In "Sabers and Utopias," Vargas Llosa repeatedly returns to what he regards as Latin Americans' chronic weakness for demagogues and phantom utopias.
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Utopias are always harder to tell stories about than dystopias, because dystopias can be fought against while utopias invite us to sink into their comforting excesses.
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I wanted to say, look, I know that there have been horrible utopias in the 303th century, but we shouldn't throw it all away because progress is all about the realization of utopias.
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Utopias often contain nightmarish elements, and Kingelez's are no different.
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We're not interested in building 'crazy libertarian utopias for techies.
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Uganda and South Sudan are by no means wealthy utopias.
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Is Seed a game about political utopias, or political fantasies?
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Visitors are permitted to explore the trash can for discarded utopias.
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In fact, utopias can never be sited in any real time.
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It's not just the ABV or the price that separates Utopias.
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As for DiCaprio, he hasn't quite given up on chasing utopias.
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How do we live in the wreckage of our old utopias?
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We're not interested in building "crazy libertarian utopias for techies."Okay. Whew.
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But there's a reason so few thrillers are set in genuine utopias.
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Released every two years, Utopias returns to select retail shelves this November.
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But we all agreed that Utopias tasted like nothing we'd had before.
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When swished gently in the glass, the Utopias formed whiskey-like tears.
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Once utopias are embodied in ideologies, they become dangerous and even deadly.
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American Utopias Akash Kapur's essay on utopias and the recent spate of books that focus on them felt strikingly relevant, despite the fact that the whole notion of utopia is predicated on its rarity ("Couldn't Be Better," October 3rd).
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But history serves up a few cautionary tales of misguided "utopias" as well.
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Other utopias will occur, and those will have to do with the internet.
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Some offer swift transit to liberal utopias; others offer rides to the past.
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"I had a lot of utopias in the beginning," he once told me.
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His interdisciplinary practice playfully engages spatial and social architectures to envision temporary utopias.
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Scientific utopias and promises to transform the human condition deserve the deepest suspicion.
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But since it's less alcoholic than most spirits, Utopias is not as astringent.
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The film meditates around utopias and their failures, the use of technology, gender.
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None of these places are utopias, and unlearning behavior is an ongoing struggle.
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But some states have actually enacted public financing, and liberal utopias didn't follow.
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Other utopias will occur and they have to do with the internet for example.
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It keeps step with Sand's wandering heroines, her radical utopias and fierce intellectual independence.
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That is a radical vision—and like many Utopias, one with potentially dystopian consequences.
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But like most theoretical utopias, it has ended up doing more harm than good.
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Britain is not only condemned to trying to construct Utopias that cannot be built.
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We tasted Utopias, and we were starkly divided into two camps: love and hate.
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Extreme summer heat and this past winter's mild temperatures have created urban rat utopias.
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The utopias of technology see social, bodily and environmental ills as requiring technological solutions.
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The utopias of justice seem largely to have been eviscerated by 20th-century totalitarianism.
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It's one of those technical utopias that in my opinion is not going to happen.
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Wenzel Hablik Expressionist Utopias continues at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Berlin) through January 14.
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But even utopias need some social structure, and Mars will be no different (we assume).
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There are many utopias, perhaps as many as there are individuals to dream them up.
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Yet surely at least as many laissez-faire utopias have been imagined as socialist ones.
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Sam Adams sells a $210 beer that's banned in 15 states: the barrel-aged Utopias.
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That's because brewing Utopias is a time and labor-intensive process that takes several years.
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" And I'm like, "Yeah, but our utopias are not ideas we have in our minds.
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It's about false utopias, and about relationships — be they cultural, political, agricultural, religious, or commercial.
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It is divided into three sections: "Avant-Gardes," focused on his seminal exhibitions of contemporary art of the '60s and '70s; "Utopias and Visionaries," which explores exhibitions about early 20th-century utopias, modernists, and mystics; and "Geographies," examining his Swiss identity and peripatetic later career.
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Utopias like LeisureLand are still made possible by the exploitation of poor and non-white workers.
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So the point is to come up with new utopias: visions of a radically better society.
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Before we get into the specifics of your utopias, I want to talk about utopian thinking.
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Projects will address the program's overarching curatorial theme that focuses on the idea of "rural utopias".
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It's one of those technical utopias that in my opinion is, it's not going to happen.
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But with that level of consumer excitement and goodwill, why not make Utopias an annual release?
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But like most techno-utopias, my reality was more bleak and infinitely more conspicuous than advertised.
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What do you think are the little utopias hidden within Handmaid's Tale and the MaddAddam books?
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Historically, socialist utopias rapidly devolve into impoverished social dystopias, as Venezuela has demonstrated in recent years.
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Asking, typically, for great personal sacrifice, these utopias call for the abolition of all social injustice.
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" Among those products of male striving Wheeler counted "sciences, arts, technologies," along with "philosophies, theologies, social utopias.
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In an industry that tends to overuse the phrase "unique," Utopias actually lives up to the term.
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Utopias comes in a 25.4-ounce ceramic decanter that's shaped like a Sam Adams' copper brewing kettle.
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"A decreasing percentage of the imaginary worlds are utopias," the literary scholar Chad Walsh observed in 1962.
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Some billionaires, like Bill Gates, envision these utopias, funding research and science to help millions on Earth.
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Mobility, which is something like freedom, allows the construction of ephemeral utopias, no-places, gone by morning.
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They don't need to try to create utopias, because they think we're on the road to one.
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Kingelez built miniature utopias out of toothpicks, cardboard, bottle caps, cigarette cartons, Coke cans and even razor blades.
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After we eyeballed the liquid gold into our shot glasses, the Utopias was ready for its close-up.
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A utopia is a planned society; planned societies are often disastrous; that's why utopias contain their own dystopias.
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A selection of his images are published in the book New Deal Utopias, recently released by Kehrer Verlag.
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Nonfiction SABERS AND UTOPIAS Visions of Latin America By Mario Vargas Llosa Translated by Anna Kushner 2000 pp.
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"Sabers and Utopias" shows him inveighing against not only leftists like Hugo Chávez in Venezuela but also Gen.
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Finally, in the 1980s, with the end of social and political utopias, a crisis in playground design began.
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One of his most ambitious books was "Envisioning Real Utopias" (2010), in which he offered alternatives to capitalism.
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At a time when stories of sexual misconduct continue to dominate the news, feminist utopias offer a refuge.
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Protesters also fear that more political organization may disrupt the "social utopias" of the demonstration sites, Halawa said.
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The provisional utopias of illegal dance parties in the eighties and nineties hadn't succeeded in uniting the masses.
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Utopias, from the Greek for no place, are literal nowheres — by definition, these perfect places do not exist.
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"Ours is all about protest and building our own utopias," Masha Reva, Ukraine's exhibit curator tells The Creators Project.
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Faded utopias have served as the greatest inspiration for Paulina Olowska — painting, living and believing in a forgotten past.
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Before utopias and dystopias became imagined futures, they were imagined pasts, or imagined places, like the Garden of Eden.
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The utopias of desire make little sense in a world overrun by cheap entertainment, unbridled consumerism and narcissistic behavior.
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People who are fortunate enough to form utopias do so on the backs of other folks who have been excluded.
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This week, roadside America, Alexandra Stock hates Christoph Büchel's Venice project, quitting Instagram, failed utopias, the AirPods disaster, and more.
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Fashion Utopias: the International Fashion Showcase 2016 ran at Somerset House until February 23, as part of London Fashion Week.
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The maps that dot this work (and so many others) represent the alternate realities queer people imagine for themselves: utopias.
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Universities are not utopias, and people of color experience racism on our campus as they do elsewhere in our country.
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A motley group of foreign libertarians, who like the idea of lightly regulated mini-Utopias for enterprise, are still involved.
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In 1999 the beer morphed into "Millenium," and in 2002 it took on its final form, adopting the name Utopias.
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Even in a final chapter that brings the history of utopia up to date, only left-wing utopias are recognized.
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They dream of utopias with driverless cars, radical property-ownership models, 3-D-printed houses and skyscrapers assembled in days.
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Columbia County, like all gay utopias, has its own aesthetic — one foot in the avant-garde, another in the historical.
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Fittingly, this volume was followed by "Sweet Earth" (2006), which depicts and offers a history of experimental utopias in America.
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Precisely that — rocking the boat — has, however, been the underlying aim of the great utopias that have shaped Western culture.
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You could assume the worst, of course—that in an internet of micro-utopias there would be, say, a NaziGram.
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It's that special time of year again: when Sam Adams releases Utopias, its barrel-aged beer that's banned in 15 states.
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Photographer Jason Reblando explored the 1930s Greenbelt Towns, a Great Depression attempt at communal living, for his series New Deal Utopias.
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A revolution for a constitution, not a paradise; an anti-utopian revolution, because utopias lead to the guillotine and the gulag.
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After the Gulag Archipelago, the Khmer Rouge's killing fields and the Cultural Revolution, these utopias seem both philosophically and politically dead.
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Hospice of Failed Utopias, the title of Camnitzer's retrospective at the Reina Sofía, features 22016 of his works produced since the 523s.
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But there's a question that is rarely asked in these star-eyed presentations about speculative space utopias: What are humans without Earth?
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Such utopias present a soothing vision of plan B, in which moving civilization into space alleviates the anthropogenic pressures on the planet.
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To some extent, we all carry visions of our own utopias, working towards betterment of self, community, or dreaming of an escape.
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This year's Utopias was finished in Cognac and Madeira barrels and blended with a small amount of tart Kosmic Mother Funk wild ale.
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And even though Utopias is "reminiscent of a rich vintage Port or fine Sherry," according to the company, it's still technically a beer.
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Motherboard has always been at its best when we're talking about utopias and dystopias, both prospective and the ones we're currently living in.
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Indeed, for all its brilliance "Toward a Concrete Utopia" can get a little rose-colored in places; utopias, after all, don't really exist.
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Vargas Llosa has also had a prolific career as a journalist and public intellectual; "Sabers and Utopias" is his 25th volume of nonfiction.
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These are images of today's utopias, as seen through the lens of a new exhibit at London's Somerset House, Utopian Voices Here & Now.
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"When you do that, it's pretty common that you take things ad infinitum, and that leads you to utopias and dystopias," he said.
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Utopias of desire, as in Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights," focus on happiness, tying it to the satisfaction of needs.
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The German thinker Ernst Bloch argued that all utopias ultimately express yearning for a reconciliation with that from which one has been estranged.
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Fictional utopias -- like ones conjured by Thomas More, Aldous Huxley and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- are far more common, but also more far-fetched.
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They were supposed to be affordable, ready-made utopias with modern utilities for low-income and middle-class workers who couldn't afford Tehran.
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Far from utopias, the communities mimic their life-size consumerist counterparts with chain restaurants, while the poor are walled off in a slum.
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It uses current problems to undermine efforts at solutions, and conjures past and future utopias rather than trying to keep up with dizzying change.
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The sooner we come out of our collective utopias, the better it will be for humanity in building solutions that positively impact people's lives.
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My study of early utopias and dystopias, which I had of course yearned to write but which I had not felt able to do.
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With cities, this means stripping away the histories of other utopias, the building codes that shape San Francisco, the political dynamics that block change.
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Because the ideologies of the past century have been largely discredited as false utopias, we are bereft of the notion of a better future.
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The book is divided into sections based around different categories of fictional cities — floating utopias, post-apocalyptic survival scenarios, adapting to shifting weather, etc.
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The first chapter, Mundane Futures, (February 223 through March 222) presented historical and current imaginings of a black future, without reduction to simple utopias.
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Turning to where the game's set: To me, utopias feel few and far between in games now, because they just aren't all that interesting.
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Or perhaps another way to interpret the etymology is that utopias are not places at all, but something else: a state of mind, perhaps?
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IN HIS PREFACE to this compact, savage satire, the exiled novelist Ma Jian condemns "the false utopias that have enslaved and infantilised China since 1949".
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Less predictably, its backdrop of '70s council housing revived my fascination with brutalist utopias, culminating in a trip to Montreal's retro-futuristic Expo 67 buildings.
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MORE filled his Cabinet with individuals whose greatest achievements were dreaming up unworkable Democratic utopias from the far off perches of academia and Washington bureaucracy.
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The city attempted to match the infrastructure seen in the biking utopias of Amsterdam and Copenhagen, with bike lanes constructed around the Sydney city centre.
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Some were home to machines that let residents live in virtual reality utopias, while others were meant to test the prolonged effects of cryogenic stasis.
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The point of the series is how women create community, how they can take their individual yearning and turn it collective, how utopias are born.
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For anyone interested in purchasing a bottle, it'd be prudent to first sample a glass at a bar serving Utopias before making the $210 commitment.
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"It's a sad commentary on our age that we find dystopias a lot easier to believe in than utopias," Atwood wrote in the nineteen-eighties.
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Maybe then it can find different paths of action, a glimpse of possibility, new plausible utopias — and a viable alternative for the next presidential elections.
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"It seems to me that all the rooms are sites for emotional action, whether confronting difficult memory, social utopias, gender issues or fantasy," Coles says.
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The utopias of technology are less impressive than ever now that — after Hiroshima and Chernobyl — we are fully aware of the destructive potential of technology.
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Faded utopias have served as the greatest inspiration for Poland's most optimistic, backward-looking artist, Paulina Olowska: painting, living and believing in a forgotten past.
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I ask myself why it's primarily white, middle-class kids trying to build these escapist utopias in developing countries, while not involving the local population.
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"In Utopias, you will get a beer that breaks all the rules and boundaries for beer," says Jim Koch, co-founder and chairman of Boston Beer.
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The resulting collection was such a hit that its hijabs landed on the cover of Fashion Utopias, a magazine distributed throughout the city for the event.
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Related: Soviet Spaceship to Land in Manhattan Next Week Rediscover Failed Eastern Utopias in Stark Winter Photographs Look Inside a Visual Encyclopedia of Contemporary Concrete Buildings
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Arriving alongside "The Neighborhood" is "Sabers and Utopias: Visions of Latin America," a book of essays, most of them political, written over the past five decades.
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Such utopias, demanding the complete alleviation of pain and sometimes glorious spaces of enjoyment and pleasure, tend, at least in modern times, to rely on technology.
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Eric D. Weitz is Distinguished Professor of History at the City College of New York and author of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation.
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Status Audio knows it isn't working with the beryllium drivers of the $3,999 Focal Utopias, and so it hasn't tried to do anything special with the tuning.
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That doesn't stop Samuel Adams Utopias from quickly selling out when it hits shelves, though –or stop some retailers from hiking that price to $300 or more.
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Utopias has an ABV of 28% and is made using a time-intensive brewing process that combines aged extreme beers in wooden port, Cognac, and Madeira barrels.
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But those delirious utopias that Burle Marx designed, above all with Niemeyer and Costa in Brasília, have always been verdant visions of a future that never comes.
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Author Amanda Kolson Hurley presents case studies in Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City that range from anarchist communes to bourgeois utopias.
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Captive to current events, ensconced in the "presentism" denounced by the historian François Hartog, the entire political class has stopped proposing dreams, utopias or long-term projects.
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The nineteen-thirties witnessed a short-lived flowering of New Deal utopias, government-created coöperatives built to generate employment; the next big wave was in the sixties.
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I'd read extensively in science fiction, speculative fiction, utopias and dystopias ever since my high school years in the 1950s, but I'd never written such a book.
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Whether their intentions were sinister or idealistic, these failed utopias are a reminder that one person's idea of a perfect community might be another's fear of violent colonization.
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The radical utopias of the 20th century were not fueled by scientific curiosity alone; they were propelled by the Cold War, the arms race, and large-scale colonialism.
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De Augustine's gossamer acoustics and whisper-quiet falsetto remain intact, his musings on heartbreak still seeping nostalgia and utopias lost, but Bartlett's little flourishes fill the record out.
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"The loose, quite conceptual brief has invited people to suggest alternative futures, cautionary futures or a look back at the failed utopias of their countries past," explains Turner.
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Their ideas of Utopia may differ from ours, but the difference is that they have the means to realize their Utopias, without input from the rest of us.
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Hers was a wider realm, a map of mists and mystics and cold-bright cities under alien moons, populated by wounded races, lost utopias, and creatures beyond time.
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We've abandoned old beliefs in utopias, in visions — some would say hallucinations — of a society built on absolute good for all, in which art plays a declaratively positive role.
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Who would have thought that in the 21st century, American voters would be seriously considering as presidential candidates a neofascist and a neosocialist -- throwbacks to the old, failed utopias?
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Lenin was well aware that "the present ordinary run of people" would not be able to enter the socialist paradise, and most utopias include an element of behaviour modification.
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From abstract themes like Memory and Utopias to more concrete subjects, these well-designed books aim to contribute to a thorough understanding of contemporary art, in a handy format.
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Ruth Levitas, a luminary in the academic field of utopian studies, writes defensively about "the elision between perfection and impossibility" employed by critics who dismiss the practicality of utopias.
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As part of London Fashion Week's International Showcase, Fashion Utopias sees imaginative clothing and accessories curated into country-based installations, speaking volumes to global interpretations of place and future ideals.
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The average resident of Coventry is neither rich nor poor, neither cosmopolitan nor rural, and gets on with life in a cityscape forged by a past generation's nightmares and Utopias.
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The subtle layering of visionary utopias, from New York and Munich to Beijing, with abstracted values of the planet's demise through global warming draws ominous connections between modernity and hubris.
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The release of a new Utopias every two years is something the beer drinking world eagerly awaits, even if most people would never consider spending that much on a bottle.
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ARLENE HIRST "Nice Try" is what the real estate and home design website Curbed is calling its new podcast about failed utopias, real and imagined, from Jamestown to Biosphere 2.
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While making it, she read extensively about utopias: in academic studies and in stories and novels through the centuries, from ancient fables to the science fiction of Octavia E. Butler.
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Religious groups and social experimenters built communal would-be utopias all throughout the region in the 1830s and 1840s, some of which you can still visit (Amana, Iowa; New Harmony, Indiana).
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But the suit is the latest attempt to return North Idaho to a land of wholly unfettered freedoms — to re-create a libertarian utopia that, like all utopias, never actually existed.
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The exhibition is inspiring not just in its miniature utopias, which argue for architecture's power in addressing urban problems, but in how Kingelez turned what was basically trash into something extraordinary.
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It's easy to imagine exactly how awful everything can get right now, and it feels like we don't necessarily have a way to think about utopias, or how it could get better.
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If the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations stood behind the ideological purity of their party doctrine and promoted their nations as workers' utopias, the wall offered proof of oppression and tyranny.
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Gender inequity, immigration, imperialism and the politics of location, failed utopias, hegemonic interventions, and postcolonial trauma are all represented through multi-media works which defamiliarize language and creatively generate dialogue with the viewer.
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Triumphant a quarter-century ago, when liberal democracy appeared to have prevailed definitively over the totalitarian utopias that exacted such a toll in blood, it is now under siege from without and within.
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As with so many utopias — "Make America Great Again"; the golden period of the Prophet Muhammad — it seemed to be more a critique of the present than an informed vision of the past.
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The giant screen is part of an interactive urban planning simulation game that allows users to devise their own cityscapes at touchscreen consoles and see their utopias immediately projected on the big screen.
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Instead of fantasizing about sexual utopias in nuclear bunkers, though, she keeps interrupting (amusingly at first, and then tiresomely) with lengthy monologues about matriarchal orders in the animal kingdom, specifically among the bonobos.
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Dreary utopias like Brave New World or This Perfect Day or even The Hunger Games (the people in the Capitol have it pretty cushy, after all) tend toward an over-regulation that stagnates quickly.
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Her books are interested in power and dualities; in the impulses we repress until we have the power to explore them, and in the anxieties expressed by dystopias and the fantasies implicit to utopias.
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Her perennial themes include near future quasi-utopias, gardening, and women at the work of daily living, and her characters play out their stories against landscapes that manage to be clean, but richly detailed.
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The allusion to utopias refers to the political origins of Latin American conceptualism: a Cold War materialization of the centuries-long dream of pan-American unity, anti-imperialist resistance, and the right to self-determination.
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Ditching our utopias for an appreciation of what Gaus, following Karl Popper, calls an "Open Society" of liberal pluralism, mutual accommodation, and incremental democratic reform brings clarity and gravity to this election season's big choice.
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Utopias was actually born from another Samuel Adams creation — 1992's Triple Bock, the beer industry's first barrel aged beer and one of Koch's first efforts to really think outside of the traditional brewing box.
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"Always uncomfortable with this form of government land ownership, Congress began pushing in earnest for a sell-off in 1947," sociologist and New Deal historian Robert Leighninger Jr. writes in a New Deal Utopias essay.
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Atwood has said that part of the inspiration for The Handmaid's Tale came from reading canonical stories about utopias and dystopias which featured exclusively male protagonists and "decorative" women who often weren't wearing many clothes.
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But now, Berlin's Marcus-Gropius-Bau is recognizing the quality of his work and reintroducing him to the public with Wenzel Hablik: Expressionist Utopias, an immensely successful survey of the artist's career from beginning to end.
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The question, however, is whether anyone will want to do that, or if the master-planned community will go the way of other Florida development boondoggles that were also advertised as utopias before falling into disrepair.
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"When you do [think big], it's pretty common that you take things ad infinitum, and that leads you to utopias and dystopias," says Roy Bahat, the head of a San Francisco-based venture-capital firm Bloomberg Beta.
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Today's start-up culture appropriates the communal values of earlier utopias to serve the purposes of the free market—we are taught to uphold teamwork as the highest ideal, while simultaneously being encouraged to compete as individuals.
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H.G. Wells imagined machine-run utopias where the human inhabitants were free to explore their passions and politically liberal pursuits; likewise, Edward Bellamy's novel, Looking Backward, envisioned a libertarian socialist system built on the foundations of technological advances.
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A vote on a concrete proposition, whether Theresa May's deal, "Norway Plus" or an alternative, would focus debate on the strengths and weaknesses of a specific policy, not on the abstract utopias (and dystopias) that predominated in 2016.
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Utopias, though, takes a variety of cask-conditioned beers (which results in a gentler level of carbonation and a rounder mouthfeel), then transfers them to barrels, ranging from bourbon to rum to sherry to calvados (an apple brandy).
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Wary of ideas and utopias in politics, Mr Dodin has himself adhered to a great, utopian idea that he inherited from Konstantin Stanislavsky, the legendary co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre (Mr Dodin studied under one of his pupils).
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As to digging out the finest detail from a recording, Nero's My Eyes has some whispering, hissing voices in the background that get veiled or concealed on most other headphones, but I hear them on the Utopias and the Ten 5s.
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"I wanted to amplify the feeling of the cavernous museum galleries by installing artworks that invite visitors to look inwards, to question how their senses work, and dream up utopias for everyday life," Eliasson says in the show's press release.
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But new research published Monday in Nature Geoscience throws a wrench in these dreams of melting utopias, by presenting evidence that many ice worlds would quickly spiral from too cold to too hot before life has a chance to take hold.
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Adiós Utopia proceeds in six synergetic constellations: The Utopia of Concrete Art; Cult and Destruction of the Revolutionary Nation; The Imposition of Words: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Media Controls; A Generation of Silenced Artists; Sea, Borders, Exile; and Inverted Utopias, Lost Illusions.
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It is the last bit of this that gives us pause, for when people with extraordinary wealth and its resultant power make assumptions about others' needs and desires, and indeed those peoples' own utopias, the assumptions become problematic and cause conflict.
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Carlos Granés, the editor who assembled "Sabers and Utopias," told me that he once heard the Peruvian author Dante Castro Arrasco declare that if Vargas Llosa had become president of Peru, he would have replaced the national coat of arms with a swastika.
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He would surely be gratified by his return to prominence at age 100, but I suspect he would wonder at some of today's Brutalist fanboys — the ones who slaver over Instagram views of past utopias and prefer their architecture crumbling and empty.
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For all the idealism, daily life in these "heavens on earth"—to borrow the title of Mark Holloway's classic 1951 work on American utopias—rarely managed to rise above the mundanities that mark most human settlements: financial shenanigans, nepotism, authoritarianism, envy, sexual exploitation.
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Finally, for this transformation to take hold, we should not rely on the architects who seems to fluidly transform from capitalist developers to critical theorists, from social engineers to romantic writers, although ultimately selling forms of bourgeois utopias to their privileged clients.
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Beryllium is the core ingredient in the best dynamic-driver headphones I've heard so far, the $3,999 Focal Utopias, and seeing it make an appearance in such tiny and affordable headphones as the Be4 is what intrigued me to give these new buds a listen.
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It comes, transfigured, from the wrecked dreams of communal living, of back-to-the-land utopias, of expanding plastic spheres and geodesic domes that populated the landscape of Northern California around the time (and around the same place) that the first semiconductors were being perfected.
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This ideology isn't all that new, though it is extreme: In the 60s and 70s, radical feminist theorists such as Andrea Dworkin, Monique Wittig, and Mary Daly argued for societies in which women ruled, though most of these imagined utopias were separatist in nature.
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In a world where existence is increasingly mediated by technology—where both utopias and dystopias alike see a future in which human consciousness is in some way intertwined with or preserved by machines—Drewchin's work exists as a subtle reminder of the primacy of the flesh.
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When: Opens Saturday, January 5, 6–9pm Where: Shulamit Nazarian (616 North LaBrea Avenue, Fairfax, Los Angeles) More info at Shulamit Nazarian Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno moves deftly between the worlds of art, architecture, and science to create sculptures and installations that resemble molecular models or floating utopias.
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A 21970 study by Janet E. Rosenbaum, an epidemiologist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, examined the perception of many gun-rights advocates that Israel and Switzerland were "gun utopias" that had fairly permissive firearms laws and widespread gun ownership, and encouraged armed civilians to intercept shooters.
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Fantasy Island asks us to question the obsolete utopias sold to us in luxury real estate advertisements — in particular, the ones that call on Modernism's tropes of order, harmony, and structural integrity to sell a miraculous experience, while denying the disorder they wreak in co-opted cultural, economic, and environmental landscapes.
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Creator Michael Schur ("Parks and Recreation") surely has a grand plan in mind, but the second season felt improvised in the best possible sense, shuttling Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) and her fellow Good Place residents through multiple fake utopias and celestial bureaucracies, all under the eye of Ted Danson's cackling architect.
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The emphasis on music privileges Jahnn's influence over George's, but music is just one mode — if the primary one — of achieving utopias; and utopia is sought in these cases through a collective mentality in which order is imposed and a male leader is installed even as the establishment is rejected.
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Her career is filled with achievements in great storytelling that also offer galvanizing visions of worlds that differ from our own: the feminist and anti-capitalist utopias of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and Always Coming Home; the Taoist epic fantasy of the Earthsea novels; the emancipatory historical fiction of Lavinia.
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In my book, I explain why these societies are so successful and happy — but I also spend some time explaining why Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (plus Finland and Iceland, for the full Nordic spread) are not the utopias the global media has made them out to be this past decade or so.
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It means immersion in a bewildering array of High Victoriana, Cyber Goth, early modernist literature, 1920s sci-fi utopias, 19th century French illustration, early H.G. Wells, Jules Verne pastiche, waistcoats, teapot nerf guns, leather breeches, 1999's Will Smith-fronted blockbuster Wild Wild West, customized Doc Martens, and the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes adaptations.
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In his 15 previous novels he has shown a deep and abiding interest in messy utopias ("Drop City"); ecological fervor ("When the Killing's Done"); grandiose guru figures (his fictional portraitures of John Harvey Kellogg, Alfred Kinsey and Frank Lloyd Wright); isolated, stranded lives ("San Miguel"); and, more generally, in ideas so overinflated that their only fate is to pop.
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Though his motives in writing the book are still puzzling to scholars (was More mocking Catholic rules or merely toying with them?), he created a template for later utopias, which were always marked by those two tenacious ironies: thinking people are told by a thinking person to stop thinking, and changing the world is imagined to depend on changing who we sleep with and how.
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I think I've heard tell of some mythical term for when you're away from your office, and your devices have stopping binging, shaking and clanking, and your laptop isn't lighting up in all four corners because of instant messages, VPN prompts, deadline reminders, email pop-ups with EMERGENCY in the subject line... I think they might have successfully lobbied for this in faraway utopias, like France.
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This is one of many sentiments I uncover that throw off a whimsical-idealistic college-student vibe, but I am reminded of another proverb cautioning about people in glass houses and the throwing of stones — and anyway, the real point of the exercise seems to be to underscore how easily utopias are made and discarded, or perhaps that one utopia can only exist at the expense of another.
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The show continues with other noteworthy environments, such as "Ambiente Spaziale: 'Utopie,' nella XIII Triennale di Milano" (Spatial Environment: 'Utopias,' at the 13th Milan Triennale) (1964), created in collaboration with artist and designer Nanda Vigo; "Ambiente Spaziale con Neon" (Spatial Environment with Neon) (1967), a poetic monochromatic room featuring a sinuous pink neon light, and "Fonti di Energia, Soffitto al Neon per 'Italia 61,' a Torino" (Energy Sources, Neon Ceiling for 'Italia 61', in Turin) (1961), which spectacularly ends the exhibition path.
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