Sentences with phrase «utopian thought in»

Is there still a place for utopian thinking in politics?

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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Now a thought experiment and an invitation: The experiment is one more utopian exercise in sketching what makes a theological school theological and what makes a theological school a school.

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).

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.

Frank, yeah, I think it is a little pie - in - the - sky, but then again you've already admitted to being utopian in your thinking: — RRB -.

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.

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.

If anyone thinks that all the pledges by government will be fulfilled in one year, then you are being utopian».

«I don't think it's practical to expect a competitive field like science to turn utopian and selfless for the greater good,» he writes in an e-mail.

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.

«I'm always aiming for a serenity as a Utopian ideal,» Owens explains, in the seductive, measured drawl with which he typically expresses his darkest, most convoluted thoughts.

«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.

Machines That Think duly confirmed for me that there is precious little that is new in our current debates and that we have been rehearsing these anxieties (and, conversely, utopian fantasies) for a very long time.

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.

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.

It's nice to see at least one event thinking utopian in these dark days.

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.

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.

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

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.

I think the idea you've expressed in the first paragraph is utopian in the extreme, and is more likely to invite in «Dick the Butcher» and «Jack Cade» than «Hercules» and «Solomon».