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Solarpunk Futures

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Utopian media studies: Introduction

This introduction to the special issue ‘Utopian Media Studies’ sketches a framework for how media studies can become a site of utopian praxis, research and experimentation. It first addresses three apprehensions media scholars might have about the notion of utopian media studies and its appeal to a loaded concept like ‘utopia’. The introduction then outlines five sensibilities to explicate the nature and significance of this special issue’s contribution to the field: a utopian media studies must adopt an ecological approach to media; recognize and be invigorated by limits; work toward the technological liberation of time; connect imagination with practice; and emphasize and enable conditions for transmitting hope. Lastly, the introduction considers Ruth Levitas’s distinction between utopia’s archaeological, ontological, and architectural mode to map some of the concrete ways in which existing media studies research is doing utopian work that aligns with these sensibilities. In connecting work that operates in these modes with the various contributions to this special issue, the introduction reveals the utopian currents that already run through media studies as a discipline and opens up new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying and modeling digital utopias.

Utopian media studies: Introduction

This introduction to the special issue ‘Utopian Media Studies’ sketches a framework for how media studies can become a site of utopian praxis, research and experimentation. It first addresses three apprehensions media scholars might have about the notion of utopian media studies and its appeal to a loaded concept like ‘utopia’. The introduction then outlines five sensibilities to explicate the nature and significance of this special issue’s contribution to the field: a utopian media studies must adopt an ecological approach to media; recognize and be invigorated by limits; work toward the technological liberation of time; connect imagination with practice; and emphasize and enable conditions for transmitting hope. Lastly, the introduction considers Ruth Levitas’s distinction between utopia’s archaeological, ontological, and architectural mode to map some of the concrete ways in which existing media studies research is doing utopian work that aligns with these sensibilities. In connecting work that operates in these modes with the various contributions to this special issue, the introduction reveals the utopian currents that already run through media studies as a discipline and opens up new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying and modeling digital utopias.

Why We Need the Jetsons and Solarpunk

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Roblox Dream Diary

A series of microgames made over the course of one year. Walk through a lit doorway to be transported to that dream. Some dreams have buttons in the lower right corner that will transport you back; those that do not will do so automatically. In order of construction; Shell Museum Atrium Tornadoes Toro Cany## ###es Pluto Boat in the Cottonwoods Neon Industrial Channel Train It's Time (cw: themes of death of ##### ####) Herons If you want a place to start I'd suggest; Pluto, Train, It's Time, Herons, or Domes.

Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?

[FREE TO READ] His 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technology

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Pace Layers 02025 Annual Journal

Long Now’s annual print journal explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment through essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, and visual art. The journal takes its name and shape from Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand’s pace layers framework — a tool for thinking about how civilizations work. [Learn more about Pace Layers](https://longnow.org/pacelayers/)

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Summer is here - why not let your @rpg.actor enjoy the sun. tilemap.world is a 2d tileset and tilemap editor inspired by Tiled and LDtk It's still very much a work in progress, and while you can walk around the sandbox mode I've got some bigger plans for these maps.

METAtropolis Series by John Scalzi

Tales set in a shared urban near future. The stories are about how America might transform after a collapse of society as we know it. METAtropolis: The D...

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Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through a layer cake of thousand-year-old civilizations.