There is a connection between our lost faith in a better future and the growing popularity of science fiction, German A. Duarte, Andrea Facchetti, and Seçil Uğur Yavuz from the Faculty of Art and Design at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Northern Italy argue. By analyzing the work of author Philip K. Dick, they… Continue reading materialism
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utopia as practice
future thinking as a tranquilizer in an accelerating world “Bist du bereit für eine kleine Utopie?”, Blumfeld in ‘Wir Sind Frei’ “I miss the future”, Jaron Lanier The 1977 album ‘Trans Europa Express’ by the German band Kraftwerk is peculiar. Although the arrangements, the use of synthesizers, and layers of noise are very modern, the overall feel… Continue reading utopia as practice