\\nfrom a\u003Cbr \\/>\\nUtopian\u003Cbr \\/>\\nCalifornia\u003C\\/strong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Cbr \\/>\\n\u003C\\/strong>\u003C\\/span>\u003C\\/h1>\\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\\\"uppercase\\\">Part 1:\u003C\\/span> Notes from Kim Stanley Robinson’s first utopian novel: \u003Ca href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.kimstanleyrobinson.info\\/node\\/338\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">\u003Cem>Pacific Edge\u003C\\/em>\u003C\\/a>.\u003C\\/p>\\n\",\"options\":{\"layout\":\"center\",\"width\":\"half\",\"anchor\":\"\",\"align\":\"start\",\"position\":\"sticky\",\"padding\":\"\",\"theme\":\"orange-term\",\"text_color\":\"\",\"background_color\":\"\",\"continuation\":false,\"full_height\":false,\"hide_bottom_arrow\":false},\"media\":{\"type\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"ID\":3636,\"id\":3636,\"title\":\"P1000149\",\"filename\":\"P1000149.jpg\",\"filesize\":279553,\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/static.commontask.io\\/2021\\/01\\/P1000149.jpg\",\"link\":\"https:\\/\\/commontask.io\\/notes-from-kim-stanley-robinsons-first-utopian-novel\\/p1000149\",\"alt\":\"\",\"author\":\"1\",\"description\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"name\":\"p1000149\",\"status\":\"inherit\",\"uploaded_to\":3566,\"date\":\"2021-01-11 02:37:07\",\"modified\":\"2021-01-11 02:37:07\",\"menu_order\":0,\"mime_type\":\"image\\/jpeg\",\"type\":\"image\",\"subtype\":\"jpeg\",\"icon\":\"https:\\/\\/api.commontask.io\\/wp-includes\\/images\\/media\\/default.png\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1067,\"sizes\":{\"thumbnail\":\"https:\\/\\/static.commontask.io\\/2021\\/01\\/P1000149-50x33.jpg\",\"thumbnail-width\":50,\"thumbnail-height\":33,\"medium\":\"https:\\/\\/static.commontask.io\\/2021\\/01\\/P1000149-512x341.jpg\",\"medium-width\":512,\"medium-height\":341,\"large\":\"https:\\/\\/static.commontask.io\\/2021\\/01\\/P1000149-1024x683.jpg\",\"large-width\":1024,\"large-height\":683}},\"video_url\":\"\",\"video_poster_frame\":false,\"text\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"alignment\":\"center\",\"position\":\"sticky\",\"style\":\"cover\",\"focus\":\"\",\"height\":\"full-viewport\",\"width\":\"full-width\",\"blending\":\"\",\"filter\":\"default\"},\"typography\":{\"header_font\":\"mp\",\"body_font\":\"spectral\",\"change_font_size\":true,\"body_font_size\":\"2\",\"adaptive_headers\":false,\"hyphenation\":true}},{\"acf_fc_layout\":\"text\",\"text\":\"\u003Cp>\u003Cem>How do you even begin to think about rehabilitating utopia? You start by focusing on the most (only?) interesting part of the project: getting there.\u003Cbr \\/>\\n\u003C\\/em>\u003C\\/p>\\n\u003Cp>“\u003Cstrong>\u003Cspan class=\\\"uppercase\\\">What a cheat utopias are, no wonder people hate them.\u003C\\/span>\u003C\\/strong> Engineer some fresh start, an island, a new continent, dispossess them, give them a new planet sure! So they don\\u2019t have to deal with our history. Ever since More they\\u2019ve been doing it: rupture, clean cut, fresh start. So the utopias in books are pocket utopias too. Ahistorical, static, why should we read them? They don\\u2019t speak to us trapped in this world as we are, we look at them in the same way we look at the pretty inside of a paperweight, snow drifting down, so what? 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