This thesis is concerned with reconnecting people to the land. It has been developed as a reaction to the current environmental crises concerning peak oil, urban sprawl, and the ongoing opposition between humans and the natural world. This thesis posits that the most direct way to reconnect people to the land is through the practice of agriculture. The thesis is written as a manifesto. The intent is to clearly declare the role that an agrarian development can play in our society. As a manifesto, it is written with the understanding that current political and economical considerations be suspended from the context of the thesis. It is a suggestion for the re-evaluation of contemporary agriculture, a new approach to development, and a new style for living. The thesis is broken into three sections. The first is an empirical introduction to the issues surrounding the thesis. Following this, a synopsis of readings concerning the work of a number of agricultural innovators is discussed. Large scale, rural based utopian precedents were studied more for their theory than for their architectural implications. The second section is the written Manifesto. The third is the design proposition of the thesis that follows the precepts outlined in the Manifesto. This design, which is a proposition for a new large-scale, hybrid urban/rural form of settlement, is named AGRARIA. This thesis is not meant to be a ‘back-to-the-land’ regressive social movement, but rather it suggests that current development of our arable land could be more in tune with its environment and still remain productive land after development. It is a proposition for the localization of production, and direct involvement in our food system. Following the precepts of the design proposal, a new alternative to urban sprawl can be discussed. This new typology will change the pattern of suburban development from consumptive elements into productive ones, and from isolationist environments into integrative ones. It is envisioned that this trend in development and lifestyle shall enable the spread of an agrarian ideology throughout rural areas and into urban centres.

Utopia, the perfect society, is a concept linked with the perfect human being. These concepts are the focus of Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars, and this essay will examine how the text challenges ideas of humanity and utopia. The two utopias are presented in The City and the Stars, with one branch of genetically engineered humans on Earth in each utopia. Their differences in approaches to challenges sets them apart. While examining the text literary and philosophical concepts of utopia and humanity will be used to better understand the text. The text shows us the significance of facing challenges. Moreover, that utopia, while desirable, is not for humankind as humanity's potential will not be reached when it resides in a utopia.  Humanity is defined by complex emotions that are hard to allow to exist in utopias.

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This dissertation works to illuminate modern poetry’s ambivalent stance toward the concept of utopia through the work of two of its most politically engaged practitioners. One of the most quoted literary maxims of the twentieth century is W.H. Auden’s assertion, in his 1939 elegy “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” that “poetry makes nothing happen.” For Yeats, poets serve as harbingers of new worlds, imaging more ideal societal orders while working to actualize these private speculations in the public realm – a viewpoint which Auden, always concerned to define poetry’s social niche, finds both ludicrous and naggingly attractive. This dissertation examines this ambivalence, tracing the two poets’ modulating views on poetry’s world-building capacities, and their shifting stances toward the Shelleyan analogy between poetic forms and social formations. Spanning a period from the 1880s of early Yeats to Auden’s death in 1973, and devoting two chapters to each poet, I take up the following questions: Why is their work so often concerned with the future? What images of better worlds does it present? And more expansively, how can lyric poetry – so often predicated upon solitude – work to embody social aspirations? Given the sheer prevalence of an affirmative future-orientation in the two poets’ work, I see them as embodying (albeit in various ways at different stages in their careers) a poetics of utopia, whereby both poetry itself and the vocation of writing it stand as crucial manifestations of the impulse to strive after better ways of life in more ideal futures. Engaging with theorists of utopia from Lewis Mumford and his contemporary Ernst Bloch to, more recently, Fredric Jameson and Ruth Levitas, I work to mediate among the various senses of “utopia” with which the two poets engage in their work. Writing in dialogue with recent efforts to recuperate the drive for social change at the root of the utopian impulse, I highlight the centrality of this impulse not just to the work of Yeats and Auden, but to twentieth-century poetry more generally, as it strives to underscore its indispensability to our search for better futures.

Ao ingressar no trabalho em um hospital universitário, através de um concurso público, experimentei o quão necessária, mas também o quão problemática, é toda nomeação. Porque acredito na necessidade de participação e nas possibilidades de invenção na gestão pública e na clínica psicanalítica, reconstituíram-se perguntas sobre quais aproximações são possíveis entre estes campos. Como a escuta clínica instrumentaliza para o trabalho na instituição? O encontro com a psicanálise, a literatura e os estudos utópicos, enquanto ferramentas ópticas, possibilitou a problematização das inquietações sentidas, produzindo uma experiência compartilhável. A leitura de Thomas Bernhard foi importante re-curso de pesquisa, operando um giro no discurso: da vivência do hospital como um não lugar (u-topos) à um lugar que condensa muitos lugares da cultura (heterotopia). Neste percurso pode-se perceber como a psicanálise e a literatura podem contribuir no campo das instituições. Ao se inscreverem como uma possibilidade de leitura dos discursos correntes, como uma ética (pautada na escuta de singularidades), permitem a análise das relações, das histórias construídas, dos silêncios e repetições, bem como da implicação de cada um na sustentação destas. / When I started to work at a university hospital, through a public tender, I have experienced how necessary, and how problematic, it is any nomination. Since I believe in the need for participating and in the possibilities of invention in the public administration and in the psychoanalytic clinic, questions were reconstructed on which approaches are possible between these fields. How the clinical listening does provide the tools to work in the institution? The encounter with psychoanalysis, literature and utopian studies, while optical tools, allowed the questioning of felt concerns, producing a shareable experience. Reading Thomas Bernhard was an important re-search, operating a twist in the speech: from experiencing the hospital as a non-place (u-topos) to a place that condenses many places of culture (heterotopia). In this course, one can see how psychoanalysis and literature can contribute in the field of institutions. When registering as a possibility for reading the current discourse, as an ethic (based on listening of singularities), allow the analysis of the relationship, the stories built, the silences and repetitions, as well as the implication of each one in order to support it.

Suburban Heights is a novella and collection of stories.

Ao ingressar no trabalho em um hospital universitário, através de um concurso público, experimentei o quão necessária, mas também o quão problemática, é toda nomeação. Porque acredito na necessidade de participação e nas possibilidades de invenção na gestão pública e na clínica psicanalítica, reconstituíram-se perguntas sobre quais aproximações são possíveis entre estes campos. Como a escuta clínica instrumentaliza para o trabalho na instituição? O encontro com a psicanálise, a literatura e os estudos utópicos, enquanto ferramentas ópticas, possibilitou a problematização das inquietações sentidas, produzindo uma experiência compartilhável. A leitura de Thomas Bernhard foi importante re-curso de pesquisa, operando um giro no discurso: da vivência do hospital como um não lugar (u-topos) à um lugar que condensa muitos lugares da cultura (heterotopia). Neste percurso pode-se perceber como a psicanálise e a literatura podem contribuir no campo das instituições. Ao se inscreverem como uma possibilidade de leitura dos discursos correntes, como uma ética (pautada na escuta de singularidades), permitem a análise das relações, das histórias construídas, dos silêncios e repetições, bem como da implicação de cada um na sustentação destas. / When I started to work at a university hospital, through a public tender, I have experienced how necessary, and how problematic, it is any nomination. Since I believe in the need for participating and in the possibilities of invention in the public administration and in the psychoanalytic clinic, questions were reconstructed on which approaches are possible between these fields. How the clinical listening does provide the tools to work in the institution? The encounter with psychoanalysis, literature and utopian studies, while optical tools, allowed the questioning of felt concerns, producing a shareable experience. Reading Thomas Bernhard was an important re-search, operating a twist in the speech: from experiencing the hospital as a non-place (u-topos) to a place that condenses many places of culture (heterotopia). In this course, one can see how psychoanalysis and literature can contribute in the field of institutions. When registering as a possibility for reading the current discourse, as an ethic (based on listening of singularities), allow the analysis of the relationship, the stories built, the silences and repetitions, as well as the implication of each one in order to support it.

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This thesis examines the role of concepts of jurisprudence, utopian theory and intentional community in three novels that are based on actual attempts to construct utopian intentional communities. Chapter one focuses on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance, applying Ronald Dworkin’s interpretive theory in order to evaluate the Blithedale commune’s attempt to construct its own legal community. Questions of “why does it fail?” are pervasive in this thesis, but in this chapter, I pull apart the various roles of individual members in order to decipher both the role of the individual and the community in self-created legal systems. Chapter two adds to the consideration of constructive interpretivism by looking at the role of associative obligations in T.C Boyle’s Drop City. In particular, I analyze how associative obligations change when the commune relocates to Alaska, considering the effects of space in shifting associative obligations. The final chapter considers the meaning of legal death in Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. I explain the implications of a commune based on negative intent in order to determine whether this community can still maintain integrity to its cause. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)