Sentences with phrase «of utopian thought»

As a basis of working, he acknowledged and offset two related and oppressive qualities of utopian thought: first, that the logic of spatial organization is political and is based on exclusion as much as inclusion; second, that utopian projects develop an idealist space isolated from material reality.

In his thought there was none of the utopian thought or «evolutionary optimism» often attributed to liberal theology and the social gospel movement by its critics.

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.

Optimistic assumptions are standard components of utopian thinking, and they have until recently been voiced by many Western leaders and thinkers.

I am among a growing number of people who believe that there is an urgent need for a rebirth of utopian thinking within the church and in society at large.

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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.

When you attempt to sweep real issues under a rug of disingenuous and delusional positive thinking to create a Utopian version of reality, it keeps you from accurately assessing situations, making smart decisions and taking effective action.

The refreshing part of this utopian approach was that I was never told what to do or think; neither that my feelings were sinful, nor that I had to reject that view and accept my sexuality.

Thus he was part of the broad, humanistic, and stoic (and, later, Christian) tradition of the West — one that valued basic natural rights and was incessantly called into question by variations of utilitarian and utopian thinking.

My father himself, whom I loved dearly, thought much of my vision might be utopian.

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.

The eschatological vision, which expected God to bring in that radically other and better world, has been reduced to myth; utopian thinking, which expected the new age as the outcome of human effort, has come to be regarded as illusion.

We've conducted a thought experiment in response to those questions and in this chapter it has yielded some elements of a utopian proposal about a theological school.

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

The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.

Meanwhile, Protestant thought, influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human social institutions.

In his review of Pointing the Way Niebuhr suggests that Buber's thought becomes utopian when its illuminating insights into personal life are applied to the relations of the «we» and «they» of organized groups or nations.

Not all things are possible — to think so would be utopian, in the wrong sense — but some things are, and the trick is to learn just what these are, to master the art of «discerning the signs of the times» (Reinhold Niebuhr).

To use the term «utopian» merely as a scornful epithet does not serve the purpose of clear thinking.

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.

Though formulated by some of the toughest minds in the history of modern philosophy — Hobbes, Locke, Flume, and Adam Smith — this tradition gave rise to what would appear to be the most wildly utopian idea in the history of political thought, namely, that a good society can result from the actions of citizens motivated by self - interest alone when those actions are organized through the proper mechanisms.

Rejecting both utopian socialism and utopian individualism, he opted for a balance in the tradition of American thought that went back to John Winthrop.

How can we reconcile this position with the high esteem of G. Gutiérrez for utopian thinking and the expectation that a Christian community should always produce new utopias?

Even if an enormous amount of thought and planning were devoted to such an alternative, thought and planning that the small struggling groups we have been studying are quite incapable at the moment of supplying, the revolutionary alternative seems quite utopian.

According to the post-modernists the utopian thinking of modem times proved to be the most merciless enemy of the people.

It is for this reason that utopian thinking led some of its modern promoters, such as Arthur Koestler and Carl Sagan, to propose ways of «improving» human beings by biological manipulation such as surgical removal of certain centers in the brain or by genetic engineering to remove «bad» genes.

Then, with that eternally self - deluding wishful - thinking that so characterises them, the moral libertarian, the Secular Fundamentalist and the utopian will tell us that all we need is more of the same.

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.

«We were also thinking about our Spring / Summer 2018 collection, which was a utopian positive vision of multicultural Europe — we felt this collection needs to be more aggressive, in a way,» he adds.

As complex it may be to realize, world peace must stand as a tangible goal and not something to be thought of as a mere utopian ideal or intellectual exercise.

It's an example of Nintendo's cute, utopian thinking.

The methods of teaching developed at the BMC — such as an emphasis on interpretation and dialogue in the form of the student critique (or «crit»)-- are still present in many of our most advanced art schools; the language of interdisciplinarity began at BMC and the mixture of disciplines and mediums gave way to what is largely regarded as the first «happening»; and the aspirations of intentional communities, utopian ways of thinking, bridging the gap between art and life, and the creation of a counter-culture that are characteristic of American culture in the 1960s all flourished at the college in the preceding decades.

Timothy Earl Neill objects are made to question a utopian suburbia, in which he «seek (s) to confront the notions of ideological stability within dominant cultural modes of thought.»

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.

Radical Nature draws on ideas that have emerged from Land art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopian thought — ideas that propose a new «radical nature» to reconcile the earth's needs with those of humankind.

This living room was the site of one of the first American think tanks and served as a space to indulge cold war doomsday theories and utopian plans for the future.

Her work is influenced by and references utopian thought found in literature, art and architecture, which are formally applied in sculptural works that refer to society's pursuit of perfection in all forms of life; physically and as a society.

Spatial City brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists — with an emphasis on artists living in France — whose work contends with idealism, utopian thinking, and, in counterpoint, the cynicism that follows failed revolution and the retreat of optimism in the face of pragmatic reality.

The Gardener Digs in Another Time, which is on show till 9 October 2016, reflects upon the use of the garden in visual culture as a vehicle for utopian thought and an emblem for an ideal society.

Her practice explores histories of radical, political and utopian thought, bringing to light specific ideas in order to question how we might live today.

To Marlon de Azambuja, the great architects of the world have not only erected enormous buildings, they have also projected a large cluster of ideologies — in many cases utopian — that were fixed in the collective consciousness models of thinking and living in the world.

McElheny combines the methodologies and mathematics of science with the craftsmanship of artisan glassmaking, and translates the imaginings of Jorge Luis Borges, the utopian endeavors of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart, the futuristic thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller and the sculptural sensuality of Isamu Noguchi into a range of kaleidoscopic scale models for the infinite — most notably in his recent collaboration with a cosmologist on Island Universe, an accurate scale model of the Big Bang.

However, Smith's eschatological 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.

Episode # 084: Yinka Shonibare MBE «The thought of being an artist itself is a utopian idea because I don't make anything useful... I am realizing my dreams and that somehow is also my profession.»