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Postal Address: Locked Bag 4
"... The drive to integrate agriculture into urban landscapes has a long history and this drive has intensified since the industrial revolution. Garden cities and the benefits that early visionaries perceived were possible through them remain utopian ideals. In the contemporary context of urban developme ..."
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The drive to integrate agriculture into urban landscapes has a long history and this drive has intensified since the industrial revolution. Garden cities and the benefits that early visionaries perceived were possible through them remain utopian ideals. In the contemporary context of urban
2Tragic Hope – Sentiment and Critique in the Art of J.M.W. Turner
, 2013
"... This is a study of historical meanings in J.M.W. Turner’s art. As a starting point, it examines the cultural backdrop and mission of theorists of the Royal Academy, specifically Joshua Reynolds, to improve society. This mission, I argue, owes much to a strand of thinking particularly current at the ..."
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at the time, aligned with the recently formed utopian concept of the bourgeois public: sentimentalism. Turner’s art, this thesis proposes, pursued this utopian ideal throughout. While landscape art around 1800 tended to be interpreted in contexts which abstracted art from societal significance, Turner’s
Changing the climate: The politics of dystopia
"... This paper aims to test the adequacy of various theoretical approaches to utopian studies and science fiction studies – especially those drawn from the work of Darko Suvin, Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson – to an understanding of the history of Australian science-fictional dystopias. It argues ..."
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, is as good a place as any for thought experiments about the politics of climate change, a case made with special reference to the late George Turner’s 1987 novel The Sea and Summer. Utopian ‘ideal states ’ have been a significant part of the Western literary and philosophical imagination ever since antiquity
FORMS OF SERVICE: THE POETICS OF COMMUNITY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
"... This dissertation examines how the concept of service shapes representations of community in texts drawn from four key early modern genres: tragedy, court-masque, travel journal, and epic poem. As a condition of bondage central to early modern social experience, service crucially mediated agency and ..."
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of service as an inherently social, but not necessarily sociable concept. Thus, juxtaposing dystopian social critique with utopian idealism, Shakespeare and Middleton’s tragedy, Timon of Athens (1607), presents the break-down of service-relationships as symptomatic of a general ethical crisis affecting
The Global Values Discourse Garry Jacobs, Chair of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art and Science; Vice President, The Mother’s Service Society Winston Nagan, Member of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art and Science;
"... Values are not merely utopian ideals or empty platitudes. They represent the distilled quintessence of accumulated human experience regarding the foundations for stable social existence and sustained evolutionary progress. Values direct and determine the social process. Humanity’s remarkable social ..."
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Values are not merely utopian ideals or empty platitudes. They represent the distilled quintessence of accumulated human experience regarding the foundations for stable social existence and sustained evolutionary progress. Values direct and determine the social process. Humanity’s remarkable social
Historical Small Events and the Eclipse of Utopia: Perspectives on Path Dependence in Human Thought
"... Abstract Questions such as ‘What if such small companies as Hewletts and the Varians had not been established in Santa Clara County in California? ’ or ‘What if Q-type keyboards had not been invented? ’ are well known among econ-omists. The questions point at a phenomenon called path dependence: ‘sm ..."
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, complete, and perfect in their nature. But is there an ‘essence ’ that makes a man 100 per cent male? Was there really a ‘foundation ’ in history that caused a proletarian revolution in Russia? What if we had pushed aside the rhetoric of utopian ideality? What if
of ‘crisis ’ in modernity
"... Crisis jargon has become endemic in modernity. Whether in radical or in affirmative versions, the idea that ‘crisis ’ offers ‘opportunity’, in accordance with the meaning of crisis as ‘decision’, is widespread. This paper questions the relationship between mod-ernity and crisis, first by highlightin ..."
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to consider ‘crisis ’ as what Benjamin calls a ‘wish image’, an image that contains hidden utopian ideals. In invoking ‘crisis’, I argue, a conception of modernity as shock, raised to the level of the collective, becomes apparent. Crisis jargon thereby remains wedded to what Benjamin calls a mythical
The Lady of Edgecliff
"... Street art is a developing postmodern phenomenon with the profound capacity to challenge the cultural assumptions underpinning modernity and a modernist approach to art. Taking Bruno Dutot’s work, ‘The Lady of Edgecliff’, or ‘Oucha ’ as a starting point, one can explore the cultural importance of st ..."
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and aesthetics. Street art simultaneously challenges the modernist notion of progress towards utopian ideals, often focusing more on dystopia and revisiting the past through the use of intertextuality, viewing the world as a simulacrum rather than as an absolute truth. In its total public accessibility, street
Commons, and the Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Commons
"... The paper addresses prospects of Japanese mobile telepresence robotics where small anthropomorphic devices are designed to act as intermediaries between remote interlocutors. First, an emic perspective of involved scientists and engineers is presented, focusing on example technologies being develope ..."
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similar concept) in that it is supposed to act as a solid substitute for a dialog partner through evoking a feeling of presence (sonzaikan in Japanese philosophy, the feeling that someone is sharing the same physical space). In such undertakings, specific utopian ideals of communication become apparent
Douglas Ayling page 1
"... What does neo-classical economics teach us concerning virtue, short-term gratification and poverty? “He that idly loses five shillings ’ worth of time, loses five shillings, and might as prudently throw five shillings into the sea”1 – Benjamin Franklin, Necessary Hints to Those That Would Be Rich. “ ..."
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. “The infraction of its rules is treated not as foolishness but as forgetfulness of duty. That is the essence of the matter”2 – Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Neoclassical economics presents a narrative which describes an attainable utopian ideal. I posit
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