retrotopia
retrotopia noun: an ideal society inspired by a premodern one.
Noun
retrotopia (countable and uncountable, plural retrotopias)
- An ideal society inspired by a premodern one.
- True to the utopian spirit, retrotopia derives its stimulus from the hope of reconciling, at long last, security with freedom: the feat that both the original vision and its first negation didn’t try – or, having attempted, failed – to attain.2017, Zygmunt Bauman, “Introduction: The Age of Nostalgia”, in Retrotopia, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, →ISBN
- There exists a theoretical consensus that the artistic utopias and retrotopias of the 1980s and 1990s have little in common with the utopian projects of the beginning of the century, or those that marked the beginning of the space age, and even less with the ones that succeeded them.2021, Natalija Majsova, “After Utopia, Can There Be Happiness? Chetvertaia planeta”, in Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, →ISBN...
Forms of retrotopia
| plural | retrotopias |
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Origin of retrotopia
From retro- + -topia. A nonce word until its use by Zygmunt Bauman in his book Retrotopia (2017).
Words formed from retrotopia
- retrotopian
Questions about retrotopia
- What does retrotopia mean?
- Retrotopia means an ideal society inspired by a premodern one.
- What part of speech is retrotopia?
- Retrotopia is a noun.
- What is the plural of retrotopia?
- The plural of retrotopia is retrotopias.
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