Utopia and Daily Life

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Mon, 08/12/2013 - 12:00am
The politics of the utopian imagination

Utopias and dystupias are frequent themes in science fiction.  Gerry Canavan is a scholar of the utopian imagination, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how the interplay between politics and utopia in history and in daily life.  Canavan teaches cultural studies at Marquette University, and is co-editor with Kim Stanley Robinson of a forthcoming book Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction.

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