What I intend to point out is a need to go beyond the polemics and the rhetoric of these movements in order to develop a typological framework of utopianism which accounts for the historical failures of Marxism due in part to the shortcomings emanating from its specific utopian type and partly...
It is worth being a bit more precise about what I mean here with engagement—earlier introduced as a part of WE. Engagement means the attentive reception, careful and charitable analysis of those narratives, inspection of whether and how they identify shortcomings in our current socio-political an...
OUR Utopianism, if that's what it was, was pushing architecture to do more. To be more acquisitive of what was around. We enjoyed enjoying that! We enjoyed saying: “That is not just some highfalutin thing discussed in academia. Lets go out there and show what we can do!”. I ...
“made redundant by touching, feeling robots and virtual reality avatars” (Brooks 2021, 2)- this is at least what the enthusiasts about artificial intimacy believe, but for Brooks himself, this “will likely remain the realm of science fiction. Machines may never do intimacy as well as real...