Utopia es el nombre de una isla fantastica y es el proyecto politico de un Estado imaginario que lanza Santo Tomas Moro (1477-1535) hacia el futuro, como el emblema educativo mas alto de la humanidad. Debe realizar la libertad de los hombres y una sociedad justa y equitativa. Utopia es la ficcion historica de Moro, es lo por venir, es el advenimiento de un modelo a seguir. La estabilidad ha de ser la republica, eticamente constituida con equidad, y el gobierno de la mayoria.
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, reducing the novel to vague abstractions and totalizing wisdom about thinking outside the box. The shadow of postmodern studies has had a similarly diminishing effect on this text, rendering up an accomplished but ultimately apolitical novelistic experimentation in endless deconstructive deferrals, the shiny surfaces of play, and the ultimately rigged game of self-referentiality. In contrast, this study draws on an archive of untranslated Italian- and French-language materials on urban planning, architecture, and utopian architecture to argue that Calvino's novel in fact introduces readers to the material history of urban renewal in Italy, France, and the U.S. in the 1960s, as well as the multidisciplinary core of cultural life in that decade: the complex and continuous interplay among novelists and architects, scientists and artists, literary historians and visual studies scholars. His last love poem for the dying city was in fact profoundly engaged, deeply committed to the ethical dimensions of both architecture and lived experience in the spaces of modernity as well as the resistant practices of reading and utopian imagining that his urban studies in turn inspired.
Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.
"This is a stimulating and original collection of chapters produced by an impressive group of international scholars. It provides a vital critical perspective that will strengthen our understanding of what the very important Bologna project means for Universities in Europe and beyond" — Roger Dale, University of Bristol, UK
De volta ao passado na era da nostalgia Decorrente da crise dos Estados-nação e do abismo cada vez maior entre poder e política, a retrotopia é a utopia do passado. Vivemos a perda completa da esperança de alcançar a felicidade em algum lugar idealizado no futuro - como a famosa ilha Utopia imaginada por Thomas More -, o que leva a uma glorificação de práticas e projetos de tempos passados. Esse é o último livro de Bauman, o grande pensador da modernidade líquida, falecido em janeiro de 2017.Retrotopiadisseca o fenômeno atual de busca por um mundo melhor não mais no futuro a ser construído, mas em ideias e ideais do passado, como nacionalismos exacerbados e fechamento de fronteiras. Assim, a nostalgia se transformou em um mecanismo de defesa nos últimos tempos. Grandes planos do passado - abandonados, mas não mortos - estão sendo ressuscitados e reabilitados como possíveis caminhos para um mundo melhor.
In 2005, J.C. Hallman came across a scientific paper about "Pleistocene Rewilding," a peculiar idea from conservation biology that suggested repopulating bereft ecosystems with endangered "megafauna." The plan sounded utterly utopian, but Hallman liked the idea as much as the scientists did—perhaps because he had grown up on a street called Utopia Road in a master-planned community in Southern California. Pleistocene Rewilding rekindled in him a longstanding fascination with utopian ideas, and he went on to spend three weeks at the world's oldest "intentional community," sail on the first ship where it's possible to own "real estate," train at the world's largest civilian combat-school, and tour a $30 billion megacity built from scratch on an artificial island off the coast of Korea. In Utopia explores the history of utopian literature and thought in the narrative context of the real-life fruits of that history.
