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Yavor Tarinski examines the fundamental conflict between democratic aspirations and the imposed norms of capitalism, the potential for directly democratic and ecologically designed cities, the imperative to renew the commons, and the prospects for a genuine solidarity economy to overturn the ravages of capitalist economic growth. It critiques bureaucratic, technocratic and conspiracist tendencies both in mainstream discourse and on the Left, and offers...
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America has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursuing that noble ideal. The first and most obvious affliction is identity politics, which seeks to transform America by turning politics into a religious venue of sacrificial offering. For now, the sacrificial scapegoat is the white, heterosexual, man. After he is humiliated and purged, who will be the object...
64) A Modern Utopia
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A Modern Utopia is a novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability." To this planet "out beyond...
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Douglas Mao is Russ Family Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860–1960 and Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production (both Princeton).
A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae Lee
Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity...
67) Matriarcadia
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Matriarcadia es el relato de una sociedad utópica en la que sólo existen mujeres, quienes gobiernan una sociedad ordenada y pacífica sin varones desde hace dos mil años. Su apacible vida se ve alterada por la expedición de tres hombres de muy diferente carácter: un romántico soñador; un orgulloso joven adinerado, acostumbrado a dominar a las mujeres, y el narrador, abierto a comprender el nuevo mundo por descubrir. Los tres tienen la oportunidad...
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France's Community of the Ark is one of the past century's most successful experiments in utopian living. Founded by Lanza del Vasto, a Christian disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, it offers an inspiring model for a nonviolent society. Mark Shepard shared the life of this remarkable community for six weeks in 1979 and reported on what he found.
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Your wildest dreams have not prepared you for all that is now possible. New technological & scientific breakthroughs are changing the world for the better or worse. You have only moments left to become fully versed on the MOST IMPORTANT developments happening, because there are grave moral & ethical concerns that are not being adequately addressed. This 150 page non-fiction book will empower you with the knowledge you need to know & the blueprints...
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In Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, what is, on the surface, a time travel love story quickly becomes a deep exploration of society, its values, and the proper role of government. Bellamy offers a utopian vision of the future in which industry is nationalized and wealth is equalized in a classless society. A work of huge consequence in its day, the novel shaped politics in both the U.S. and Europe and inspired a grassroots movement. It was also...
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Eines der einflussreichsten Bücher des 19. Jahrhunderts ist heute-völlig zu Unrecht-beinahe vergessen: Edward Bellamys "Looking Backward, Or: Life in the Year 2000". Dutzende spätere Autoren ließen sich von dem Werk inspirieren und schrieben Fortsetzungsgeschichten und Rezensionen. Auch die heute bekanntesten Werke der Gattung utopischer Romane, Orwells 1984 und Huxleys Brave New World sind von Looking Backward deutlich beeinflusst. Genau wie...
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Extrait: "Cet écrit m'a été transmis par mon père, et je vous le lègue, mes enfants, il vous confirmera mes leçons en vous apprenant à juger les temps passés, à connaitre le vice des passions qu'ils vous ont transmises, et celui des opinions desquelles nos contemporains ont le plus coutume de disputer..."
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I was a born non-believer. One of my earliest memories is deciding that Santa Claus did not really exist. Why? He was supposed to arrive in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. I knew that reindeer can't fly, therefore there had to be another reason that presents would appear under the Christmas tree. The next victim was the Tooth Fairy. I witnessed my Dad tossing my older sis- ter's lost tooth into the goose mash. I then knew that he was the one who...
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The fascinating work of a Russian prince-turned-anarchist, Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921). Kropotkin one of the world's first international celebrities. In England, Kropotkin was known as a brilliant scientist, famous for his work on animal and human cooperation, but Kropotkin's fame in continental Europe centered more on his role as a founder and vocal proponent of anarchism. In the United States, he pursued both passions. Tens of thousands of people...
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"An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a young Black woman bereft after the loss of her newborn child, this hill becomes more than a safe haven -- it becomes a place to start over. She convinces her husband to help her construct a society underground, somewhere safe, somewhere everyone can feel loved, wanted, and accepted, where the children learn actual history, where everyone...
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"One hundred kilometres from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the centre of a tireless struggle to create a living utopia. This unique community drew British author Dan Hancox to Spain, and here for the first time he recounts the fascinating story of villagers who expropriated the land owned by wealthy aristocrats and have, since the 1980s, made it the foundation of a cooperative way of life....
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What if there was a secret city at work on finding answers to the survival of humanity? Technologies beyond your imagination. A city expanding, recruiting, and evolving. There is no government, no money, no bosses, institutions, cars, or roads; and age takes on new meaning. This "facity" is one big research product in and of itself, and nothing else quite like it exists on this Earth.
This is the city that Erwin Sharp and his family are drawn into...
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The American Dream reloaded.
We need an ethical revolution, not a minor movement.
Are women better leaders and statesmen? Why do we export bombs instead of books? Rey Rodriguez has condensed many casual observations into a political plot and scratched umpteen awful points. Come join his dream of a more peaceful world!
What if?
In his political utopia "She, the President." Rey Rodriguez outlines the extraordinary career of Polly, a person of color...
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En un formidable esfuerzo de selección, Martín Bergel propone una sugestiva clave de lectura de un corpus que parece inabarcable: a contrapelo de una interpretación de Mariátegui que lo asimila a una tradición "nacional-popular", esta Antología recupera la riqueza de un pensamiento tan tensionado por su voluntad de marxismo para encauzar los problemas peruanos como por la inquietud cosmopolita y el internacionalismo.
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Are you a high performing, high achiever, who desires tools to relieve anxiety and depression? This book is for you. We all experience some form of stress, worry or sadness and blues. Discover simple practices you can implement today to live your healthiest, happiest life. Learn easy ways to empower and uplift yourself and get started on being the best you. The included workbook guides you in a 21-day journey to build new healthy habits that stick....
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