issues such as social inequality, economic uncertainty and an unclear future persist. However, within fandom communities, factors like gender, age and social class are irrelevant, creating a utopian space where individuals
Weaving the utopian vision: A rhetorical analysis of feminist utopian fiction. For centuries writers and philosophers have envisioned an astonishing range of futuristic change encompassing both ideological and technological achievements. Commonplace are literary communities without war, prejudice and poverty, ...
Today one-third of UK cities and two-thirds of US cities are involved in smart city initiatives (Karvonen et al., 2019). The European Union’s programme on Smart Cities and Communities launched in 2014 has, thus far, funded projects in 40 ‘lighthouse cities’ and 50 ‘fellow cities’....
In the conclusion, I will come back to discussing the possible friction of the two contrasting modes of existence of Horizon as, first, a commodity of digital capitalism and second, as a storyworld of a postnatural future with an utopian impulse, asking if such a product can indeed innovate...