Utopia

Zombies Fighting Over Who Is Right: A Nightmare On Main Street

William Grassie | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Religion, Hermeneutics, Ricoeur, Religion and Science, Utopia, Conflict Resolution, Ideology, Big History, Religion and Politics, Religion News

Every religion, every ideology and every construct of self implies a perspective on what constitutes the good life, as well as some kind of critique of the bad. But what are we to do when our ideals are in conflict?

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'Blade Runner' Futurist's Art Exhibiiton

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Syd Mead, Video, Art Meets Science, Bravinlee Programs, Futurism, Futuristic Design, Aliens, Tron, Blade Runner, Visionary, Slideexpand, Utopia, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Arts News

Science fiction has often held a mirror to our society in order to teach us about our evolution (or regressive behavior). We probably owe many of our...

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Uncovering America's Generous Side

Ben Cohen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Human, Libertarianism, Ben Cohen, Libertarian, Utopia, Regulation, Free Market, North Korea, Politics News

There are certain aspects of America that I find enormously attractive -- the openness and friendliness of the people, their generosity and the lack of a stifling European-style class system. However, there is a side to America that I find extremely unsettling -- the relentless fixation on money.

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The Ambition For Eden

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Garden of Eden, Utopia, Ambition, Judaism, Scripture Commentary, Scripture Study, Midrash, God, Jewish Social Justice, Religion News

In the Bible God exiles Adam and Eve and declares that they will never be permitted to return to the Garden. If God's intention was to assure that humanity would be forever exiled, why did God not destroy Eden?

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Three Killings: California, Florida, France

John Feffer | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Economic Justice, Mohamed Merah, Shaima Alawadi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Trayvon Martin, Xenophobia, Tribalism, Utopia, World News

When our notion of the common good, of commonwealth, begins to disintegrate, all that is left are tribes defending their turf, standing their ground, enclosing their land.

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Still a Wizard, a True Star: A Conversation With Todd Rundgren, Plus Tonight Alive's "Starlight" (Exclusive)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Eric Clapton, Al Gore, Meat Loaf, Miami Vice, John Ford Coley, MC Hammer, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Jim Steinman, Hall & Oates, Keith Olbermann, Dylan Ratigan, The Coasters, Mike Post, Robert Palmer, Crime Story, Bill Bradley, Daryl Hall, Roy Bitten, Xtc, The Tubes, The Nazz, Utopia, Bat Out of Hell, Craig Boogie Coinman, England Dan, The Zombies, Timothy B. Schmit, Grand Funk Railroad, Rick Derringer, Rod Stewart, Jonathan Wolfson, The Buggles, The Platters, Todd Rundgren, Jeff Beck, Wendy Carlos, Tonight Alive, Patti Smith, Newt Gingrich, Robert Johnson, Dumb & Dumber, Colin Blunstone, Rachel Maddow, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ringo Starr, Jimmy Smith, Joill Sobule, Ellen Foley, Walter Carlos, John Oates, Jan Hammer, Joe Walsh, Moogy Klingman, Max Weinberg, Bruce Springsteen, Tomita, Patronet, Video, Entertainment News

"I wrote a song about my high school girlfriend who broke my heart and have been milking it ever since. The irony of it is, it's the very first song I ever wrote and it's the song that's pinned on my back, kind of like 'kick me.'"

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Doug Wheeler Distills Infinity

Gabrielle Selz | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Southern California, Doug Wheeler, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Pop Art, Light, Infinity, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Space, Light & Space Art, Minimal Art, Pacific Standard Time, Utopia, Arts News

In Wheeler's art case it is purely the medium of light that we explore, touch, see, and sense. His simplified use of material heightens and distills the experience. Being inside his space is at once ethereal and dense.

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It's a Mad, Mad World

Paul J. Stockinger | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Election Reform, Financial Crisis, Social Change, Utopia, Revolution, Politics News

In May I will turn 71. From the perspective those years bring, I find the world seems to be changing in strange ways. It seems to be changing in funda...

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Moogy Klingman Passes

Michael Sigman | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Eric Clapton, David Amram, Bladder Cancer, John Siegler, The Peaceniks, Guns 'N Roses, Bitter End, Utopia, The Kingbees, Murray the K, The Living Few, DC Comics, Carly Simon, Paul Winter, Bette Midler, Jeff Sigman, Great Neck, Peter Yarrow, Newport Folk Festival, Todd Rundgren, Jimi James and the Blue Flames, Andy Kaufman, Bob Dylan, Kevin Ellman, Ralph Schuckett, Record World, Randy Brecker, Barry Manilow, Danny Kortchmar, Jimi Hendrix, Cafe Wha, Moogy Klingman, Huff/Post50 News

Mark "Moogy" Klingman passed away last night after a long, brave bout with cancer. You may not have heard his name, but you have heard, and enjoyed, his music.

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Colossal Interactive Structures In 'Cloud Cities'

VernissageTV | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Hamburger-Bahnhof, Museums, Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Bubble, UK Arts, Utopia, Interview, Tomas-Saraceno, Art Exhibitions, Berlin, Arts News

Tomás Saraceno's work received broader attention in 2009 when he filled the main hall of the Padiglione Centrale in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice A...

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Reagan on a Unicorn: Imagining a Republican Paradise

Mark Olmsted | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: France, Conservative, Reagan, Europe, Repblicans, Utopia, Liberal, German, Healthcare, Wealth, Wealth Distribution, Economy, Politics News

A utopia only for the rich is no utopia at all. Americans have to decide whether they are going to continue to chase after an unobtainable mirage, or choose to construct a society where the vast majority have the same chance at a happy and prosperous life as the lucky few.

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House Of The Future

VernissageTV | Posted 09.15.2011

Read More: House, 1960s, Matti Suuronen, Netherlands, Museums, Architecture, Design, Ufos, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Living, Future, Rotterdam, Utopia, Prototype, Futuro, Flying Saucer, Futuro House, Andy Warhol, Christo, Joseph Beuys, Arts News

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: F...

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PHOTOS: Architecture Of The Future?

Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Metropolis, Art Meets Science, Urban Planning, Futurism, Paper Architecture, Design, Visionary Architecture, Architecture, Film, Utopia, Superstudio, Archigram, Slidepollajax, Future Cities, Fritz Lang, Arts News

The 1926 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis by Fritz Lang opens with a stunning sequence of machinery in motion, followed by an anonymous workers' crowd de...

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'A Thousand Twangling Instruments'

Tamsin Smith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: W.H. Auden, Dystopia, Brave New World, William Butler Yeats, Aldous Huxley, Shakespeare, Utopia, Poetry, Happiness, Happiness Advice, Being Happy, Finding Happiness, Happiness Tips, Healthy Living News

Suffering is not the opposite of joy -- they are foreground and background. One unfolds and magnifies the other. When a smile can be forged from anguish, then it's a thing of beauty and truth.

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Detroit Debates RoboCop: Inspirational City Mascot Or Bad Bionic Idea?

AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cyborg, Robocop Statue, Dystopia, Kickstarter, Robocop, Detroit, Robocop 2, Utopia, Dave Bing, Impact News

DETROIT — Your move, Detroit. A group working to build a statue of the fictional crime-fighting cyborg RoboCop in the city said it has reached it...

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Moogy's Gotta Have Friends

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eric Clapton, David Amram, Bladder Cancer, Newport Folk Festival, The Peaceniks, Guns 'N Roses, Todd Rundgren, Jimi James and the Blue Flames, Bitter End, Andy Kaufman, Bob Dylan, The Kingbees, Murray the K, The Living Few, DC Comics, Utopia, Carly Simon, Paul Winter, Randy Brecker, Bette Midler, Jeff Sigman, Barry Manilow, Great Neck, Danny Kortchmar, Jimi Hendrix, Moogy Klingman, Cafe Wha, Peter Yarrow, John Siegler, Kevin Ellman, Record World, Ralph Schuckett, Entertainment News

You got to have friends/To make that day last long Mark Klingman isn't a household name. But the terrific singer/songwriter/keyboardist/producer know...

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"A Little Less Conversation": A Playlist to Encourage a New Generation to "Do Something"

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, The Felice Brothers, Rob Thomas, The Eagles, Pete Seeger, Travie McCoy, Jackie DeShannon, The Beatles, The Weavers, The Who, Utopia, Vh1, Natasha Bedingfield, Journey, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Do Something Awards, Glee, B.B. King, Infant Sorrow, Bob Marley, Neil Diamond, Van Halen, Aimee Mann, Vince Gill, Carole King, Mos Def, Jane Lynch, Red Hot Chili Peppers, George Harrison, Twilight, Jersey Shore, Canned Heat, The Youngbloods, Billy Swan, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, The 5th Dimension, Elvis Presley, Kellan Lutz, Bruno Mars, Gogol Bordello, Bill Withers, Friend & Lover, Bret Michaels, U2, Thunderclap Newman, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Jakob Dylan, Tears for Fears, Frank Sinatra, R.E.M., James Taylor, Allen Toussaint, Bruce Springsteen, Lifehouse, Entertainment News

Today, I have a semi-modest proposal for those same young Americans who will likely inherit this big mess: do something, and do it with "A Little Less Conversation" and little more action.

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Off The Grid: 8 Books On Living Outside The System

Los Angeles Times | Susan Salter Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Electricity, Off the Grid, Books, Environmentalism, Conservation, Peter Stark, Transcendentalists, Escapism, Reading, Utopia, Thoreau, Walden, Books News

Although books about carving out your own piece of the pie have been written ever since the Transcendentalists took issue with the direction that Amer...

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"Talking Old Soldiers": A Chatty Playlist for Stanley McChrystal

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bonnie Raitt, Alpha Band, McChrystal Rolling Stone, Elmore James, Kanye West, The Strokes, Eminem, Squeeze, World Cup 2010, Sonny Boy Williamson, Pat Tillman, Alison Krauss, The Beach Boys, Lady GaGa, Nancy Sinatra, Rick Springfield, Carbon/Silicone, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Talk Talk, Dave Matthews Band, Carrie Underwood, London, John Mayer, South Africa, The Smiths, Xtc, Utopia, George Thorogood, Adam Levine, General Stanley McChrystal, Elton John, Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, B.B. King, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Nicks, Glen Hansard, Bon Iver, Harry Nilsson, Black Eyed Peas, Joe Firstman, Bob Dylan, New Kids on the Block, Carl Smith, Elvis Presley, Tom Waits, Carlene Carter, The Pretenders, Rihanna, Southside Johnny, Taylor Swift, Talking Heads, Coldplay, Wimbeldon, Ben Folds, Oasis, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Brad Paisley, Girlyman, Entertainment News

Here's a loose-lipped playlist for Stan the Man, a dude with a big ego and a very mixed record who finally accomplished the impossible -- actually stealing some of the cultural spotlight away from Lady GaGa.

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New Frontier: A Mobile, Commercial Utopia

Marissa Louie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marissalouie, Consumerism, Social, Mobile, Malouie, Mobile Commercial Utopia, Click and Mortar, Digital, Heroex, Marissa, Utopia, Technology News

In these days of instant gratification, the timing couldn't be more perfect for the mobile commercial utopia to deliver what we want, how we want it, wherever we are.

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Five Sequels to the Dante's Inferno Video Game

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pilgrim's Progress, Sir Francis Bacon, John Bunyan, Man for All Seasons, Utopia, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Inferno Video Game, Paradise Regained, Sir Thomas More, New Atlantis, Paradise Lost, John Milton, Everyman, Atlantis, Dante Alighieri, Entertainment News

Five video games based on classic literature that are guaranteed to put the gory back in allegory.

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James Cameron's New Consciousness

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: John Raatz, Michael Cera, Avatar, Conscious Creatives, Henry David Thoreau, Roland Emmerich, James Cameron, Bob Ballard, Karen Tate, Walt Whitman, Visioneering Group, Utopia, Hearts of Fire, David Letterman, Healthy Living News

Will the new world consciousness, due to arrive in 2012, be the vision of Roland Emmerich or James Cameron?

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Dreamers

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Dreams, Dreaming, Democracy, Capitalism, Paradigm Shift, Utopia, Healthy Living News

We shall live in a world of love and dream, a world of cornucopia and utopia. I dream therefore I am. I dare therefore I am. Where are you dreamers?

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A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Green-Energy-Mass-Transit, Geothermal, Ocean Thermal, Solartopia, Tidal Energy, Green Power, Renewables, Utopia, Solar Power, Ecotopia, Green News

once we've wiped the Earth clean of fossil and nuclear generators, we could install sufficient renewable resources to run the planet without a blink in the lights.

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Toasting a Very Optimistic 2009!

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Yunus, Future of Capitalism, Utopia, Social Business, Madoff, Pyramid Schemes, Social Stock Market, New Year's Commentary, Business News

The events of these past months are showing us what to avoid in the future and how our actions and votes can make a difference.

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