" exist "in duplicate".They have, however, "different habits, different traditions, different knowledge, different ideas, different clothing, and different appliances." (Not however, a different language: "Indeed, should we be in Utopia at all, if we could not talk to everyone?").PlotTo this planet "out beyond Sirius"the Owner of the Voice and the botanist are translated, imaginatively, "in the twinkling of an eye . . . We should scarcely note the change. Not a cloud would have gone from the sky."Their point of entry is on the slopes of the Piz Lucendro in the Swiss Alps.The adventures of these two characters are traced through eleven chapters. Little by little they discover how Utopia is organized. It is a world with "no positive compulsions at all . . . for the adult Utopian--unless they fall upon him as penalties incurred."The Owner of the Voice and the botanist are soon required to account for their presence. When their thumbprints are checked against records in "the central index housed in a vast series of buildings at or near Paris,"both discover they have doubles in Utopia. They journey to London to meet them, and the Owner of the Voice's double is a member of the Samurai, a voluntary order of nobility that rules Utopia. "These samurai form the real body of the State."Running through the novel as a foil to the main narrative is the botanist's obsession with an unhappy love affair back on Earth. The Owner of the Voice is annoyed at this undignified and unworthy insertion of earthly affairs in Utopia, but when the botanist meets the double of his beloved in Utopia the violence of his reaction bursts the imaginative bubble that has sustained the narrative and the two men find themselves back in early twentieth-century London.
Environment And Utopia
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Author : Robert Brownstein
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-09-14
Environment And Utopia written by Robert Brownstein and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-14 with Psychology categories.
to imagine and innovate with our ability to comprehend and manipulate natural and social forces. We must produce constructive contact between our visions of hope and our scientific knowledge of the physical and social environment. This work is an effort to further that contact. We seek to focus upon the future relationship between man and his environment. Specifically, we attempt to synthesize two distinct approaches to this issue: environmental theory and utopian speculation. These two perspectives have rarely, if ever, been deliberately focused upon one an other. We believe that each suggests new questions and hopefully new an swers that would not normally be revealed through the separate insights of the other discipline. Both perspectives have existed in one form or another for centuries. Yet today, there is an increased urgency for their mutual development and interaction. This century, to its loss, has tended to abandon utopian specu lation. We witness "a retreat from constructive thinking about the future in order to dig oneself into the trenches of the present. It is a ruthless elim ination of future-centered idealism by today-centered realism. We have lost the ability to see any further than the end of our collective nose. " 2 At the same time, contemporary research on the environment suggests an urgent need for change in basic patterns of human behavior, for the for mation of new institutions and social structure.
Visions Of Utopia
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Author : Edward Rothstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-02-06
Visions Of Utopia written by Edward Rothstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-06 with History categories.
From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing. Edward Rothstein, New York Times cultural critic, contends that every utopia is really a dystopia--a disaster in the making--one that overlooks the nature of humanity and the impossibilities of paradise. He traces the ideal in politics and technology and suggests that only in art--and especially in music--does the desire for utopia find satisfaction. Martin Marty examines several models of utopia--from Thomas More's to a 1960s experimental city that he helped to plan--to show that, even though utopias can never be realized, we should not be too quick to condemn them. They can express dimensions of the human spirit that might otherwise be stifled and can plant ideas that may germinate in more realistic and practical soil. And Herbert Muschamp, the New York Times architectural critic, looks at Utopianism as exemplified in two different ways: the Buddhist tradition and the work of visionary Viennese architect Adolph Loos. Utopian thinking embodies humanity's noblest impulses, yet it can lead to horrors such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Regime. In Visions of Utopia, these leading thinkers offer an intriguing look at the paradoxes of paradise.
