The Toolkit of Utopian Thinking ⊗ the Free and Infinite Laboratory of the Mind ⊗ the Broligarchs Have a Dark Vision
If the Enlightenment was a revolution in thinking, the survival of the human species may well depend on a revolution in imagination. This revolution would not center reason and mastery, but interdependence, care and the capacity to imagine otherwise. It would demand that we challenge what we think is possible, not through extrapolation, but through... See more
Practical imagination
The German sociologist Karl Mannheim argued that utopia was a necessary antidote to what he considered the normative role of “ideology,” a term he specifically defined as the unseen but omnipresent social, cultural, and philosophical structure that upholds a particular “order of things” and protects those who wield political and economic power.
Kristen R. Ghodsee • Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
I should also reiterate here that my work is absolutely not trying to future-cast a singular vision or offer immediate solutions to the present, which is an impossible and dangerous brand of solutionism that we know well enough already from the technosolutionists in Silicon Valley. Rather, I’m using speculation to expand the atlas of shared underst... See more
On Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
There are other practical constraints—like literacy, or access to libraries and books—which have excluded most of the world’s population until very recently. Indeed, the lesson of the arts is that it is difficult to create compelling works of imagination without hard work as well as resources. It’s not surprising that the same is true of social ima
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