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"utopian" Definitions
  1. having a strong belief that everything can be perfect, often in a way that does not seem to be realistic or practical
"utopian" Antonyms
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Indeed, it's practically utopian—but to solve the ongoing shortage of transplantable organs, we may need some utopian thinking.
Of course, this is very naïve and utopian, but I believe that harbouring such utopian hopes is a good thing.
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When the planet seems further away than ever from a utopian future, don't we need visions of that utopian future more urgently than ever?
His most recent project with artist Peter Laurits—a science fiction multi-media environment called Coming Soon: Utopian Prelude—is a catalyst to encourage visitors to conceive a utopian possible future.
" There was also what he called its "utopian spirit.
With our AI coworkers, work begins to look suspiciously utopian.
In a truly utopian world, luxury would lose its meaning.
Some people went so far as to join utopian communes.
I would say that our ideals are progressive, not utopian.
"She lived in a utopian bubble," the WeWork insider said.
That may sound utopian, but Rosenfeld suggests a hardheaded justification.
But she dismisses the Socialist candidate, Benoît Hamon, as "Utopian".
That doesn't necessarily mean UBI is a utopian pipe dream.
I'm the last phase of the optimistic, utopian '60s thing.
Go start a utopian community without access to the internet.
Their commune was known as Rajneeshpuram — a supposedly "utopian" society.
That has destroyed "the Utopian, socialist, collectivist model", he says.
Over and over, it's this assumption that gets utopian thinkers
Basically imagine Reddit, only more innocent, utopian, and altogether dorkier.
And when the demands are utopian, when does it end?
Desiigner is the Marxist utopian hedonist leader we don't deserve.
No one has proven the utopian promise will come true.
Internationalism is no utopian idea now but a workaday given.
But for a Socialist like London, that vision was utopian.
What could possibly disturb this utopian ferrying of delicious eats?
Giles: In years gone by raves were utopian and extravagant.
There are both dystopian and utopian interpretations of immersive technology.
We talk about giant robots, queer bodies, and utopian ontologies.
And the Fluxus philosophy had democratic and even utopian underpinnings.
This is the utopian tale we tell ourselves, at least.
Whose utopian ideal was powerful enough to create this dystopia?
When it was conceived, brutalism was a utopian architectural ideal.
My petitioner and I met in a utopian studies class.
With hindsight, however, a shadow hangs over the utopian carousing.
People are anxious enough and Klobuchar doesn't promise utopian dreams.
In such cases, the utopian narrative gets replaced by myth.
The twentieth century was perhaps the cruellest for utopian hopes.
" The speech concluded: "Those goals are not utopian or unreachable.
And others code utopian messages into history, mythology, and culture.
There is no ideal, utopian world—only a less flawed one.
These ideas may strike you as wild, fantastical, maybe even utopian.
But the early utopian ideal faded as Moshe tightened his grip.
Unabashedly populist and Utopian, the M5S can also be sternly pragmatic.
Unlike many other executives, tech executives actually believed their Utopian hype.
"We need a spectrum of utopian and dystopian qualities," says Pho.
Aren't you being utopian, relying on a change in human nature?
Is it utopian to suggest that technologies could be designed better?
Whitman, whose democratic inclusiveness he describes as too utopian for the
Women more generally are at the centre of the Utopian story.
This is not about utopian corporate selflessness; it's about enlightened selfishness.
It was about living what we thought was a utopian lifestyle.
The utopian UBI discussion is just another symptom of lost bearings.
Given the unrest unfolding outside its doors, it feels downright utopian.
Back then, we still had this utopian view of the internet.
These days that's not just fun, it's an outright utopian heaven.
Back then, I was still a bit of a utopian idealist!
But I think it's more poignant, or more utopian, than that.
Bernie really embodies the utopian aesthetic I'm exploring in my work.
Living forever initially sounds like a utopian destiny of unmatched bliss.
UNICEF wants to make this more than just a Utopian dream.
This interior space is by its very nature utopian and transgressive.
From a distance, it can look like Sanders and Clinton are essentially squabbling over total hypotheticals, with him offering utopian schemes that can't possibly happen and her offering somewhat less utopian schemes that also can't happen.
He adamantly favours nuclear energy and rejects the Green movement as utopian.
They are utopian landscapes that send you to another level of existence.
Unsurprisingly, these aspects of Utopian life have appealed to supporters of communism.
I don't think we're near either side of the utopian field. Right.
I know that's an idealistic way to think, maybe a little utopian.
What began as a utopian vision has now been turned into reality.
West seems to be in the midst of a particularly utopian moment.
As Mr Fo knew, Utopian dreams go down very well with audiences.
The world is never as clearly dystopian or utopian as you think.
This is not even up for some kind of Utopian counter-argument.
Is it utopian to inform people about the health hazards of cigarettes?
As utopian as these options sound, however, they come with treacherous complications.
After Moro's kidnapping, the young man is appalled at his utopian friends.
Until then, expect more blog post reveries, utopian pronouncements, and happy shareholders.
Inspired and shaped by the utopian atmosphere of the 1970s, feminist bookstores
It is an "idealistic, almost Utopian" approach to education, says Mr Paterson.
Robert. There, in the spirit of utopian defiance, they named their child
Freud was recruited to the anti-utopian politics of the nineteen-fifties.
The only question was which utopian system should replace the current one.
The utopian vision was reflected in the school's democratic style of governance.
Most Americans understand that socialist Utopian dreams usually kill the golden goose.
Was it really so utopian that you cannot really live in it?
For Baker, they were the living embodiment of a Utopian racial ideal.
Hoffman said the reactions to artificial intelligence range from utopian to dystopian.
In those companies' early days, their utopian goal was to bypass Washington.
But the utopia in "Utopian Listening," after all, suggests something ideal, impossible.
With My First Film, Anger offers a Utopian alternative to traditional moviegoing.
There is no sense of visiting a utopian graveyard when visiting Arcosanti.
She attributes this situation to a lack of a unifying utopian vision.
The next exhibition, which opens on September 17, is titled Utopian Imagination.
Is it the same satisfaction derived from reading utopian and dystopian fiction?
I thought it was interesting because it was more utopian than dystopian.
As often happens in ostensibly utopian communities, the mood got dark fast.
It would be hard to claim it's some sort of utopian fantasy.
Before "Angel Processions," singers garbed in utopian white answered questions from attendees.
In the end, most Americans aren't expecting to build a Utopian paradise.
From an environmental standpoint, air-capture fuels are not a utopian solution.
The Interpreter There is something intoxicatingly utopian about the story of Tancítaro.
"Paradise is really a utopian possibility, a made-up place," said Lynne.
I read Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" in a utopian-­literature class taught by a shy volunteer with rimless glasses ("Erewhon" is "nowhere" spelled backward, sort of), but I stopped going — there's only so much utopian literature you can take.
Since I had zero expectations, I wasn't projecting a Utopian future on him.
That sometimes pitted him against the generals, other times against Obama's utopian strains.
I bet the idea of the New Deal sounded utopian then as well.
Both reject the Utopian impulse to find a government solution for every wrong.
Radio was a "utopian" medium, Wu notes, too close to the family hearth.
It was a show of solidarity that feels utopian in the current climate.
I guess the going ons of Monterey are more utopian that I thought.
There is a glint of utopian politics, one that's hard to find now.
Zaitsev, is entitled "Brighter Days Are Coming," a nod to the Soviet utopian
Art manifestos have always been notable for their "utopian energy," as Rosefeldt notes.
The invisible hand of human intellect will guide us to a utopian outcome.
The exhilaration that seized us all back then seems almost quaintly utopian now.
That is the curse of all the utopian globalists of the Clinton era.
I have some suggestions that would make Snapchat my own personal utopian app.
Until that day in the utopian middle distance, stealth was the main tactic.
But before he was an inventor, Gillette was a starry-­eyed utopian socialist.
Placing things beyond the market purview is hardly an untested or utopian concept.
"They're dropping the utopian sales pitch they started with," a counterterrorism expert said.
"They're dropping the utopian sales pitch they started with," a new study says.
"American Utopia" is also, in a sense, about the utopian world of collaboration.
"The big characters construct a utopian miracle, stirring people's passions," Mr. Ju said.
It all begs the question: Is Pepperstein's obsession with futures utopian or apocalyptic?
Postwar sprawl was born of the exact same kind of utopian, inflexible design.
Fans of club culture often talk about the utopian potential of dance music.
"The Lathe of Heaven" (1971) offers a very different take on utopian ambitions.
They feel neither utopian nor optimistic, nor do they recall a heroic past.
The utopian vision of a circular economy is a long way off, though.
The founder of Raya, an exclusive dating app, has some lofty utopian goals.
Tech, with its pseudo-utopian airs and surveillance-profiteering, is a tempting scapegoat.
Indeed, Wattam offers a utopian experience where everyone and every thing is equal.
Between 1967 and 1975, in particular, thousands of utopian experiments sprang up nationwide.
Jennings is attuned to the latent "terror and repression" in the utopian project.
But centuries earlier, novelists had imagined surveillance as a cornerstone of utopian societies.
"The prospect of meeting these challenges is by no means utopian," says Pinker.
Such utopian nudeness takes discipline and rules, both of which naturism handily provides.
Still, not every decision that we make around technology is specifically utopian, I don't think that C-suite executives are really thinking about how they want to create a better and separate utopian world where they make decisions about using technology.
Unfortunately, for those with less, those with power and resources can have a closer shot at realizing their Utopian visions than the rest of us, and some of us can become very inconvenienced or downright harmed by others' enacted utopian dreams.
Of course, this is the rosy, utopian vision about the way things will go.
The answer is unequivocally yes — but, unfortunately, we don't live in that utopian fantasy.
By drawing from various cultural histories, Banerjee's sculptures present a utopian view of globalism.
Invented cities are like urban startups, full of utopian optimism, ego, and often arrogance.
The state we call home is in many ways a monstrosity of utopian thinking.
It had not yet been overrun again by another utopian ideology or grand scheme.
Father Cervellera retorted that such utopian naivety risked becoming an embarrassment for the church.
The plan sounds utopian, but Altman and McDonald have put their principles to work.
Latin American cities would become spaces of utopian fantasies, frequently followed by political nightmares.
We toss £00T, our utopian future money, into the air to close each gig.
Utopian and dystopian narratives were, and still are, flourishing without any check against reality.
Yet resolving political problems with love rather than selfishness is not a utopian ideal.
That may sound like a utopian pronouncement, but it's closer to the inescapable truth.
Mr. Castro's early overhauls also changed Cuba in ways that were less than utopian.
Letting nonengineers interact directly with a computer was seen as harebrained, utopian—subversive, even.
Still, sometimes I find clips that manage to knock me over with utopian impossibility.
It's six songs aren't utopian exactly—but they are full of color and life.
An expansive new age of globalist art had begun, and it felt excitingly utopian.
Sure, the country served as an imaginary utopian space for European artists like Puccini.
There is a fuzzy line between these utopian visions and get-rich-quick schemes.
It sees the Left's struggle for social justice as mere troublemaking, as utopian foolishness.
The further this reconsideration goes, the more fanciful, utopian or revolutionary it might seem.
That being said, I describe myself as a techno-optimist, not a techno-utopian.
I know her granddaughter no longer believes in utopian dreams of what might be.
We must also note that not all utopian fantasies take place in remote locations.
Simultaneously, it outlines a utopian prospect where suffering can be transformed into benevolent light.
"The French are nostalgic for an ideological, utopian communism, which never existed," he added.
They bought an apartment in La Courneuve, when suburban design was still confidently utopian.
That this sounds faintly utopian is not a reflection of its lack of practicality.
" Far less utopian — and confident — is the shaggier beta male memoir "The Unmade Bed.
He continually wrote theoretical books and articles advancing a utopian strain of high modernism.
Paak, who on "Malibu" sings and raps amid the utopian grooves of 1970s soul.
But the utopian promise of "The Testaments" is that change and solidarity are possible.
Because they were making a utopian form of art, they thought they'd be embraced.
"It's so litigious here [in NYC] that it happens to be utopian," Mattingly continued.
The paintings remind me of a moment in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian novella Herland (1915).
"I was trying to do a comprehensive database, which was totally utopian," he says, ruefully.
Levenson attempts to draw parallels between the faded utopian visions of Orion and the SKZ.
If airports are hellscapes, one man has a utopian vision for the future of flight.
As a result, its once utopian vision, however manufactured, has trended back toward the apocalyptic.
The novel delineates a countercultural artistic creation, which, in today's art world, seems almost utopian.
They got their wish, but it's not quite the utopian vision they were hoping for.
Only the very young would believe that his utopian vision could come true anytime soon.
This utopian vision was also built into the ethos at David Mancuso's aforementioned The Loft.
Le Corbusier's 1923 Utopian tract, "Towards an Architecture", made such demands of a stagnant industry.
That is what I have been following in my utopian work, is to redefine utopia.
It's a weird and crazy and utopian notion, I know, but here's an odd proposal.
So too, disrupting the way we solve homelessness may not be so utopian after all.
By combining planar forms and fake fur, Keister acknowledged the failure of that utopian dream.
Whether this is a utopian or dystopian view of the future depends on your perspective.
That utopian counter-culture has been replaced by the Silicon Valley of, well... Silicon Valley.
These gentle giants have created the utopian matriarchal society of all our hopes and dreams.
The utopian socialists developed their ideas when Europe was in the first stages of industrialisation.
"Francis Cape: Utopian Benches" is showing at the Familistère de Guise until September 17th 2016.
Unsurprisingly, given the Utopian and libertarian flavour of the idea, Silicon Valley is interested, too.
The city planners Jacobs despised had started with a utopian goal: clean, affordable, safe housing.
Rose looks directly and clearly at overpopulation, history, disastrous urban planning, terrorism and utopian dreams.
" He claims these generations possess "utopian ideals," which they wrongly believe will "translate into adulthood.
It's a utopian vision of the future that's hard to believe in our hostile reality.
He wrote a book called "Citizenville," a techno-utopian vision of how to transform government.
In the utopian (dystopian?) future projected by technological visionaries, few people would have to work.
It's downright utopian, a hormonal pastoral endowed with the innocent charm of a children's book.
For various counterculture idealists, the relatively affordable, low-resolution devices had utopian truth-telling potential.
That's why cheering for the utopian version of cops is a moral dilemma for me.
The exhibition aims to bring this nostalgic, almost utopian vision of Crimea to the viewer.
The Queens complex is only the most current example of di Suvero's utopian, collaborative vision.
It would be utopian and fairly unrealistic to simply assume that existing practices are optimal.
An anarchist and utopian, he was the intellectually electrifying source of inspiration of a generation.
Utopian Imagination opens at the Ford Foundation Gallery on September 17, 2019 from 6-8pm.
The immersive installation promises to be weird and wonderful: a utopian sculptural forest of sorts.
What's crazy is he thought this was this wonderful, almost utopian possibility in the future.
" 'Market of one' might sound utopian and science fiction, but it already exists," he said.
Bitcoin's foundation, blockchain, could be our guiding light back to the internet's utopian, democratic roots.
The founder had utopian visions of a global dinner party, a "digital Davos" for dating.
But as with many utopian visions of the past, this has its own unintended consequences.
They recently bought a house at Sea Ranch, the '60s utopian community in Northern California.
Separately, our correspondent visited the nearby Villaggio Coppola, built in the 1960s with utopian ambitions.
Yet the most popular social-welfare programs in the U.S. all seemed utopian at first.
It's merely a utopian dream I had while in the feverish throes of acute tonsillitis.
And with that, Atwood's novel becomes more of a utopian fantasy than a dystopian nightmare.
And that's where the dystopian and utopian visions, and it's why history is so important.
It could be weakened or corrupted over time, like other utopian urban plans before it.
But behind this utopian promise is a more familiar reality, characterised instead by enduring inequalities.
That's what I'd like to see at the end of the series, but that's very utopian.
Before we get into the specifics of your utopias, I want to talk about utopian thinking.
A smart place to start looking for answers is science fiction, and specifically utopian science fiction.
Feher's directive is not that each arena must be razed and replaced by some utopian alternative.
But on Havergey, an island off the coast of Scotland, a small Utopian society has formed.
The Finns are aiming to reinvent the Nordic model; it is the opposite of 'utopian' communism.
This means that a speculative utopian vision is about as usefully orienting as a demagnetized compass.
Because of its utopian story line, the series had drawn comparisons to the "Hunger Games" franchise.
That low rates could feature in a leftish Utopian vision might come as a surprise today.
The Arc of the Scythe series dives into a utopian world where death has been defeated.
These range from the popular (zero waiting lists for nurseries) to the Utopian (zero hay fever).
You want to create a Utopian narrative about your product, how it's going to solve problems.
Why bother fixing something in the short term when you could chase a utopian dream instead?
I like that that song sort of brings in an idealized utopian future in a way.
But details soon emerged, one by one, that chipped away at the Garden Bridge's utopian pitch.
Berkeley is either the utopian cape of gender's future, or some distracted cell of liberal elites.
It had specific demands, unlike some of the utopian squats you write about in the book.
Here's how Fordlandia, Ford's utopian city and industrial town, was founded — and how it fell apart.
The Rainbow Family is an anarchist, utopian, new age community that comes together during Rainbow Gatherings.
There is a genuinely utopian dimension to Trumpism, suggesting a widespread desire to reverse late capitalism.
I think that's a beautiful idea that's often talked about in this really grandiose, utopian way.
Milosz never placed much faith in the utopian promise of communism, especially under the Soviet occupation.
The second-wave feminists were exuberantly lusty, and desire was central to their often utopian thinking.
Payne, showing utopian plans going awry, depicts gated colonies of "smalls" in gleeful, quasi-anthropological detail.
The new world that emerges is utopian, and every Uncle Dave wins the lottery every week.
Ms. Weigel espouses a utopian impulse that would make falling in love easier and more equitable.
The show explores how Cuba's utopian vision was constructed and later de-constructed by Cuban artists.
Some might scoff at the very idea of utopian planning, but Blast Theory could care less.
I'm very interested in the way people foresaw a utopian future from a mid-century standpoint.
They're the most creative and they find the most convincing, and also the most utopian, forms.
Reaching for a radically more humane immigration system is not pie-in-the-sky, utopian dreaming.
The history of this genre is firmly intertwined with that of the genre of utopian literature.
And it's that tension where games are at their most powerful—perhaps even their most utopian.
That said, guilds are automatically recognized once dwarves decide to start one, which is positively utopian.
You have to say, 'Oh, I want …,' and it might at the beginning sound very utopian.
Blamed for everything from addicted children to nurturing terrorism, Big Tech has lost its Utopian shine.
And you clearly don't buy all the techno-utopian fantasies being spun up in Silicon Valley.
It has also flooded social media with short utopian videos cut to maximize their potential virality.
Moderation accepts the complexity of life in this world and distrusts utopian visions and simple solutions.
Some members of the German design establishment said his work was overdone, utopian or simply impractical.
And while the utopian narrative is universalistic and future-oriented, myth is particularistic and backward-looking.
"People are looking at this utopian weekend getaway as trying on a different lifestyle," she said.
A vision so utopian is aptly situated at Brooklyn Mirage, a huge, palm-tree-lined space.
I'm advocating open borders for everyone, which is obviously the most utopian idea of my book.
But rather than achieving a utopian End of History, he merely steered political debate in new directions.
A utopian pursuit, Creed has described the work as representing all colors and peoples of the world.
Esperanto, the utopian language of William Shatner and a future in which traditional mechanical watches run forever.
So, I think that in any utopian society, it's only logical that the size of government increases.
I fully agree with you that the open borders is the most utopian part of my book.
That show placed scrambled, amnesiac, topographical scenographies over distinct cultural values: an outdated, modernist, utopian, colonizer's conjecture.
If you haven't yet indulged in deeply disturbed utopian world, then I urge you to start now.
On 08.093, Tricot demonstrate a unique vision of rock as a utopian playground, intellectualized but not soulless.
Jacob Tobia, writer, producer, and author: I think that my utopian future would definitely be a comedy.
But some people couldn't help but notice the whiff of techno-utopian arrogance clouding the whole project.
That suddenly became Shelley's nightclub on this strange utopian planet which was kind of like Silver Surfer's.
Yeah, sometimes a world that feels more dystopian will be alongside a world that feels more utopian.
Deborah Vincent: There are lots of environmentalist games, but Avatara was almost uniquely utopian in its outlook.
We can all of us become connoisseurs — that, he argues, is the utopian promise of visual art.
Glimpses of an undiscovered Hairy stronghold suggests there may be a utopian alternative to the human world.
But as with many communities founded on utopian ideals, some women's lands have been forced to change.
But what that actually looks like, in its most grand utopian iteration, is still up for debate.
" Sanders was dismissed by Clinton backers and Republicans as a "utopian socialist" whose supporters were "naïve idealists.
Wakanda was initially conceived as a utopian nation, but it has suffered crippling indignities in recent years.
Rising rideshare statistics offer plenty of fodder for utopian predictions of a car-free, community-focused future.
It just seems so modern: a utopian blend of technology and nature that's both efficient and folksy.
We know in this utopian future all ailments are cured, that practically anybody can be kept alive.
Utopian futures might look more like a community garden, growing organic food, having shared mealtimes every night.
This utopian belief in technology's importance ran through both Prince's embrace and his dismissal of its tools.
Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, had urged the EU to "depart from Utopian dreams".
It's in seeing pre-adulthood as a utopian realm of freedom and a purer type of being.
It would pause the utopian ideas of the left that have been making inroads in our society.
"I joined with the most utopian ideas and quickly realized that this is not utopia," Zisa said.
Whether that is a utopian or dystopian future, only time will tell, but the reckoning is coming.
ISIS defectors are credible voices who know there is no utopian state and no justice under ISIS.
Net Art's political posture was characteristic of the feverish, techno-utopian excitement shared by netheads in general.
How can we make sense of the utopian dream that lies just beyond the field of bodies?
His alternative nostalgic utopian narrative of "America the Great" ignores historical truths of bigoted and discriminatory policies.
However mundane it seems now, convenience, the great liberator of humankind from labor, was a utopian ideal.
"This fantasy of Tehran in the '70s is this utopian idea of connection between people," Ghavamian said.
She has come to lay waste to utopian fallacies, she says, and replace them with dystopian realities.
Students come in to see us, thinking that it might be some sort of utopian, idyllic situation.
The poetry of Ariana Reines outlines a utopian prospect where suffering can be transformed into benevolent light.
There is a second, utopian scenario, where we've anticipated these changes and come up with solutions beforehand.
"They're just the modern version of something that's always been around: utopian political system designers," he said.
"It's a beacon in showing the world that clean tech presents almost utopian possibilities," Mr. Ingels said.
But as with many communities founded on utopian ideals, some women's lands have been forced to change.
There are reasons, however, to think that a fully modern society cannot do without a utopian consciousness.
We also need to be more careful about what it is that might preoccupy our utopian imagination.
Do they settle into a more stable state — for instance, a utopian arrangement of three mutual friends?
Reading time The bus has books like "Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia," which examines utopian impulses.
The utopian has a better story to tell; the meliorist leaves us with a better world. ♦
But in the New York of the 1980s and 1990s, clubs were somehow both utopian and forbidding.
Utopian Imagination continues at the Ford Foundation Gallery (320 East 43rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan) through December 7.
She didn't have the same utopian view of cross-cultural harmony that I had encountered in others.
The geometric shapes, centered and minimal compositions, and simplistic color choices are balanced, beautiful, and even utopian.
Between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, the four travelers journey through a kind of utopian space.
But in keeping with our current political moment, that utopian vision is used for vapid, divisive ends.
Apart from promising a Utopian economic "rebirth", he has given few details on his post-election plans.
And then never — again, Nevérÿon — maybe it is this utopian place, like thinking of Peter Pan's neverwhere.
The Kolumba emerges from the tradition of the church with a utopian vision of a museum's purpose.
In retrospect, Mr. Jibril acknowledged in an interview, it was a "utopian ideal" quite detached from Libyan reality.
"It is a nice utopian effort that shows desire for change from the educated, Westernized elite," he said.
Mr Isserman contends that DSA members "are not utopian, and we certainly don't believe in Bolshevik-style revolution".
In Jablon's use of language, words create worlds, eschewing the fixity of reference to revel in utopian otherworldliness.
These utopian visions are displayed alongside works addressing the militarized and dystopian realities of US and Mexican borderlands.
Barnette's installation reimagines the saloon, not as it looked, but as a glittering utopian monument, rife with potential.
"Growing up as a kid I had a crude but utopian idea of what love is," he said.
But when analyzed in regard to the contemporary constructs around mixed identity, the transformation doesn't look so utopian.
Zaraska might have realized that her prediction sounded utopian, because she ends on a much more pragmatic note.
One Tribeca Immersive installation, NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism, imagines a utopian future for marginalized people instead of a dark present.
From thermostats to speakers to robot butlers, the Utopian version of Terminator 2 is almost becoming a reality.
The movement presented itself as a utopian settlement, but in reality, it was a straight-up sex cult.
Though he edited the interview before it was published, Castro welcomed Lockwood's pointed challenge to his utopian aims.
Named after the utopian architect behind Arcosanti, the unique space was constructed with aboriginal aesthetics taking center stage.
In a utopian future, I won't have to explain to people that, 'Yeah, I exist—I'm still here.
They did so not out of abstract benevolence or Utopian naivete, but because global engagement ensured American interests.
Several carmakers, including Mercedes-Benz, presented visions for the future of transport that IHS Markit described as utopian.
If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to earth.
It's future-obsessed and forward-thinking, it's technical and quantitative, it's market-oriented, it's simultaneously practical and utopian.
I do not support world improvers who seek dominion over others in the name of a utopian ideal.
Like so many people before him — and after — Gabriel yearned for the utopian vision his leaders had promised.
A universal opinion because they&aposre all a bunch of sheep, a utopian dream for comrade de Blasio.
In that time, it's gone from a nice utopian concept to ponder to something benefiting thousands of people.
The siren's call of utopian command-and-control, government-mandated "fairness," no matter how tempting, must be resisted.
"Smart technology has very utopian intentions but it's really about how it's implemented on the ground," said Datta.
The city will survive and even resist your attempts to twist it into your half-glimpsed utopian vision.
Photo Credit: Jasmine Safaeian DA: When you talk about architecture, urban planning, utopian cities, you see renderings, collages.
"Feminist perspectives of the woman-machine relationship have long oscillated between pessimistic fatalism and utopian optimism," Wajcman writes.
At question is the presumed emancipatory power of Schöffer's tired utopian idea of an ever-fluid machine art.
And they entered a market where hundreds of millions of users believed the utopian vision of the internet.
Domino Park has the utopian, up-with-people spirit typical of successful green spaces in New York City.
This politics, which is utopian in horizon and everyday in application, has a name: Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
I have a utopian view of the arts — I want everyone to be able to write about anything.
Today, the former estate is a distant echo of Barnsdall's original intent to build a utopian artist colony.
Perhaps in those moments of intimacy and support there are utopian moments, but that's never all there is.
George Kennan, the eminent diplomat, historian and strategist, called the pact "childish, just childish" in its utopian aspirations.
Run by intelligent and driven people, these idealistic and utopian creations largely failed in their middle age. Why?
The utopian ideal of the artists engaging the masses fizzled when Stalin realized that the masses weren't responding.
The camp began as a demonstration, but it turned into a utopian experiment that challenged the French government.
It also stands to be a helpful tactic—giving politicians cover to demand more just, more utopian policies.
Justine Kurland's photography combats the modern female ideal and collects utopian fragments from a matriarchal Garden of Eden.
Abandoning Mao's utopian fervor, Chinese leaders led by Deng Xiaoping sought stable, peaceful relations with the international community.
I would look for covered bridges on the road, round barns built by utopian Quakers and Victorian houses.
In debates, she has gone after Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, critiquing their health care plans as utopian.
Reparations advocates talk in trillions, which would take this already-unrealistic proposal into the realm of the utopian.
I realized at that moment that we would be wise to take Google's utopian claims about Quayside seriously.
"Sometimes I think we're arguing against a utopian ideal that I haven't seen exist," he told me recently.
There was this utopian idea that the internet would set us free, and to a degree it has.
"This represents an exclusive, utopian city built by the 1%," said MacMurtie, referring to one section of his drawing.
It's certainly one of the looming concepts of Our Times—a business imperative, an economic driver, a utopian ideal.
The Utopian outlook was yet to be marred by events like September 11 and the July 7 London bombings.
But there are two big obstacles to utopian dreams of an "actual technocracy" which will be hard to overcome.
Will man and machine battle it out, or will we reach the utopian vision of man unshackled from work?
Its base is large, white, and rounded — not something from an industrial kitchen, but a soft-focus utopian future.
At last, tech companies have delivered on the utopian future that augmented reality tech had once merely hinted at.
Such high aspirations, like those of dancers attempting to perfect their technique or protestors with utopian dreams, pervade WOKE.
It was simultaneously the hub of techno-utopian imagination, and a wasteland of half-forgotten dreams and frustrated ambition.
In earlier periods, the utopian future tended to be defined in terms of the social relations put into place.
Olivetti was a heady place to work in other ways as well, especially for anyone prone to utopian thinking.
But this week some inequalities have been highlighted, which designers of this utopian future vision might want to fix.
It serves as a paradigm for an alternative (utopian) vision of climate change — one that smells a bit bad.
Burr explains that Pattern Language goes back in time to explore the utopian ideals that lead to the catastrophe.
That's the utopian direction—what the internet did for data and information, maybe cryptocurrency technology can do for money.
The first is the utopian version: Voters are empowered to directly choose what they want the government to do.
The problem is that such utopian projects are always undermined by the human beings tasked with carrying them out.
Utopian socialists such as the leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, dislike business in any shape or form.
We have no way of understanding anymore, I don't think, what a major utopian underpinning comes with this desire.
In their willingness to entertain alternative architectural and relational structures, both artists confront dystopian upheaval with practical utopian imagination.
Despite his apparently utopian vision, Jones was in many ways the archetypal demagogue, as Guinn highlights in his book.
Today, when cities are facing a massive housing shortage, Jacobs can seem not utopian (or not government-driven) enough.
Even the most utopian tech evangelists must have known that autonomous vehicles would eventually be involved in fatal accidents.
From the perspective of conservatives, the very notion and idea of utopian bliss as advocated by progressives is folly.
Inverted Utopia, Lost Illusions suggests no closure to Cuba's utopian dream but instead leaves us interminably in medias res.
Her work quotes from a wide range of utopian Modernisms: the Russian avant-garde, Bauhaus, Esperanto, Polish cabaret theater.
How sad it is that concrete, that most utopian and promising of materials, streaks so badly in the rain.
And most have been caught attempting to leave the U.S. to join the promised "utopian ISIS Caliphate" in Syria.
The regulations prescribe a utopian data future where consumers can refuse companies access to their personally identifiable information (PII).
It has to be a utopian one that we can hold out as a model or image of emulation.
But there was something utopian about this event in a way that the exclusionary fashion world rarely aspires to.
For now, free public transport is still considered utopian, but universal health care and free public schools are not.
Others insist their initial views were less utopian than many critics believed, and that they've been right all along.
Some continue to look to an ever-widening "Europe" incorporated in a federal European state as a utopian future.
You can also see images of the Congolese artist's colorful utopian city models on MoMA's website, along with videos.
This Congolese artist's fantastical designs make for a "euphoric exhibition-as-utopian-wonderland," Ms. Smith wrote in her review.
So there's every chance they just found this while tripping through anonymous, utopian keyboard sounds from the late-70s.
It's a country founded as a utopian "city on a hill" — and defined by ruthlessness in capitalism and politics.
These types of challenges are only addressed by people who are first derided as "radical" or "utopian," he said.
That same year, "The Matrix" explored the possibilities of the internet in a narrative at once utopian and dystopian.
"One Sings" is so utopian that it might have taken its title from her earlier feature, "Le Bonheur" ("Happiness").
Miss America, also a Marvel character, is a queer, no-nonsense runaway from an alternate reality called Utopian Parallel.
"The company pursued its naïvely utopian — and undeniably self-serving — goal with a tragic disregard for consequences," Levy writes.
As with most utopian designs, one can imagine that if built, especially into whole cities, they would feel tyrannical.
The Nile Project was founded as much as a utopian model for social unity as it was an ensemble.
She's concerned with much bolder possibilities: In Lewis's utopian future, the family as we know it no longer exists.
Like utopian experiments in earlier eras, most folded quickly, but the movement had a profound influence on today's world.
And I certainly did not anticipate this environment in the utopian, early days of digital journalism 15 years ago.
While cotton has ceded supremacy to oil, Horwitz finds that Olmsted's utopian, democratic ideal of "cosmopolitan intimacy" remains elusive.
A kind of Utopian view developed at The Well, through Craigslist or other kinds of early media and practice.
The idea of a better factory life through art reflected a  utopian spirit, with undercurrents of Soviet-era control.
My models for this expansive way of working are the utopian spaces of El Lissitsky, Mondrian, and Kurt Schwitters.
First, it is clear that the financial value of the shareholdings of founders of these utopian corporations, many of which are based in Silicon Valley (though an older East Coast utopian called Michael Bloomberg also comes to mind), far outstrips what they, their personal foundations, or their lineal descendants could practically need.
Gruen could not foresee how tax laws, cheap land, and American's affinities for their cars would corrupt his utopian cityscape.
For now, while AKoin proves itself, the proposed 2,000 acre utopian Akon Crypto City will remain in the planning phase.
In the real world of hard choices, Ocasio-Cortez's demand that "no person goes without dignified healthcare" is not utopian.
An early and fervent supporter of Mr Sanders, he too favours a mix of sensible progressive proposals and Utopian schemes.
There's a reason the utopian vision for VR often seems to be the Holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
But being utopian, we could put a little more elasticity, sheen, and moisture to the last 12 inches or so.
It sounds utopian, but in those early days, we enjoyed a wonderful culture of openness, collaboration, sharing, trust and ethics.
But even though the premise of replacing ads with even more ads seems bizarre, the utopian approach might actually work.
Thus, he says, will emerge a utopian 'postcapitalist' age of mass abundance, beyond the price system and rules of capitalism.
It revives one of the oldest radical desires in the world: Utopian socialism, without the fun-killing authoritarianism in tow.
Among the most amazing parts is the section where they talk about the utopian promise of the internet gone awry.
Throughout its report, RAND gently chides AV companies for the way they talk about self-driving cars in utopian terms.
" Ms. Achugar is joined by eight other performers — and willing spectators — to create what she calls a "utopian collective body.
Any token purchase was in some sense speculative, but in the utopian rather than the rapacious sense of the word.
That was a show inspired by a utopian view of technology—what about it shaped your vision of the future?
The utopian ideals of BrewDog have been lost in a mire of "equity-for-punks" commercialism and transphobic marketing campaigns.
There are few verticals filled with more utopian dreams than the studios and startups building virtual and augmented reality experiences.
He combines it with a number of other utopian proposals, like a 15-hour workweek, and, most intriguingly, open borders.
I'm fundamentally, not utopian, but optimistic, so I don't think that it's a game that you just ultimately always lose.
Like his utopian contemporaries Yves Klein and Superstudio, Dallegret prodigiously imagined possibilities for a better, more evolved way of life.
The Italians constructed a utopian city undergirded by harsh racial segregation laws, erected on the back of forced Eritrean labour.
There's something beautiful and utopian in the belief that the best is out there, if we can only find it.
To many early adopters in media, it was a utopian object, the conduit for a new era of literary production.
Instead, Silicon Valley research that started with an admirable sense of utopian promise eventually changed into practical, market-based technology.
In this utopian twist on Wall Street, half the players are female, and, initially, all are on the same team.
There was something darkly utopian about it—moshing and chain-smoking mixed with the innocence of flirting and practicing languages.
That may be the aim of denialists pining for perfectly safe systems (unless they're truly deluded by techno-utopian dreams).
It's not dystopian or utopian, and I'm really excited about it—we're lining up a really wonderful cast right now.
Star Trek: The Next Generation aired from 1987 to 1994 and introduced millions of fans to Gene Roddenberry's utopian universe.
That's a utopian vision, and it's not one that our library system in its current form always lives up to.
Hers was one of the more utopian visions put forward by the roughly 2500 panelists at Christie's daylong conference, however.
Tech leaders, from Microsoft to Facebook, speak of AI in the same utopian terms previously used to describe the internet.
It seems so vastly improbable from our vantage point more than 50 years on, but these were truly utopian undertakings.
An all-in-one entertainment and information service remains a cyber-utopian fantasy unparalleled outside of Isaac Asimov's literary machinations.
Rather than exploring White men's theories of utopian imagination, I'm really interested in foregrounding the imaginations of artists of color.
In the meantime, Gerrard is busy pushing his utopian ethos before his baby might walk off into the real world.
The building was gutted to remove asbestos, and its empty shell became a utopian space for the city's art community.
This, he told me, was exactly the "sort of utopian artist collective dream think tank" he'd been taught was ideal.
After World War I, and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, Viennese society understandably took a less utopian view of housewares.
It chimed with Prince's vision of a utopian Uptown in which race and other classifications were both ignored and meaningless.
That's why the show has that almost utopian quality of free love — these kids having sex and figuring themselves out.
Winners of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship highlight contested histories and utopian pasts in their group show.
Other reasons have to do with creating a Utopian society that is "bettered" through time-saving devices that are automated.
Sullivan's film, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), is a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop.
Detroit-based experimental theater ensemble The Hinterlands hosts a series of uTopian Dinners, forging connections between artists around the world.
Early naturalists peered into hives and mounds and simply saw a reflection of their own monarchies or socialist utopian dreams.
Where The Sleepwalkers depicts a demise of the utopian dream, Sol Alegria (literally Sun, Joy) is an anarchic, Rabelaisian outburst.
The book covers the myopic solipsism of the tech world — but it also captures its best and most utopian impulses.
Rubio ended up designing a structure that could be 3D-printed from moon dust, giving it a utopian-adobe look.
In a utopian society where people did not discriminate — consciously or subconsciously — "objective reasonableness" would be a perfectly serviceable standard.
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It is one of the few remaining places that retains the faintly utopian glow of the early World Wide Web.
Our apartment in Cambridge was built in 1961, part of an earlier wave of utopian interest in tiny affordable housing.
You can practically see the twinkle in the eyes of older Sudanese people when they look back; it was utopian.
A major cause of war is the utopian notion that we can rid ourselves of them without creating something worse.
There is also an almost utopian notion that countries can choose the speed at which they adopt and deploy technology.
That kind of utopian patter was big at the beginning of my career, when the hot new app was … fire.
But Victor Vazquez's goofily utopian, politically hip benevolence makes more of weed than Jerry Rubin or Dr. Chronic ever did.
Far from utopian, his landscapes force us to consider the world outside refracted back to us through a warped lens.
Idealism and utopian visions of the world may make for great speeches, but they rarely make for coherent foreign policy.
They did this in opposition to Zionists, whose support for Hebrew and emigration to Palestine the Bundists saw as impractically "utopian".
Every dead person also had to be brought back to life so they could rejoin their descendents in a utopian future.
Titled "La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura" ("The Nostalgic, Utopian, Future Far-Distance"), it pits a violin against an eight-track recording.
Hoping to ditch your clunky car because of an impending utopian future in which self-driving cars render car ownership obsolete?
It seems to me utopian thinking also needs a view on human nature: how people will respond to radically different scenarios.
Tina's "utopian pregnancy" wasn't her first choice — she's making a compromise to please the man she loves without sacrificing her ideals.
The issue that appeared in this utopian vision is that music's ruling class weren't always looking out for those underneath them.
Bitcoin was hailed as the digital currency of a utopian future, but, at least in the US, few people use it.
It is hard to disregard the sense that revolution, for all its Utopian promise, is merely a species of civil war.
The utopian goal for me is [solving] the things in my home that personally frustrate me: ironing, dusting, and washing up.
No one can because Casebere's photographs represent moments of stasis that in turn suspend the viewer between dystopian and utopian fantasies.
"That doesn't mean that all the stories have to be Pollyanna utopian plots," Eric Desatnik, head of communications, at XPrize says.
At a critical moment, Hablik transposed the ideals of German Romanticism to proto-Space Age fetishism for a utopian, technological society.
At the same time, it isn't a utopian portrait of the place, putting certain residents' opposition and ignorance on full display.
In this timeline, humans haven't created a United Federation of Planets, the utopian intergalactic alliance that's always been Star Trek's foundation.
But perhaps the utopian rather than dystopian construct is not only more appealing, but also more relevant in this global community.
Blogging still exists, but not many people today entertain the 10-year-old utopian fantasies that it will change the world.
Spotless, utopian surfaces cover the game's Providence space station, and they show no markings or artifacts of life before the war.
For starters: In a utopian vision of a better, devolved-but-more-human internet, I would never post to your database.
If sex only existed in a vacuum in some utopian world, this would be fine, but it doesn't and never will.
It was a response, Casale says, to the failed promise of utopian progress peddled by post-WWII politicians and consumer culture.
Of course this is impossible, but utopian desire, mixed with critical engagement of the social landscape, is something to strive for.
When Europe came under the sway of utopian ideologies, the children of European immigrants living in the United States created Superman.
Single-payer has been lambasted as a utopian dream, but there is a clear path to making it work policy-wise.
This is why people continue to amble to the crests of California, in search of this dreamscape, of a utopian kinship.
Recently calling Blue Origin "the most important work that I'm doing," Bezos has laid out a utopian vision of the future.
Adiós Utopia memorializes the driving utopian conceit of contemporary Cuban art, its galleries a testament to the credulity of this dream.
Just as science doesn't claim to attain absolute truth, the Constitution does not claim to achieve the utopian ideal of government.
The effect is of having traveled to an undetermined utopian era, where every object is alluring and useful and bewitchingly timeless.
Later, loyalty to the nation-state performed a similar function, and international Communism managed to direct class rage into utopian projects.
Ala Younis, born in 1974 in Kuwait City, documents a project, based on utopian rationality, that barely got off the ground.
This energy permeates "Teenage Emotions," a fitting soundtrack for a generation enthralled by the utopian promises of inclusivity and self-acceptance.
Individual The techo-utopian dream of Merchise slows to a crawl when confronted with questions of freedom of expression and politics.
Attended by Nonophiles aplenty, including the composer's widow, Nuria Schoenberg Nono, the "Utopian Listening" conference could have offered little of interest.
His buoyant writings in English, displayed in vitrines and seductively recited through earphones, hatch intricate Utopian schemes, often architectural in character.
The Natural Order of Things creates the sense of utopian nostalgia through objects that idealize a fetishized and stratified capitalist history.
In any dystopia, the utopian part is the something better, and in a utopia, the dystopian part is the something worse.
To even think about that world, we need some positive and utopian dreams about what a government is supposed to do.
This utopian vision of full automation may sound appealing, but it has one obvious negative consequence—the loss of human jobs.
On the one hand, it seemed to offer a new, expansive utopian dimension for art, beyond social, racial and aesthetic particularities.
But even if the sex work community doesn't coalesce around some utopian, sex worker-first site, it will coalesce around something.
A revolution for a constitution, not a paradise; an anti-utopian revolution, because utopias lead to the guillotine and the gulag.
It was shot at Santiniketan, in rural West Bengal, India, where the poet Rabindranath Tagore established a utopian school in 1921.
But I always assumed it was a cutscene from some utopian video game I hadn't heard of, not a real place.
There is no trash blowing down Main Street U.S.A. Dream big, and the utopian technology of Tomorrowland just might come true.
Northampton is in the Pioneer Valley, an area that was once home to Sojourner Truth, Sonic Youth, and utopian abolitionist communities.
His proselytization continues at the utopian settlement of Can Decreix—Catalan for "home of degrowth"—where he has lived since 2011.
And despite its utopian and revolutionary posturing, art is just as guilty as any other field of ignoring its female practitioners.
Characters escape a dystopian, impoverished physical realm and enter a separate, utopian virtual realm in which they are wealthy and important.
Some protests are the result of spoiled, pampered students and "activists" who aim to bring about their view of utopian globalization.
Forty years on, we're only just starting to recognize the profound impact of their shift from the utopian to the practical.
They, too, play with self-invention and theater, but with the aim of hammering down, rather than loosening up, utopian possibilities.
Pop music has long relied on a dream of being a utopian space, capable of bringing people of disparate backgrounds together.
" Reece likewise ends his travels convinced "that things will only get worse if we don't engage in some serious utopian thinking.
It sounds like a Utopian concept: drivers being able to power their vehicles simply by leaving them out in the sun.
For decades, Wilson had been rooting for the Soviet Union to make good on the utopian visions of the 1917 revolution.
Its rhapsodic inventiveness—there had never been anything like it before—puts it in a class of twentieth-century utopian icons.
Its opposition almost invariably arises from a perfectionist and utopian source that claims its superior capacity to protect people from themselves.
In this history of America's nineteenth-century utopian communities, Jennings examines how they upended conventions of property, family, and gender roles.
The company's vast headquarters, in Menlo Park, California, might be either the most utopian dystopia or the most dystopian utopia ever.
This might sound like a rather utopic expectation in our current situation, yet art history is full of similar utopian revolutions.
Adopting a measure of technological optimism is not the same as adopting the blithe and complacent outlook of a techno-utopian.
Drawing on the queer radicalism of lesbian separatists from the 1970s, Roberts digs into a particularly niche utopian zeitgeist: van culture.
Likewise, Roberts' utopian van is chimerical, a vision of a queerness that's elusive and caught in the undertow of hippie idealism.
It had that universalist aspect to it; some might say utopian—a very roughish kind of utopia, a very British one.
One of the bright spots in the book is your collaboration with Chuck Tingle, whose work I think of as weirdly utopian.
Washington, DC (CNN Business)Google's parent company continues its attempts to sell Toronto on its controversial vision for a utopian city neighborhood.
One Utopian answer to the goodwill conundrum would be for all firms to recognise all their intangible assets on their balance-sheets.
Envisioning a world absent of toxic masculinity is a theme that makes Queen Sugar a nearly utopian drama about a Black family.
It seemed to me that on the West Coast everything was diluted with a kind of Pollyannaish, utopian vision of the future.
Such is the case here: a spaceship departs from Earth with the mission to build a utopian civilization on a new world.
America in the opening decades of the 19th century appealed as never before to those with utopian aspirations, noble and ignoble alike.
In 2018, we certainly need a utopian north star like Star Trek to suggest a positive future exists for the human race.
Even so, there are few verticals filled with more utopian dreams than the studios and startups building virtual and augmented reality experiences.
Other times the realities were simply an indication that Google is not the charmed, utopian company that it often gets presented as.
Perhaps the most utopian application of this technology will be seen in terms of bridging cultures and fostering understanding among young students.
Broussard has been programming since she was 11, but she has come to realize that the long-held utopian promises haven't delivered.
With Gawker gone, we have to face the prospect of the end of blogging and of the utopian enthusiasms of our youth.
For Mr Jay, this marks a moment when the drug culture was "leaving the utopian dreams of the Sixties in its dust".
At the turn of the century, it seemed as though this techno-Utopian vision of the world could indeed be a reality.
The utopian matriarchal society of all our hopes and dreams Elephant females live together with their young in tight-knit family groups.
Ultimately—and this is the primary critique of utopian socialism—Godin placed too much faith in his workers to implement his vision.
They have an imagined past of historical glory, and they look desirously—as all religious cults do—to a promised utopian future.
"But if you don't have those numbers, then you simply can't do that, so that request from Mozambique is utopian," he said.
This practice is too well established to be controlled easily, even after the internet giants fully outgrow their utopian and libertarian fantasies.
It's about what happens to the Federation, the prime directive, and this utopian view of the future is put to the test.
He meshed his tentatively utopian "Maybe There's a World" with the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love," itself a skipped-beat song.
Radical advances in AI could conceivably result in a utopian paradise, or a techno-hell worthy of a James Cameron movie script.
Facebook became available to the general public in that year, so that was a really important year for this very utopian view.
ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV: UTOPIAN PROJECTS A collection of maquettes for fantastical projects, both realized and unrealized, by the Russian couple. Sept.
This period was hardly utopian, and Ahmed characterizes popular accounts of it — in the works of Salman Rushdie, notably — as excessively rosy.
In political terms, they might be called prefigurative — gestures that are both effective in themselves and utopian, albeit on a small scale.
As a work of art, it can be perceived as celestially utopian or darkly pessimistic — or as a membrane between the two.
It's a fascinating time capsule both for the book's utopian 1997 web predictions, but also for Kakutani's prescient skepticism about the internet.
Now, in 19903, the familiar techno-utopian pronouncements of the 1990s and '00s seem not just wrong but like a bad joke.
The post-war architecture of the Barbican is a fitting setting for Into the Unknown, with its concrete angles and utopian spirit.
Once the authorities have cleared the market known as Pusher Street, above, the decades-old utopian experiment returns to business as usual.
Once hailed as an architecturally forward model for utopian living, within a few years of opening, the projects had descended into squalor.
When so much attention is spent on far-off, utopian solutions, we neglect the importance of the poverty fixes we already have.
The low point was Fruitlands, Bronson's ill-fated utopian community (the rules: no heated baths, no animal products or labor, no sex).
Others, like the flourishing of a utopian sect known as the Icarians and the catastrophic tornadoes of 1925, are less well remembered.
Both radicalized online and felt that they were carrying out heroic missions that would help set the conditions for some utopian future.
"They suppress real customer reviews that don't fit into their utopian view of what a review should be," said one representative user.
In 1849, he was sentenced to death for participating in the Petrashevsky Circle, an intellectual society influenced by the French utopian socialists.
Founded in 1839 by a cobbler, it later adopted the name of a Utopian society and managed to stay open during Prohibition.
JS: It makes me think about the early 20th-century "Pioneers of Abstraction" and their utopian vision about the power of art.
On April 21, 1975, some 150 Montagnard men, women and children marched out of the gate into the maw of utopian evil.
And skin color continues to be, even in a country that once made utopian claims to colorblindness, a social and economic determinant.
In our own time, a global network of elites has tried to restart the discredited utopian experiment of a self-regulating market.
A majority of Germans think they may be forced to bow to the utopian ideas of a handful of inner-city Berliners.
Emezi's second book and first YA novel offers up a glimpse of what restorative justice in a utopian world could look like.
As it became the area's dominant force, the Y.P.G. tried to implement its vision of a utopian society, inspired by Mr. Ocalan.
True to its title, the exhibition demonstrates how broad the field is, spanning queer utopian thought to indigenous protest and historical meditation.
Unlike Marxists, liberals do not see progress in terms of some Utopian telos: their respect for individuals, with their inevitable conflicts, forbids it.
Still, it's hard not to look at Libra and think of Facebook's other utopian project aimed at empowering people in developing nations: Internet.
"There's this Utopian idea: Technology will come in, and people will take these tools, change their government, and get their freedom," he says.
There's a photo in The Tale of Tomorrow, a new book about the mid-century utopian architecture movement, of a building in Jerusalem.
We know that every milestone of civilization — the end of slavery, democracy, equal rights for women — were all utopian fantasies in the past.
" She tells The Creators Project: "My work is concerned with cultural failure (the failure to make life better), and utopian ideals in ruins.
Athi-Patra Ruga's large-format, maximalist photographs incorporate diverse cultural and geographic references to create transgressive, utopian scenes that blur dream and reality.
From the utopian counter-culture optimism of the 1960s to the pessimism of today's millenarian cyberdelia, psychedelics have profoundly shaped recent American history.
The way we've embraced refugees fleeing war and devastation coupled with the dearth of mass shootings over here make us seem almost utopian.
It looks more like a utopian future city than a corporate headquarters: A rendering for a proposed site for Amazon's HQ2 in Chicago.
Now he has been seized by the kind of Utopian fever that would make the Sage of Omaha choke on his Cherry Coke.
By the time the building opened in 1976, Britain's national mood was far removed from the utopian idealism that had kick-started it.
The fictional premise is a scaffold on which the author hangs his theories about how to create an ecological and economic Utopian society.
These projects, their successes and failures, are explored in The Tale of Tomorrow: Utopian Architecture in the Modernist Realm, recently released by Gestalten.
The idea that with the internet all cultures can now connect and share together equally is an old and debunked techno-utopian dream.
So the hard left, they are driven by lack of understanding for mathematics and the utopian concept for how the world might work.
Ilya Kabakov is one example, with his famous Berlin installation of a kommunalka (the utopian projects from the 1920s for collective living) bathroom.
But where Independence Day draws from its pop culture sources in a manner that commemorates movies as escapist, uplifting utopian visions, Mars Attacks!
"The characters may decide to start a sort of utopian town that is built on the ideals they hold in common," Ryan said.
Gender imbalance undercuts virtual reality's utopian promise Whatever the reasons that VR and AR initially attracted men, designing for them perpetuates the gap.
The sense was that for these two very different Democrats—the quintessential pragmatist versus the sometimes utopian idealist—the gloves had come off.
In Mexico, $900 a year offers a living standard that's a far cry from the utopian future that basic income advocates hope for.
This dazzling, utopian club atmosphere mirrored Lear's disco classic, which can be read as an anthem to fluid and self-fashioned queer identities.
The lucky lady is Kristen Stewart, but there's a catch: The lovebirds live in a futuristic utopian society in which emotions are verboten.
"I realized all these crazy utopian structures that were too big for Earth could stand on the Moon," Rubio says, referencing lunar gravity.
His previous book was about Marinaleda, a utopian-sounding Spanish village where citizens live coöperatively, and he's written extensively on anti-capitalist activism.
In bringing the third world back home, the 2016 remake critiques that scenario — while providing a utopian political fantasy for this election season.
His most famous project was Fruitlands, a utopian community that he founded with a friend in the town of Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1843.
Hitler's Eden was a world without Jews, but the only way to turn it into a utopian one was to kill them all.
Not only was their history denied, but it was denied by a man that is diametrically opposed to their left-leaning utopian paradise.
The goal of your nine-day utopian journey is to gracefully exit The Playa, leaving no trace, with an altered perception of reality.
The shot, courtesy of photographer Holger Wust, subtly evokes the timeless, utopian and it must be said, very German feeling of the record.
In showing what a truly utopian society could be, one day, if our better angels prevailed and a major miracle or seven occurred.
Why it matters: The utopian promise of technological progress is giving way to the very thorny challenges of balancing innovation with social accountability.
Oldsters like me remember when the idea that (unsubsidized) renewable energy would be able to compete directly with fossil fuels was downright utopian.
Such is the curious case with Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–19233), the unknown bagatelle utopian architect and prolific proto-postmodern draftsman of grandeur.
Her aim, using a few token blacks to mend the South's racial divide from the top down, was utopian to say the least.
They are not looking to slake their lust, amass great riches, build monuments to themselves, create utopian societies or engage in sadistic torments.
Even if the Seasteading Institute is able to start a handful of sustainable structures, there's no guarantee that a utopian community will flourish.
Sottsass, a utopian like Morris, Gropius and the Eameses, recognized a cynicism in the project he had started, and he soon abandoned it.
"This is Utopia Parkway, and as you can see it is utopian," he said as we made a right onto a wide boulevard.
"I don't know what genders are going to look like four generations from now," they added, allowing that they might sound utopian, naïve.
These are images of today's utopias, as seen through the lens of a new exhibit at London's Somerset House, Utopian Voices Here & Now.
Of course, it was in theater where progressive, utopian, gesamtkunstwerk ideals could be put instantaneously into practice through the blending of the arts.
Yamasaki became the chief symbol of the failure of Modernist architecture's utopian optimism and of urban renewal's contribution to the American city's downfall.
A case in point was MoMA's fetishistic "Machine Art," a show of everyday design from 1934 that was utopian and commercial at once.
Alongside his more apocalyptic visions, Baldwin harbored a wary utopian presentiment that Buckley believed ignored man's true nature and endangered America's delicate hierarchies.
And the other thing is, even The TechEquity Collaborative, a nonprofit in San Francisco, there's a tech utopian imaginary that guides their work.
The store's co-founder, Michio Kushi, was a macrobiotic doctor and natural food advocate who believed in world peace and studied utopian books.
By 19933, the high, utopian years of the post-colonial Pan-Arab Movement — when a united "Arab world" seemed possible — were long over.
In utopian fiction, on the other hand, the writer creates a world based on a set of ideals and values they deem important.
Chris Jennings's "Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism," a historical account of five utopian projects, is more firmly rooted in the past.
Proto's choral anthems sound like a utopian future, one where technology is harnessed to enrich humanity rather than to supervise and discipline it.
It "creatively brings together cutting-edge technology, a utopian vision of society and playful expressions of love," according to BAMPFA's director, Larry Rinder.
Most were not able to negotiate problems that emerged over time, and the concept of the self-sustaining environment remains a utopian dream.
They look hyperreal, almost too richly colored to be true, much like today's postcard-gracing utopian shots of beaches and other vacation getaways.
Meanwhile, essentially every candidate appearance these days ends up spending a fair amount of time on candidates' utopian visions for health care policy.
"The big scale is perfect for art and utopian projects," Ms. Welter said of the complex's more than 118,463 square feet of exhibition space.
"Although aesthetically diverse, sanatoriums were infused with the utopian values of the era, which championed architecture as a vehicle for social reform," Omidi writes.
His literary and political dream of the "Great Community" — the somewhat mystical, classless society invoked by modern utopian thinkers in China — would go unrealized.
Like the "end of history" proclaimed after the fall of the Soviet Union, this notion seems to belong in the dictionary of utopian follies.
I have this utopian vision of LA, the ease of hopping from A to B and being together as a society in that way.
On the one hand is the tech-utopian vision of our digital lives ushering in new civic opportunities for democratizing access, knowledge, and community.
Alma Weston: Anyway, I wrote up a piece about this cool little game where players were building a utopian society on an alien planet.
You credit Obama with abandoning the utopian fantasies of neoconservatism, but you also reproach him for failing to recognize the limits of American power.
There is a modesty here, but also a contrast to the total solutions that go back to old traditions or forward to utopian futures.
Wakandacon started as a tentative, nerdy idea: how can black people make Wakanda, the utopian advanced African nation where Black Panther takes place, real?
If such ideals seem practically utopian in today's climate, for Kloppenberg that is an indication of just how badly democracy has lost its way.
However, unlike the criminal charges seem to suggest, Control is neither a romantic ode to a utopian enclave, nor a book of terrorist propaganda.
Migrants generally — the traveler — is the embodiment of the key utopian impulse in our species, the desire to improve ourselves, to better our lot.
Secretly, they can still feel things, including pleasure at touching each other, and concern about the rash of suicides in their supposedly utopian community.
Indeed, Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy served as a sort of "bible" for the sect, which also aspired to build a utopian community of scientists.
At its start, the web contained all sorts of utopian ideas about connection, a global community, and a new age of information and understanding.
His support of early feminist theory shaped her origins as an Amazon from an all-female utopian community hidden from the male-dominated world.
The project draws inspiration from a utopian proto-feminist text by the French medieval writer Christine de Pizan, as well as contemporary gender theory.
Even scientific and technological advances, which had so often gone hand in hand with utopian visions of the future, was refocused on military research.
Vietnam becomes Iraq, Nixon becomes George W. Bush, the utopian dreams of the hippies become a kind of pop aesthetic sold to their grandchildren.
The thorniest question for all utopian family abolitionists is what would happen if, when the imagined future arrived, that possessive instinct refused to fade.
Advertising Adblock Plus, an ad blocker now used on more than 100 million devices, started out as an almost utopian idea a decade ago.
There's a quirky, utopian libertarian quality to Mike's philosophy; he is a man guided above all by his theory of how life should be.
But just as the utopian promises of Communism were merely a fig leaf for tyranny, the official face of orderism hides something much darker.
The comedy, which is inadvertent, springs from Robertson's absence of common sense about these utopian projects, pious intent being very different from pragmatic achievement.
Marxist accounts are concerned with the distribution of the goods that work makes; the utopian remonstrance is concerned with the nature of work itself.
"Out 1" may be even more political, a manifestation of the utopian French left's confusion two years after the student protests of May 1968.
Few would claim that Selhurst is a utopian paradise, what with its on-site Sainsbury's and its built-in nightclub (the aptly named 'Crystals').
They pledged to build a utopian megacity on a stretch of deserted land that would attract capital and talent from all over the world.
In Reston, Va., the utopian planned community developed in the 1960s, a 160-acre private golf course may soon see its last tee time.
The exhibition concludes with a series of utopian architectural projects called "Architectons," conceived by Malevich and his former students after their departure from Vitebsk.
But it still arouses nostalgia among some former citizens who fondly remember its gender egalitarianism and social safety net or admire its utopian aspirations.
Back in the Utopian 1790s, radical writers put their faith in the Enlightenment ideal of "truth," and in the printed word as its conduit.
Several works in the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowships Exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery highlight contested histories and utopian pasts.
But here, the results of this largely utopian enterprise sit firmly before us, beautifully reminding us of what was and what might have been.
Plenty of people in power benefit from them, which can make the prospect of marching on the Mall or contacting legislators seem hopelessly utopian.
Unlike the universalist utopian visions of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the self-regulating market, the mixed economy requires endless tinkering and compromise.
Twitter's aspirations as the global town square are utopian, while the day-to-day experience of politics on the platform veer quickly toward corrosion.
Justine Kurland Justine Kurland is known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them.
It is a powerful, massive company that used to see itself as a utopian collective which just so happened to make oodles of cash.
But rather than fulfilling Barlow's utopian vision for cyberspace independence, national governments are finding new ways to assert their jurisdiction over the global internet.
Its unstoppable influence and power led to a general disillusionment with the utopian ideals the tech industry pedaled about connecting in a digital democracy.
When Mitch loses interest in Russell and the record deal collapses, the utopian turns out to be just another underground man, boiling with resentment.
"The Green New Deal is chockful of utopian ideas but completely devoid of concrete plans to implement any of its overreaching policies," said Sen.
Sorry, my mistake: it was a utopian colony in Iowa that lived by strict religious principles, including the holy rite of digital temperature control.
She now lives in Dial House, the "open door, open heart" utopian Essex cottage members of Crass have called home since before their inception.
Smith's Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.
The terror group's propaganda reflects this shift as well, moving away from its utopian vision of an Islamic State to a narrative of revenge.
In addition, Munch brought to his work an up-to-the-minute content, new-century attitudes toward sex, psychological disturbance, occult spirituality and utopian politics.
Instead, he focuses on how human beings interact with and are shaped by their technologies, like he's writing a particularly utopian episode of Black Mirror.
As the sun filtered through the grimy windows, and the voices weaved in and out, the optimistic event gave form to a utopian social fabric.
Perhaps most bewildering to its author would be the extent to which developed nations have achieved many of his Utopian ideals, once so laughably remote.
But Popper thought that change was only possible through experimentation and piecemeal policy, not utopian dreams and large-scale schemes executed by an omniscient elite.
I don't want to sound utopian about this, but I do believe it's helpful that there's no classification to who gets to see this first.
It featured original works by Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass and others — a utopian vision of global art that deflated Orwell's dystopian prediction of that year.
Policing and intervening isn't just politically tricky for the platforms, it's also a tacit admission that Big Tech's utopian ideologies are deeply flawed in practice.
It may be a while before we realize that Utopian dream of security working silently, automagically to protect us despite our follies, foibles and idiosyncrasies.
It is impossible to imagine him endorsing Utopian fantasies about forging an ever-closer union out of a hotch-potch of political systems and cultures.
A strong case can be made that offloading much of our work, both physical and mental, is a laudable, quasi-utopian goal for our species.
It covers some familiar ground, such as the frictions between the utopian tendencies in 20th-century architecture and the realities of real estate and realpolitik.
His new book is a memoir about virtual reality and a history of how the utopian thinking of Silicon Valley has brought dysfunction and division.
As he writes in his introduction to Trekonomics:What really matters, and what makes Star Trek uniquely utopian, is the social distribution of these impressive technologies.
Utopian and dystopian stories had become increasingly popular since H.G. Wells published his series of late-Victorian hits such as "The War of the Worlds".
It also runs through other utopian and totalitarian movements, as well as some of the Islamists' enemies, like the far-right political parties of today.
Bowie, for me, belongs to the best of a utopian aesthetic tradition that longs for a "yes" within the cramped, petty relentless "no" of Englishness.
The "Green New Deal", a utopian but implausible spending programme proposed by some Democrats, has been championed by left-leaning commentators and pilloried by conservatives.
But what happened in Cuba, and especially in Venezuela recently, I think it has contributed decisively to the destruction of the utopian, socialist, collectivist models.
The intrigue: Bezos' Utopian vision is starkly different than Elon Musk's somewhat irreverent ideas that include artists circling the moon and pizza places on Mars.
Soon enough, the utopian design philosophy of Propst was co-opted and rationalized by the furniture industry, becoming a goldmine for his employer, Herman Miller.
If Mill's vision of a marketplace of ideas was utopian, Google didn't want its code to contribute to a digital dystopia, in China or elsewhere.
Later, a different set of tech entrepreneurs descended on Puerto Rico as well, enticed by tax breaks to advance other, more esoteric techno-​utopian visions.
This week, considering Etel Adnan, MVRDV's "fake" Binhai library, the aesthetics of Empire, the end of Twitter's utopian ideals, mapmakers and horror vacui, and more.
And as long as I'm being utopian, let me decree that from here on out, people who are sexually harassed will feel no shame. None.
This utopian world, as Disney saw it, would have begun with his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT, to be built in Orlando, Florida.
"The words that are being used now are unelectable, and pie in the sky, utopian, he'll never get it done," she said of her husband.
Famously touted as horror maven Christopher Lee's favorite film he worked on, The Wicker Man is a surreal treatise on utopian idealism gone terribly wrong.
Able to escape race, gender, class systems, and structured power relations, the Cyborg has acted as a utopian ideal for exploring post-corporeal feminist possibilities.
The films departed from some of the optimism and utopian stylings of the original series, in favor of a more audience-friendly action-adventure narrative.
With the first Black lead in the franchise's history, this season of the Bachelorette essentially served us a utopian version of diversity and interracial dating.
Le Guin uses the book to interrogate utopian, revolutionary, and centralized societies, and it remains one of the best comparisons between political ideologies in print.
Monocle views the world as a single, utopian marketplace, linked by digital technology and first-class air travel, bestridden by compelling brands and their executives.
The debate around radio at the time of "The War of the Worlds" was informed by a similar fall from utopian hopes to dystopian fears.
Lydia: One of the most genuinely interesting strains in recent political life, in my book, is techno-utopian libertarianism, which runs so counter to Trumpism.
I was thinking about art that's inspired by nature, particularly the Group of Seven's paintings about searching for sublime experience and utopian ideals of nature.
What is particularly odd is that Khanna believes he is evincing a savvy worldview and yet offers a utopian vision of connectivity's effect on people.
Political uncertainty, the the distorting financial impact of mega-funders like SoftBank, and increased public skepticism about tech's utopian promises have all left a mark.
For some, it is a crumbling redoubt of authoritarianism, an outdated anomaly in a region that mostly abandoned the utopian horizon of revolution long ago.
Ru suggesting that Russia should create its own athletic event based on "martial prowess" rather than the "Utopian, quasi-pacifist guidelines" of the Olympic movement.
Never mind that there is no utopian Muslim "Caliphate", only heavy bloodshed, tyrannical punishment of Muslims, rape of Muslim women, and death to Muslim dissenters.
The actual moral of the story is more trite and utopian, but still powerful: Democracy can't take root until the impulse for vengeance is gone.
" In 2015, Jill Lepore profiled the Archive's founder in the New Yorker: "[Brewster] Kahle is a digital utopian attempting to stave off a digital dystopia.
Of course, there's plenty of dystopian or utopian visions of where tech like AR and VR might drive us, if you want to be persuaded.
It was an interesting juxtaposition that showed that the Eastern-influenced design that we love can be both dark and menacing or cerebral and utopian.
Vintage Soviet postcards reveal a sophisticated political project, one that uses the allure of nostalgia to create a vision of a utopian, space-age future.
But, having studied the nature of cities extensively, these futuristic utopian city concepts won't work, even though they do make for some very pretty models.
The problem with modernist utopian planning, in a nutshell, is that it conceives of the city not as a living thing, but as a machine.
The last time this happened, in 1998, the summit ended with a distinctly utopian ambition: the total eradication of all drugs from the entire world.
We can already produce the utopian dream of an electric car enthusiast: a zero-emissions electric vehicle that uses a combination of ultracapacitors and batteries.
We appear to accept the proposition that this utopian, millenarian faith describes a neutral force; a kind of biological law, like Darwin's theory of evolution.
For now it lies dormant as a record of techno-utopian thought, awaiting its purpose in coming years as a manual for space-age sedition.
This sad reality has been used to paint Mr. Sanders as a utopian instead of indicting the partisan paralysis that maintains the political status quo.
Works in various media explore themes such as the politics of race, the role of gender, the poetics of the everyday, and utopian/dystopian futures.
Wreck-It Ralph bustled with video game in-jokes, while Big Hero 6 created a kind of urban, utopian setting for its action-packed story.
He put into pragmatic operation the cooperative gesamtkunstwerk ideals that cantilevered out of German idealist and Neo-Platonic philosophy and 2180th-century cultural utopian Romanticism.
Something about our digital life seems to inspire extremes: all that early enthusiasm, the utopian fervor over the internet, now collapsed into fear and recriminations.
Despite these occasional misplaced interludes, Goodbye, My Havana offers a unique lens to view post-revolutionary Cuba, where utopian dreams were deferred for so many.
At times, "In Transit" seems utopian in its optimism that all it takes to get two people talking is to put them in adjacent seats.
In 1999, Hawking appeared at the end of Season 10, in the episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain," saving the day when Springfield's utopian meritocracy crumbled.
As they did about radio or television before Twitter, critics and evangelists opine about new forums for public discourse as either deeply corrosive or utopian.
Whatever we call the antithesis to utopian globalism, it need not mean wholesale endorsement of Mr. Trump's harshest rhetoric, which is often narrow and inarticulate.
The Bolshevik vision of world revolution may now seem a utopian fantasy, but it appeared much more plausible in the aftermath of the Great War.
If you put Astrid and Emma Roberts' two most iconic characters together, they may be able to bully the world into their own utopian ideal.
The problem with this film genre is that it exists only in a utopian Hollywood vortex of great romance, even greater hair, and happy endings.
On the other, is a small group that believes violence, by shoving aside ordinary politics, can usher in a utopian based on seventh century Arabia.
"The Trump political campaign is a far cry from the utopian vision of the new Aquarian age," said James Rado, one of the show's authors.
What he didn't offer, though, was any sort of new or innovative or even particularly concrete ideas for how to achieve this grand utopian vision.
Claire Boyle: This was a very utopian idea at the beginning of the internet with all the rainbows and the globes and all these icons and that the blue is this holdover for this utopian idea of the internet, but it's kind of been used in this nefarious way to mask what has changed and mask these big tech giants who are doing these ... Right.
That maybe if Sanders becomes president a utopian new era will dawn, and that's why all the shills and neoliberals are so geared up about him.
Much of the post-election recrimination has focused on the wrong things — on feckless second-guessing and on proposed strategies that range from utopian to counterproductive.
The film is set entirely aboard the starship, which carries 5,000 hibernating passengers on a 120-year journey to a distant utopian planet called Homestead 2.
"But I think that is probably a bit too Utopian for Game of Thrones, and I think eventually what will happen is just everyone will die."
The Dutch artist was busy sketching ideas for the New Babylon, a utopian society where man and woman were untethered from the expectations of everyday life.
Generally, the behavior of Blood Over Intent practitioners tends toward utopian and sweet, but dig yet a layer in, and things start to get pretty dark.
Surprisingly, the tech community seems to be embracing the film, even though it is somewhat critical of some of the more utopian tendencies of that community.
Cobbled together from materials including cowrie shells, Yoruba masks, horns, Japanese mosquito nets, and crocodile heads, Rina Banerjee's fantastical sculptures present a utopian vision of globalism.
Illustration: UberMany hurdles remain before Americans can expect flying cars to be a practical means of transportation—the utopian promise of the 1950s, and even earlier.
Here is where a toe-tapping joyous beat is introduced, as Moana's family tries to convince her that her utopian island home is all she needs.
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer — March 22008th In Too Like Lightning, Ada Palmer introduced readers to a utopian, post-scarcity world which was beginning to crumble.
First, simply on a technical level, it turns out that utopian globalization proponents were massively understating the feasibility of building a censored version of the internet.
In case you're unfamiliar, in this movie, a prediction is made that a utopian future in which all restaurants are Taco Bells is on the horizon.
Their visions are utopian, Rieff responds; they understate the risk of the pain that memory causes, while overstating the likelihood that memory will promote good ends.
The transhumanist and Extropian movements (and even the Media Lab) have gotten more sober since those techno-utopian days, when even I was giddy with optimism.
It launched with a manifesto of sorts for utopian dress, channeled into a single garment that was gender-neutral, utilitarian, and made-to-measure: the jumpsuit.
Because of Cardenal's extraordinary talent as a preacher and cultural promoter, many international poets, artists, and intellectuals visited Solentiname, eager to experience the utopian movement directly.
Similarly crowded, but with a bit more abstraction and finesse is Studio Re-Levant's optimistic design, which combines 36 utopian flags as one unified international symbol.
But by limiting the story to humanity, the series gains a sense of realism that Star Trek lost in its utopian version of humanity's inclusive future.
The project represents a sort of utopian vision of the internet, one where a disparate group of people form a community focused on a common goal.
The show is as skeptical of the notion as it is of technology's utopian claims: "When you die, you rot," Laura tells Shadow before her demise.
The revolutionary verve of the 1960s—its utopian impulses based on peace and love, on civil, gender and sexual rights—had by 1968 spurred militant factions.
The Minds are so advanced as to be near-omniscient, capable of waging wars, managing production, and operating a functional utopian society without any human input.
But originally, the Peoples Temple, which was founded in 1955, had been a radical project influenced by Marxism and the utopian ideals of the New Left.
In a memoir of Brook Farm, a utopian community that briefly thrived in Massachusetts in the eighteen-forties, John Thomas Codman recalled the group's final days.
In Vienna, Polanyi had heard socialism dismissed as utopian, on the ground that no central authority could efficiently manage millions of different wishes, resources, and capabilities.
Much twentieth-century modernist music sounded like—and actually was—the outcome of a preordained process, the working out of a utopian or a mathematical idea.
The good news is that she is not a utopian; she is — or has become, across a long and grinding career — temperamentally pragmatic, self-consciously hardheaded.
Not quite so successfully, "Arcadia" leads readers into an escalating series of interconnected textual worlds and deliberately avoids helping them to achieve any final utopian vision.
This is, simply put, just more post war modernist utopian planning, and we have seen time and time again that this kind of city doesn't work.
Later that same day, Musk claimed to be a "utopian anarchist" a la the futuristic civilization depicted in science fiction writer Iain M. Banks' Culture series.
"At the time we thought this project was maybe utopian, but today we have 19993 open, and we have more than 75 other projects," Grizot said.
It seems utopian — and, critics have said, more science and architecture than art — but it is always anchored in today's pressing issues, such as the environment.
The promotional material on the website of the virtual reality developer Oculus Rift makes some lofty, near-utopian claims, promising users an experience unlike anything else.
And despite the growing threat of nuclear disaster, the studio typically has a cheery outlook on life, positioning the DPRK way as more utopian than reality.
It's the kind of utopian prattle that can come off as dangerously out of touch at a moment when a backlash against big tech is brewing.
The utopian dream of platforms that are open and meritocratic has been reborn in the internet era in the form of blogging, and more recently podcasting.
He's a melancholy utopian, positing a world where most people are too cool to be cruel, and where aesthetic sensibilities take the place of political ideologies.
And yet this happy, even utopian, conclusion doesn't resolve troubling elements from the other operas — the race-based children's war in "Freitag aus Licht," for example.
And like Sanders, she's rolling out plans that serve more as windows into her values, or even utopian fantasies, than realistic possibilities in the near future.
The relationship between Kippenberger and the audience ("you") thus forms an invisible ideological network premised on a utopian — and inevitably impossible — system of collectivity and inclusiveness.
This dance has taken place several times a day this summer between the government of Denmark and Freetown Christiania, one of Europe's longest-running utopian experiments.
Yet the harmony suggested a collapsing of the distance between identities and perspectives — if only for a utopian moment — before the textures inevitably diverged once again.
One was the arrival of the internet in its original, pre-corporate form, the version which inspired the utopian dreaming that surrounded technology in the 1990s.
The Midwest is also dotted with formerly radical and utopian communities, towns, villages, and colleges founded for the sole purpose of resisting the spread of slavery.
I want a utopian world where everyone has access to healthcare and a living wage, and I also want be a fucking billionaire in that utopia.
What if Starfleet, the peacekeeping navy of the nigh-utopian United Federation of Planets, has suffered a slow decay that prioritized playing politics over valuing life?
Lampooning the simple-mindedness of utopian web clichés was arguably part of Mr. Eggers's point, but much of that point is often muddled in the book.
While this seems far-fetched and utopian at a moment of such intense tension, this could also be the best moment to attempt such a gambit.
"Imagine," John Lennon's seminal 1971 ballad for a utopian future without religion, borders or property, is getting a co-writer: Lennon's widow and collaborator, Yoko Ono.
A tale of an insular populace that doesn't think twice before opening its arms to an international throng of strangers automatically acquires a near-utopian nimbus.
In a recent tweet, he described himself as "a utopian anarchist of the kind best described by Iain Banks, " a Scottish novelist who published science fiction.
For Mancoba, this freedom also meant release from art that had to look African or Western; he could forge what he saw as a utopian synthesis.
Ivory Tower Blockchain, the ingenious database technology best known for underpinning the faddish digital currency Bitcoin, is reviving the utopian fantasies of the early internet era.
It dawns on me that the name, Occupy White Walls, might indeed be a reference to Occupy Wall Street, but from an utopian art world perspective.
Some argue that human rights are utopian in character and therefore undermine the real and necessary world of politics, which has to be about limited goals.
A versatile and multifaceted artist, Schlemmer was also a utopian with visionary intentions related to the goals of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius's concept of the gesamtkunstwerk.
A more utopian idea would be to simply junk the Constitution, the way we junked the Articles of Confederation, and write a new one from scratch.
It's not like we used to have a perfectly equal utopian society and we've somehow slipped out of that; this isn't necessarily any one person's fault.
Given that as a second context, we're seeing incredible things happening in the country that just a decade ago folks would have thought of as utopian.
Put another way, in the world of Prey we got the future that the old utopian World's Fairs dreamed of… and we still fucked it all up.
So-called 'movement conservatism' or 'fusionism' in its present form is, in fact, an alliance of three distinct utopian movements in economics, domestic policy and foreign policy.
The idea is to create a modern day version of New Babylon, a utopian vision from artist Constant Nieuwenhuys that sought to create a world without borders.
Science fiction writers have seized upon the idea, serving up utopian visions ranging from Star Trek's Universal Translator to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Babel Fish.
Even then, however, time isn't an unlimited luxury in many future utopian fictions, and no matter how much you pay, it will always catch up with you.
The promise of automation is increased efficiency, the elimination of dangerous and monotonous jobs, and—from a classic utopian view—the rise of leisure time for all.
And that could happen as soon as the municipal elections in May — just one of many daunting political challenges standing between the present and Rueda's utopian future.
It was actually designed and created by The Walt Disney Company as a place for avid theme park fans to live in a resort-style utopian community.
There is no artifice to 858, no tech-utopian snake oil about solving the problem through the blockchain or making a scalable solution for all of humanity.
But while the original MARS is exclusive and utopian (imagine a Californian Bilderberg conference, with robots and group meditation), the tenor of re:MARS is difficult to judge.
The utopian-grid fantasy is later displaced by the architectonics of body politics and the anatomy of female pleasure in ceramics, works on paper, textiles and paintings.
It's a smidge utopian, but then again, this is Google, a company that once mused about "set[ting] aside a part of the world" for technology experimentation.
In recent years, films like "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (2012) and "American Honey" (2016) found utopian elements in poor communities and were criticised from the left.
The series follows an eternal war between twin planets: the utopian New Genesis, ruled by the benevolent Highfather, and the dystopic Apokolips, dominated by the tyrant Darkseid.
A sense of either silly utopian joyfulness or damaged and doomed fretfulness dominates much of the exhibition's thrust, with spectacular, immense nature reduced to an art model.
Through a series of unfortunate events that include getting an ex-astronaut pregnant, Barren accidentally destroys his utopian world and gets stuck in our darkest timeline instead.

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