Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0380
Eric D. Smith
This article examines Harold Ramis’s 2005 noir comedy The Ice Harvest as the critically dystopian counter-panel to his beloved 1993 film Groundhog Day, a film frequently discussed within the paradigm of utopia. While starkly different in genre, tone, and reception, the two films comprise a dialectical dyad that registers the historical transition from the utopian cultural effervescence of the early 1990s to the tragic foreclosure of imaginative horizons and the dystopian transformation of economic, political, and social landscapes in the new millennium. In The Ice Harvest, the author argues, this is achieved through a strategic reactivation of film noir as a variant of the critical dystopia.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0517
Adam Stock
{"title":"Funding Utopia: Utopian Studies and the Discourse of Academic Excellence","authors":"Adam Stock","doi":"10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44751,"journal":{"name":"Utopian Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139298929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0641
Pedro Mora-Ramírez, María Amo-Hernández, Paula García-Rodríguez
{"title":"Answering the Knock at the Door, Welcoming Utopian Futures, The Knock at the Door: Utopian Dreams for Post-Covid Times, May 21–24, 2023, University of Huelva, Spain, and University of Calgary, Canada","authors":"Pedro Mora-Ramírez, María Amo-Hernández, Paula García-Rodríguez","doi":"10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0641","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44751,"journal":{"name":"Utopian Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139301467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0538
Adam Stock, Julia Ramírez-Blanco
{"title":"Response 1: Acting Up in Utopia","authors":"Adam Stock, Julia Ramírez-Blanco","doi":"10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44751,"journal":{"name":"Utopian Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139294055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0478
Laurence Davis
{"title":"The Past and Future of Utopian Studies","authors":"Laurence Davis","doi":"10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44751,"journal":{"name":"Utopian Studies","volume":"286 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139293566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0544
Antonis Balasopoulos
{"title":"Response 2: “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”","authors":"Antonis Balasopoulos","doi":"10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44751,"journal":{"name":"Utopian Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139292967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0612
Etta M. Madden
{"title":"(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship","authors":"Etta M. Madden","doi":"10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44751,"journal":{"name":"Utopian Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139306148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0436
S. Gammelgaard
While the political aspects of the interwar dystopias have received much attention, less focus has been given to the specific correlation to the economic thinking and developments of the period, in particular the prominence of economic planning. This article suggests that such a connection is significant by examining a key Swedish novel from the period, Kallocain, in relation to the early economic theory of the Scandinavian welfare state. The article then relates these findings to links between Brave New World and the thinking of John Maynard Keynes. Finally, the kinds of critique articulated in these fictional works are centered around the citizens’ emotional and interior lives in new planned societies, and around their views on bad, disloyal, or painful feelings.
{"title":"Engineering the Welfare State: Economic Thought as Context to Boye’s Kallocain and Huxley’s Brave New World","authors":"S. Gammelgaard","doi":"10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0436","url":null,"abstract":"While the political aspects of the interwar dystopias have received much attention, less focus has been given to the specific correlation to the economic thinking and developments of the period, in particular the prominence of economic planning. This article suggests that such a connection is significant by examining a key Swedish novel from the period, Kallocain, in relation to the early economic theory of the Scandinavian welfare state. The article then relates these findings to links between Brave New World and the thinking of John Maynard Keynes. Finally, the kinds of critique articulated in these fictional works are centered around the citizens’ emotional and interior lives in new planned societies, and around their views on bad, disloyal, or painful feelings.","PeriodicalId":44751,"journal":{"name":"Utopian Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139305307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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