Utopia as method: the imaginary reconstitution of society

IF 1.8 3区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Mind Culture and Activity Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10749039.2021.1883670

Antti Rajala

引用次数: 32

Abstract

Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality,” trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. Arundhati Roy (Financial Times, 2020)

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作为方法的乌托邦:社会的想象性重构

不管它是什么，冠状病毒让强者跪下，让世界陷入停顿，这是其他任何东西都无法做到的。我们的思想仍在来回奔跑，渴望回归“正常”，试图将我们的未来与我们的过去缝合起来，拒绝承认这种断裂。但破裂是存在的。在这种可怕的绝望中，它给了我们一个重新思考我们为自己制造的世界末日机器的机会。没有什么比恢复正常更糟糕的了。从历史上看，流行病迫使人类与过去决裂，重新想象他们的世界。这次也不例外。它是一个入口，一个连接两个世界的入口。阿兰达蒂·罗伊(《金融时报》，2020年)

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Mind Culture and Activity EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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4.00

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15.80%

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期刊介绍： Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA) is an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the study of the human mind in its cultural and historical contexts. Articles appearing in MCA draw upon research and theory in a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, cognitive science, education, linguistics, psychology, and sociology. Particular emphasis is placed upon research that seeks to resolve methodological problems associated with the analysis of human action in everyday activities and theoretical approaches that place culture and activity at the center of attempts to understand human nature.