Sentences with phrase «of utopian futures»

Jeff Donaldson made paintings as both positive affirmations of blackness and as microcosmic depictions of utopian futures and dynamic black bodies.

Far from unveiling a tempting menu of utopian futures, it chews over the leftovers of a broken dream.

Saadia digs into the nitty - gritty of this utopian future, and it's utterly fascinating, as Mr. Spock would say.

It's a story of a utopian future gone wrong.

While the first Bakelite appeared in the early 1900's, plastic was considered a modern material and an essential product of the utopian future envisioned in post-World War II America.

This exhibition brings together four artists who, in a variety of ways, display an interest in subverted or obsolete modernity, referencing technology, architecture and design that offer up optimistic promises of a utopian future.

Not exact matches

I juxtaposed the two views a few years ago in my TEDx talk by comparing a pair of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future of flying cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated film that had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.

Is this vision utopian, or the wave of the future?

In the futuristic world of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry and his successors weaved together a series that takes a near utopian look at future humans.

Hope for our society lies in the possibility of the rebirth of visionary thought, utopian dreaming, the resurrection of the split between present and future that provides the dynamic of change in the direction of projected ideals.

Magic, play, and utopian dreams are the foundation for his future community of faith.64

Channelling the spirit of John Lennon's «Imagine», he describes a utopian vision of the future in which the «depth and warmth» of his own secular - humanist philosophy is universally embraced at the expense of God.

The desire of so many people to «stop suffering» now, not in some utopian future, needs to be integrated into theology.

Here Stapledon's narrator perceives the panorama of not only a continent or a future civilization, but of all the cosmos, from its inception to its utopian culmination, and finally to its demise.

In short, the pictures of possible futures being offered us by the forecasting experts are by no means universally utopian or unreservedly optimistic.

Finally, I return again to the claim that the most significant contribution the church can make to the biopolitical task is to nourish a new consciousness, a utopian vision of a desirable human future arising from the inspiration of the Christian past.

I believe there is a particular need at the present to focus attention on utopian dreaming as a way of shaking us loose from obsolete ways of thinking and opening us up to those ideas, attitudes, and values that are appropriate for the future.

THE THEOLOGY WHICH CAN BEST SERVE THE CHURCH IN ITS MINISTRY TO THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE WILL TAKE THE FORM OF CHRISTIAN BIOPOLITICS — A UTOPIAN APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE QUEST FOR A DESIRABLE FUTURE, WHICH TAKES AS ITS CENTRAL THEME THE FULFILLMENT OF LIFE WITHIN THE TOTALITY OF THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL SETTINGS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.

Struck by the contingency and organic relatedness of social institutions, practices, and actions, and dismayed by the Utopian ideologies to which so many modern minds are prone, paleoconservatives (as they now style themselves) such as Kirk are opposed to «ideological infatuation» or even to imagining social projects for the future at all.

Presumably feminist theorists would agree that narrative can be used not only to open up the past and connect it with the present, but to sketch a vision of the future: here, narrative acquires a potentially utopian function.

Radicals are the permanently unsatisfied among us — nihilists of the Utopian vision, restless with the imperfections of humanity as we know it — who clamor for a future in which human beings will be different from what they are and the world transformed, for a world in which racism and evils like it will be purged from the species forever, and of course for the time when radicals like themselves will inherit the earth.

And we substitute devotion to our utopian ideals for the posture of trust in an open future.

People can not live without the prospect of a future, and so utopian musings, sometimes of the most unrealistic nature, have always attracted followers.

It seeks to transcend utopian visions of the future that had been built up out of our previous wishings.

In response, some have fearfully predicted that these intelligent machines will dispense with useless humans — mirroring the plot of The Matrix — while others see a utopian future filled with endless leisure.

Back in 1986, futurist K Eric Drexler (now of the Foresight Institute — a US nanotech think tank) imagined a utopian future where self - replicating nanoscale robots, or nanobots, carry out most of the work in society.

Evan Collins, who manages a popular online archive of Y2K fashion and imagery called «The Institute of Y2K Aesthetics,» says Pantone perfectly captured Y2K's obsession with a tech - utopian future with that choice.

Wakanda's mix of future utopian sci - fi architecture and traditional African aesthetic creates some of the most awe - inspiring and beautiful production designs and costumes of recent years.

Big summer blockbusters are so rarely optimistic that it's tricky to know how to take this movie, its utopian view of the future is a refreshing antidote to both dystopic - nightmare thrillers and those blood - boiling, doom - and - gloom...

Minority Report's visual identity owes a lot to Spielberg's vision of a future society that's at the same time dystopian and utopian, but also to the brilliant work of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who shot it with high - speed film.

The film takes its name from the utopian community envisioned by Walt Disney during the 1960s near the site that eventually became Epcot and unfolds in the tacky strip where Disney's aborted city of the future might have been built.

This vision is not merely a fictional utopian outlook; it is a future that is entirely achievable, a future in which water is recognized and managed as the fundamental resource that supports all aspects of sustainable development.

In the near future, in an Utopian socialist country, England, where everyone has to work (except the ill or old), whether the job makes any sense, or not, a group of teenagers like to party without limits, at night.

Twisted Futures — An anthology of both dystopian and utopian views of the future.

And I've begun to wonder, also, if the unspoken concern that lies behind resistance to ebooks among literary - minded people isn't somehow related to this feeling, that the novel is on the cusp of changing irrevocably, becoming something unrecognisable to we who care about it so, and in the traditional capitalist manner: with little to no discussion about what these changes might mean and lots of racing pell - mell toward the ever - retreating utopian future.

Plasma torches, signal jammers, makeshift weapons, and the iconic motion trackers all force the player to confront a future where technology has failed in its utopian promises by turning our dependence on machines into a source of horror and vulnerability.

Bastion is an action RPG available via steam, miscellaneous clients and XBL, which holds a torch toward our brighter future of utopian video gaming.

These works may employ disorienting illusions of depth and flatness, intensely affecting color, or synesthetic auditory and haptic stimuli to introduce new kinds of sensory experience that in some cases suggest a utopian vision of the future and in others embody critical or ambivalent attitudes towards contemporaneous reality — social, political, and technological.

He recently curated a long weekend of newly commissioned performances by Desirée Holman, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, and Jacolby Satterwhite exploring eccentric science fictions, utopian possibilities, and radical futures as part of Performance in Progress.

Presented as an interrelated set of experiences, the exhibition (until 25 September 2016) weaves together concerns about land, architecture, progress, utopian dreams, inequality, trauma and resistance that refer as much to imagined futures as to the historical past.

In Archaeologies of the Future, Fredric Jameson identifies the utopian imagination in the age of postmodernity and late capitalism by a shift from what can be wished for to the formal properties of the act of wishing.

In her recent work she has taken to reappropriating her own collection of her paintings and drawings into shelters and ripped and reassembled collages, in an attempt to find different uses for art in a possible utopian future.

The Dreams section presents future - oriented and activist art through political posters and graphics, the publication as conceptual art project, cinematic protest, and the legacies of utopian architecture.

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.

Beyond apocalyptic scenarios or utopian visions, the artists included propose a reassessment of our current condition and look towards the future - present from an empowering stance that challenges boundaries.

As the pairs first solo show, organic structures and sculptures are brought together, looking beyond the hyperactive present to a hopeful, utopian construction of the future.

Online and offline surveillance accompanied by the consumer capitalist culture within today's society are the main issues surrounding his work, in association with current and future utopian environments, the continued automation of our daily lives in relation to the internet of things and the various cultures associated with online communities.

Finally, there was yours truly, leading a guided tour of the contemporary galleries at MoMA fifty years in the future, overwriting the Sigmar Polke retrospective then on display, positing a utopian hang of art prompted by a total change of social values.

Meanwhile, The Other End (2017) presents a cornucopia of deliciously painted fruited fruit fit thoughts are never far from a utopian imagination; Deus (2017) echoes Hajime Sorayama's 1980s illustrations in its depiction of a dark metallic breast against a sunrise — a sign of better, posthuman futures to come.

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