The near-future science fiction film (with believable yet confrontational new technologies which affect our everyday interactions) allows us to perceive the invention and widespread use of a new technology, while revealing the possible disasters it catalyzes.Īdditionally, media which references existing technology can point to exaggerated albeit relatable unsettling scenarios. ![]() It’s the dramatic depiction of a world where man-made artifacts overcome the society of people who produced them, painted in an ironic, almost cartoon-like style.” The main focus of a sacral contemplation by the anonymous crowd is sometimes a technological artifact, sometimes an infrastructure or a building. “New-York based artist Ian Davis paints scenes where human beings are reduced to minimal multiplied figures gathering around a monumental presence. Going beyond abstract power as such also means facing questions regarding the constitution of singular subjects (as collectives, institutions and participants - not just as subject-positions), as. This is something, this is the opposite of it, and this is a combination of the two, a coexistence or even a compromise. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.” “Science fiction films are not about science. Now I will include a quote by Susan Sontag: We draw on Ernst Blochs concepts of abstract and concrete utopia to suggest that while queer criminology has succeeded in producing largely abstract. In order to contribute to a comparative sociology of such social experiments, this article is interested in the case of France and the United States in the 19th century. Concrete utopias are relational to historically situated struggles, a collectivity that is actualized or potential.” Abstract Concrete utopias have received little international comparison. Abstract utopias falter for Bloch because they are untethered from any historical consciousness. “He makes a critical distinction between abstract utopias and concrete utopias, valuing abstract utopias only insofar as they pose a critique function that fuels a critical and potentially transformative political imagination. ![]() “Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.” “Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.” “A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth glancing at.”-Oscar Wilde ‘ Que se vayan tods ’ (referred to as ‘QSVT now onwards) sounds like a beautiful melody that brings nostalgia. But today the slogan of the popular insurrection of December 2001, i.e. Illustrations by Ian Davis/writings from Jose Esteban MunozĮxcerpt from the introduction of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz which includes this quote: Abstract Much has been written about the Argentine financial crisis and the popular insurrection of December 2001, and their legacies.
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