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If it's true that writing the future is just another way to write the present, then my present is all about climate change, inequality, capitalism's cruel optimism, femicidal violence, and the survival, against all odds, of the utopian imagination.
Perhaps it's because, in our globalizing, urbanizing, capitalist age, such places remind us that there are alternative ways to relate to the world, and the people, around us: they spur our utopian imagination.
We should unlock our own utopian imagination to think about living well for the future on the planet we have made, and are remaking faster every year.
We also live on the unacknowledged utopian imagination of our ancestors, who envisioned seemingly impossible forms of freedom and satisfaction that we treat as if they were natural.
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Despite everything they've been through, their utopian imaginations remain undimmed.
It was simultaneously the hub of techno-utopian imagination, and a wasteland of half-forgotten dreams and frustrated ambition.
'The general view of Laing's theories within psychiatry is that they are the product of a wild, utopian, romantic imagination - or interesting as museum artefacts but of no contemporary relevance,' says Daniel Burston, author of The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of RD Laing.
But it was a utopian vision.
Everything, it seems, is possible here, from utopian triumphs of the imagination to soul-sapping expressions of a disregard for individual lives.
Marty, a religious historian, articulates how utopian "failures can inspire the imagination" to "retrieve some positive and often practical elements".
Over the centuries, Tibet has been mythologized in the Western imagination as a magical, utopian realm.
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