The phrase
"utopian ideas" refers to thoughts or visions about a perfect or ideal society where everything is perfect, peaceful, and equitable. It often represents a hope for a flawless world that may be unachievable in reality.
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Through varied perspectives on what it means to be together, these artists relinquish
utopian ideas of unity.
«13 Utilizing this particular event as the criterion of all true hope, Moltmann rejects romantic and Marxist
utopian ideas for attempting to establish hope in human community.
Erik L. Peterson's public works take the form of large scale urban interventions that stretch and
strain utopian ideas of design and function until ordinary objects slip toward the extraordinary.
Vancouver artist Holger Kalberg explores the relationship
between utopian ideas and modernist aesthetics in recent paintings, sculptures and installations.
Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or
utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.
«I didn't want to do just an illustrated project of Coney Island as Freud would have seen it,» says Beloff, whose interest in the link between technology and the imagination has led her to investigations into hysteria, visionaries and mediums, paranormal experiences, and
utopian ideas about social progress.
As with
all utopian ideas, there is much to admire about it, at least in the abstract, but the reality is far grittier.
Not only does it refute
the utopian idea of a simple fulfillment of history, it also refutes the otherworldliness that believes history is robbed of its final meaning in the consummation.
This is hardly
a utopian idea, because the local church already functions as such a community.
These days it almost seems
a utopian idea.
It's often dismissed as
a utopian idea.
The appropriate relation between political theory and
utopian ideas has become a much discussed topic in political theory.
Getting a Student Loan with Bad Credit is no longer
a utopian idea.
The results could be artworks, product prototypes, software, or
utopian ideas.
Rob Voerman is often inspired by modernist architecture and
the utopian ideas about society on which they are based.
Being an artist is in
itself a utopian idea, because I don't really make anything useful.
He has recreated the Bauhaus - style stairway of his secondary school, built in the 1950s, alluding to
the utopian idea in post-war Germany that architecture could create a better future.
The global assumption of iridescent optimism is criticised in this photographic series and the realism evoked in the images destroys
any utopian idea that the State may emanate.
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.»
As the Airbnb most likely will remain empty, the work criticises
the utopian idea of the sharing economy.
It is not
a utopian idea to live within planetary boundaries.
By Joel Pollak The core problem with President Barack Obama's speech on climate change is that it rejects environmental science in favor of
the utopian idea that we can, acting collectively, control the weather.
The Trust Project comes off as
a utopian idea of journalism online, but the steps it's currently taking could result in a better informed audience.