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Going nowhere: travelling to, through, and from Utopia.(Essay)
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Utopian Studies
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January 1, 2008
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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 been imagined as a satisfactory, even if alien, end to that inconvenience. Very many, if not the majority, of these journeys involve a recording process and the confrontation of our future selves and others with the recalling of adventures, wonders, admiration, or disillusionment. The parallels with the depiction of travel in utopian fiction are immediately obvious. So obvious, perhaps, that ...
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