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    Weil Design die Welt verändert ...: Texte zur Gestaltung

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    Ortsentwürfe. Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert

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    Urgent Architecture. 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a…

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    Sex and Buildings. Modern Architecture and the Sexual…

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    On Continuous and Systematic Nutrition Improvement

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    Die Stadt in der Stadt. Berlin: Ein grünes Archipel.

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    Weltausstellung 1889. Der Maschinenpalast

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    Tropen/Tropics

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    Horror in Architecture

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    Halluzinogene Ordnungen. Einhundert erste Sätze

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    The Spectacle of Disintegration. Situationist Passages out…

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    24/7. Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

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    Unlearning the City. Infrastructure in a New Optical Field

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    Gae Aulenti. Objects. Spaces

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    Die ersten Tage von Berlin. Der Sound der Wende

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    The Italian Avant-Garde. 1968–1976 EP Vol. 1

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    Hello World. Where Design Meets Life

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    Making Art Global (Part 2). Magiciens de la Terre 1989

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    Herb Lubalin. American Graphic Designer 1918—81

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    Die Kraft der Kunst

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    IDEA 357. Architecture in Print: The Development of…

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    Tell It To My Heart

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    "Der Schnittchenkauf". 2011-2012

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The Faber Book of Utopias

Every age has its utopias, from Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world - whether communist, fascist, anarchist, green, golden age, techno-fantastic or hermaphroditic - combining a broad historical sweep with lively variety. An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast range of texts from Ancient Egypt to modern California, the authors of which, in different ways, attempt to describe a better world than our own.
Review:
The instinct to seek perfection in human affairs is as old as Western Civilisation; sometimes it is claimed that the perfect society is lost in the past, or is very distant in the future or across the hills, and sometimes utopia is seen as achievable in our own time, by the adoption of a particular political programme. The great strength of John Carey's anthology of utopian writing, though at times also a significant weakness, is that he is highly suspicious of the entire enterprise; it is not insignificant, he implies by careful selection, that one of the first pieces of Utopian writing is Plato's The Republic that, however benevolent its goals, is maintained by a mixture of force and lies and depends on squashing the aspirations of ordinary people. In his useful introduction, he points to some key themes: the production of perfect offspring and keeping them that way by education, the punishment of criminals, and the management of ageing and death. Carey suggests that there are insoluble problems in human life and that utopians tend to falsify them by regarding them as simple. This is a useful anthology, but a dispiriting one--Carey's determination to let no-one off the hook is harsh, but fair. -- Roz Kaveney


John Carey (Hg.)
The Faber Book of Utopias
Faber and Faber, 1999, 9780571203178