The dogs of Llano del Rio (I) — Pirate Utopia Charles Fourier coined feminism, reimagined labor as desire, and inspired a wave of utopian colonies across America. This is the strange story of his ideas.

The Dogs of Llano Del Rio
kubicki.org/letters/the-dogs-of-llan...

#CharlesFourier #utopianism

“…our greatest challenge in the climate crisis today is our spirituality… our unwillingness to accept that we are moral and vulnerable creatures.”
— Roslyn Fraser, “Utopia on Earth,” p.234

#Utopianism #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoTheory #PoliticalTheory #SustainableFutures

“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

Europe's 20th-century ideological #utopianism led to human suffering.

Earlier, religious wars driven by visions of a God Utopia caused tragedy.

Now #AI progress tempts us toward "God Utopia 2.0" -ceaselessly striving to create a better species or even summon a machine god.

Please join us on Friday, May 30, at 5.30pm UK time for the online book launch of our edited volume "Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa"!

Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/utopianism...
#Utopias #MiddleEast #Utopianism

A Question about American Utopianism A common-good Political Astrology blog about US Politics and Washington DC

www.starsoverwashington.com/2016/11/a-qu... #utopianism #worldorder #rosycross

From The Archives: Camp Bethel, 1983 - County Fence Bi-Annual Audio Version Here Dear Readers: In light of our digitization program, Greg has asked that I find a piece from the archives. The following is an account of a trip that my intern and I took in 1983 and...

ICYMI: Jules Octavian investigates Abraham Hawley's utopian colonial ideals in this dive into the archives from 1983: Camp Bethel.

countyfencemagazine.com/from-the-arc...

#utopianism #colonialism #speculativefiction #CanadianHistory #OntarioHistory #utopian #mysticism #ouija #spiritualism #Canada

I love how, in the Year of Our Lord 2025, people still argue that Capitalist Realism is superior to fantastical #Utopianism

My brother in Christ, the Free Market is a #utopian thought expiriment

#TheRight love to bash leftists for #Utopianism

When a #FreeMarked is literally a utopia that’s built from like 11 insane assumptions; non of which are ever true in practice, much less all 11 at once

Technological Utopianism and the Idea of Justice This open access book advances a modest defense of technological utopias. While many technological utopias lack sufficient reference to the socio-political

Technological #Utopianism and the Idea of Justice:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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#Economic #Mutualism + #Ecological #Utopianism:
An economic model & positive social vision, #Decentralized Economic Social Organization implements A Prosperous Way Down to A Simpler Way of Living by empowering Political and Moral Societies through Economic Mutualism and…

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#Pro-Growth #Capitalism+Technology #Utopianism: Our CURRENT business-as usual (BAU) model, a model of intransigence and greed driven by #wetiko, not a model of change.

Autocrats like Trump and Maduro Want You to Lose Faith in Elections They know that your vote is your voice and your voice can change history.

AUTOCRATS LIKE TRUMP AND MADURO WANT YOU TO LOSE FAITH IN ELECTIONS
I had a stimulating if slightly terrifying conversation with Greg Sargent for the @tnr.bsky.social podcast in which we explored the #MAGA ideal of unity and its similarities to #Fascist #utopianism
open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

Read “Bloodchild” by #OctaviaButler last night. Often cited in relation to #Afrofuturism and in discussions of #utopianism. A very interesting piece. On the surface, very much not what one would call a utopia. The more I think about it though, maybe it _does_ qualify as a Utopia of sorts.

Will #robots take away our #work or enable more spare time?
Technological #utopianism at #rp17.
#CallForParticipation until 8th Jan.
(3.1.2017, 18:00)