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Give your best examples of the SF/ Survivalist/ Wish Fullfillment sub-genre "libertarian engineers do everything better" or "objectivist superman saves history". More specifically ones where someone is the last man on earth/sendt back in time and constructs a free market utopia through sheer smarts and rationality ( with himself on the top of it, of course). [more inside]
posted by The Whelk on Jun 9, 2011 - 28 answers

In order to prepare a competitive examination, I've got to delve deep into North American counterculture history. What should I read ? [more inside]
posted by nicolin on Feb 8, 2011 - 26 answers

Do-Over: What are the chords to the Utopia song, Zen Machine? [more inside]
posted by wittgenstein on Jan 16, 2011 - 4 answers

Futzing with Ancient Greek: If 'Good Place/No place' is Utopia, Would 'Other Place' be Eteratopia? [more inside]
posted by Cantdosleepy on Jun 29, 2010 - 3 answers

Does "utopia" exist in modern/contemporary fiction? [more inside]
posted by dlugoczaj on Dec 3, 2009 - 32 answers

Is there a better word for this notion than "futurism?" [more inside]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur on Apr 28, 2009 - 18 answers

What are the day-to-day details of a world based on Social Credit? How do companies conduct their business? How are civic services accomplished? [more inside]
posted by cowbellemoo on Feb 26, 2009 - 5 answers

Where is the perfect place to live? For me, of course. Details inside. [more inside]
posted by wile e on Dec 16, 2008 - 45 answers

Can someone direct me to some good Utopian internet manifestos? The times did an article with a good summary of techno-realist manifestos, but I want to find some really, really wacky Utopian examples.
posted by munyeca on Feb 22, 2008 - 4 answers

Obscure Todd Rundgren/Utopia filter: What chords will go with the Utopia song "Zen Machine" ? [more inside]
posted by wittgenstein on Oct 23, 2007 - 1 answer

Looking for a short story I read online, where technological advances eliminate middle management and then junior employees, with a fast food restaurant used as an example... [more inside]
posted by so_necessary on May 29, 2007 - 8 answers

Looking for traditions/ideas/conjecture/debate about hypothetical "dystopias" (from/not limited to: fiction, film, social/political theory, philosophy, eschatology) that come from non-White/European (of any gender) voices. [more inside]
posted by jjjjjjjijjjjjjj on Feb 1, 2007 - 15 answers

I read this book in the late '70s about a secret colony of people who were turning themselves into people/ape hybrids. It was pretty clearly juvenile lit, but I still need it for my shelves. [more inside]
posted by mph on Mar 1, 2006 - 7 answers