Title Fool's gold? : utopianism in the twenty-first century / Lucy Sargisson

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Fool's Gold -- Definitions, Debates and Conflicts -- Religious Fundamentalism -- Feminism and Gender -- Sex and Sexual Identity -- Climate Change and Catastrophe -- Human Attitudes to Nature -- Green Intentional Communities -- Fantastic Architecture: Dubai -- Domestic Architecture: New Urbanism and Cohousing -- Computer Gaming -- Cloning, Cyborgs and Robots -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendi -- List of Primary Sources -- Bibliography Definitions, debates, and conflicts -- Religious fundamentalism -- Feminism and gender -- Sex and sexual identity -- Climate change and catastrophe -- Human attitudes to nature -- Green intentional communities -- Fantastic architecture: dubai -- Domestic architecture : new urbanism and cohousing -- Computer gaming -- Cloning, cyborgs and robots Summary What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century. Drawing on examples from architecture, fiction, theory, film and experiments with everyday life, Sargisson explores contemporary hopes and fears about religion, gender, sex, the environment and new technologies. The book asks, is the search for utopia a quest for Fools' Gold? Its answer is 'yes' and 'no' and Sargisson identifies a number of different kinds of utopian impulse. Some utopias offer blueprints for the perfect world. Others are experiments in process. Some utopianism is dangerous, even toxic. Some utopianism is playful and fun. Some utopianism seeks actively to change the world. This book teases out examples of these and other types of utopianism which both shape and reflect our world today Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Utopias. Social indicators. Economic indicators. Twenty-first century -- Forecasts. utopias. utopian literature. Social & political philosophy. Social theory. Political science & theory. Literary studies: from c 1900 -. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism. Politics and Government. Economic indicators Social indicators Twenty-first century Utopias Utopie Wirtschaftsindikator Sozialer Indikator Prognose Social & political philosophy -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Social theory -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Political science & theory -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. Philosophy. Genre/Form Utopian fiction Forecasts Utopian fiction. Form Electronic book LC no. 2012022279 ISBN 9781137031075 1137031077 1283587742 9781283587747 9786613900197 6613900192

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