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Author: Ken Dube Publisher: Ken Dube ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 90
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Embark on an exhilarating journey through the riveting pages of this gripping futuristic tale, where a charismatic outsider leads a youth movement in a revolutionary battle for control over the utopian civilization of Utopia. Fear, distrust, and the intoxicating allure of power intertwine as our protagonist, Korwyn, finds himself swept up in the tumultuous waves of rebellion, all spurred by the influence of his first love. As the narrative unfolds, Korwyn becomes the focal point of a relentless power struggle that lays bare the corruption of the old order. The story weaves a compelling tapestry, promising a robust and resilient future, one that stands ready to defend itself against the impending threat of conquerors. Amidst the chaos, Korwyn grapples with a life-altering decision, forced to choose a path as the final battle for the future of Utopia unfurls before him. Don't miss out on this electrifying adventure, where love, loyalty, and the quest for a new dawn collide in a spectacular showdown that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Immerse yourself in a world where the fate of Utopia hangs in the balance, and every decision has far-reaching consequences.
Author: Ken Dube Publisher: Ken Dube ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 90
Book Description
Embark on an exhilarating journey through the riveting pages of this gripping futuristic tale, where a charismatic outsider leads a youth movement in a revolutionary battle for control over the utopian civilization of Utopia. Fear, distrust, and the intoxicating allure of power intertwine as our protagonist, Korwyn, finds himself swept up in the tumultuous waves of rebellion, all spurred by the influence of his first love. As the narrative unfolds, Korwyn becomes the focal point of a relentless power struggle that lays bare the corruption of the old order. The story weaves a compelling tapestry, promising a robust and resilient future, one that stands ready to defend itself against the impending threat of conquerors. Amidst the chaos, Korwyn grapples with a life-altering decision, forced to choose a path as the final battle for the future of Utopia unfurls before him. Don't miss out on this electrifying adventure, where love, loyalty, and the quest for a new dawn collide in a spectacular showdown that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Immerse yourself in a world where the fate of Utopia hangs in the balance, and every decision has far-reaching consequences.
Author: Samuel Moyn Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674256522 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Author: Vincent Fournier Publisher: Rizzoli Publications ISBN: 8891820334 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 186
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This unique collection of photographs features over ten years of collaborations with the most important space and research centers in the world, resulting in a one-of-a-kind story of the human race to the stars. Vincent Fournier's visionary photographs provide an imaginative look at space exploration by merging fantasy with reality in images of rockets, otherwordly landscapes, research facilities, and cosmonauts. To produce these extraordinary images, Fournier has collaborated with the world's major space centers and astronomical observatories, including NASA, the European Space Agency, the Russian space agency, and the European Southern Observatory. Readers are given access to confidential locations and projects such as the NASA SLS rocket. Fournier's artistic vision creates a unique look at the history of space exploration, from the early Sputnik and Apollo programs to the future Mission on Mars. The images invite us to focus on our perceptions of space and time. Fournier questions our past and future utopias--what are our expectations for the future and has the future already happened? The evocative images document and archive while also exploring humankind's myths and fantasies about the future.
Author: William Henry Katerberg Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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What is the future of the American West? This book look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and future powerfully shape our understanding of the present-day West.
Author: David M. Bell Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1317486714 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 189
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Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in – or rather because of – the condition of ‘post-utopianism’ that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian studies, a variety of ‘radical’ theories and the need for decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within, against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with hope for a better future. He proposes paying a ‘subversive fidelity’ to utopia, in which its three constituent terms: ‘good’ (eu), ‘place’ (topos), and ‘no’ (ou) are rethought to assert the importance of immanent, affective relations. The volume engages with a variety of practices and forms to articulate such a utopianism, including popular education/critical pedagogy; musical improvisation; and utopian literature. The problems as well as the possibilities of this utopianism are explored, although the problems are often revealed to be possibilities, provided they are subject to material challenge. Rethinking Utopia offers a way of thinking about (and perhaps realising) utopia that helps overcome some of the binary oppositions structuring much thinking about the topic. It allows utopia to be thought in terms of place and process; affirmation and negation; and the real and the not-yet. It engages with the spatial and affective turns in the social sciences without ever uncritically being subsumed by them; and seeks to make connections to indigenous cosmologies. It is a cautious, careful, critical work punctuated by both pessimism and hope; and a refusal to accept the finality of this or any world.
Author: Mark R. Levin Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439173281 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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In his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, Mark R. Levin explores the psychology, motivations, and history of the utopian movement, its architects—the Founding Fathers, and its modern-day disciples—and how the individual and American society are being devoured by it. Levin asks, what is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them? Levin digs deep into the past and draws astoundingly relevant parallels to contemporary America from Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, as well as from the critical works of John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other philosophical pioneers who brilliantly diagnosed the nature of man and government. As Levin meticulously pursues his subject, the reader joins him in an enlightening and compelling journey. And in the end, Levin’s message is clear: the American republic is in great peril. The people must now choose between utopianism or liberty. President Ronald Reagan warned, “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Levin agrees, and with Ameritopia, delivers another modern political classic, an indispensable guide for America in our time and in the future.
Author: Douglas Murphy Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1781689806 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 298
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In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil, and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation of thinkers, designers and engineers who hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities, and a meaningful connection with nature. In this brilliant work of cultural history, architect Douglas Murphy traces the lost archeology of the present-day through the works of thinkers and designers such as Buckminster Fuller, the ecological pioneer Stewart Brand, the Archigram architects who envisioned the Plug-In City in the '60s, as well as co-operatives in Vienna, communes in the Californian desert, and protesters on the streets of Paris. In this mind-bending account of the last avant garde, we see not just the source of our current problems but also some powerful alternative futures.
Author: Michael Marder Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1441115390 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's politics. The original essays, contributed by key thinkers such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, highlight the connection between utopian theory and practice. The book reassesses the legacy of utopia and conceptualizes alternatives to the neo-liberal, technocratic regimes prevalent in today's world. It argues that only utopia in its existential sense, grounded in the lived time and space of politics, can distance itself from mainstream ideology and not be at the service of technocratic regimes, while paying attention to the material conditions of human life. Existential Utopia offers a new and exciting interpretation of utopia in contemporary culture and a much-needed intervention into the philosophical and political discussion of utopian thinking that is both accessible to students and comprehensive.
Author: Ken Dube
Author: Ken Dube
Author: José Esteban Muñoz
Author: Samuel Moyn
Author: Vincent Fournier
Author: William Henry Katerberg
Author: David M. Bell
Author: Mark R. Levin
Author: Chris Morgan
Author: Douglas Murphy
Author: Michael Marder