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Chaos and hope: nano-utopian moments of activist self-organisation

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posted on 2023-06-09, 22:23 authored by Heather McKnight
Arguably, chaos and entropy are adaptive to activism and utopian theory; they trouble normative approaches to temporal progress, applying a non-linear and emergent approach to thinking about activism and possibility. [...] This initial exploratory definition of the nano-utopian describes moments that are fractions of [...] micro- utopian structures, or that may initially sit at a disconnect from them, differing mainly in the fact that they are unpredictable, unplanned or unexpected.

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Excursions

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University of Sussex

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1

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10

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33-60

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2020-12-09

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2020-12-09

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2020-12-08

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