Cooperativa Social e a produção de liberdade dos egressos do sistema prisional by Ilan Tchernin Himelfarb, José Odelso Schneider

“…In this article it will be presented a little history of such cooperative organization and the main results of a case study conducted by Himelfarb (2005), highlighting that Social Cooperatives have an important role as a socializing initiative and social inclusion to beyond normal conditions, showing that the precursors´ utopia may have a place.…”
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Dans la solitude des autres : pour une histoire sociale et politique du concept de solitudo au Moyen Âge by Gabriel Castanho

“…Finally, two major conclusions will be imperative : 1) the medieval solitude aims at balancing, between utopia and ideology, the antisocial tensions around the religious desire of abandonment of the world ; 2) the importance of the concept of solitude for the political history itself.…”
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Comment s’articule l’intervention environnementale avec les pratiques et utopies du développement durable ? L’exemple du Conservatoire du Littoral et de ses partenaires gestionnair... by Jean-Baptiste Narcy, Charlotte Michel, Claire Bouteloup

“…How does it bridge its environmental action with the sustainable development utopia? Based on several case studies launched by the CEL itself in 2007, the present paper analyses different types of governance and their associated visions of sustainable development. …”
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Une guerre sans fin ? L’utopie, la famille, et le monde post 11-Septembre dans Doctor Who de Russel T. Davies by Alec Charles

“…Exploring in detail the reimagined Doctor Who’s first four seasons (2005-2008), the essay shows how the series investigates, juxtaposes, and perhaps eventually reconciles two concepts central to its narrative : Utopia and family.…”
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Survivre, renverser, réparer : personnages féminins et animaux à la fin de l’Androcène by Jodie Lou Bessonnet

“…The apocalyptic novel allows however to reverse the power relationships, through a defensive violence first, but then opening to a potential reparation as the disaster questions the possibility of a feminist and anti-speciesist utopia.…”
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Des TIC au TOC. Contribuer à OpenStreetMap : entre commun numérique et utopie cartographique by Marina Duféal, Matthieu Noucher

“…The object of the analysis is twofold in this article : to highlight the profiles, practices, commitment values of those who constitute the hard core of the OSM community in France and to discuss the underside of this new mapping factory, that operates between utopia and digital common.…”
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EXISTIRÁ UMA VIDA APÓS O DESENVOLVIMENTO? by Serge Latouche

“… O autor faz uma crítica importante à ideologia do progresso e do crescimento e abandona a sociologia moderna europeia para propor uma nova utopia desdesenvolvimentista. Para ele, o decrescimento é um slogan provocador para significar a necessidade de uma ruptura com a sociedade do crescimento, ou seja, uma sociedade fagocitada por uma economia que não tem outro objetivo senão o crescimento pelo crescimento. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…Although rehabilitated since the 1960s, Art Nouveau remains a formidable moment of aesthetic and social utopia whose spiritual foundations remain unclear, due in particular to the lack of primary sources. …”
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Shamballa, Heaven can wait. How 3D printing will sustain the future by Dario Russo, Massimo Moretti

“…This article is devoted to the activities of the WASP group of which Massimo Moretti is the founder, and emphasizes how it is possible to reconcile technological progress with the creation of a heaven on earth: a society of equals, eco-compatible, scientifically evolved and completely open-source. This is not utopia. It is actually taking place thanks to projects that respond in concrete fashion to the basic needs of Man: food, home, health, energy, work and culture. …”
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Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur by Agnès Derail-Imbert

“…While animal brutality invalidates the myth of a society of sympathy, it nevertheless frees the discourse from its subordination to such utopia, and allows the text to engage with the native figures of American savagery.…”
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CYBERPUNK – GAME – POETRY: Rostislav Amelin’s “SimStab” by Daniil Leiderman, Mark Lipovetsky

“…Both the poem, game and their shared text embody spaces of utopia reliant on repressed sites of formless abjection, which paradoxically become a source of anarchic freedom. …”
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De quelle nostalgie l’utopie andalouse d’Aragon est-elle le miroir ? by Stéphane Baquey

“…Thus, in Le Fou d’Elsa, the strategy of allusive speech allows shifts which re-qualify the status of utopia and nostalgia in a speech unleashed form orthodox communism. …”
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Die Wirkungsgeschichte der Chymischen Hochzeit im Bereich neuer Rosenkreuzerorganisationen by Harald Lamprecht

“…This paper then focuses on the interpretation put forth In the Lectorium, of the Chymical Wedding as expressing gnostic transfiguration, and finally on the way the AMORC (Antiquus Mysticus Ordo Rosae Crucis) revised the Rosicrucian Manifestos to formulate a social utopia permeated with esoteric ideas. It concludes with the idea that the modern reception of the Chymical Wedding is very heterogeneous and can be used to justify opposite ambitions and ideological views.…”
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Walden dos: crítica al paradigma económico moderno by Liliana Olarte Rodríguez

“…Si bien Walden Dos no deja de ser una utopía, deja entrever que es necesario implementar los principios de la ingeniería de conducta, aspecto poco considerado por disciplinas como la economía, la ciencia política, entre otras, si se quieren resolver las falencias del sistema actual.…”
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La société multiculturelle selon Jürgen Habermas (I) by Denis Goeldel

“…The article highlights a “liberal” type of multiculturalism, opening the borders to any foreigner who wishes to immigrate—Habermas speaks of a “right to immigration” and a “right to integration”—in exchange for his “acculturation” to the “common political culture” of the host country, culminating in the “realistic utopia” of a “cosmopolitan state”, in which every “world citizen” is ensured to benefit from an “effectively institutionalized cosmopolitan right”.…”
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Acque, fiumi e progetti utopici nel paesaggio veneto by Matteo Proto

“…The article analyzes the Utopia related to the construction of water paths in the North of Italy beginning of the nineteenth century. …”
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Un théâtre astral et « révolutionnaire » : les visions « fanta-scientifiques » de Paul Scheerbart by Cristina Grazioli

“…We propose here the perspective of a continuity between the stage as a place of realisation of utopia, and the transparency of light as a dimension that aims at opening up to other worlds; theatre as a condition that fuses the dimension of the present (of presence) is investigated, within the deployment of the futuristic imaginary of science fiction. …”
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Módní oděv jako paradigmatický model posthumanismu: teorie a praxe by Muchová, Linda

“…According to this concept, nature does not stand in opposition to culture and politics, it is not the past of the human race from which it should be emancipated. Nature as a utopia or a means of liberating humankind is placed in the same position as technology has been occupying. …”

Le “Written Speech” yeatsien et ses expressions scéniques by Pierre Longuenesse

“…A strange alliance thus took place between the poet, the actor, and a voice tradition seemingly very far from the “yeatsian utopia”. Nevertheless, Yeats’s reference when he aims at the ecstasy or “tragic joy” of his drama’s heroes remains those magnetic french “golden voices”.…”
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