Sentences with phrase «about utopia»

Morris» excellent performance transforms Blakemore's imaginative coming - of - age story about a utopia that is not so idyllic after all into a must - listen.

Such conversations should also help move the discussion beyond speculation about utopias and dystopias, by recognising that the prospects for synthetic biology are likely to be both less sensational and less forbidding than is generally acknowledged.

Not exact matches

It is true that all utopias that are real projects for reform are about «blind hope,» what Prometheus gave to man.

It is true that all utopias that are real projects for reform are about «blind....

'» Shalala and others know that the egalitarian utopia they have in mind will not come about by itself.

There it wasn't so much about deconstructing theological concepts for reconstructing a theoretical utopia, but in working side - by - side as partners in social transformation enterprises that fit the context of the communities the Spirit planted us in.

Digital utopias disagree with those who worry about scenarios of worldwide cultural homogenisation, they see the emergence of new and creative lifestyles, vastly extended opportunities for different cultures to meet and understand each other, and the creation of new virtual communities that easily cross all the traditional borderlines of age, gender, race, and religion.

A utopia for me would be a population decrease to about half the size it is now and there would be plenty for everyone.

Marx wrote about the need to abolish religion in order to implement his utopia, because the state needed to replace God as society's focus.

From Plato's Republic to the several visions of H. G. Wells, the Utopias have served as the vehicles for the expression of wisdom about life, social preachment, and sheer imaginative delight.

In the past few years, many have been enthusiastically hailing encounter groups and sensitivity groups as bringing about the new utopia.

But the hoped - for utopias have not come about, and what we once thought the ideal and even inevitable future now brings frustration, disgruntlement, and incipient rebellion, not just from non-Western forces that resist our triumphalism, but within our own countries and among our own people.

You can draw your own conclusions about Kanye's vision for a design - inspired utopia.

Now I've stopped caring about my fellow humans to reach and entirely selfish post-death utopia?

This experiment was about creating a new utopia.

«Just like a sommelier excited about the release or acquisition of a rare wine, cicerones and beer aficionados are equally eager about the release of Utopias.»

The Truman Show was a dystopian look at a fraudulent - utopia, a modern Greek tragedy about a baby not yet having left the womb, already condemned to the fate of an entire lifetime under the glare of thousands of cameras» 24 - hour, 7 - day - a-week siege.

Paul Ryan departs on a bathysphere halfway through his plan to build a conservative utopia underwater, leaves us no guidance for what to do about the splicers.

From about the Oregon border to Merced, small - school football teams in the east half of California have become a utopia of civic pride and hometown lore.

As incongruous as it may sound, a trip to Nevada's bone - dry Black Rock desert is what got Patri Friedman thinking about a political utopia in the middle of the ocean.

To achieve this grass - fed utopia, Americans would need to cut their beef intake by more than half, from 460 grams per week — the equivalent of one 16 - ounce steak — to about 207 grams.

Last year, she was in talks about taking over a factory on an island outside of Venice where they could build a kind of artisan utopia, but the plans fell through.

His aim is to take the commodification out of fashion and create clothes that, like Band of Outsiders strived to do, are meant to be lived in: «I started thinking about brands and how the greatest of brands can actually be something meaningful, how they can create a sense of community and commonality, entertain us and tell stories and help us escape — and so I started thinking about this idea of utopia, building a perfect world from scratch.»

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The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.

It's even, for this director, tantalizingly political, venturing into dark territory about such utopia - bursting ills as bigotry and authoritarianism.

One of the greatest films about dystopia / aspiring utopia as well as a classic romance.

Instead, the Disney - produced and vaguely Disney - inspired Tomorrowland wastes Bird's talent, a scrappy female lead, and Clooney gravitas on what amounts to a feature - length prologue; this movie about a retro - futuristic utopia in an alternate dimension accessed by the world's best and brightest takes approximately forever to get going, marking the first time Bird's whiz - bang set pieces haven't set his movie's pace.

Much talk about how many people will die should the tower fall shares time with a few brief shots of the interior of the human utopia that do nothing to advance the brilliant idea of setting Dawn of the Dead in a shopping mall.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Ready Player One is a sci - fi novel about a boy, Wade Watts, who spends his time plugged into the OASIS, a virtual utopia where people attend school and work and also explore the vast virtual universe created by James Halliday, a man obsessed with the»80s.

Most subversive about Ramin Bahrani's remarkable adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel (previously filmed, less successfully, more than half a century ago by the French filmmaker François Truffaut) is that its oppressed state isn't dystopian but in fact a utopia that questions whether it's oppressed at all.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

About the Author: Lauren Gallagher is an abnormal romance writer who has recently been exiled from the glittering utopia of Omaha, Nebraska, to an undisclosed location in South America.

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An interesting little thing here, I was watching a speech by Jesse Schell at Dice 2013 and he's talking about how everyone is looking searching for some kind of utopia, whether it's in video games, the choices they make or whatever.

The legendary independent film - maker talks about avant garde, utopia, his latest projects, the impor...

I've always been interested in landscapes visually and had a passion for reading about fictional spaces such as Utopias.

Domènec's work is articulated around issues such as the distance between utopias and social reality; speculation about the public dimension of architecture and the ideological precepts that determine it; socio - historical mechanisms and how they are interfered with; and about what conditions memory and oblivion.

BODY UTOPIA is an arena where alternate spaces and inner mythologies can be shared and revealed, thereby exposing points of view that engage and challenge assumptions about the body.

The title, Erewhon, refers to Samuel Butler's novel, as if to make Michel Foucault's point about madness as a creation of oppressive utopias.

Here, we speak about their work in the exhibition, Suspicious Utopias.

João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva: Papagaio at Hangar Biocca, Milan; Gonçalo Pena: Viagem Macaca at Galleria Zero, Milan; Wilfredo Prieto: Speaking Badly About Stones at S.M.A.K., Ghent; Carsten Höller: Leben at TBA21 — Augarten, Vienna; Le Mouvement at various venues, Biel; Paul Chan: Selected Works at Schaulager, Basel; Isla Utopia: Fragments and Moments for New Utopias at Isola Art Center with CreativeOlive, San Mauro Cilento; Bunny Rogers: Columbine Library at Société, Berlin; Roni Horn: Everything Was Sleeping as If the Universe Were a Mistake at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 at MUDAM, Luxembourg.

With its name taken from Theodor Herzl's Altneuland, a novel about a Jewish socialist utopia, and much of the rapid development coming from European émigrés, Tel Aviv's very bones reflect the grand aesthetic ideas of the last century.

«There is this constant tension between utopia and dystopia that happens in the world,» the artist says, «and my intention is to talk about this world, but from a place of resistance.»

All of our homes and would - be paradises: the Utopias we dream, our parent's fantasies and realities, the homes we come from, the one we live in now, that place we fantasize about; all of it layered, one room leading to the next, one home leading to another.

I was really interested in stepping out of this blanket dystopia and to think more holistically about what it's like to build a utopia.»

Smithson in his writings talked about entropy, the clash of nature with modern society, and lost utopias.

«There is a very particular way in which Minoliti thinks about reality, the future, utopia, and dreamspaces, addressing issues of gender and working to challenge fixed ideas around it,» says Pablo León de la Barra, curator - at - large of Latin American art for the Guggenheim.