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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"utopian thinking"”.
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The Ends of Utopian Thinking: Marx, Adorno, Bloch
My dissertation is concerned with utopian thinking in Critical Theory. It examines the changing conceptions of radically different social orders held by the associates of the Frankfurt School. Its aim is to investigate utopian thinking as a theoretical tool of a system of thought that is oriented …
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The Rendered Body: Queer Utopian Thinking in Digital Embodiment
The rendered body is pure possibility, but it has been treated with an imaginatively limited lens that belies its potential for radical reimagining. I want to challenge those imaginative limits, especially in regard to gender and how gender is read on digital bodies. In order to do this, I will …
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Utopian thinking in higher education and its relationship with social movements: Reshaping societal roles to build alternative worlds
In the post-pandemic world, the socio-political and economic landscape presents extraordinary challenges, including humanitarian crises, climate issues, escalating inequality, poverty and marginalisation. How can we reimagine and reconceptualise societal frameworks to foster a more egalitarian and …
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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
… of a digital city began to be connected to utopian ideas. Smart city, sustainable city,15-minute city, and many more city forms use "utopian" as an adjective. However, there has been limited research into the utopian features of ideal cities and societies that are proposed in these new …
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Myths and Blueprints: Enacting Utopia through Fiction
… "real" world. This paper seeks to incorporate utopian thinking into contemporary social and political context by utilizing both fiction and critical theory as a lens for the "real" world. It also considers both blueprint and myth as authorial choices for enacting fiction into reality. This …
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Clowndance: Convergences in contemporary dance and theatrical clowning for pleasure-led performer training
… workshops, locating them in relation to current thinking and practice within the fields of dance improvisation, theatrical clowning and performer training. It articulates how feminist writing on collective pleasure (Segal, 2018) and utopian thinking(Dolan, 2010) influences my work and research …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science and in an attempt to sketch out a vision of an alternative future, the aim of this thesis is to outline an “epistemology” for post-industrial cultural work as well as to reflect upon the …
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Byron's Poetics of Events
… The Conclusion probes, lastly, Byron’s utopian thinking in relation to the efficacy of literature, and the tensions that remain in such speculative efforts.