---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [transversal] Open Utopia From: "Stevphen Shukaitis" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, December 2, 2012 12:27 am To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
A new, complete, and re-mixable version of a classic text cheers, stevphen Open Utopia Thomas More & Stephen Duncombe Open Utopia is the first complete English language edition of Thomas Mores Utopia that honors the primary precept of Utopia itself: that all property is common property. Open Utopia, licensed under Creative Commons, is free to copy, to share, to use. But Utopia is more than the story of a far-off land with no private property. It is a text that instructs us how to approach texts, be they literary or political, in an open manner: open to criticism, open to participation, and open to re-creation. Utopia is no-place, and therefore it is up to all of us to imagine it. In this volume, and its accompanying website, Utopia is re-imagined and brought into the digital age as a participatory technology for undermining authority and facilitating new imagination. Website: http://theopenutopia.org A welcome new intervention into an old text. Re-read through the lens of Duncombes extensive and persuasive introduction, Mores Utopia is revealed as a subversive methodology for approaching utopias, one that engages and expands our capacity for political invention and imagination. Open Utopia is an infinite demand that splits the subject open to new possible worlds rather than giving a closed plan. Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless Everybody knows the difference between an open and a closed door. Fewer know the difference between an open mind and a closed mind, especially on the American left, where intellectual policing often replaces intellectual encouragement. Stephen Duncombe, in conversation with More and the horrifying history of utopia and utopians, opens minds and doors and reaffirms the importance of utopian thinking. Adelante, excelsior! Reverend Donna Schaper PDF available freely online (http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=487). Chronicle of Higher Education on Open utopia: http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Reading-Projects/135908/ Launch event in New York City: Stephen Duncombe and Bob Stein Launch for Open Utopia Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:30PM - 7:30PM 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor http://humanitiesinitiative.org/index.php/dhevents/228-nyudhopenutopia _______________________________________________ transversal mailing list | info: http://lists.servus.at/mailman/listinfo/transversal -- Oberliht, Young Artists Association http://oberliht.com . . . . . . . . . . . https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
