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Introduction

Speculative writings:

J. D. Bernal: The World, The Flesh, and the Devil - available at

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Bernal/

This page contains an extensive list of sites, most of which are intended for background referencing and study. Some, however, are very short, e.g. Nietzsche gives us:

My Utopia: In a better social order, the hard work and misery of life will be allotted to the man who suffers least from it, that is, to the dullest man, and so on step by step upwards to the man who is most sensitive to the highest, most sublimated kind of suffering, and therefore suffers even when life is greatly eased. Aphorism 462 from Human, All Too Human.

HOWEVER ...

Health Warning - some of the text versions available at these sites are not of the best, but they are at least freely available. The translations, in particular, should be treated with a degree of caution, while the reviews are, as always, variable in quality and immediate relevance.

Banker's Warning - some of these sites give you direct access to an entire text without much warning and without there being any breaks from beginning to end. Before selecting a print-out CHECK - otherwise you could seriously damage your relationship with the library!

Sites directly relevant to the individual weeks and to the first assignment:

E. M. Forster - his The Machine Stops - this is the reference text needed for the first assignment. Site 1 is designed for on-screen viewing, but also gives the shortest print-out - some 18 pages. The second one uses more spaces, so may be easier to read. If there is any problem about down-loading this, there is a back-up copy in the office which can be used for photocopying.

http://www.plexus.org/forster/forster.html

http://www.plexus.org/forster.html

Many of the film scripts are available in various forms on the following site. You are advised to inspect these, review the films themselves if available, but also conduct a Google search using both the film title and the name of the director, and any additional titles/names that may identify any associated book.

http://www.script-o-rama.com/snazzy/dircut.html

for: 2001 - a Space Odyssey, The Truman Show, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

(On this site you will also find titles worth considering for background: all of the Alien series, Crash! Dark City, Event Horizon, Escape from New York, GATTACA, Logan's Run, The Matrix, Metropolis, Minority Report, Neuromancer, Planet of the Apes, Pleasantville, Solaris, Sphere, The Time Machine, Total Recall, TRON.)

http://www.simplyscripts.com/

for: A Clockwork Orange there is an extraordinary range

http://www.clockworkorange.com/index.shtml

http://www.filmsite.org/cloc.html

http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/clockwork/

http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/clockwork.txt

http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/Cinema_Beyond/C_B.lectures/ClockworkOrange/Benj_CultIndustr_Clckwrk.html

http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Horror/ClockworkOrangeFiles.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/clockworkorange/

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0051.html

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/clockwork/

William Golding's Lord of the Flies has been produced in two versions - by far the best was the earlier one by Peter Brook which is very hard to get hold of. The film text was derived from a play, and you will find many references to book, film, and play on the web; you are advised to read the book if you have not already.

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is another case where reading the book will be more helpful than seeing the film. The following seem currently to be the most interesting ones related to the book, although the last gives you a film review.

http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~brians/science_fiction/handmaid.html

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/atwood.html

http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/handmaidstale_bgc.html

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/hmt/

http://www.mnstate.edu/goodman/atwood.htm

http://712educators.about.com/od/novelshandmaids/

http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/750/Handmaid's%20T.htm

http://www.english-literature.org/essays/margaret_atwood.html

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/atwood.htm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/

You might find it interesting to briefly compare Atwood's text with Charlotte Perkins Gillman's Herland, written around 1914 and available at

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GilHerl.html

(If you can read French I have an interesting review which places this text alongside the writings of the French utopian socialist - Charles Fourier.)

Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' is available at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html and if you have not seen either of the Terminator films it may be helpful to see one of these to illustrate how images can change their connotations over time. AI - Artificial Intelligence will be shown as a viewing. Haraway's 'manifesto' is widely cited on the web - I recommend that you impose your own quality control.

Aldous Huxley, his Brave New World (and also his Island - but you'll have to get the book for this text)

http://www.huxley.net/

http://www.huxley.net/bnw/

http://www.huxley.net/island/

Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence has provoked much comment; this is a selection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._(film)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ai_artificial_intelligence/

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1804383571/info

http://www.agentland.com/cgi-bin/relocation.cgi?http://www.agentland.com/pages/learn/artificial_intelligence/artificial_intelligence.html

http://uk.movies.ign.com/objects/033/033936.html

Attwood's recent book, Oryx and Crake, seems to have divided critics as to its merit. here are some comments, etc.

http://www.oryxandcrake.co.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx_and_Crake

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/atwood/

http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/oryx_and_crake/review/

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,953240,00.html

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue325/excess.html

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:w73dT8A_Q9gJ:www.cbc.ca/canadareads/cr_2005/teachers-guides/oryx_and_crake.pdf+oryx+and+crake&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=uk

http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0385721676.asp

Background Texts (these are intended as aids to broadening your sense of utopic and dystopic literature - in all cases it will be necessary to obtain some contextual information which will probably not be available from the listed site(s).

Dante Alighieri - his Divine Comedy

http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg064.htm

Sir Francis Bacon - his New Atlantis

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/baconbib.htm

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Bacon.htm

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mike_donnelly/bacon.htm

Edward Bellamy - his Looking Backward

http://www.sacred-texts.com/utopia/lb/index.htm

Jeremy Bentham - no web version of Chrestomathia (but available in the library); here are some background sites

http://www.tcr.org/EPrize_Bentham.pdf

http://www.arasite.org/monitlsm.htm

http://utm.edu/research/iep/b/bentham.htm

J. D. Bernal - his The Word, the Flesh, and the Devil

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Bernal/

John Bunyan - his Pilgrim's Progress

http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia,John.Bunyan/

http://bible.christiansunite.com/bun/pilgrim01.shtml

http://www.museums.bedfordshire.gov.uk/sites/bunyan/

Samuel Butler - his Erewhon

http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Butler/Erewhon/prefaces.html

http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Butler/Erewhon/

http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.1782/

Campanella - his City of the Sun

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2816

http://eserver.org/fiction/city-of-the-sun.txt

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/citysun.html

Teilhard de Chardin - his concept of the Noosphere (mental space)

http://www.webcom.com/gaia/tdc.html

http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/teilhard/survival.html

as part of this, you may find Rabelais' famous text documenting the exploits of Gargantua and Pantagruel illustrative!

http://www.unf.edu/classes/freshmancore/halsall/rabelais-goose.htm

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/rabelais.htm

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1200

And there's also The Big Rock Candy Mountain ...

http://ingeb.org/songs/onasumme.html

Condorcet - his Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind

http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/condorcet.htm

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/foi/readings/condor.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/condorcet-progress.html

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/sketch.html

Defoe - his Robinson Crusoe

http://www.online-literature.com/defoe/crusoe/

http://ferncanyonpress.com/pirates/robinson/crusoe.shtml

Diderot - his Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage

http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/fiction/diderot_voyage.html

http://courses.essex.ac.uk/cs/cs101/Boug.htm

The Diggers

http://www.diggers.org/english_diggers.htm

http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/diggers.htm

http://www.diggers.org/

http://www.bilderberg.org/land/

Ignatius Donnelly - his Caesar's Column

http://www.sacred-texts.com/utopia/cc/index.htm

Charles Fourier - his Le Nouveau Monde industriel et sociétaire (in French only, but worth finding out about his 'phalanstries' - also mentioned in Buck-Morss' Dialectics of Seeing)

http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/cabinets/extra/antho/19/4.htm

http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales/classiques/fourier_charles/nouveau_monde/nouveau_monde.html

Erich Fromm - his The Sane Society - overview

http://www.animalfreedom.org/english/column/fromm.html

Harrington - his Oceana

http://www.constitution.org/jh/oceana.htm

http://www.pitt.edu/~jcm11/Archives/oceana.html

Hesiod - his Theogony

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Hesiod/theogony.html

http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Hesiod.html

Hume, his 'Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth'

http://www.constitution.org/dh/perfcomw.htm

http://www.constitution.org/dh/hume.htm

http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/library/tocs/HumComm.html

Jack London - The Iron Heel

http://www.sacred-texts.com/utopia/ih/index.htm

John Milton - his Paradise Lost

http://www.ccel.org/m/milton/paradise_lost/paradise_lost.html

http://www.literature.org/authors/milton-john/paradise-lost/

http://www.paradiselost.org/2-ORG-wbanner.html

Montaigne - his 'on cannibals'

http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/mmorris/239/montaigne.htm

http://130.238.50.3/ilmh/Ren/mont-rendall.htm

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/montaigne.html

Sir Thomas More - his Utopia

http://www.bartleby.com/36/3/

http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/socialism.htm

William Morris - his News From Nowhere

http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1890/nowhere/

http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1890/nowhere/nowhere.htm

George Orwell - his Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four

http://students.ou.edu/C/Kara.C.Chiodo-1/orwell.html

http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/

Ovid - his Metamorphosis

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid.html

http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg049.htm

http://www.croky.net/ovidius/

http://www.umsl.edu/services/libteach/ovid/start.htm

Robert Owen - his A New View of Society

http://www.eco.utexas.edu/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/368owennewview.html

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/newview.html

http://www.punkerslut.com/critiques/owen/newview.html

Plato - his Republic

http://ball.tcnj.edu/pols270/plato/republic.htm

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html

http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/republic.htm

http://www.friesian.com/plato.htm

Alexander Pope - his Dunciad - only the fourth book is available as an e-text at present

http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/dunciad4.html

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1628.html

de Sade - his Philosophy of the Bedroom

http://www.supervert.com/elibrary/sade.html

Saint-Simon - his 'rational Christian-humanism'

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/saintsimon.htm

http://www.ohiou.edu/~Christian/rz/simon.htm

Shakespeare - his The Tempest

http://www.allshakespeare.com/tempest.php

http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/The_Tempest

http://www.wynja.com/personality/tempest.html

http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shake/tempest.html

The Situationist International

http://www.nothingness.org/SI/

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/

B. F. Skinner - his Walden Two. The book is in the library, but he is also well represented on the web.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/erozycki/Walden.html

http://anarchistnexus.com/walden2/

Oswald Spengler - his Decline of the West

http://ermine.users.netlink.co.uk//spengler.html

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n2p-2_Stimely.html

http://www.duke.edu/~aparks/Spengler.html

http://www.bayarea.net/~kins/AboutMe/Spengler/SpenglerStuff.html

Swift - his Gulliver's Travels

http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html

http://www.online-literature.com/swift/gulliver/

http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/

Sir Philip Sydney - his Arcadia

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/arcadia1.html

Utopian Socialists - much over-lapping with the individual entries given above, but additional sources and useful overviews

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/utopia.htm

http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samsoc/sovsoc/sovsoc1.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch01.htm

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture21a.html

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture22a.html

http://www.the-wood.org/socialism/utopian.htm

http://www.english.ilstu.edu/strickland/495/utopia.html

http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/colors/red/jtrieb01/utopiaront.html

H. G. Wells - The Time Machine,

http://www.selfknowledge.com/454au.htm

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/warofworlds.html

http://www.geocities.com/athens/marble/5652/

also, his A Modern Utopia, Things to Come, and Men Like Gods

http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2401

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/w45mu/

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/w45mu/chapter8.html

Zimyatin - his We - no e-text as yet, but here's an extended essay.

http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/clarke/zimyatin.htm

Sites of general background interest. A number of these provide overviews which combine two or more utopian thinkers. Please let me know of others that you come across.

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture22a.html

http://www.biggar-net.co.uk/utopia/

http://www.feminist.org/femsf/index.html

http://hem.passagen.se/replikant/dystopia_characteristics.htm

http://users.erols.com/jonwill/utopialist.htm

http://users.erols.com/jonwill/

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/exhibition/utopia/utopia.html

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffilm/utops.html

http://www.sacred_texts.com/utopia/

http://www.flash.net/~rcollier/utopia-l.htm

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/multiverse/utopia/

http://hem.passagen.se/replikant/