"From the time of its invention, photography has enabled artists not only to capture the world around them but also to create worlds of their own. Utopia/Dystopia investigates how artists from the late 19th century to the present have used photographic fragments or techniques to…
"From the time of its invention, photography has enabled artists not only to capture the world around them but also to create worlds of their own. Utopia/Dystopia investigates how artists from the late 19th century to the present have used photographic fragments or techniques to…
"Victoria W. Wolcott argues that utopianism is the little-appreciated base of the visionary worldview that informed the prime movers of the Civil Rights Movement. Idealism and pragmatism, not utopianism, are what tend to come to mind when we think about the motivating philosophi…
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch »The medium is the message« gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch "The medium is the message" gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch »The medium is the message« gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
Utopia, travel and empire -- Heimat anticipation and postcolonial literatures -- The ambiguous necessity of utopia -- Remembering the future: time and utopia in African literature -- Beyond the nation-state -- Writing and re-writing India -- Borderland heterotopia: Aztlán and th…
"Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature's preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the…
Introduction: Memory, Utopian Theory, Counter-Discourse -- A Brief History of Memory's Emergence in Utopian Narratives -- The Critical Utopia and Collective Memory -- Children's/Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Cultural Amnesia -- Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and the Dia…
"Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature's preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the…