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“Never Some Easy Flashback”
2012
Abstract This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a generational memory linked to a particular place and time (the working-class Liverpool of the 1960s and 1970s). The tension between the two parts of the poem is reflected in the taut relationship between the poet and a confrontational alter…
Glimmering utopias: 50 years of African film
2010
The history of African film began in the 1960s with the independence of the colonies. Despite all kinds of political and economic difficulties, numerous films have been made since then, featuring wide-ranging processes of consolidation, differentiation and transformation which were characteristic of post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. However, these feature films should not merely be viewed as back references to specifically African problems. The glimmering fictions are imagination spaces. They preserve ideas about how the post-colonial circumstances should be approached. Seen from this perspective, the history of African film may be studied as a history of African utopias. Die Geschichte des…
Utopia and the meaning of life: ludic reason versus instrumental reason in Bernard Suits’ work
2019
In this paper, we explore the existential aspects of Bernard Suits’ Utopia. We first provide a philosophical analysis of the concept of ‘utopia.’ Then, we analyze two key distinctions in Suits’ wor...
Dopo le città di fondazione
2020
Abstract: Il periodo delle città di fondazione del Novecento è una significativa stagione per la riorganizzazione del territorio pensando allo sviluppo dell’agricoltura e alla risoluzione di problemi economici e sociali; ad essa corrisponde un’azione politica che tenta di affrontare questioni antiche e all’architettura di sperimentare nuovi linguaggi. Al fallimento dello sviluppo economico segue una fase di importanti studi interdisciplinari che rendono la Sicilia un laboratorio di idee; all’architettura si collegano ancora oggi segni e testimonianze che si offrono come un modello su cui ricostruire un’utopia postuma. The period of the founding cities of the twentieth century is a significa…
Nueve tesis introductorias sobre la distopía
2021
Nine introductory theses about dystopia
 
 Resumen: Este artículo proporciona una introducción actualizada a la distopía y una exégesis del apogeo ilimitado que esta vive. Y lo hace planteando nueve tesis. El supuesto de partida es que el término “distopía” no designa solamente una forma literaria. Sus premisas, metodologías y actitudes elementales son visibles en el pensamiento social contemporáneo y otras muchas expresiones culturales. En las dos primeras tesis diferencio el género distópico de otros géneros afines y sondeo las coincidencias temáticas que atesoran sus expresiones literarias y filosóficas. A lo largo de las tres tesis posteriores, señalo las causas sociales e ide…
Sidney Armor Reeve: Engineer, Inventor, Progressive, and Underappreciated Utopian
2022
Sidney Armor Reeve, professional engineer and amateur historian, economist, and sociologist, writing during what has been described as the Progressive Era, at-tacked the very foundations of the existing economic and social orders. He explic-itly criticized the dominant commercialism of the capitalist society as being a can-cer, a major cause of inequality and unemployment, offering instead a program of reform that, while some reviewers characterized it as consistent with the program of the socialists, presented something of an alternative vision, one recognizing the primacy of the Ultimate Consumer. His remedy, favoring as it did the central con-trol of the economy, shared at least commonal…
Convergence-based Analysis of Robustness to Delay in Anti-windup Loop of Aircraft Autopilot∗∗This work was supported by Russian Scientific Foundation…
2015
Abstract The windup phenomenon is interpreted as a consequence of the convergent property absence for system with a saturation. This makes it possible to use the frequency-domain criterion for analysis of anti-windup augmentation in the case of stable and marginally stable plants. Based on this approach, robustness of the systems with respect to time delay in the anti-windup loop is examined and the approach for an optimal choice of the static anti-windup gain is proposed. An application of the convergence-based anti-windup control strategy to aircraft flight control for the case of time-delay in the anti-windup loop is described and studied by simulations.
Le fonctionnement d'un espace utopique européen
2008
12 pages; Ce chapitre présente la notion d'« espace utopique », définie à partir de la réflexion de Paul Ricœur. En examinant la manière dont l'association étudiante AEGEE se construit en tant qu'espace utopique, ainsi que les conséquences pour son fonctionnement, le chapitre tente d'apporter un nouvel éclairage aux travaux, menés par Éric Dacheux, sur les « associations européennes de citoyenneté ».
G. Zotova “Mēneša zīmoga" un " Sestdienas galvaskausa" poētika: antiutopijas žanra modifikācija.
2016
Diāna Djačenko G. Zotova „Mēneša zīmoga” un „Sestdienas galvaskausa” poētika: antiutopijas žanra modifikācija: maģistra darbs. – Rīga, 2016. – 54 lpp. Darbs ir veltīts G. A. Zotova romānu „Mēness zīmogs”un „Sestdienas galvaskauss” poētikas un žanru specifikas izpētei. Nospraustā mērķa sasniegšanai darba autore izpētījusi pastāvošus literatūrzinātniskos darbus, kas veltīti romāna kā žanra problemātikai, mūsdienu literatūras pētīšanas problēmām, romāna-antiutopijas specifikai un veidiem. Praktiskajā daļā secīgi, saskaņā ar noteiktajiem uzdevumiem, tiek atklāti G. A. Zotova darbu kā alternatīvās vēstures romānu paveidu poētikas īpatnības. Pamatojoties uz veikto pētījumu, secināts, ka G. A. Zot…
Les "maisons aux (des) champs" : une utopie sociale de la période moderne et un cas d'école bourguignon, Entre-deux-Monts
2009
Au xvie siècle, les manuels d'architecture vantent les mérites de la vie à la campagne et dessinent le plan de la " maison aux champs " idéale, inspirée de la villa romaine, dans laquelle le pater familas peut tout à la fois surveiller le travail agricole, être au centre de sa famille et se livrer aux délices de l'otium. Cette utopie sociale, dont le paradygme est le château royal de Villers-Cotterêts, doit comporter une entrée unique donnant sur la pars rustica, dominée par la pars urbana, encadrée de galeries pour les loisirs de plein-air. Le petit château d'Entre-deux-Mont, au sud de Dijon, rebâti en plusieurs étapes entre 1529 et 1654, semble être une stricte application de ces principe…