Technological utopias are both increasingly abundant and controversially discussed. The present essay aspires to contribute to these topical discussions. It will propose a modest vindication of technological utopianism suggesting that engagement with technological utopias is worthwhile, because they can advance...
Geographies of food are not only shaped by political economic forces but also by individuals who resist dominant ways of subjectivation. Based on ethnograp
Why is it that the free market fails to provide the efficient quantity of a public good? A) Because it is impossible to force those who benefit from the good to pay for it. B) Because public goods are always large scale proj...
By never attempting anything new, they are avoiding the possibility of failing but they are also avoiding or rather missing out on succeeding. Just like this greatsaying from J. K. Rowling: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might ...
In an economy, the market structure is distinguished on the basis of the nature of competition, types of goods produced, and the pricing structure of the market. Some of the types of the market systems are monopoly, oligopoly, and perfect competition....
She loved pirate ships, dinosaurs, outer space, big musical numbers, tornadoes, lost cities in the Amazon, monsters in the oceans, utopias in the wastelands. She loved the things that fascinate children, when they first realise just how big and how impossible the world they’ve been born ...
can…I seek opportunity- -not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole…I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias…....
-Happiness and suffering are comparable; otherwise compensations/trade-offs would be impossible. If happiness and suffering are comparable, then they can be arranged on the same scale. -The scale of happiness and the scale of suffering touch each other, at the point where suffering and happiness...
The drawings he produced for his final project, which are now owned by MoMA, were a brash sendup of Modernist utopias and their “afterbirths.” Dubbed “The Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture,” the project was modeled partly after the Berlin Wall, which Koolhaas described as a ...
[U]‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is an English term for an unrealistically idealistic state where everything is perfect – but also treated as a joke, whereas utopias and paradises are viewed seriously by their believers. It derives from a classical Greek play,The Birdsby Aristophanes, but has become...