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utopian
(redirected from Utopianism)

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See: quixotic


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The Stanford historian Fred Turner answers that question From Counterculture to Cyber culture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago), a thoughtful and brilliantly reported book.
It argues that Vietnamese farmers themselves were the principal agents of the downfall of communist utopianism in the rice fields, forcing the Vietnamese government to abandon collectivism.
In Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution by Anthony Vidler (Basel: Birkhauser, 2006, [pounds sterling]23), Ledoux's influential buildings and designs are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically, reflecting their complex character between emblem and instrument, spectacle and shelter, ideal and utopia--revealing the architect's allegiance to the twin principles of classicism and utopianism.
 
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