Bettina, according to Bell Gale Chevigny, one of Fuller's best biographers, "lived at the fulcrum of two myths: the idolatrous worship of the Master" (Bettina's master was Goethe, and so was Fuller's), "and the utopian possibility of reciprocal mental and spiritual nurture possible between women".
Fair enough, but another way to say this is to note that the film bathes a sterile, alienating commercial environment in the glow of utopian possibility, much as "E.T".
Ohm Sweet Ohm (say it out loud) took central European pop into the realm of technology, while Radio-Activity's title track hinted at the utopian possibilities of the wireless.
It includes a few Americans, but the interest is mainly in the Eastern Europeans, who employ conceptualist and often sardonically ironic strategies to address the "flipside" of history: a post-Soviet time of declining hope for socialist and utopian possibilities.
It was a time fraught with apprehension about modern technology's new destructive capabilities and with hope for the utopian possibilities that science and technology also promised, all this in the context of a cold war that had people believing the whole earth was poised on the brink of nuclear apocalypse.
A countercultural lefty before there was a counterculture, Tynan was attracted to the chain-reaction dynamics of Reich's sexual diagrams, the utopian possibilities of bigger, better, freer orgasms triggering a freeing-up of all energies, creative, political and social, snowballing irresistibly past every checkpoint until the last Puritan was love-bombed.
The utopian possibilities are, in a sense, endless.
The outcomes of this project demonstrate the positive contributions young people can make to the process of urban redevelopment, the advantages of using a participatory design approach, and the utopian possibilities that can emerge when young people are invited to be part of an intergenerational community project.
The American wilderness, she points out, had long appealed to English poets, as a land of utopian social possibility and sublime natural imagery.
Or so goes the utopian theory.
For me, other demographic, cultural, and utopian political possibilities float, ghostlike, over partition.
