This book engages in an interdisciplinary dialogue on utopia, focusing on cultural and communication practices related to political and ethical projects. It explores the complex nature of utopia as a process in the present, questioning intellectual work, academic boundaries, knowledge production, and promoting critical thinking through pedagogy.
The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this polysemous notion and its fascination for scholars across the centuries, who have developed a variety of visions and ways to explain the «realization» of utopian discourses. The experts in the fields of sociology, political science, economics, computer science, literature and linguistics offer extensive studies about how utopian scenarios are realized in different cultural contexts.