Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0418
P. Sinnema
Karl Marx’s acerbic observation in the opening lines of The Eighteenth Brumaire that “all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur the first time as tragedy, the second as farce” may be profitably applied to a reconsideration of literary farce sui generis, a genre represented in this article by a long-neglected work of utopian fiction, Archibald Marshall’s Upsidonia (1915). Although Upsidonia’s current disregard is arguably undeserved, the article’s chief interest is not to reclaim the novel on aesthetic grounds but to illuminate the mechanics of what Marx would call its “serious buffoonery.” In its persistent reversal of capitalist principles and relations, Upsidonia naturally invites readers to revisit Marx, whose mordant gambit may serve as a key to Marshall’s own farcical plot and praxis, rooted in return and repetition, the essential maneuvers of farce itself.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0595
Mark Schmitt
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0399
David W. Miller
Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic work of anarchist literature, The Dispossessed (1974), is preoccupied with the issue of imprisonment. This is hardly surprising given anarchism’s longstanding critical engagement with the prison as state apparatus. For classical anarchists, the prison represents one of the most vile and visible examples of state repression. However, while the abolition of prisons constitutes one of the fundamental goals of anarchism, the alternatives put forth by classical anarchist thinkers risk perpetuating the underlying power relations of carceral justice by encouraging social shaming and the policing of norms. The anarchist society of The Dispossessed uses these techniques to discourage the accumulation of power in order to create an egalitarian society. Unfortunately, these same techniques encourage a conformity that hinders other anarchist values, such as creativity and individual self-determination. In essence, the anarchist society depicted in the novel replaces the literal prison with a different form of imprisonment—the social prison, which continues the repressive function of the state through different means. By creating an “ambiguous” anarchist utopia, Le Guin anticipates the critiques of classical anarchism formulated by poststructural and postmodern anarchist theorists. These critiques are most evident in the theme of imprisonment that threads throughout the novel.
厄休拉-勒奎恩（Ursula K. Le Guin）的无政府主义文学经典作品《被剥夺者》（The Dispossessed）（1974 年）集中讨论了监禁问题。鉴于无政府主义长期以来一直对作为国家机器的监狱持批判态度，这就不足为奇了。对古典无政府主义者来说，监狱是国家镇压最卑劣、最明显的例子之一。然而，虽然废除监狱是无政府主义的基本目标之一，但经典无政府主义思想家提出的替代方案却有可能通过鼓励社会羞辱和规范管理来延续监禁正义的潜在权力关系。一无所有的人》中的无政府主义社会利用这些技术阻止权力的积累，以建立一个平等的社会。不幸的是，这些技巧也助长了墨守成规，阻碍了无政府主义的其他价值观，如创造力和个人自决。实质上，小说中描绘的无政府主义社会用另一种形式的监禁--社会监狱--取代了字面意义上的监狱，通过不同的手段延续了国家的镇压职能。通过创造一个 "模棱两可 "的无政府主义乌托邦，勒奎恩预见到了后结构主义和后现代无政府主义理论家对古典无政府主义的批判。这些批判在贯穿小说始终的囚禁主题中体现得淋漓尽致。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.2.0234
Georgie Newson
abstract:Bishop John Wilkins’s “universal philosophical language,” set out in his Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668), has often been described—and indeed dismissed—as a “utopian” project. However, despite the charge of utopianism being applied to Wilkins’s work by theorists as eminent as Foucault, Lacan, and Umberto Eco, no effort has been made to read the Essay as a legitimately utopian text: a text that may be positioned alongside the rich utopian literary-critical tradition to mutually illuminating effect. This article argues that the Essay displays a tendency that the author terms “info-utopianism,” and that this tendency can be located in a number of other Early Modern utopian works. The article then discusses the contextual influences behind the emergence of Early Modern infoutopianism, as well as its implications for contemporary utopian theory.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.2.0368
Manuel Sousa Oliveira, Ilenia Vittoria Casmiri, Fabiola Onofrio, Tânia Cerqueira, Francisca Teixeira, Florian Wagner
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