Nowhere Somewhere : Writing, Space and the Construction of Utopia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I - Lands Beyond the Sea / The Other Beyond the Sea: Ancient to Early Modern Utopianism -- The Fruit of the Planted Oar: Utopia in the Odyssey -- A Cannibal Utopia: On Montaigne's Essays -- The Sea,"that Great Utopian Substance": For an Ideal-Maritime History in Portuguese Literature -- Shipwreck and Utopia in Colonial Spanish America -- PART II - Utopian Inclusions and Exclusions: The Ages of (Un)Reason -- Spanish Literary Utopias: Omnibona and The Desired Government -- Aux Marches du Palais: L'emblème d'une Académie portugaise du XVIIe siècle -- Utopianism in The Scarlet Letter -- Madness and Utopia in John Ruskin's Thought -- Do the Right Thing? Knowledge and Agency in Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones who Walk away from Omelas" -- PART III - Technological Utopianisms: The Present and the Future -- The Ubermensch in the Laboratory: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- Communing with Relationships: A Look at the Influence of Nineteenth Century Communes on Utopian Space Travel and Stations -- PART IV - Contemporary Spaces: Performing / Discussing Utopia -- "We Have Studdenly Become Severe": Ernst Bloch as a Critic of Modern Architecture -- Utopian Modernism in the Land of the Future: Brasília, the "Capital of Hope" -- Redesigning Utopia for the Twenty-First Century? Reflections on Current Projects of Urban Regeneration in the United Kingdom -- Constructing, Performimg and Unsettling Utopia: Geographies of Built Space at the Hundertwasser-Haus, Vienna -- The Imaginary Space of Wishful Other: Thomas Hirschhorn's Cardboard Utopias -- Spatialising Resistance - Resisting Spaces: On Utopias and Heterotopias -- Antinomy Perfected: Everyday Life Utopia in Situationist Politics of Space -- Utopie / Terre / Sôma.