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Subject: [transversal] Open Utopia
From:    "Stevphen Shukaitis" <stevphen at autonomedia.org>
Date:    Sun, December 2, 2012 12:27 am
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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
More’s 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 Duncombe’s extensive – and persuasive – introduction, More’s 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

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