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How to fight the barriers of capitalism with poetry
Anthropy≠Anthropocene, Shiiku Collective, 9 March 2023, Strange Brew, Bristol. Carolyn Dougherty reflects on this event,…
The Fifth Sacred Thing: Book of the Month April 2023
The Four Sacred Things are earth, air, fire, and water. Nobody can own them or…
Jack Halberstam’s Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse
Jack Halberstam’s keynote ‘Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse’ really was the absolute highlight of the…
Player Piano: Book of the Month March 2023
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, was published in 1952. It’s a dystopia with a…
Walden Two: Book of the Month February 2023
Walden Two: it’s supposed to be a utopia… Behavioural pyschologist B. F. Skinner’s novel describes…
A Little Woman’s Utopia
Astrid R. Abildgaard is a teacher and recent MA graduate in English and History from…
How to Do Nothing: Book of the Month January 2023
Book of the month for January 2023 is How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention…
Review of Twoty-Twoty-Two: Revival of the Bristol Utopian Book Collective
One of the best bits of news from 2022 is the revival of the Bristol…
Review of Twoty-Twoty-Two (2022): Becoming a Spike Island Associate
In the autumn of 2022 I was working on a book review. To get a…
Review of Twoty-Twoty-Two (2022): Utopian Studies Conference
The thing that took me farthest out of my comfort zone in 2022 was attending…
An ecofeminist and utopian perspective on The Word For World Is Forest
My presentation from the The Word for World is Forest symposium is now available online!…
Recommended utopian books for kids
Bristol Utopian Book Collective recently hosted a children’s book group as part of the PRSC…