An Archival Paradise: John Wilkins’s Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language and Early Modern Info-Utopianism

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 N/A HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Georgie Newson
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abstract:Bishop John Wilkins’s “universal philosophical language,” set out in his Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668), has often been described—and indeed dismissed—as a “utopian” project. However, despite the charge of utopianism being applied to Wilkins’s work by theorists as eminent as Foucault, Lacan, and Umberto Eco, no effort has been made to read the Essay as a legitimately utopian text: a text that may be positioned alongside the rich utopian literary-critical tradition to mutually illuminating effect. This article argues that the Essay displays a tendency that the author terms “info-utopianism,” and that this tendency can be located in a number of other Early Modern utopian works. The article then discusses the contextual influences behind the emergence of Early Modern infoutopianism, as well as its implications for contemporary utopian theory.
档案天堂:约翰-威尔金斯的《走向真实人物和哲学语言的论文》与早期现代信息乌托邦主义
摘要:约翰-威尔金斯主教在其《迈向真实性格和哲学语言的论文》(1668 年)中提出的 "通用哲学语言 "常常被描述为--甚至被斥之为--一个 "乌托邦 "计划。然而,尽管福柯、拉康和翁贝托-艾柯等著名理论家都对威尔金斯的作品提出了乌托邦主义的指控,但却没有人努力将《论语》作为一个合法的乌托邦文本来解读:一个可以与丰富的乌托邦文学批评传统相提并论、相互启发的文本。本文认为,《随想录》表现出一种倾向,作者称之为 "信息乌托邦主义",这种倾向可以在其他一些早期现代乌托邦作品中找到。然后,文章讨论了早期现代信息乌托邦主义出现背后的背景影响及其对当代乌托邦理论的启示。
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