anarchotopia

anarchotopia

See also: Anarchotopia

English

Etymology

anarcho- +‎ -topia

Noun

anarchotopia (plural anarchotopias)

1. A society or culture employing anarchism, especially if viewed as utopian or dystopian.
   • 1996, World Art: The Magazine of Contemporary Visual Arts

     ... culture represented by CarNet , and other impermanent anarchotopias , on - line and off , that have rey that hints at a point where scatology and eschatology meet - where captured the subcultural imagination in recent years .

   • 2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, MIT Press (→ISBN), page 113:

     It seems a little premature to be performing Last Rites for the myth of subversion , which is alive and well in heady subcultural dreams of Temporary Autonomous Zones , Islands in the Net , and other anarchotopias , online and off .

   • 2007, Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic (→ISBN)

     21 It's a vision that resonates sympathetically with the impermanent anarchotopias, online and off, real and imagined, that have captured the subcultural imagination in recent years: Hakim Bey's notion of the “temporary autonomous zone ...