Sentences with phrase «radical utopias»

Radical Utopias presents new works on paper and canvas by Smith that emphasise his interest in composition and material.

For the last couple of months Stephen Smith worked at the Hestercombe Gallery in the UK on his first solo exhibition at Mini Galerie titled Radical Utopias.

Palazzo Strozzi in Florence features a major exhibition entitled «Radical Utopias Beyond Architecture: Florence 1966 — 1976».

Radical utopias are out of fashion in the 21st century, but if they ever do reemerge, I suspect it will be thanks to the open - ended nature of software, because virtual communities can serve as a proof of concept for ideas that might seem implausible were they merely described on paper.

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A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

-- reflections that imagine utopias, lead to radical reformations and to revolutions.

Labeled radicals and feeling persecuted by the US government, they relocate their followers to the one place they believe they can create a socialist utopia: the jungles of South America.

César Daly, editor of the Revue générale de l'architecture, used a similar military term, éclaireur, or «scout,» in the 1840s, when he said that the journal must «fulfill an active mission of «scouting the path of the future,»» a mission both socially and artistically advanced.3 Baudelaire, after a brief flirtation with radical politics in 1848 — he had actually fought on the barricades and shortly after, in 1851, had written a eulogistic introduction to the collected Chants et chansons of the left - wing worker - poet Pierre Dupont, condemning the «puerile utopia of the art - for - art's sake school,» praising the «popular convictions» and «love of humanity» expressed in the poet's pastoral, political, and socialistic songs4 — later mocked the politico - military implications of the term «avant - garde» in Mon Coeur mis à nu, written in 1862 — 64.5

For example, a very interesting common theoretical standpoint that was shared and jointly built during this week, was the understanding of black radical imagination as a Marxist approach that could engage utopia and a post-capitalist future from the perspectives of class, race and gender politics.