"Utopia A utopia ( ) is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. One could also say that utopia is a perfect ""place"" that has been designed so there are no problems. Utopia focuses on equality in economics, government and justice, though by no means exclusively, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying based on ideology. According to Lyman Tower Sargent ""there are socialist, capitalist, monarchical, democratic, anarchist, ecological, feminist, patriarchal, egalitarian, hierarchical, racist, left-wing, right-wing, reformist, Naturists/Nude Christians, free love,"
"Utopian and dystopian fiction The utopia and its opposite, the dystopia, are genres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take, depending on its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. Both utopias and dystopias"
"regained in some way or other. One way might be a quest for an ""earthly paradise""—a place like Shangri-La, hidden in the Tibetan mountains and described by James Hilton in his utopian novel ""Lost Horizon"" (1933). Christopher Columbus followed directly in this tradition in his belief that he had found the Garden of Eden when, towards the end of the 15th century, he first encountered the New World and its indigenous inhabitants. Utopia A utopia ( ) is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The opposite of a utopia is"
"will live in."" Some have commented on this trend, saying that ""it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism"". Dystopia A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- ""bad"" and τόπος ""place""; alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as ""not-good place"" and is an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, ""Utopia"", published 1516, a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime,"
"Dystopia A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- ""bad"" and τόπος ""place""; alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as ""not-good place"" and is an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, ""Utopia"", published 1516, a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty. Dystopian societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in the future. Some of the most famous examples are George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" and Aldous"
"refers to texts rather than socio-cultural spaces. Heterotopia follows the template established by the notions of utopia and dystopia. The prefix hetero- is from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, ""other, another, different"") and is combined with the Greek morpheme τόπος (""place"") and means ""other place"". A utopia is an idea or an image that is not real but represents a perfected version of society, such as Thomas More's book or Le Corbusier's drawings. As Walter Russell Mead has written, ""Utopia is a place where everything is good; dystopia is a place where everything is bad; heterotopia is where things are different"
"Uchronia Uchronia refers to a hypothetical or fictional time-period of our world, in contrast to altogether fictional lands or worlds. A concept similar to alternate history but different in the manner that uchronic times are not easily defined (mainly placed in some distant or unspecified point before current times), sometimes reminiscent of a constructed world. Some, however, do use ""uchronia"" to refer to an alternate history. The word is a neologism from the word utopia (Greek ""u-topos"", meaning ""no-place""), replacing ""topos"" with ""chronos"" (time). It was coined by Charles Renouvier as the title of his 1876 novel ""Uchronie (L'Utopie dans"
"Eutopia (short story) ""Eutopia"" is a short story by American writer Poul Anderson, originally appeared in Harlan Ellison's 1967 science fiction anthology ""Dangerous Visions"". It later appeared in Anderson's 1981 collection ""The Dark Between the Stars"" and the showcase ""The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century"" (2001). At the beginning of the story, the protagonist (Iason Philippou) is exploring various parallel universes. After encountering a version of Earth which is split into hundreds of minor city-states, Iason is now on the run. He makes his way to a town whose inhabitants help him, as he is their guest."
"than an entertaining novel (""see exploratory engineering for more on such writing""). The novel shows two possible outcomes of the 'robotic revolution' in the near future: one outcome is a dystopia based around US capitalism and the other is a utopia based upon a communal and technological society in Australia. Essentially, the two differ in that lower-class humans in the dystopic society have been left unmodified and are controlled by AI ""managers"" to the point of slavery, while humans in the utopian society more directly and efficiently participate in the management of the society as a whole and most or"
"with their passengers into ""another world"", which the ""Earthlings"" call Utopia. A sort of advanced Earth, Utopia is some three thousand years ahead of humanity in its development. For the 200,000,000 Utopians who inhabit this world, the ""Days of Confusion"" are a distant period studied in history books, but their past resembles humanity's in its essentials, differing only in incidental details: Their Christ, for example, died on the wheel, not on the cross. Utopia lacks any world government and functions as a successfully realised anarchy. ""Our education is our government,"" a Utopian named Lion says. Sectarian religion, like politics, has"
"For example, Claeys and Sargent define literary dystopias as societies imagined as substantially worse than the society in which the author writes, whereas anti-utopias function as criticisms of attempts to implement various concepts of utopia. Though several earlier usages are known, ""dystopia"" was used as an antonym for ""Utopia"" by John Stuart Mill in one of his Parliamentary Speeches 1868 (""Hansard Commons"") by adding the prefix ""dys"" ( ""bad""), reinterpreting the initial ""U"" as the prefix ""eu"" ( ""good"") instead of ""ou"" ( ""not""). It was used to denounce the government's Irish land policy: ""It is, perhaps, too complimentary to"
"storyline ""Utopia"", Cyclops sets up the new headquarters and mutant sanctuary on the ruins of the original Asteroid M, which was raised from the bottom of the ocean. Christening it ""Utopia,"" this version is more of a haven than a base of operations, brought on not by a desire to make a place among mankind, but to simply get away from it. Although Utopia is sometimes referred to as a ""mutant nation,"" it is as yet unclear if this is simply a figure of speech or if Utopia has ""literally"" seceded from the United States and is now a sovereign"
"nuclear family, extended family, gay, lesbian, and many more utopias [...] Utopianism, some argue, is essential for the improvement of the human condition. But if used wrongly, it becomes dangerous. Utopia has an inherent contradictory nature here."" Sargent argues that utopia's nature is inherently contradictory, because societies are not homogenous, and have desires which conflict and therefore cannot simultaneously be satisfied. If any two desires cannot be simultaneously satisfied, true utopia cannot be attained because in utopia all desires are satisfied. The term """" was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book ""Utopia"", describing a fictional"
"of biologically uplifting other species. The term Utopia was invented by Thomas More as the title of his Latin book ""De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia"" (circa 1516), known more commonly as Utopia. He created the word ""utopia"" to suggest two Greek neologisms simultaneously: outopia (no place) and eutopia (good place). More depicts a rationally organised society, through the narration of an explorer who discovers it—Raphael Hythlodaeus. Utopia is a republic where all property is held in common. In addition, it has few laws, no lawyers and rarely sends its citizens to war, but hires mercenaries from among"
"here with bulldozers or getting the army to move us. It's that they're trying to starve us out of our home. … They won't support us becoming sustainable in our own right. If you're made to feel a second-class humanity, if it's not ethnic cleansing, please let me know what is."" Utopia, which is world-famous for its dot paintings, was trying to start its own cattle business and wanted to be a cultural centre, she said. At the 2013 federal election, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks stood unsuccessfully as a Senate candidate in the Northern Territory on behalf of the First Nations Political"
"and the narrator/traveller, Raphael Hythlodaeus (whose name alludes both to the healer archangel Raphael, and 'speaker of nonsense', the surname's Greek meaning), discuss modern ills in Antwerp, as well as describe the political arrangements of the imaginary island country of Utopia (a Greek pun on 'ou-topos' [no place] and 'eu-topos' [good place]) among themselves as well as to Pieter Gillis and Hieronymus van Busleyden. Utopia's original edition included a symmetrical ""Utopian alphabet"" omitted by later editions, but which may have been an early attempt or precursor of shorthand. Utopia contrasts the contentious social life of European states with the perfectly"
"used to represent the more fanatic socialists and radical reformists of his day. When More arrives he describes the social and cultural norms put into practice, citing a city thriving and idealistic. While some believe this is More’s ideal society, some believe the book’s title, which translates to “Nowhere” from Greek, is a way to describe that the practices used in Utopia are impractical and could not be used in a modern world successfully (Gilbert). Either way, Utopia has become one of the most talked about works both in defense of Socialism and against it. Utopia was the book that"
"and his willingness to work goes for nothing; there is no public provision of work for him; there is nothing to keep him from want, nor the prospect of anything"" (p. 66) The purpose of a Utopia is potentially to fix the problems that are current in society. It is clear that Howells was well aware of the issues with Americas society at the time of this story. The Altruria Utopia is what he felt was an ideal society. American society at this time seemed too concerned with money. Howells describes the people of the society as being selfish and"
"or to teach the young how to make a living. It is to produce responsible citizens"". In ""The University of Utopia"", Hutchins describes a country that has evolved to become the perfect society, Utopia, as well as their educational system, which has the well-defined purpose of ""promot[ing] the intellectual development of the people"". Hutchins also explores some of the improper directions educational institutions have taken in the United States. He argues that education is becoming nothing more than a trade school, and a poor trade school at that. Hutchins discusses the relationship between a foundry and the local college in"
"Utopia"") exactly like Earth, with the same geography and biology. Moreover, on that planet ""all the men and women that you know and I"" exist ""in duplicate"". They have, however, ""different habits, different traditions, different knowledge, different ideas, different clothing, and different appliances."" (Not however, a different language: ""Indeed, should we be in Utopia at all, if we could not talk to everyone?""). To this planet ""out beyond Sirius"" the Owner of the Voice and the botanist are translated, imaginatively, ""in the twinkling of an eye . . . We should scarcely note the change. Not a cloud would have"
"Geoffrey Field wrote: To each negative ""Semitic"" trait Chamberlain counter-posed a Teutonic virtue. Kantian moral freedom took the place of political liberty and egalitarianism. Irresponsible Jewish capitalism was sharply distinguished from the vague ideal of Teutonic industrialism, a romantic vision of an advanced technological society which had somehow managed to retain the ""Volksgemeinschaft"", cooperation and hierarchy of the medieval guilds. The alternative to Marxism was ""ethical socialism"", such as that described by Thomas More, ""one of the most exquisite scholars ever produced by a Teutonic people, of an absolutely aristocratic, refined nature."" In the rigidly elitist, disciplined society of ""Utopia"""
"perfected form. Since these spaces are not places that exist in reality, but rather as a result of the rhetoric that surrounds them, they are described as fundamentally unreal places. Heterotopias are real spaces that exist in every culture. Unlike Utopias, they are places that exist in physical space and can be indicated by their location. Foucault describes these heterotopias as “effectively enacted utopias in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.” These heterotopic spaces transcend a single place as their value comes from the"
"Utopia (2013 film) Utopia is a 2013 documentary film written, produced and presented by John Pilger and directed by Pilger and Alan Lowery, that explores the experiences of Aboriginal Australians in modern Australia. The title is derived from the Aboriginal homeland community of Utopia, Northern Territory, one of the poorest and most desolate areas in Australia. The film begins with Pilger's journey to Utopia to observe the changes that have occurred in Aboriginal Australia between 1985, when he featured the poverty in the documentary """" and the time of filming, 2013. After almost three decades, Pilger discovers that Aboriginal families"
"like much of the utopian literature, can be seen as satire; Butler inverts illness and crime, with punishment for the former and treatment for the latter. A dystopia is a society characterized by a focus on that which is contrary to the author's ethos, such as mass poverty, public mistrust and suspicion, a police state or oppression. Most authors of dystopian fiction explore at least one reason why things are that way, often as an analogy for similar issues in the real world. Dystopian literature is used to ""provide fresh perspectives on problematic social and political practices that might otherwise"
"— that is, a collection whose members have few or no intelligible connections with one another."" Foucault uses the term ""heterotopia"" () to describe spaces that have more layers of meaning or relationships to other places than immediately meet the eye. In general, a heterotopia is a physical representation or approximation of a utopia, or a parallel space (such as a prison) that contains undesirable bodies to make a real utopian space impossible. Foucault explains the link between utopias and heterotopias using the metaphor of a mirror. A mirror is a utopia because the image reflected is a 'placeless place',"
"Utopia (book) Utopia (""Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia"") is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries. The title ""De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia"" literally translates, ""Of a republic's best state and of the new island Utopia"". It is variously rendered as any of"
"a searing indictment of the ongoing mistreatment of the first Australians. Pilger states that ""Utopia"" was filmed for both Australian and international audiences. He believes most Australians are mostly unaware of Indigenous history and culture. Utopia (2013 film) Utopia is a 2013 documentary film written, produced and presented by John Pilger and directed by Pilger and Alan Lowery, that explores the experiences of Aboriginal Australians in modern Australia. The title is derived from the Aboriginal homeland community of Utopia, Northern Territory, one of the poorest and most desolate areas in Australia. The film begins with Pilger's journey to Utopia to"
"Nutopia Nutopia is a conceptual country, sometimes referred to as a micronation, founded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. One of the reasons that the country was founded was to address Lennon's then-ongoing immigration problems through satirical means. There is no leadership and not all citizenships have been recorded. As a result, the population is unknown. Nutopia is a portmanteau of ""new"" and ""utopia"" which suggests Nutopia is a new, utopian society. On April Fool's Day 1973, John and Yoko introduced the conceptual country of Nutopia at a press conference in New York City. The Lennons were ambassadors of the"
"its war-prone neighbours. Generally speaking, utopias are generally societies whose author believes either perfect, or as perfect as can be attainable. Ernest Callenbach's ""Ecotopia"" is a contemporary example. This can cause some confusion, in that some works generally recognized as “utopian”, such as Plato’s ""Republic"", can come across as much less than ideal to a modern reader. They are one of the smaller subsets of political science fiction, possibly because it is difficult to create dramatic tension in a world the author believes is perfect. Various authors get around this problem by postulating problems in the utopian society, such L."
"is of little importance and is only good for buying commodities from foreign nations or bribing these nations to fight each other. Slaves are periodically released for good behaviour. Jewels are worn by children, who finally give them up as they mature. Other significant innovations of Utopia include: a welfare state with free hospitals, euthanasia permissible by the state, priests being allowed to marry, divorce permitted, premarital sex punished by a lifetime of enforced celibacy and adultery being punished by enslavement. Meals are taken in community dining halls and the job of feeding the population is given to a different"
"the relationship between gender identity and the teenager. For instance, the ""Birthmarked"" trilogy by Caragh M. O'Brien focuses on a teenage midwife in a future post-apocalyptic world while the second novel in the series places the teenage heroine Gaia in a matriarchy. Étienne Cabet's work ""Travels in Icaria"" caused a group of followers to leave France in 1848 and travel to the United States to start a series of utopian settlements in Texas, Illinois, Iowa, California, and elsewhere. These groups lived in communal settings and lasted until 1898. Utopian and dystopian fiction The utopia and its opposite, the dystopia, are"
"and hegemony. Many male authored works of science fiction as well as threads of philosophical utopian thought dismiss utopias as something unattainable, whereas in feminist science fiction, utopian society is often presented as something both achievable and desirable. Anti-utopian philosophies and feminist science fiction come to odds in the possibility of achieving utopia. In ""Rehabilitating Utopia: Feminist Science Fiction and Finding the Ideal"", an article published in Contemporary Justice Review, philosophers against the dream of utopia argue that ""First is the expectation that utopia justifies violence, second is the expectation that utopia collapses individual desires into one communal norm, and"
"like to engage in war. If they feel countries friendly to them have been wronged, they will send military aid, but they try to capture, rather than kill, enemies. They are upset if they achieve victory through bloodshed. The main purpose of war is to achieve that which, if they had achieved already, they would not have gone to war over. Privacy is not regarded as freedom in Utopia; taverns, ale-houses and places for private gatherings are non-existent for the effect of keeping all men in full view, so that they are obliged to behave well. The story is written"