" Utopia " is derived from the Greek words ou (), " not ", and topos (), " place ", with the suffix-iā () that is typical of toponyms ; hence Outopía (; Latinized as Ūtopia, with stress on the second syllable ), " no-place-land ".

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.

First, it appears to be based on the fact that on its title page Utopia is described as `` festivus '', `` gay ''.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

Utopia is still widely read because in a sense More stood on the margin of modernity.

Can we discover what it is in Utopia that has evoked this response??

we want to know what is perennially new about Utopia.

we are concerned with Utopian communism -- that is, simply communism as it appears in the imaginary commonwealth of Utopia, as More conceived it.

In More's Utopia communism is not a means of separating out a warrior elite from the lumpish mass.

The concern of Utopia is with the optimo reipublicae statu, the best ordering of a civil society ; ;

In contrast to this Stoic-patristic view, Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve.

it is one of the very few new things in Utopia ; ;

It is not the details of Utopian communism that make Utopia modern, it is the spirit, the attitude of mind that informs those details.

In the 1516 novel Utopia by Thomas More, the island called Utopia once had the name " Abraxa ", which scholars have suggested is a related use.

After the events of Utopia, Xavier has come to live on the risen Asteroid M, rechristened Utopia, along with the rest of the X-Men, X-Club, and mutant refugees and is also allowed to join the Utopia lead council ( Cyclops, Storm, Namor, Iceman, Beast, Wolverine and Emma Frost ).

More coined the word " utopia " – a name he gave to the ideal and imaginary island nation, the political system of which he described in Utopia, published in 1516.

Utopia is a forerunner of the utopian literary genre, wherein ideal societies and perfect cities are detailed.

In the sixteenth century, Thomas More's book Utopia proposed an ideal society of the same name.

He also edited two books of Fidel Castro's speeches, and numerous writings and pamphlets including El nuevo mundo, la isla de Utopía y la isla de Cuba ( The New World, the Island of Utopia, and the Island of Cuba ), in which he saw Cuba as having a manifest destiny, under which the indigenous Taínos of Cuba were linked to the " Amaurotos " of Thomas More's Utopia and Castro's Cuba to the ideal Cuba of Martí.

Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system.

The title is a portmanteau of Entropy ( from thermodynamics, the measure of disorder present in a system ), and Utopia ( the ideal society ).

Her book, The Concept of Utopia ( 1990 ), addresses the notion of the ideal society throughout European history.

* Utopia, a name for an ideal community or society, taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More.

Utopia is thus More's ideal, but an unobtainable one, explaining why there are inconsistencies between the ideas in Utopia and More's practice in the real world.

" This is how a visitor described the Bayard Lane community, a small " Utopia " homestead project, made up of a group of self-sufficient, self-sustaining colonists in 1936.

Fourier's views inspired the founding of the community Utopia in Clermont County, Ohio, as well as La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas and several other communities within the United States of America, including the North American Phalanx in New Jersey and the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State.

The community itself acknowledges that it has yet to create the perfect society — it even provides guidebooks entitled " Not Utopia Yet " to visitors.

She was from the Utopia community north east of Alice Springs.

In the 1970s, batik was introduced to the aboriginal community in Australia, the aboriginal community at Erna bella and Utopia now develop it as their own craft.

Love is also active in the GNOME community, working on NetworkManager, GNOME Volume Manager, Project Utopia and Beagle.

The neighborhood was home to an experimental transcendentalist Utopia community called Brook Farm, which attracted notable figures like Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne whose 1852 novel The Blithedale Romance, is based on his stay there.

* Utopia, Ohio, a former anarchistic community

* Frozen Utopia, a development community making new SuperCD games

Emily Kame Kngwarreye ( or Emily Kam Ngwarray ) ( 1910 – 3 September 1996 ) was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory.

She lived in the Anmatyerre language group at Alhalkere in the Utopia community, about 250 km north east of Alice Springs.

Her training in western techniques began, along with that of the rest of the Utopia community, with batik.

Many other inexperienced art dealers would go to her community to try to get a piece of the action, Kngwarreye once describing to a friend how she had " escaped from five or six carloads of ' wannabe ' art dealers at Utopia ".

The Utopia community, 250 km north east of Alice Springs, and set up in 1927, is partly on Alyawarre land, partly on land of the Anmatyerre.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

Some maintain the position that More's Utopia functions only on the level of a satire, a work intended to reveal more about the England of his time than about an idealistic society.

* The quest for Christa Wolf an interview with Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns and Stephan Lebert about private chats with Honecker, a German society in check mate, the influence of Goethe, the shortcomings of Brecht, and the lasting effects of Utopia at signandsight. com.

" However, More's work is subject to various interpretations, and it is not clear that he felt that earthly society should be conducted the same way as in Utopia.

Perhaps the first utopian socialist was Thomas More ( 1478-1535 ), who wrote about an imaginary socialist society in his satire Utopia, which was published in 1516.

K-PAXian society seems very similar to that described by Sir Thomas More in his novel Utopia.

Even if a collectivist Utopia of everyone having equal ownership of everyone else could be sustained, he argues, individuals would not be able to do anything without prior approval by everyone in society.

In The University of Utopia, Hutchins describes a country that has evolved to become the perfect society, Utopia, as well as their educational system, which has the well-defined purpose of " promot the intellectual development of the people ".

This Utopia, an imagined society a literal Nowhere is idyllic because the people in it are free from the burdens of industrialization and therefore they find harmony in a lifestyle that coexists with the natural world.

One interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society, it is ultimately unreachable ( see below ).

Indeed, Utopia has many of the characteristics of satire, and there are many jokes and satirical asides such as how honest people are in Europe, but these are usually contrasted with the simple, uncomplicated society of the Utopians.

The word Utopia overtook More's short work and has been used ever since to describe this kind of imaginary society with many unusual ideas being contemplated.