The Open Utopia is a complete English language edition of Thomas
More's Utopia that honors the primary precept of Utopia itself:
that all property is common property. Licensed under Creative
Commons, The Open Utopia conveys this message and continues the
tradition. But Utopia is more than the story of a far-off land with
no private property. It's 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.
Opinion polls, volatile voting patterns, and street protests
demonstrate widespread dissatisfaction with the current system, yet
the popular response so far has largely been limited to the angry
outcries. But negation, by itself, affects nothing. The dominant
system doesn't dominate because people agree with it; it rules
because we're convinced there is no alternative.
We need to be able to imagine a radical alternative - a Utopia -
yet we are haunted by the disasters of "actually existing" Utopias
of the past century, from fascism to authoritarian socialism. In
this re-issue of Thomas More's generative volume, scholar and
activist Stephen Duncombe re-imagines Utopia as an open text, one
designed by More as an imaginal machine freeing us from the tyranny
of the present while undermining master plans for the future. In
this volume Utopia is re-imagined and brought into the
participatory digital age as a technology for undermining authority
and facilitating new imagination.
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