December 2010
11 posts
“For the shaman, the cosmos is a tale that becomes true as it is told and as it...”
– Terrence McKenna, from Food of the Gods
“It seems to me that one of our besetting problems these days is that...”
– - Charlie Stross
“In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a...”
– from Marcel Duchamp, The Creative Act
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Utopia Case Study #3: The Venus Project
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth’s ecosystems.
The Venus Project is an...
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Utopia Case Study #2: Arcosanti
Arcosanti is an unfinished experimental city in central Arizona. It was designed by renowned architect Paolo Soleri, using a concept called “arcology” (architecture+ecology).
The idea of arcology is to design massive habitats, or hyper-structures, to hold highly dense populations of people. Such structures would serve residential, commercial, and agricultural purposes while...