Center for Utopian/Dystopian Studies

University of Ohio grad student Andy Wood's page takes a rare tone for the Web; quietly intelligent without being arcane or self-conciously scholarly. A good break from the oceans of cuteness and sometimes outright stupidity flooding browser screens these days. On his clean, well-organized pages, Andy examines various visions of the perfect society--and how those visions could lead straight to totalitarianism--in literature ranging from Thomas More right up through William Gibson. He also includes graphic reproductions of utopian artifacts such as the cover of a 1930's publication, Technocrat's Magazine, which saw technology as the way out of the Depression. One of the more thought-provoking Web sites out there. (JV)

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