By: Tor Aarestad

He produced lovely typewriters and radical theories of decentralized power.

By: Joshua Glenn

Help the Open Utopia project get past the prototype stage!

By: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn on a panel from TALES TO ASTONISH (1962)

By: Brian Berger

His Mumbo Jumbo promised: “We will make our own future Text.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Zamyatin’s We isn’t anti-utopian, but anti-anti-utopian.

By: Joshua Glenn

Godzilla in Poland; Radium-Age schoolchildren

By: Joshua Glenn

“I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

By: Joshua Glenn

He was a martyr in the cause of absurdism and ’pataphysics.

By: Matthew Battles

Why are lowbrow utopias haunted by quatsch?

By: Joshua Glenn

“‘Grow up!’ — that is the motto of Highbrow.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Utopia Minus X (1966), by Rex Gordon

By: Amanda French

This pedigreed, highbrow dystopian was a godfather of the Sixties.

By: Brian Berger

Rhapsodic, recondite philosopher of music, hope, and Stalin.

By: Amanda French

Before we blamed our madness on nature, we drove each other crazy.

By: Joshua Glenn

He searched far and wide for dialectical synthesis, only to reject it.