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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Utopianism"”.
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Lenin's utopianism
… as the statement of orthodox Leninism. Lenin's utopianism was not, in fact, a temporary aberration but a very real part of his intellectual outlook which had its origins in the simplistic atmosphere of the Ulyanov household. The harsh, uncompromising attitudes expressed in What Is To Be Done? …
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Unsettling Hope: Settler Colonialism and Utopianism
This dissertation locates the manifold concept of utopia as imbricated with the project of English settler colonialism in the New World and the succeeding settler colonial societies of Canada and the US. I situate Thomas More’s Utopia as an early modern narrative that was mobilized to articulate …
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Cultural Power and Utopianism in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed
<p>Author's abstract: Resourcefully and responsibly obtaining a sense of power is central to quality young adult literature. Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed show their adolescent protagonists' struggles with identity formation, consumerism, and the adult world. In order to …
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The Topography of utopia : Revelation 21-22 in light of ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman utopianism.
… In order to construct a description of ancient utopianism, I survey a large swath of ancient literature and categorize the various forms of utopian expression. For Greco-Roman utopianism, I suggest three categories: political utopianism, primitivistic utopianism, and afterlife utopianism. For …
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From Heaven on Earth to Smart Cities: How Utopianism Shifted from Social Structures to Digital Built Environments in the 21st Century
… This dissertation explores the evolution of utopianism in the 21st century and examines how utopian thinking has transitioned from virtuous cities to smart cities, focusing on The Line in Saudi Arabia and Telosa in the United States.
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Altered states: feminist utopian literature
… interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and …
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
… the age: authoritarian-populism and catastrophic-utopianism. Four case studies, encompassing four different genres of media, define and illustrate these ideological impulses: The Fundamentals, Superman comic books, Bruce Barton's capitalist Christianity, and The Wizard of Oz film. These iconic …
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The Land Of A Million Smiles: Tourism And Modernization In Taney County And Stone County, Missouri 1900-1930
… which derived from an Arcadian myth of rural utopianism prevailing at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Marginal bodies: actualising trans Utopias
… subjectivity is articulated in terms of utopianism. The utopianism I refer to is not wishful hope, rather, it is the material embodiment here and now of that mode of futurity transgender subjectivity evokes. Futurity contains within itself the seed for producing the re-energisation of …
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Figures in air : multiplicity and aurality as social architecture
… utility, logics of construction, systems theory, utopianism, sound studies, multiplicity, animal communication, pseudo-science, correlationism, theories of body, sound art, learning, everythingism, form, musicology, philosophy, poetry, philosophy of science These texts can also be understood in …
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We are the Revolution? The 'creative social action' of La Fiambrera, Skart and Superflex and its contribution to sustainable social change
… of particular significance are identified; utopianism, participation and value-orientation. These threads are then examined in depth through recent critical writings on each, which takes the research into several different disciplinary territories and alternative concepts of revolution, as a …
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Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s <em>Ibsen-Saga</em> (2006 - 2015)
… the artificiality of Ibsen’s realism, the utopianism and totality of Richard Wagner’s <em>Gesamtkunstwerk</em>, and the temporal provocations of the historical avant-gardes. I contend that the <em>Saga </em>reanimates Ibsen, Wagner, and the avant-gardes’ modernist forms and ideas to reject …
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Making Queer Anti-capitalist Resistance Intelligible: Reading Queer Childhood in the Ruins of Neoliberalism
… understanding of queerness through a radical utopianism. My analysis foregrounds visual cultural productions as sites for understanding how contemporary social worlds exclude queer working class children, who struggle to insert themselves into and thereby shift the grounds of normative social …
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Race and the Modernist Imagination: The Politics of Form, 1900--1940
… of ""the modern."" Modern technocratic utopianism confronts its limitations in the Dr. Fu-Manchu thrillers of Sax Rohmer, where melodramatic race-wars threaten to end white England's global sovereignty. In Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West's primitivist narratives, blackness and …
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Of Minutemen and Boomers: Fallout and Doing History in Imagined Space
… as a critique of Cold War America's paradoxical utopianism and paranoia, highlighting the destructive consequences of unchecked militarism and technological pursuits. By treating Fallout as a kind of museum, this thesis explores how the game's layered storytelling methods, akin to museum …
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Political protest and dissent in the Khrushchev Era
… though this declined in later years as communist utopianism and respect for the ruling authorities seem to have significantly diminished. In place of mass terror, the authorities increasingly moved toward more rationalised and targeted practices of social control, seeking to ‘manage’ dissent …
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The significance of composition in supplementing extratextual narrative: a topical cue analysis of Star Trek: discovery to provide narrative meaning within instrumentation
… a present, and centres itself around theories of utopianism in various incarnations, from assertions of racial equality through the allusion to Afro-futurism in the racially volatile mid-century, to the hyper-representation of queer identities during a time of ideological turbulence in the …
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
… a potentially equal basis. Rejecting the simple utopianism of Sagan and Jenkins/LaHaye, the novels imagine interim communities that build slowly toward revitalized public relationships without dramatic revolution.
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