The authors define 'attempted utopias' as historical communities founded on systematic principles intended to promote optimal cooperation and fulfillment for their inhabitants. Real-life utopian communities have been predominantly Protestant-based reform movements in the United States from the eighteenth ...
2.(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (sometimes not capital) any real or imaginary society, place, state, etc, considered to be perfect or ideal [C16: from New LatinUtopia(coined by Sir Thomas More in 1516 as the title of his book that described an imaginary island representing the perfe...
In 1516, Thomas More, a English writer, lawyer, and philosopher, wrote Utopia. The word Utopia is... 3 Pages | 1191 Words General Characteristics And Understanding Of Utopia Book Review Thomas More Utopia More attempts to navigate a path through the ideal and real world in a hierarchy, depi...
in the beginning – were important to the people who shared them with me, I was probably hesitant to theorise those moments of enchantment, as I have rather been trained to focus on ‘negative’ pressures which dismiss such moments as secondary to the real material struggles people are facing...
In this respect, play is important as a source of creativity as it frees the participant from the strictures of real life to “play with utopia”. He identifies a particular type of play, ilinx, as being especially utopian because this variation of play creates a temporary disruption of ...
Thus, let us ponder here how real is the first analysed image, that of a pirate as an individual entity, free from the shackles of society. As becomes clear upon a closer study, this collective memory has more than a grain of truth in itself—especially in comparison with the prevailing ...
In 1967, the philosopher Michel Foucault enunciated the concept of heterotopia, meant as espace autre, in contrast to the utopias, that has the power to juxtapose in one real place different spaces, different locations which are mutually... Álvarez Álvarez,Darío 被引量: 2发表: 2015年 An...
Let's create real-world solutions that celebrate our individual desires and honor the needs of our collective future. Let's enjoy the process and each other. We gather to be in a diverse group of creative, positive people who truly embrace the gift of different perspectives and are excite...
although various prophylactic measures introduced in lockdowns the world over have challenged the very essence of city life, these open the way for to realise aspirations held by urban designers and planners. In normal times, a public space is there to facilitate congregation; in normal times we...
” Paying particular attention to day-to-days of homeless people, Lyle sees life on the street as indicative of this potential, and art as a way to transform the public sphere into a site of bottom-up struggle against those who would enclose it with cement domes in front of businesses to...