Sentences with phrase «future utopia»

Further, shutting down the oil sands would have a negligible impact on both our own transition to a green economy and the global transition to this future utopia.

Glenn, It seems that they are calculating the cost of living in their imagined future dystopia vs. the benefit if living their imagined future utopia.

The Empathics are people in the present who try to bring a future utopia into the present through science and ritual.

Remember the future utopia of the 1950's?

When the times seem out of joint, human beings tend either to anticipate a future utopia or to dream of a mythic past when things were the way they ought to be.

Yet one must have some standpoint from which to measure a falling off or erosion, and Protestant - Republican small - town America has to serve if one does not wish to reach outside of history to mythic golden ages or future utopias.

Not exact matches

Once upon a time, a person asked to envision the workspace of the future might have detailed the trappings of a space - age utopia: robots, flying pods and out - of - this - world architecture.

Why defer daily enjoyment for this idea of utopia many years into the future?

On Calvary, Jesus» voluntary sacrifice super-fulfills the vertical movement of the religions, and when he breathes the Holy Spirit into the future, he super-fulfills all the horizontal movement toward utopias.

Hence the question whether all future statements are grounded on the person and history of Jesus Christ provides it with the touchstone by which to distinguish the spirit of eschatology from that of utopia.20

I have, in this book, outlined the content of an appropriate image of the future, a concrete utopia, relevant to the perils and promises of this era.

A less sophisticated illustration of this can be seen in the way that science fiction has envisioned various atheistic scientific futures: over the course of the past century such visions of the future have shifted from being utopias to being dystopias.

I've come to feel that I'd rather be short - sighted than far - sighted; I'd rather take care of the hurts & needs in front of me right now than manifest some utopia in the far - off future.

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.

A broad and magnanimous tolerance can not tolerate the utopia of the future, the anticipation of freedom and of a common hope for a more equitable life on earth.

Some Utopias have been located in a glorious future, still others in a glorious past, in a race of demigods after whose demise the world tottered slowly downhill.

For the umpteenth year running, the term «identity crisis» has been wheeled out yet again as fans either demand a racing utopia of the future, or V8 Valhalla of the past.

They hold basic income as a panacea to end all poverty and view the future of almost everyone not working because automation has taken over everywhere as a utopia.

In its later life, «instead of trying to model utopia, Biosphere 2 would actually model dystopia — a future plagued by high carbon dioxide levels,» wrote Rebecca Reider, author of a definitive history of the project.

(Myth and utopia: the origins have belonged, the future will belong to the subjects in whom there is something feminine.)»

The trippiest film of the bunch is Corman's hippy apocalypse Gas - s - s - s (1970), a groovy satirical road movie set in a future where everyone over 25 is killed by an experimental weapon, and a group of peace - loving hippies goes looking for utopia amidst the fashionable fascists that have taken root.

Through the new medium of television, L.A. is being hyped as a potential utopia and the metropolis of the future.

Black Panther stands out as a groundbreaker not just within the superhero genre, but in Hollywood in general — from the Gil Scott Heron track sampled throughout the trailer, to the Kendrick Lamar soundtrack, to the hair and makeup and set design, to Coogler's vision of what an African, technological utopia could look like (Wakanda is a capital city that's nothing like the Western or Asian - influenced visions of the future we know well — one of the most notable differences?

Robert Fischer's FILM BEYOND CINEMA: THE DUMPSTER KID EXPERIMENT AND OTHER UTOPIAS is a documentary on the background and rediscovery of the DUMPSTER KID series, but also much more: Reitz and Stöckl are joined on - camera by Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge and others to reflect on nothing less than the future of cinema.

Brave New World Aldous Huxley's slim novel envisioning a future «utopia» with perverse qualities — as the human race succumbs to overdoses of pleasure, amusement, and hedonism.

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?

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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

At the same time, we are at a historical moment where the future frequently appears as a precipice between utopia and dystopia.

Biernoff has labeled the binoculars a «time machine,» perhaps to suggest, like Moore's Map, the double bind of imagining both an unrealized utopia and dystopia in two future potentialities.

Bad Niños by Glexis Novoa imagines the utopias of revolutions past, present and future, and evidences the precarious grounds on which ideologies take form.

Working with drawing, video, sculpture, and installations, Hüner's practice focuses on constructed narratives and eclectic assemblages which explore the subjects of utopia, archaeology, ideas of progress, and the future through reimagining spatial and architectural entities and organic and artificial forms.

«Utopia exists until it is created... the idea of utopia is in constant mutation and changes according to the era,» and Saraceno's material, formal, and conceptual investigations advance his proposition for a possible untethered future in the sky.

Approximately Infinite Universe is an exhibition featuring contemporary artistic thought experiments, exploring ideas surrounding aliens and others, bodily mutations, disorientation and weightlessness, reproductive technologies, utopia and dystopia, cities of the future, Afro - futurism, and meta - histories, among others.

In this illuminating talk with The Conversation Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist, he touches on the needs of the individual in heterogeneous urban societies, past and future projects, utopia, influences and metaphysics, revealing a wise and deeply - animated humanistic intellect.

While the failed utopias of the past would similarly return to haunt Lee's practice, it was initially her evocative visions of the future that made her one of the most prominent non-Western artists of an anxious age.

Konstantin Grcic: «There's now one future, there's no master plan or utopia vision and certainly not made by architects or designers.

Opening June 3, 5 - 8 pm, «Telling the Futures» is an outdoor group exhibition placing many different future options into relation — a kind of «choose your own adventure» of apocryphal psychic visions of political election cycles for survival in a dystopian utopia.

Future Greats — new artists for a new era; 17 Memos for art now; novelists Pankaj Mishra and Adam Thirlwell discuss contemporary utopias, plus a reviews marathon around the galleries of Paris, reviews from around the world and more!

Mamou's travels have allowed her to not only examine the implications of social utopias but also the struggle to create community through a dystopian future.

«The future of contemporary art is in the will to utopia, in the break - through into reality through a membrane of quotations, it is in sincerity and pathos» (Anatolii Osmolovsky).

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.

Jade Doskow (MFA 2008 Photography, Video and Related Media) Lost Utopias Front Room Gallery, 48 Hester Street Lost Utopias features Jade Doskow's decade - long photographic series documenting the remaining architectural wonders of the international World's Fairs that once symbolized hope for future technologies, design and global cooperation.

«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.

This workshop will consider «the mountain top» and utopia futures through a group reading and discussion of selected works, including MLK's 1963 speech I Have Been to the Mountaintop.

Throughout the past decade, he has explored the possibility of a future airborne existence as part of his ongoing Air - Port - City / Cloud City project — a utopia of flying metropolises made up of habitable, cell - like platforms that migrate and recombine as freely as clouds themselves.

The book collects dreams and utopias written by 103 artists and other personalities of the world of art so as to make room for imagination, ideas, and projects for the future.

rofile on cover artist Lee Bul, who looks to the failed utopias of the past to present a disturbing vision of the future.

Since then, some scientists have said that goal can not be achieved unless it is done in a future energy utopia.

I wish I could have the rosy colored glasses on and see the future as a bright renewable energy utopia but that is not the harsh reality.