Very honoured to be included in this exhibition, please stop by and see our nanoutopian moment during a break in lockdown if you happen to be in London! #selfcare101 #utopianstudies #fuandurasides

Utopia and Failure – The Metaverse Care Cafe Project This project was funded by AHRC Networking Grant (2023-2026) Grant Ref: AH/X009122/1 Created by Dr Heather McKnight, Kirsty Lumm and Dr Jimmy Turner The aim of the Fail Again, Fail Better? network …

Want to explore Utopia and Failure Creative Network content in 3D? We now have our Metasteps world up and running, you can view videos and photos from the Academic Care Cafe and the projects that inspired it. Learn more about the project here! www.magneticideals.org/home/utopia-... #utopianstudies

“Late nineteenth-century literary utopianism was torn between appeals to simplicity and the ‘natural life’ and an increasingly dazzling vision of a new world of scientific and technological innovation.” — Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet, 317 #UtopianStudies #CriticalTheory

“Being a modern meant pretending to be someone else, to make a stage of all the world.”
— Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet, p.270

#Modernity #UtopianStudies #CulturalTheory #PoliticalTheory #CriticalTheory #IntellectualHistory

“The most important modern secular [intentional] communities have emerged from socialism, the chief utopian response to industrialisation and capitalism.” — Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet, p.158 #UtopianStudies #IntentionalCommunities #PoliticalTheory #Socialism #History

“Rousseau presents an implicit utopian fantasy of what would be the case if a mythical lawmaker had created the perfect society…all follow the general will without any need for coercion.” — Andres Beck Holm, Utopianism in the Social Contract #UtopianStudies #PoliticalTheory #Philosophy #Utopia

“The relation of festivals to utopia thus rests not on celebration of excess…but on their pointed and often irreverent, anarchic egalitarianism.”
— Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet, p.135

#UtopianStudies #PoliticalTheory #Festivals #Literature #utopianism #CriticalTheory

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He’s staring into your soul.

#CallForPapers: New Perspectives on #Hawthorne and #Utopia

#Utopias #UtopianStudies #CFP #NathanielHawthorne #Literature

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/06/05/utopian-h...

#CFP #academicsky #QueerTheory #JoséEstebanMuñoz #Utopia #QueerUtopia #GenderStudies #Latinx #LGBT #UtopianStudies #Feminist #LGBTQ+ #2SLGBTQIA+ #Gay #Trans #QueerofColorCritique #Race

(tips for how to best circulate news on bsky welcome!) @timwaterman.bsky.social ?

Some nice news! I'm v happy to be one of the winners of the 2023 Kenneth M. Roemer Award for innovative course design in #UtopianStudies.

Andrea A. Davis reaching towards utopia in her keynote “Horizons of Freedom: Thinking Black and Indigenous Futures Relationally” last night at #ACSUS2023 conference

#UtopiaNow #UtopianStudies #Canada