{"title":"Introduction: Alchemies of the Collective Soul: Scipio Sighele’s Crimes and Punishments","authors":"N. Pireddu","doi":"10.3138/9781487517359-003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"God, arrives in the parallel universe of Utopia, he finds himself in a “fortunate world” where “there is no Crowd” (Men 285). If for the stunned Earthling such felicitous discovery constitutes the most extraordinary feature of this civilization many thousand years ahead of his, it also triggers a comparison with his own society, which “alas still is, the world of the Crowd, the world of that detestable crawling mass of un-featured, infected human beings” (285). The contempt for these amorphous collectivities that in Utopia only survive through film and photographs preserved in history museums is summarized by Barnstaple’s agitated explanation to Crystal, a young Utopian:","PeriodicalId":388738,"journal":{"name":"The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487517359-003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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God, arrives in the parallel universe of Utopia, he finds himself in a “fortunate world” where “there is no Crowd” (Men 285). If for the stunned Earthling such felicitous discovery constitutes the most extraordinary feature of this civilization many thousand years ahead of his, it also triggers a comparison with his own society, which “alas still is, the world of the Crowd, the world of that detestable crawling mass of un-featured, infected human beings” (285). The contempt for these amorphous collectivities that in Utopia only survive through film and photographs preserved in history museums is summarized by Barnstaple’s agitated explanation to Crystal, a young Utopian:
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