Marin Louis. Utopics: Spatial Play

Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1984. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-07331-3 ISBN: 978-1-349-07329-0 (eBook). Translated by Robert A. VollrathMarin's book offers a powerful new understanding of the nature and functioning of the utopian imagination. Taking More's Utopia as his principal object of study, Marin develops an analytic method applicable to any utopian text. Marin defines the procedures by which the utopian text opens the way to — by marking the place of—an alternative future. The details of his analysis are often both surprising and convincing.Of Plural Neutrality and Utopia
Narrative and Description
The Utopic Stage
Of Proper Names in Utopia
About the Creation of the Island of Utopia
The City: Space of Text and Space in Text
Criminal and Proletariat
Utopian Culture: The Monkey and the Neophyte
Theses on Ideology and Utopia
The City’s Portrait in Its Utopics
Utopia of the Map
Utopic Degeneration: Disneyland
About Xenakis: The Utopia of Verticality
Utopia is Not a Political Project, or “Citizen Cabet’s Plans for Emigration” (1848)