Sentences with phrase «as utopian»

The original blockchain was launched in 2009, by the mysterious founder (or founders) going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, as a utopian form of electronic cash that could change hands, as Nakamoto wrote in a legendary white paper, «without going through a financial institution.»

As I have previously written, there is an unfortunate tendency to see ABS as utopian or dystopian while both the benefits and risks of ABS appear to be less than claimed by the duelists on both sides of the issue.

«This inaugural edition brings the Argentine Patagonia to the forefront, and questions the future of regions such as Antarctica or Greenland, which can no longer be seen as utopian places», say the organizers.

While this objective will strike many as utopian to the nth degree, it is important to keep that ideal in mind when considering different approaches to national and global policies.

It's not, and if you want to bring people along with you on this, you need to be explicit about the costs as well as trumpeting the benefits, otherwise it's going to be seen as utopian and unrealistic.

She realized her project RMB City on «Second Life», as a utopian city where avatar China Tracy acts.

A prolific visionary, Frederick's drawings and paintings possess an abundance of idealism, realized as utopian visions of the future - proclamations from «Glory News», superhero first responders defeating armies of demons, or a «love and justice» rocket ship flying overhead.

In his London studio, artist Yinka Shonibare MBE reflects on what it means for him to be an artist, how he views his occupation as a utopian pursuit, and how the lines between the personal and professional aspects of his life are blurred.

The scenes I end up composing, function as both utopian and eerily post-apocalyptic.

Beside this, it's also impossible to ignore the joyful and anarchic aspect of many of his images, which are youthful, spirited and as utopian as they are cautionary.

Episode # 084: In his London studio, artist Yinka Shonibare MBE reflects on what it means for him to be an artist, how he views his occupation as a utopian pursuit, and how the lines between the personal and professional aspects of his life are blurred.

While our global political reality reflects an increase in boundaries and barriers, the project's site - specificity reflects on the Biennale as a utopian model of national connectivity.

In her «manifesto,» Vassell defines her show as utopian, and argues that the importance of race as a factor of self - identification is archaic.

In his London studio, artist Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) reflects on what it means for him to be an artist, how he views his occupation as a utopian pursuit, and how the lines between the personal and professional aspects of his life are blurred.

It is the artist's reflection and comment on reading a western book on Oriental Painting which identifies Oriental landscape painting as Utopian, as opposed to the realistic approach of western landscape painting.

The Irish artist imagines a speculative live / work environment drawing influence from Modernist architecture and science fiction, both of which imagine the future as a utopian space of fantastic social and political potential.

Designed in 1952 as a utopian proposal for collective living, Green encountered the iconic housing complex as a «modern ruin» when she was invited to participate in the 1993 group exhibition «Project Unité.»

During Mardi Gras, everyone's a king, or so the saying goes — a topsy - turvy reversal of race and class that Boyce frames as utopian.

Throughout the summer, the chair — designed to seat two — will facilitate a series of off - site public discussions and workshops (see schedule below), engaging its history within the broader concept of «the commons» as a utopian ideal and shared intellectual space, as well as a critical site of communication and exchange.

For their exhibition in the South London Gallery's (SLG) new galleries in The Matsudaira Wing, they present a group of new and recent works to establish a commentary on ideas of urban play as a utopian pursuit.

Inspired by art from the Renaissance period through the 19th century as well as utopian fantasies of the future, «The Strange City» represents the synthesis of a long artistic career.

These serve as utopian models for humans, of course.

Exploring financial, environmental and personal implication of the concept of liquidity, it tracks the aesthetics of the tumultuous storms of the 20th century, but it also looks critically at seasteading as the utopian project of the privileged class.

The title of the exhibition, memoria, alludes to the phenomenon of time as memory, as awareness, where time should be understood as utopian time in contrast with the common notion of chronological time.

Wipeout persists as a utopian phantom consumed with aesthetic elegance and driven to exhibit a vivid sensation of speed.

Paul Brown states in his essay Hyrule's Green and Pleasant Land: The Minish Cap as Utopian Ideal:

Created by the Mexican government in the 1970s as a utopian beach destination, Cancun's very success is precisely what turns off many travelers today.

It was named for the region in Greece called Arcadia, a region regarded in Greek mythology as a utopian garden.

And as with the majority of Green's films and TV works, the locales of the Southern states of America are depicted as utopian idylls where white people and black people cohabit with no hint of racial tension.

Although noting that power ultimately corrupts the militants, historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. reminisced that he and fellow black students at Yale loved the film as a utopian fantasy that offered them a realistic path — infiltration, then transformation — for social change.

Unfortunately, the rent - free offer turns out to be flypaper for the disturbed, and what begins as a utopian oasis gradually turns into a neverending nightmare.

«I'm always aiming for a serenity as a Utopian ideal,» Owens explains, in the seductive, measured drawl with which he typically expresses his darkest, most convoluted thoughts.

He doesn't portray foraging and mobile lifestyles as utopian systems, but a closer look at their cons as well as their pros would have painted a fuller picture of these people.

The Venus Project can only be viewed as utopian unless it can realistically addresses how the dictatorship of finance capital can be annihilated.

Just like the Living Wage (which also came from Citizens UK) our suggestions were initially ignored or refused as utopian and unworkable.

It's often dismissed as a utopian idea.

Teilhard made it clear, however, that without the presence of another personal being — God — this human perfection would not endure as a utopian realm of freedom but would yield to the psychophysical compression that formed it and disintegrate «in self - disgust.»

Progressives promote multiculturalism as a utopian vision of global cooperation.

Robert Bellah is a social scientist who outwaits current fashions and lives with and by a vision even when it may be dismissed as utopian or misguided.

If thinkers as diverse as Rousseau, Paine, and Tonnies are all to be understood as Utopian insofar as they criticize the present from the standpoint of a real or imagined past, then utopianism is an honored mode of cultural criticism.

For those who have faith, the trinitarian communion between the divine Three, the union between them in love and vital interpenetration, can serve as a source of inspiration, as a utopian goal that generates models of successively diminishing differences.

Are you planning to dismiss my answer as utopian so you can dodge my critique of anger and violence, or are you genuinely looking to finding another way?

Normally, a proposed list of reforms like this would simply be rejected as utopian.

' «Elshtain offers the solemn warning: «To the extent that John Paul's words strike us as utopian or naive, we have lost civil society.»

The city is the place of hopes and dreams, as the utopian thought of Plato, Augustine, and Thomas More attest.

all these are regarded as utopian fantasies, yet they are biologically necessary; and if we would see them made flesh in the world what more need we do than imagine our power to love growing and broadening till it can embrace the totality of men and of the earth?

Its boldness and hope are captivating as a religious vision but disturbing as a utopian politics.

It sees the left's struggle for social justice as mere trouble making, as utopian foolishness.

Then as now, political wisdom scorned pacifism as unsuccessful and dangerous and peace crusaders were vilified as utopians and threats to national security.

Not exact matches

Indeed, Amazon could almost be thought of as a sort of digital brutalism: it is direct and efficient, with a near - utopian aspiration to meet people's needs in the least fussy way possible.