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Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2005-08-04 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780811843225 |
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This catalogue of 120 photographs documenting the traces that the Soviet Union left on Russia's landscape paints a rainbow-hued portrait of a somber country.
Author | : Agnes Nyilas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2018-05-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1351677543 |
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Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with the concept of utopia. Beyond this partial understanding, Agnes Nyilas suggests that rather than being merely utopian, the Megastructure of Metabolism represents a uniquely amalgam genre: the myth camouflaged as utopia. Although its Megastructure seemingly describes a desirable future condition as utopia does, it also comprises certain cultural images rooted in the collective (un)conscious of Japanese people, in accordance with the general interpretation of myth. The primary narrative of Beyond Utopia thus follows the gradual unfolding of the myth-like characteristics of its Megastructure. Myth is dealt here as an interdisciplinary subject in line with contemporary myth theories. After expounding the mechanism underlying the growing demand for a new myth in architecture (the origin of the myth), Part I discovers the formal characteristics of the Megastructure of Metabolism to give a hint of the real intention behind it. Based on this, Part II is a reexamination of their design methods, which aims to clarify the function of the myth and to suggest the meaning behind it. Finally, Part III deals with the subject matter of the myth by disclosing the meaning unfolding in the story, and suggests a new reading of Metabolism urban theory: as an attempt to reconsider the traditional Japanese space concept.
Author | : John C. Honey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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How an awareness of science informs and reflects our perceptions of culture and the human condition
Author | : Raphael Kabo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2023-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135028856X |
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Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'. Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.
Author | : Sophie Warren |
Publisher | : Errant Bodies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780982743935 |
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Beyond Utopia examines the space beyond utopia’s concern with the primacy of the single idea. Set at the intersection of the architectural imagination, the reality of urban development, dialogical art practice, critical writing and fiction, the publication creates a space of speculation and an opportunity for conversation between multiple hybrid forms. The publication is centred on a screenplay of a film never intended to be made. The screenplay restages the process and exchanges of a project that queries the function of utopian thinking in urban development and spatial culture. The project, initiated by the collaborative practice of Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley with writer Robin Wilson aimed to establish a critical dialogue with institutions of city design and to find new sites of productive tension between the “real” and the “fictional”. Submitting a utopian architectural proposal for a real site in London to the scrutiny of the institutions that dominate the design and programming of city space, the project enacted a form of playful provocation, drifting in and though the procedures, systems and languages of planning, architecture and city development. As a fiction, the utopian work gained life as it was recounted and discussed, its narrative shared, activated and engaged through dialogue with and by officials and reviewers (ex 4e de couv)
Author | : Michael D. Gordin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2010-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400834953 |
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The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950s, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930s served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.
Author | : José Esteban Muñoz |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814757286 |
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Author | : Jim Comstock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780971553736 |
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"Beyond Utopia is the third novel in a trilogy on immortality. Consider that you possess superior intellect and super human strength, and that you have a secure grasp on the proverbial brass ring of immortality...In addition to all that, you have at your disposal undreamed of high technologies which produce results far more fantastic than any imagined magic. You are a member of a select community of people which has become completely independent of the rest of the world. Your community is an indestructible island in a volatile ocean of diverse cultures. You have secure outposts all over the world...and in outer space. There's no limit to your domain. Given all this, would you be concerned about mortal creatures, residing outside the boundaries of your culture? Where possible, would one of your missions be to tend their needs, protect them, and provide them with the ultimate freedom...the freedom from suffering and death? And would you share with them your coveted possession of immortality? " - Jim Comstock
Author | : Samuel Moyn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674256522 |
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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Author | : Dr Chloë Houston |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472425030 |
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A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII’s reign to the Restoration, this book assesses the societies projected by utopian literature from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance Utopia complements recent scholarly work on early modern communities by providing a thorough investigation of the issues informing a way of modeling a very particular community and literary mode-the utopia.