“What I like about Ballard’s work is how he turns this #apocalyptic vision into something life affirming. Whatever catastrophes happen in history, human life re-emerges and other types of civilisation arise. That is also my belief.” #JGBallard #books #utopian fivebooks.com/best-books/j...

Critiques of Utopia and Apocal...
Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse

Utopia means 'nowhere' and yet many generations have nonetheless tried to create it. John Gray picks the best critiques of utopia (and apocalypse).

Five Books

Poster 3 of [who knows how many] has been finished. I was going for a "tacky and well-dated yet kinda cool-looking poster you'd see on a library wall during the 90's" vibe. Enjoy.

#Utopian #Scholastic #retro #CGI #poster #Krita #reading #books #surreal #surrealism #Mobiusstrip #readingisfun #clouds #ocean

#KarlPolanyi analyzed the nineteenth-century notion of the #self-regulating #market as a #utopian construction—the impossible project of a society that has done away with power and politics … “ open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Top Links 1040 Tax the billion...
Top Links 1040 Tax the billionaires. America's first new refinery in half a century. The economy as strategy. Cancer odds.

Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

Chartbook
(is) – Wander Lines
#Experimental #FernandDeligny #Hypnowave #fm #frequencymodulation #utopian #NewYork
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://isobelbess.bandcamp.com/album/wander-lines
Wander Lines, by (is)

2 track album

(is)
Michael Wolf | Utopian Scholastic

Utopia Ltd. [1969]
1 print : color ; sheet 61 x 41 cm (poster format) | Poster shows an advertisement for an opera.

#UtopiaLtd #UtopiaL #UtopiaLt #Utopian #american #posters #photopgraphy #LibraryOfCongress

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015646130/

A future imagined with hope,
drawn with optimism,
printed in ink and belief.

An unreal tomorrow,
from a time that still trusted it.

#retrofuturism
#atomic
#vintage
#1950s
#future
#utopian
#science
#retro
#imagined

New Books (part IV)

'Quest for the New Moral World' by John F. C. Harrison. A history of the #Owenist movement in #Britain and the #USA Robert Owen was a #bourgeois philanthropist, factory-reformer and #Utopian #Socialist thinker who, by the mid-1820's, had somewhat ironically become the figurehead of a genuinely working-class based #political #trade_union and #CoOperative movement. The Owenists would be a major influence on #Marx and the #Chartists in the #1840s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owenism

I want to read #utopian #solarpunk novels about societies that rever and honor all #gender-non-conforming experiences (especially non-binary, non-cis, #transgender experiences) because of the scientific breakthroughs and cultural insights such individuals unlock for society at large.

Also I'd like to live in these societies in real life.