Word: utopian
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...make this damned thing work?" Benkler is a leading prophet of today's gift economy, and he fits the part: his bounteous beard resembles Kropotkin's. He was treasurer of a kibbutz, a cooperative farm, in his native Israel. He doesn't mind being called utopian. But neither does Benkler dream of a world without capitalism. Instead, he has become an unlikely business guru, with a shop at the intersection of Commerce and Cooperation. "It's very cool," he says. "I find myself talking to all sorts of weird hackers one day and chief economists of major corporations the next...
Despite the unification of father and children, Hunt never felt a close connection with the oil baron, who was an emotionally distant and demanding lothario. However, it was her father who first introduced her to politics. H.L. Hunt espoused a doctrine of rabid anti-communism. He penned a utopian novel in which wealth dictated voting privileges, and he pressed his daughters into the service of his anti-communist crusade. “Making speeches with my father was the closest thing to a meaningful relationship we ever had,” the younger Hunt writes...
...made landscapes[an error occurred while processing this directive] and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." A mouthful, but Ballard has earned every word of it. In 20 novels and 20 story collections over his half-century as a writer, he has created an anti-utopian gulag of ostensibly placid communities - island resorts, luxury apartment towers, high-tech research parks - where civility deteriorates and darkness rises. In Kingdom Come, his latest and perhaps most unsettling work yet, Ballard exposes a particularly nasty cesspool of social pathology: the shopping mall. First, a clarification. Confusingly, Ballard is perhaps best...
...allure lies precisely in our inability to define it, and thus to realize it. Just as getting an ‘A’ is less satisfying once you actually have it on your transcript, so are my summer journeys perpetually satisfying: because my goals remain elaborate yet undefined, utopian and thus unattainable, I never have to declare victory and face the frightening specter of complacency.Hence my love for the Fung Wah Bus. And, I think, hence my countless classmates who have four- or five-line descriptions of their summer location on their facebook.com profiles, listing in excruciating detail...
...most part, however, the crowd listened in earnest to the articulate and occasionally poetic Ganji, who alternated between sounding like a pragmatic realist and a utopian hippie as he spoke of disarming the world's nuclear weapons to enjoy peace, love and understanding. He was almost dismissive of Ahmadinejad, claiming the Iranian president has no real power other than as the mouthpiece of the country's Supreme Leader. "Ahmadinejad says he wants to destroy Israel - can anyone believe that joke?" asked Ganji. "These are empty slogans to appeal to the masses... You shouldn't be that afraid, but we [Iranians...