Sentences with phrase «utopian thinking»

A collaboration between artist Sophie Warren, architect Jonathan Mosley and writer Robin Wilson, Beyond Utopia looks at the practicalities of utopian thinking in urban planning and administrative culture.

In so doing, Cole also contributes to an urgent project to reassert the impossible possibility of utopian thought in and for the twenty - first century.»

Is there still a place for utopian thinking in politics?

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.

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.

Which, by the way, I think utopian thinking is an important component to the pastoral calling.

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.

A description of my particular utopian thinking will have to wait for another month's column, but I believe the most beautiful possibilities come from treating people as mysterious wells of meaning and using technology to find new ways to connect people to each other.

Indie authors spend way too much time in utopian thinking about how Amazon should do this or would be better if it worked that way.

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.

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?

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.

Combined with the idea of progress, utopian thought is a dream that motivates action.

Because that is so, responsible rather than utopian thinking must urgently determine what sort of meal it is that Europe is trying to prepare.

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

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.

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

argued that the American experiment, rooted in Aristotelian prudence and a sense of human fallibility and evil, is a bracing corrective to the ideological and utopian thinking of Europe.

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

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

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.

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.

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 past works tackled issues relating to human nature and utopian thought, and this inaugural exhibition continues to do so.

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

There are several affinities among the works on display here, but they are not to be found in utopian thinking.

There are many reasons to believe in the possibility of a «good Anthropocene,» says the opening panel of the 2015 Breakthrough Dialogue, but concerted political and social action — not techno - utopian thinking — is needed.

The risk for the optimistic reformer is utopian thinking.