![]() ![]() ![]() For on the one hand it denotes an ideal, a belief in perfectibility and thus a drive towards its realization, while on the other hand it secretes within itself a recognition that it posits an unattainable state: the optimistic hope for a flawless world is inseparable from the sharp sense that this is at best a problematic counterfactual and at worst a stark impossibility, a ‘nowhere’ that can exist solely in the minds of visionaries and fantasists. But it is worth bearing in mind that because these meanings are intertwined the concept of utopia is always, in all its iterations, an unstable one. ![]() The two meanings of the word ‘utopia’ are so well known that they hardly require much commentary. ![]()
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