Sentence examples for utopianism from inspiring English sources

In some media, what is meant by postmodern is clear and easy enough to point to: it is the rejection of the utopian aspects of modernism, and particularly of the attempt to express that utopianism in ideal or absolute form the kind experienced in Bauhaus architecture or in Minimalist painting.

(According to critics of utopianism such as Schiller, indeed, one should not even sacrifice oneself for a utopian vision, as do members of revolutionary organisations, such as Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo of the ANC; Schiller, and Goethe, also provided conservative critiques of French Revolutionary ideals and practices).

Reading Mr Linker, however, one gets the idea that the entire classical liberal tradition is an enterprise in state-smashing utopianism.

Raúl, a practical man, has no time for Utopianism.

This was not, as you might suppose, a satire but what Mr Nader called "an exercise in practical Utopianism".

Whereas many were attracted to the idea of a benign world government as an alternative to the staleness and cynicism of conventional politics, Britain was fortunate that only a few saw salvation in the perverted Utopianism of Soviet communism and fewer still in fascism, particularly after the brutalities of the Spanish civil war.

His book is an engaging reminder that, cyber-Utopianism aside, the internet is as much a thing of flesh and steel as any industrial-age lumber mill or factory.It is also an excellent introduction to the nuts and bolts of how exactly it all works.

Yet they also tend to be great team-builders, he says, and not "Randian 'prime movers' who claim to be independent of everybody around them".Nor, despite his optimism about the future, does Mr Thiel fully share Ray Kurzweil's techno-Utopianism: the "Singularity", a future of superhuman artificial intelligence, may be near, but it is not inevitable.

The question is whether the creation will be worth the destruction.Two academics at MIT's Sloan Business School, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, have taken a surprisingly Vonnegutish view on this: surprising because management theorists like to be on the side of the winners and because MIT is one of the great strongholds of techno-Utopianism.

Most recently, he has served as the group's chief data officer.Mr Lu's operational skills will serve him well coming on the heels of a founder with a tendency toward techno-utopianism and visionary thinking.

He calls for "cyber-realism" to replace "cyber-utopianism", making it clear that he believes that technology can indeed be used to promote democracy, provided it is done in the right way.