Utopics: Spatial Play

Marín, Louis

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“…In this case, the communitas derives from narratively shared experiences of the dangers of tourism (cf: Adams 2001: 273), a situation that I have discussed elsewhere as pertaining to the development of a 'utopic' space (to use Louis Marin's [1984] conception) where unfettered explorations of self are playfully enacted (Causey 2003: 27).…”

Section: A Central No-wherementioning

confidence: 97%

‘GO BACK TO THE BATAK, IT'S SAFE THERE’: Tourism in North Sumatra during Perilous Times

Causey¹

2007

Indonesia and the Malay World

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Section: A Central No-wherementioning

confidence: 97%

‘GO BACK TO THE BATAK, IT'S SAFE THERE’: Tourism in North Sumatra during Perilous Times

Causey¹

2007

Indonesia and the Malay World

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“…An authoritative power settled at the very spot of what is not capable of interpretation [ … ] It may simply be impossible to write and speak about utopia. 19 Exegesis through criticism is thereby placed in its first double-bind in Bolaño's novel: pedagogy against comprehension; utopia against misreading.…”

Section: Crypto-didacticism Utopia and 2666mentioning

confidence: 99%

Keep writing: the critique of the university in Roberto Bolaño's2666

Eve

2015

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Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is a novel that can be situated, aesthetically, within the traditions of utopian fiction and the North American encyclopaedic, postmodern novel. It is also, however, a text that is exemplary of a type of didacticism that cloaks its mechanism behind an overloaded structure. One of the explicit targets of this didacticism is the neo-liberal university that, in 2666, is structurally twinned with the police department and is thus complicit in the novel's femicides. This article suggests the ways in which Bolaño's novel attempts to discipline the academy while also outlining its mode of crypto-didacticism. Taking theoretical cues from Theodor W. Adorno and Pierre Bourdieu, this article reads 2666 as a metafictional work that signals its own desire to teach, thereby representing a fresh approach for ethics in the postmodern novel and beyond.

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“…Marx andEngels (1967, original edition 1848) find similar faults with utopian models, but reserved a more positive role for the utopian impulse inasmuch as it spurs individuals to critique, and possibly think beyond, the confines of currently existing social systems. For Louis Marin (1984), the value of utopian thought is the way in which the funda-mental pun that constitutes the term "utopia" (as both outopia ["non-place"] and eutopia ["good place"]) indicates that utopianism is less about erecting a new social order than it is about the neutralization of contemporary social relations by positing an alternative set of relations. As Jameson (1988) notes:…”

Section: Anarcho-utopianism the Utopian Impulsementioning

confidence: 99%

The Divergent Anarcho-utopian Discourses of the Open Source Software Movement

Bradley

2006

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Abstract:The discourse informing open source programming is important for many reasons, not the least of which is the way in which its ideological positions are translated into practical actions. It is argued that the initial anarcho-utopian move initiated by Richard Stallman's GNU Project and Free Software Foundation is currently being transformed into an organizational utopia in the form of the largely Linux-based open source movement. The utopian impulse evident in open source software development is therefore addressed from the perspective that the promises of liberation that inform its anarchy-inspired politics may be undermined by efforts to integrate its communal programming practices into existing market hegemonies.Résumé : Le discours sur la programmation libre est important à plusieurs égards, notamment dans la manière dont ses positions idéologiques se transforment en actions concrètes. Cet article soutient que le mouvement anarcho-utopique lancé par Richard Stallman avec son projet GNU et la Fondation pour le logiciel libre se transforme actuellement en une utopie organisationnelle prenant la forme d'un Mouvement du logiciel libre qui se fonde en grande partie sur le système Linux. Cet article adopte la perspective qu'on risque aujourd'hui de perdre de vue l'impulsion utopique qui était évidente dans le développement initial de logiciels libres. On risque en outre d'oublier les promesses de liberté qui sous-tendent les politiques du mouvement originel inspirées par l'anarchie.

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Utopics: Spatial Play

Cited by 273 publications

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‘GO BACK TO THE BATAK, IT'S SAFE THERE’: Tourism in North Sumatra during Perilous Times

‘GO BACK TO THE BATAK, IT'S SAFE THERE’: Tourism in North Sumatra during Perilous Times

Keep writing: the critique of the university in Roberto Bolaño's2666

The Divergent Anarcho-utopian Discourses of the Open Source Software Movement

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