Utopian writing and ideas: a curated catalog and bibliography

[rufuspollock]

A catalog of utopian writings and ideas has been another long-term desiderata of mine.

Could focus again on being a selective / curated catalog rather than a comprehensive one (cf idea of selected catalog of intentional communities).

This has a significant overlaps with #144 (intentional communities are often utopian projects and have a connection with specific utopian ideas).

Connection with research program

A list of previous utopian thinking and ideas is useful in understanding what previous efforts have been tried and, perhaps, why they worked or didn't work.

Some materials

Quick jotting of some examples that could inspire us

• Yaacov Oved, 200 years of american communes. This contains a lot of information about the inspirational ideas
• Bellamy, Looking Backward
• Fourier
• Thomas More, Utopia

Process for collecting

I think we could use zotero and a specific collection.

We could then publish this onto a web page.