After Utopia: Topos of Otherness and Social Observer Position

• Main Author: S V Rudanovskaya
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2013-12-01
• Series: RUDN Journal of Philosophy
• Subjects: утопическое воображение; мутопия; постутопическое мышление; информационное пространство; кибер-мобильность; искушенный читатель; опыт другого
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/11488

Miklukho-Maklay St., 10/2, Moscow, Russia, 117198 The article deals with peculiarities of utopian imagination and its mutations in infomedia. The emphasis is made on mutopia which includes utopia as a text, intended for reading on the margins of other texts, but excludes demands for utopian meta-otherness, transforming attitudes towards current society. A social observer in mutopia is first of all a critical reader without superior position of Reason and Reality and a kind of skilled surfer using indefinite, changeable, abundant mental environment for creating his/her own textual routs. Post-utopian thought emerges out of the special social observer experience and is analyzed in this article with inspiration from and on the basis of “Notes of Mutopia” by I. Csicsery-Ronay.