Recently added articles from Utopian Studies:
Going nowhere: travelling to, through, and from Utopia.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Davis, J.C. ... Now, we are often told, more people travel--more often and to more diverse destinations--than at any other time in human history. Almost all of those journeys are begun in hope, entail some sacrifice or, worse, some misery in order to achieve a destination (exotic or otherwise) which has ...
Humans and animals in Thomas More's Utopia (1).(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Burlinson, Christopher ... "Animal psychology," write Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno in their Dialectic of Enlightenment, "has lost sight of its true purpose and, in its games with traps and mazes, has forgotten that it is to the animal alone that it can turn to discuss and conceive the soul" (246). The early ...
National pasts and imperial futures: temporality, economics, and empire in William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890) and Julius Vogel's Anno Domini 2000 (1889).(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Steer, Philip ... I The massive outpouring of utopian fiction during the late Victorian period has met with an uneven response from literary critics. (1) Few of those texts have been deemed to meet a literary standard that would justify sustained attention and, compounding this process of ...
George Orwell: socialism and utopia.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; White, Richard ... George Orwell is usually regarded as the prophet of false utopias. In Animal Farm and 1984, he warns us of the future possibilities of totalitarianism, and he remains skeptical of every version of the ideal society that isn't ultimately connected to ordinary life as we know it. Less ...
Appropriating Borges: the weary man, utopia, and globalism.(Jorge Luis Borges' A Weary Man's Utopia)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; DeWeese-Boyd, Ian ... In the story "A Weary Man's Utopia" by Jorge Luis Borges, a traveler finds himself in an unrecognizable world. He enters the home of a man clothed in gray who has no name. The man lives in a time of shared global achievements: poverty, wealth and illness have been eradicated; also gone is ...
Christian hope and the politics of utopia.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Webb, Darren ... It is often taken for granted that an intrinsic, positive relationship exists between "utopia" and "hope." They nurture and feed off each other, hope driving the utopian impulse, utopianism inspiring hope. It is, indeed, almost standard practice to refer to utopian texts as "figures" or ...