More’s Utopia, Callenbach’s Ecotopia, and Biosphere 2

Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present

“…The climate crisis we are at the moment living in could create a need for new counter-images of a better, more ecologically stable society that could facilitate the masses moving towards a better future. There is, of course, a long tradition of eco-utopianism in the form of both utopian literature (see for example Callenbach 1990, McCutcheon 2015 and utopian practice (see for example Liftin 2014, Hong & Vicdan 2016, but so far these kinds of utopias have not facilitated large scale social transformation.…”