https://grlucas.net/index.php?title=Utopian_Fiction&feed=atom&action=historyUtopian Fiction - Revision history2024-03-29T07:50:32ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.0https://grlucas.net/index.php?title=Utopian_Fiction&diff=17164&oldid=prevGrlucas: Tweaks. Added Reddit link.2022-03-12T12:53:44Z<p>Tweaks. Added Reddit link.</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{dc|T}}{{start|he pronouncement that “God is dead”}} is commonly attributed to [[w:Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], though it is not his alone. Nietzsche’s observation is not a personal one, but a realization that God can no longer provide a moral center or structural order to modern humanity at the end of the nineteenth century. The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution championed reason and technology above superstition and a simple life. Scientific observations about the universe, nature, and humanity superseded the traditionally accepted ideas of a beneficent God who directed the machinations of the creation. However, the exponential rise of technological sophistication as a result of scientific progress led directly to a revaluation of humanity’s place in the world. This ''disruption'' provide the fulcrum for the rise of many personal and political systems that sought to instill a new order on the chaos. In other words, could new systems replace an absent God?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{dc|T}}{{start|he pronouncement that “God is dead”}} is commonly attributed to [[w:Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], though it is not his alone. Nietzsche’s observation is not a personal one, but a realization that God can no longer provide a moral center or structural order to modern humanity at the end of the nineteenth century. The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution championed reason and technology above superstition and a simple life. Scientific observations about the universe, nature, and humanity superseded the traditionally accepted ideas of a beneficent God who directed the machinations of the creation. However, the exponential rise of technological sophistication as a result of scientific progress led directly to a revaluation of humanity’s place in the world. This ''disruption'' provide the fulcrum for the rise of many personal and political systems that sought to instill a new order on the chaos. In other words, could new systems replace an absent God?</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </del>pronouncement that “God is dead” is commonly attributed to [[w:Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], though it is not his alone. Nietzsche’s observation is not a personal one, but a realization that God can no longer provide a moral center or structural order to modern humanity at the end of the nineteenth century. The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution championed reason and technology above superstition and a simple life. Scientific observations about the universe, nature, and humanity superseded the traditionally accepted ideas of a beneficent God who directed the machinations of the creation. However, the exponential rise of technological sophistication as a result of scientific progress led directly to a revaluation of humanity’s place in the world. This ''disruption'' provide the fulcrum for the rise of many personal and political systems that sought to instill a new order on the chaos. In other words, could new systems replace an absent God?</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{dc|T}}{{start|he </ins>pronouncement that “God is dead”<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}} </ins>is commonly attributed to [[w:Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], though it is not his alone. Nietzsche’s observation is not a personal one, but a realization that God can no longer provide a moral center or structural order to modern humanity at the end of the nineteenth century. The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution championed reason and technology above superstition and a simple life. Scientific observations about the universe, nature, and humanity superseded the traditionally accepted ideas of a beneficent God who directed the machinations of the creation. However, the exponential rise of technological sophistication as a result of scientific progress led directly to a revaluation of humanity’s place in the world. This ''disruption'' provide the fulcrum for the rise of many personal and political systems that sought to instill a new order on the chaos. In other words, could new systems replace an absent God?</div></td></tr>
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</table>Grlucashttps://grlucas.net/index.php?title=Utopian_Fiction&diff=12101&oldid=prevGrlucas: Tweaks.2020-08-14T11:16:31Z<p>Tweaks.</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The problem with utopias is that one person’s heaven is another’s hell, so intrinsic in all utopia is a paradox. Perfection can only be achievable is everyone shares a similar set of values; thus the Shining City upon a Hill is built and maintained on a dubious foundation. Cuddon reminds us that even the prototypical utopia, Plato’s ''Republic'' (from the 4th century <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">B.C.E.</del>), depicts a poetry-free state where women are owned, slavery is commonplace, and eugenics determines the breeding of children.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cuddon |first=J. A. |date=1979 |title=A Dictionary of Literary Terms |edition=Revised |url= |location=New York |publisher=Penguin |page=743 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}</ref> Plato’s vision of perfection looks like a totalitarian state run by elite philosopher kings. Even More’s ''Utopia'' (1516) proposes a communistic state where citizens lives, work, and even sexual activity are regimented.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The problem with utopias is that one person’s heaven is another’s hell, so intrinsic in all utopia is a paradox. Perfection can only be achievable is everyone shares a similar set of values; thus the Shining City upon a Hill is built and maintained on a dubious foundation. Cuddon reminds us that even the prototypical utopia, Plato’s ''Republic'' (from the 4th century <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{bce}}</ins>), depicts a poetry-free state where women are owned, slavery is commonplace, and eugenics determines the breeding of children.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cuddon |first=J. A. |date=1979 |title=A Dictionary of Literary Terms |edition=Revised |url= |location=New York |publisher=Penguin |page=743 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}</ref> Plato’s vision of perfection looks like a totalitarian state run by elite philosopher kings. Even More’s ''Utopia'' (1516) proposes a communistic state where citizens lives, work, and even sexual activity are regimented.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Grlucashttps://grlucas.net/index.php?title=Utopian_Fiction&diff=5445&oldid=prevGrlucas: Tweak.2019-12-27T16:22:07Z<p>Tweak.</p>
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</table>Grlucashttps://grlucas.net/index.php?title=Utopian_Fiction&diff=3487&oldid=prevGrlucas: /* Utopian Thinking */ Added link.2019-06-22T17:05:58Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Utopian Thinking: </span> Added link.</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I hope to write more on this as the semester progresses. Keep up with student posts about utopia and dystopia in the ''[https://humx.org Humanities Index]''. They will be posting all semester.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I hope to write more on this as the semester progresses. Keep up with student posts about utopia and dystopia in the ''[https://humx.org Humanities Index]''. They will be posting all semester.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It seems like contention is perhaps an integral component of being human? Without it, we become something else, and it’s usually not positive. Without his violent impulses, Alec, in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Burgess’ </del>A Clockwork Orange, becomes just another mindless cog — or, to tease the title’s metaphor, a predictable and programmable, farmed piece of fruit—forced to what others consider right and proper. Along with his violence goes his creativity and individuality. Yes, he was dangerous, but he was also alive. Life, it seems, must be accompanied by a bit of risk. Those who promise to make us safe will also remove our freedom and choice. Without risk, James and Mendlesohn assert, a society becomes static, so utopia is often rejected so humanity may struggle to progress.{{sfn|James|Mendlesohn|2003|p=222}} Indeed, have you ever though about actually existing (you wouldn’t say “living,” would you?) in the popular notions of the christian heaven? Eden? Both seem like very mundane places. Perhaps this is why Lucifer and the first humans decided to leave.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It seems like contention is perhaps an integral component of being human? Without it, we become something else, and it’s usually not positive. Without his violent impulses, Alec, in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[w:Anthony Burgess|Burgess]]’ ''[[w:</ins>A Clockwork Orange <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''</ins>, becomes just another mindless cog — or, to tease the title’s metaphor, a predictable and programmable, farmed piece of fruit—forced to what others consider right and proper. Along with his violence goes his creativity and individuality. Yes, he was dangerous, but he was also alive. Life, it seems, must be accompanied by a bit of risk. Those who promise to make us safe will also remove our freedom and choice. Without risk, James and Mendlesohn assert, a society becomes static, so utopia is often rejected so humanity may struggle to progress.{{sfn|James|Mendlesohn|2003|p=222}} Indeed, have you ever though about actually existing (you wouldn’t say “living,” would you?) in the popular notions of the christian heaven? Eden? Both seem like very mundane places. Perhaps this is why Lucifer and the first humans decided to leave.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Utopias are often built on the pragmatic details of social organization, so they might read like how-to manuals for building your own perfect society. Like a philosophical thought experiments, they push dominant social ideas to an extreme or present alternatives to current political orders.{{sfn|Masri|2008|p=702}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Utopias are often built on the pragmatic details of social organization, so they might read like how-to manuals for building your own perfect society. Like a philosophical thought experiments, they push dominant social ideas to an extreme or present alternatives to current political orders.{{sfn|Masri|2008|p=702}}</div></td></tr>
</table>Grlucashttps://grlucas.net/index.php?title=Utopian_Fiction&diff=3348&oldid=prevGrlucas: Fixed typo. More links are needed.2019-06-20T01:25:48Z<p>Fixed typo. More links are needed.</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In “Atavism and Utopia,” Eric S. Rabkin argues that utopias belong to the future — to a distant time that expresses both a collective yearning that strikes an emotional chord with individuals.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rabkin |first=Eric S. |date=1983 |chapter=Atavism and Utopia |title=No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction |editor1-last=Rabkin |editor1-first=Eric S. |editor2-last=Greenberg |editor2-first=Martin Harry |editor3-last=Olander |editor3-first=Joseph D. |url= |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |pages=1–3 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}</ref> While the utopia is forever located in the future, continues Rabkin, it signifies an idyllic past before the fall precipitated by sexual maturity and loss of innocence.{{sfn|Rabkin|1983|p=3}} He further discusses Eden as the most common vision of eutopia: a garden of innocence and abundance under the protection of a benevolent authority — free of knowledge and the pain and death that it derives.{{sfn|Rabkin|1983|pp=3, 2}} In addition to being out-of-time, utopias are often out-of-place; i.e, they are geographically isolated lands located ''elsewhere'' from where the protagonist and/or us readers are familiar{{sfn|Murphy|2009|p=478}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In “Atavism and Utopia,” Eric S. Rabkin argues that utopias belong to the future — to a distant time that expresses both a collective yearning that strikes an emotional chord with individuals.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rabkin |first=Eric S. |date=1983 |chapter=Atavism and Utopia |title=No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction |editor1-last=Rabkin |editor1-first=Eric S. |editor2-last=Greenberg |editor2-first=Martin Harry |editor3-last=Olander |editor3-first=Joseph D. |url= |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |pages=1–3 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}</ref> While the utopia is forever located in the future, continues Rabkin, it signifies an idyllic past before the fall precipitated by sexual maturity and loss of innocence.{{sfn|Rabkin|1983|p=3}} He further discusses Eden as the most common vision of eutopia: a garden of innocence and abundance under the protection of a benevolent authority — free of knowledge and the pain and death that it derives.{{sfn|Rabkin|1983|pp=3, 2}} In addition to being out-of-time, utopias are often out-of-place; i.e, they are geographically isolated lands located ''elsewhere'' from where the protagonist and/or us readers are familiar<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins>{{sfn|Murphy|2009|p=478}}</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In utopias, knowledge of the self and that things might be otherwise are enemies of the perfect society.{{sfn|Rabkin|1983|pp=6–7}} Citizens, therefore, are returned to an atavistic state — they become children under the rule of the authority figure that gives them certain responsibilities that distract them from individual desires, like sexual intimacy and individual expression. Therefore, in an effort to impose and maintain its social perfection, many utopia/dystopias end up making a basic change in human nature.{{sfn|Rabkin|1983|p=7}} Yet, as Susan Bruce points out in her introduction to ''Three Early Modern Utopias'', while these utopian societies might seem authoritarian, they may not be as bad as the society they are mean to critique.<ref>{{cite book |contributor-last=Bruce |contributor-first=Susan |contribution=Introduction |date=2008 |title=Three Early Modern Utopias |last=Moore |first=Thomas |last2=Bacon |first2=Francis |last3=Neville |first3=Henry |url= |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=xxvi |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In utopias, knowledge of the self and that things might be otherwise are enemies of the perfect society.{{sfn|Rabkin|1983|pp=6–7}} Citizens, therefore, are returned to an atavistic state — they become children under the rule of the authority figure that gives them certain responsibilities that distract them from individual desires, like sexual intimacy and individual expression. Therefore, in an effort to impose and maintain its social perfection, many utopia/dystopias end up making a basic change in human nature.{{sfn|Rabkin|1983|p=7}} Yet, as Susan Bruce points out in her introduction to ''Three Early Modern Utopias'', while these utopian societies might seem authoritarian, they may not be as bad as the society they are mean to critique.<ref>{{cite book |contributor-last=Bruce |contributor-first=Susan |contribution=Introduction |date=2008 |title=Three Early Modern Utopias |last=Moore |first=Thomas |last2=Bacon |first2=Francis |last3=Neville |first3=Henry |url= |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=xxvi |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}</ref></div></td></tr>
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