Utopian Studies
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A critical, comparative analysis of the exhibition project Utopia Station, mounted by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Molly Nesbit, and Rirkrit Tiravanija at the 2003 Venice Biennale, against Hardt and Negri's 2000 treatise, Empire. This essay was... more
Este trabajo aborda aspectos del trabajo intelectual llevado a cabo en colaboración entre los escritores Adolfo Bioy Casares y Jorge Luis Borges. Esta tarea de intelección compartida gira alrededor de algunos temas referidos tanto a... more
Ou Ning, “You’re Too Shy to Talk about Utopia”, Moments, publication of IFFTI2015- Momenting the Memento, edited by Linda Loppa, published by Skira Editore, Milan, 2016.
Si le siècle des Lumières est celui d’une codification et d’une comparaison des langues, d’une attention toute particulière portée à leur formation, leur mécanique et leur système, il est également celui de débats sur les écritures «... more
In the common public perception, contemporary gardening is understood as suburban, as leisure activity, as television makeover opportunity. Its originary narratives are seen as religious or spiritual (Garden of Eden), military (the... more
Les expositions universelles, une utopie touristique toujours d’actualité ? World’s Fair, The Renew of Touristic Utopia? ¿Exposiciones universales, una utopía turística siempre de actualidad? À travers les expositions universelles... more
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... more
A radikálisan decentralizált szerveződésű kriptovaluták sikerei a 2010-es években felkeltették a politikai szféra érdeklődését is. Jelen tanulmány keretei között azt tételezzük fel, hogy a kriptovaluta mint technológia egy eredendően... more
... Don Michak, who so many times have let us make our home with them, and to Annie S. Lamb, Alan and Alicia Lamb, Louis ... Pillis, Elise Feeley, Paul Gaffney, William Gilmore-Lehne, Robert A. Gross, the late Sidney Kaplan, John R.... more
Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee, eds. Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature. Waterloo: WLUP, 2014. 480 pp.
Introducción Primera parte. Revisión de cuestiones fundamentales ¿Qué pregunta la filosofía desde América? AURELIANO ORTEGA ESQUIVEL Los valores en la filosofía latinoamericana del siglo XX JOSÉ RAMÓN FABELO CORZO Diversidad y... more
Since publication of Thomas More‘s «Utopia» more than five hundred years ago, there has been a steady stream of literary works that depict a better world; positive utopias in film, however, have been scarce. There is a consensus that... more
Resumo A Utopia é o fruto de um momento privilegiado na vida intelectual de Thomas Morus. A inspiração que atravessa a obra e a eleva, a amplitude profética das perspectivas que ela abre, a agudeza da visão, as ressonâncias afetivas que... more
Part of the Panel on "Regenerative Play in Utopia" at the Worlding Science Fiction Conference in Graz, 2018
Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar un breve recorrido por los principales ejes del pensamiento político anarquista, a través de analizar su influencia en ideas ligadas al pensamiento crítico contemporáneo, expresadas en las... more
Taking up the challenges by literary heroes may be varied in nature and involve a variety of experiences. One of them, which places extraordinary demands before the individual, is the experience of limits, called - after Karl Jaspers -... more
Since the Puritans founded their original colonies as the first “alternative communities” in the New World, America has continually reinvented itself through an ongoing series of experiments in how to live together as groups united less... more
The article by Mikhail Suslov explores the ways identities were imagined in Russian utopias at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. The author conceives of narrative utopias as forms of political... more
La Trilogía cósmica —conformada por Más allá del planeta silencioso, Perelandra. Un viaje a Venus y Esa horrible fortaleza— expone desde la fantasía algunas de las reflexiones filosóficas más relevantes del académico y literato C. S.... more
In this paper we argue that Anthropocene conditions call for and are already calling forth weird utopias. The Anthropocene speaks to a fundamental geological shift as humans become the dominant influence on global ecological systems. It... more