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Episode: How Do Utopian Visions Shape Our Reality & Future? - Highlights - S. D. CHROSTOWSKA
Description: âI like to think of utopianism as âeffective social daydreamingâ because utopia is associated with consciously imagining societies. Our imagination is always involved in creating reality. The opposition between the two, reality and the imaginary, is not a stark one; they're porous. What is imaginary tends to become real -- thatâs a quote from the founder of Surrealism, AndrĂ© Breton. We daydream of a better world, and this could be a very vague daydream. The idea of utopianism that I'm putting forward in the book is not a detailed, orderly, rational model of the city utopia. Itâs this free f...