Buildings and landscapes have expressed utopian urges as well as lofty spiritual goals.
It's as if the films themselves were secondary to the world of the filmmakers, the downtown scene, the friendships, the collaborations, the transcendental dreams, the utopian urges, the monastic hedonism, the craving for a self-liberation and a collective liberation by means of art and in the name of art.
Her dying would have been a lot lonelier had she not been on the Well". Rheingold says that he has long dissuaded Net aficionados from becoming utopian, urging that they not "confuse the tools--computer networks--with the task, which is being good citizens and building community". What Stoll is preaching doesn't necessarily contradict Rheingold.
This cocktail of references feeds into a distinctly British take on modernity, an esoteric tale that traces the origins of 1960s and 70s New Towns and megastructures, through carefully selected archival material, back to a utopian pastoral urge and the quest for a new Jerusalem.
To these dreamy hymns, which were once synonymous with hipness but in retrospect sound touchingly naïve, she brings the clarity of hindsight along with a piercing psychological understanding of the disparity between utopian and hedonistic urges.
Rather than maintaining an ivory-tower distance and waiting for opportunity to knock, or not, Bang on a Can rolled up its collective sleeves, compelled by urges its founders deemed utopian.
Any story set in the future is science fiction". We can either take a dystopian view, or, as Robinson urges, we can be utopian in our view of the future for ourselves and for the planet.
The faithful cite the rebbe's magnetism and utopian ideals — he pioneered drug treatment centers for Jews and non-Jews alike, urged Jews to more deeply embrace their faith and sought to reinvigorate the Hasidic community, which had been decimated during the Holocaust — when they explain why, nearly two decades later, they still come, seeking a sense of nearness.
He challenges utopian critics who seek to enlarge the scale of the household and legal advocates who urge household members to rely more on written contracts and lawsuits.
Some critics have seen Winthrop as a visionary utopian while others have seen him as a social reactionary, but most obviously he was urging his fellow colonists to adopt the combination of group discipline and individual responsibility that gave Massachusetts such immediate and lasting success as a social experiment.
