Exploring the Utopian Impulse
Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice
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- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2007. 398 pp., 23 ill.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editor
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Exploring Utopia
- The Archive of the Feet: Memory, Place, and Utopia
- Utopia and Memory
- Memory, Embodiment, and Place
- Remembering Hammersmith, Tracing Utopia
- Works Cited
- “Towards Justice to Come”: Derrida and Utopian Justice
- Works Cited
- Truth, Temporality, and Theorizing Resistance
- Truth
- Time
- Modern Time
- That “Other” Time
- The Untimely
- Works Cited
- Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing
- Clarifications
- The Universal Voice in Utopian Theory
- Decoding Universals into Temporal Particulars
- Temporal Particulars: Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing
- Distinctions
- Works Cited
- Utopia and the Memory of Religion
- Works Cited
- The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City
- The Duplicities of Oneness
- From Philosophy without a City to the City without Philosophy
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Works Cited
- Technological Utopia/Dystopia in the Plates of the Encyclopédie
- Works Cited
- The Party of Utopia: Utopian Fiction and the Politics of Readership 1880–1900
- Works Cited
- H.G. Wells’s First Utopia: Materiality and Portent
- Works Cited
- Immanence and the Utopian Impulse. On Philippe Jaccottet’s Readings of Æ and Robert Musil
- Works Cited
- Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson’s Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction
- Works Cited
- Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach
- Works Cited
- Across Time and Space: The Utopian Impulses of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
- Music
- Noir
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- “One loves the girl for what she is, and the boy for what he promises to be”: Gender Discourse in Ernst Bloch’s Das Prinzip Hoffnung
- Works Cited
- Rhyming Hope and History in the “Fifth Province”
- The Crane Bag and the Dis-Positions of the “Fifth Province”
- The Cure at Troy and the Temporal and Ethical Dimensions of the “Fifth Province”
- Translating a Utopian Idea
- Works Cited
- The Chartist Land Plan: An English Dream, an Irish Nightmare
- Works Cited
- The League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order
- The Question of Global Utopia
- Disarmament, Arbitration, and Sanctions
- The Rise of the Dictators and the Weaknesses of League Security
- Works Cited
- Beyond Utopia? The Knowledge Society and the Third Way
- Politics beyond Utopia
- Making Ideology History: Modernization without Telos
- Infinite Knowledge, Infinite Justice
- Modernization as Harmony: Politics of Reconciliation
- Creating the Knowledge Subject
- Works Cited
- Witchcrafting Selves: Remaking Person and Community in a Neo-Pagan Utopian Scene
- A Utopian Experiment
- Neo-Paganism, A History of Adaptation
- A Pagan Scene
- Structural Functionalism, and a New Reading
- Culture, Politics, and Utopia
- Works Cited
- From Shukri Mustafa to the Ashwaiyat: Utopianism in Egyptian Islamism
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Ralahine
H.G. Wells’s First Utopia: Materiality and Portent
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← 162 | 163 → DAN SMITH
Imagine yourself looking out onto a silent landscape of verdant hills and lush vegetation, punctuated by magnificent yet seemingly derelict palaces. After having embarked on a perilous journey and traveling far, perhaps further than anyone before, you have found yourself, as much by accident than design, in this uncharted place. You are effectively alone here, or at least the only one of your kind. This land is disturbingly strange and unfamiliar, its alterity emphasized by the great distance traversed. Yet although different, it still has some kind of vital connection to your point of origin, and forces you to think as much of home as of the scene before you.
This sketch relates to a particular form of narrative contrivance. It fits into the specific tradition of utopian fiction, not so much a loosely defined genre as it is an uncanny and recurring specter. Alternatively, it could be seen as a kind of chronic hunger that nags away from within the history of social reflection. Or maybe this type of persistent fantasy could be seen as a form of that universal peculiarity of human experience and desire – the overstepping of boundaries.1
The inventor of this particular fantasy was H.G. Wells. Consistently engaged in shaping ideas relating to modes of social reform, Wells’s career was animated by the appearance of utopias.2 These both mirrored his idiosyncratic brand of socialism and stepped beyond it as his futuristic ← 163 | 164 → visions took their...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the editor
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Exploring Utopia
- The Archive of the Feet: Memory, Place, and Utopia
- Utopia and Memory
- Memory, Embodiment, and Place
- Remembering Hammersmith, Tracing Utopia
- Works Cited
- “Towards Justice to Come”: Derrida and Utopian Justice
- Works Cited
- Truth, Temporality, and Theorizing Resistance
- Truth
- Time
- Modern Time
- That “Other” Time
- The Untimely
- Works Cited
- Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing
- Clarifications
- The Universal Voice in Utopian Theory
- Decoding Universals into Temporal Particulars
- Temporal Particulars: Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing
- Distinctions
- Works Cited
- Utopia and the Memory of Religion
- Works Cited
- The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City
- The Duplicities of Oneness
- From Philosophy without a City to the City without Philosophy
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Works Cited
- Technological Utopia/Dystopia in the Plates of the Encyclopédie
- Works Cited
- The Party of Utopia: Utopian Fiction and the Politics of Readership 1880–1900
- Works Cited
- H.G. Wells’s First Utopia: Materiality and Portent
- Works Cited
- Immanence and the Utopian Impulse. On Philippe Jaccottet’s Readings of Æ and Robert Musil
- Works Cited
- Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson’s Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction
- Works Cited
- Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach
- Works Cited
- Across Time and Space: The Utopian Impulses of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
- Music
- Noir
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- “One loves the girl for what she is, and the boy for what he promises to be”: Gender Discourse in Ernst Bloch’s Das Prinzip Hoffnung
- Works Cited
- Rhyming Hope and History in the “Fifth Province”
- The Crane Bag and the Dis-Positions of the “Fifth Province”
- The Cure at Troy and the Temporal and Ethical Dimensions of the “Fifth Province”
- Translating a Utopian Idea
- Works Cited
- The Chartist Land Plan: An English Dream, an Irish Nightmare
- Works Cited
- The League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order
- The Question of Global Utopia
- Disarmament, Arbitration, and Sanctions
- The Rise of the Dictators and the Weaknesses of League Security
- Works Cited
- Beyond Utopia? The Knowledge Society and the Third Way
- Politics beyond Utopia
- Making Ideology History: Modernization without Telos
- Infinite Knowledge, Infinite Justice
- Modernization as Harmony: Politics of Reconciliation
- Creating the Knowledge Subject
- Works Cited
- Witchcrafting Selves: Remaking Person and Community in a Neo-Pagan Utopian Scene
- A Utopian Experiment
- Neo-Paganism, A History of Adaptation
- A Pagan Scene
- Structural Functionalism, and a New Reading
- Culture, Politics, and Utopia
- Works Cited
- From Shukri Mustafa to the Ashwaiyat: Utopianism in Egyptian Islamism
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Ralahine