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Utopia

Utopia. Visions and Versions. Utopia. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism. Utopia.

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Utopia

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  1. Utopia Visions and Versions

  2. Utopia • A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

  3. Utopia • Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonising process, with no end. Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge

  4. Utopia • “All utopias are fed from the sources of mythology – the social engineer’s blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.” Arthur Koestler, The God that Failed

  5. What does it mean? • Utopia means nowhere and no-place. • All imaginary good and bad places are utopias, or nowheres. • Utopianism defined as ‘social dreaming’.

  6. Types: • The Utopia generally: A non-existent society • Eutopia: A positive utopia • Dystopia: A negative utopia • Utopian satire: criticism of society • Anti-utopia: a criticism of utopianism • Ancient Utopia • Modern (true) utopia • Golden Age/Arcadia • Eden • New Jerusalem

  7. The texts • As a genre, utopian fiction is particularly strongly influenced by a sense of its own specific tradition, by the writer’s own consciousness of what has gone before. Chris Ferns, Narrating Utopia

  8. The texts • Utopias’ efficacy is recognised to consist neither in their status as fiction nor in their capacity to promote actual reform. Rather, it seems to lie in this dialectical structuring itself, in the process that plays imaginatively with social possibility and historical necessity, and in the critical impact of this process on the reader. Peter Ruppert, Reader in a Strange Land: The Activity of Reading Literary Utopias

  9. Values: • Genetics / Eugenics / Conditioning • Gender • War / Cold War / Anti –War • Ecology • Religion • Consumerism • Bureaucracy

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