Tag Archives: Charles Fourier

you can flee but you can’t hide

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Dave

The first utopia was the Garden of Eden, but since no person knew what it was like, anyone may create it in their own image, the reason being an unhappiness with the world as it exists, pushing efforts to imagine … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albert Brisbane, Brook Farm, Charles Fourier, Ellery Channing, George Ripley, Jeremy Bentham, John Humphrey Noyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oneida Community, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Social Reform Unity, William Heath | Leave a comment

utopia: loitering in Icaria

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Dave

Not content with the world as it is, people have always tried to imagine a world as it might become. it seems that old man time though has served to darken utopian visions in more ways than one… From the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Fourier, Etienne Cabet, Francis Bacon, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morelly, Rene Chateaubriand, Sigmund Freud, The Age of Reason, Tommaso Campanella, Utopian Socialists | Leave a comment

UTOPIAN DREAMS & SCHEMES and IN-BETWEENS

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Dave

What is Utopia and why does it attract both hope and skepticism in equal measure? In a way that appears meaningful, it is a productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive optimistic utopianism and a negative utopian pessimism. A … Continue reading →