Reading books on tour can be difficult. Although there is often a lot of waiting around during those long afternoon hours between load-in and soundcheck, it is always accompanied by the possibility of unforeseen obstacles appearing at any moment to demand your time and attention. It could just be for| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
First performed in 1893, Utopia, Limited tells the story of a secluded island kingdom determined to transform itself by adopting the institutions, fashions, and foibles of Victorian England. The result is a sparkling satire of politics, monarchy, and the follies of... Read More ›| onStage Pittsburgh
I believe that the Middle East may become the new America where tech oligarchs colonize and escape from America like …| qwerky science
The journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: Everything Machines. “AI” systems are not framed as specific tools that solve specific problems in specific ways but just as […]| Smashing Frames
The 2nd annual Ceræ conference, organised around the theme of Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, will begin this weekend on 26–27 April! Because our conference is truly an international affair with presenters and attendees from numerous countries and timezones, our schedule is based on UTC time. The schedule is now available to view on our website. The conference will … Continue reading It’s Conference Week!| CERÆ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Bruna Della Torre: “De certa forma, a história das utopias não correu paralela à história do capitalismo, mas com ela se imbricou, de modo que esse último se constituiu também como uma fábric…| Blog da Boitempo
Building on two articles by Holden Karnoffsky, I argue that utopian fiction fails because it's trying to depict something impossible. Read more (5 min, 1700 words).| Everything Studies
I always think of Jean-Vincent Simonet’s work in verbs. It seems easier that way, and how else do you talk about photographs that make it feel like you’re tripping (a verb) on mushrooms?| c4 journal
Par Sabrina Rospert, Albert Schirrmeister et Christine Zabel Traduction de : Team Hoffnung handeln (15 novembre 2021). Editorial: Hoffnung handeln. Ein Frühneuzeitblog. Hoffnung handeln – L’espérance en action. Consulté le 7 septembre 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/por2 S’intéresser à l’espoir en cette fin d’année 2021, peut-être pour oser, préserver ou inspirer l’espoir, semble évident. Nous avons tous et toutes besoin d’un peu d’espoir en ces temps de pandémie et ...| Hoffnung handeln – L'espérance en action.
I was, for better or worse, raised in the Methodist Church. To try and explain precisely just what that means is difficult, as in many ways that iteration of the Methodist Church is no longer existent, or is found mostly in memories, kept alive by dwindling, gray haired congregations. The Methodism of the North of … Continue reading Re-enchanting Zion: On Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment→| thelitcritguy
I’ve been doing a series of events for A Primer on Utopian Philosophy (available now, order it here etc etc). What has been perhaps somewhat surprising is the extent to which Bloch’s philosophical project seems to resonate with people. In the midst of the bleak nightmare of modernity, Bloch’s unabashed philosophy of hope could easily … Continue reading Blessed Are They That Mourn, For They Shall Be Haunted→| thelitcritguy
From a situation in which nothing is possible, suddenly anything is possible againMark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, Is There No Alternative Today marks the publication of my new book, A Primer on Ut…| thelitcritguy
The role that the designer plays in society has, for many years, been relatively fixed – a client passes information to a ‘professional creative’ who then formats the given content for a specific audience using their specific toolkit; be it a chair, a website or a book. However, around the turn of the millennium something … The Role of the (Graphic) Designer… Read More » The post The Role of the (Graphic) Designer… first appeared on Notes on Metamodernism.| Notes on Metamodernism
Last week I read A Primer on Utopian Philosophy by Jon Greenaway. It’s a great, user-friendly introduction to philosopher Ernst Bloch's ideas about utopia that resonated with a lot of the work I've been doing and posting here recently. In particular, reading it right after putting out the Music| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Is it a defect of a normative political theory that the requirements it recommends are not likely to ever be met? In “Utopophobia”, David Estlund argues that it is not. The mistake that those who think it is a defect make is to confuse a standard of justice with an appropriate practical goal. To begin, … Continue reading David Estlund, Utopophobia→| Political Not Metaphysical
Academic Marxism is hardly the whole of the political Left. Recent symposiums on the Left have stressed that the goals of the past decades have not been met: racism, poverty, discrimination, remain…| communists in situ
