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Free Download Singing Utopia: Voice in Musical Theatre by Ben Macpherson
English | November 25, 2024 | ISBN: 0197557643 | 288 pages | PDF | 8.94 Mb
Singing Utopia is a unique and ambitious work which asks us to listen differently to voice in musical theatre. Across fifteen case studies from Florodora to Hadestown, Ben Macpherson hears something utopian in the extraordinary, emotional, and situational directness of singing voices as they escape the confines of everyday life. Yet, as this book discovers, the very nature of utopia is paradoxical, fraught with undercurrents of nostalgia, melancholy, and the perpetual threat of the dystopian. Singing Utopia listens across these fault lines in our understanding of utopia and asks what it means for a musical to give voice to an imagined world which is always a contradiction in terms. Who gets to inhabit such a world? Who is excluded? How can we locate utopia in musical theatre voices, and what might be the consequences when its complexities are exposed?

Free Download Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia (Activist Citizens Library) by Mike Pepi
English | January 7th, 2025 | ISBN: 1685891373 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 1.41 MB
A bold and imaginative critique of the hidden costs of digital life – and a manifesto for a better future . . .

Free Download Mikhail Suslov, "Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia "
English | ISBN: 3838213610 | 2020 | 302 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In this timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia’s policies. Specifically, he analyzes such concepts as "Eurasianism," "Holy Russia," "Russian civilization," "Russia as a continent," "Novorossia," and others. He demonstrates that these concepts reached unprecedented ascendance in the Russian public debates, tending to overshadow other political and domestic discussions. Suslov argues that the geopolitical imagination, structured by these concepts, defines the identity of post-Soviet Russia, while this complex of geopolitical representations engages, at the same time, with the broader, international criticism of the Western liberal world order and aligns itself with the conservative defense of cultural authenticity across the globe. Geopolitical ideologies and utopias discussed in the book give the post-Soviet political mainstream the intellectual instruments to think about Russia’s exclusion―imaginary or otherwise―from the processes of a global world which is re-shaping itself after the end of the Cold War; they provide tools to construct the self-perception of Russia as a sovereign great-power, a self-sufficient civilization, and as one of the poles in a multipolar world; and they help to establish the Messianic vision of Russia as the beacon of order, tradition, and morality in a sea of chaos and corruption.

Free Download Hans A. Baer, "Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia: Transitioning to an Alternative World System"
English | ISBN: 1785336959 | 2017 | 314 pages | PDF | 1273 KB
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.

Free Download David M. Bell, "Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138368245, 1138891339 | EPUB | pages: 188 | 0.7 mb
Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in – or rather because of – the condition of ‘post-utopianism’ that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian studies, a variety of ‘radical’ theories and the need for decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within, against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with hope for a better future.

Free Download The Poetics of Utopia: Shadows of Futurity in Yeats and Auden
by Stewart Cole
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350293857 | 227 Pages | True PDF | 36 MB

Free Download Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Eva Illouz
English | May 29, 1997 | ISBN: 0520202759, 0520205715 | True EPUB | 332 pages | 5.7 MB
To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens?

Free Download Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
English | November 17, 1974 | ISBN: 0465002706, 0465051006, 0465063748 | True EPUB | 367 pages | 0.7 MB
The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)

Free Download Concrete Utopia: Looking Back into the Future of Human Rights by Wolfgang Kaleck
English | February 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1682194396 | True EPUB | 194 pages | 1.2 MB
Concrete Utopia  conceptualizes the human rights project of the last two and a half centuries as a "backward-looking" endeavor, which, in order to move forward, must return to the utopian roots of its foundational documents.

Free Download Thomas More, "Utopia (Webster’s Korean Thesaurus Edition)"
English | 2006 | pages: 158 | ISBN: 0497900173 | PDF | 1,6 mb
This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of Utopia. This edition would be useful if you would like to