The Utopia Issue

Issue 25, Spring 2012

Issue 25

Our dreams are too dreamy. Our common script of the good life needs revision as we enter this phase of late capitalism, crumbling empire, depleted seas and fossil-fuel decline. We need a new utopia.

  • Regulars
  • Happiness
    Melanie Dennis Unrau 6
  • Letters 8
  • Sinner's Corner: I hide my sin
    Margot Starbuck 12
  • Comic: That magnet makes me mad
    Justin Petkau 13
  • The Soapboxer: A better-managed Occupy
    Nicholas Klassen 14
  • The Pastor's Wife: This dream's gotta change
    Carrie S. Martin 15
  • Poetry
  • Seven songs for Spatsizi
    Emily McGiffin 60
  • Culturosities 16
  • De-motorize utopia
  • Utopia found, exceeds expectations
  • Post-patriarchal parenting
  • Utopia
  • The most important impact
    Sandra Malasky 7
  • An idiosyncratic timeline of utopia in the West
    Miriam Meinders 22
  • This resurrection will likely be painful
    Bre Woligroski 24
  • When wealth wins, abundance is lost
    Amanda Follett 26
  • Apocalyptic double vision
    Ched Myers 30
  • What I learned in Copenhagen
    Jonathan Hiskes 32
  • Maybe zombies can save us from our comforts
    Tisha McComb 34
  • Dystopia for teens
    Kati Nolfi 35
  • A different drummer
    Kati Nolfi 36
  • Sex, shame and the bedbug story
    Bowen Smyth 40
  • Occupy Wall Street's altar call
    Josiah Neufeld 42
  • Following the spirit of Occupy
    Becky Garrison 47
  • Stupid beneath our feet
    Allen Killian-Moore 56
  • Reclaiming value through environmentalism
    Will Pearson 58
  • Swords into ploughshares
    Colin Mathewson 62
  • Uhopia
  • Open your ears
    Donna-Jean Brown 48
  • Goatwalker
    Dan Trabue 49
  • Lagom
    Kathy Dueck 50
  • I want to see my son
    Ellen Gillette 51
  • I wish we'd all been ready
    D.L. Mayfield 52
  • Heaven is a place on earth
    Gareth Brandt 53
  • Come down the ladders
    Kate Bierma Marshak 54
  • get along gang
    Kathryn Gray 55
  • Experiments 66
  • Ragpicker co-op
    Kristen Andrews
  • Vermicomposting
  • Sixteen years without money
  • Civil Disobedience 70
  • Criminalization of the homeless
  • Occupy and the police
    Sean Ledwich
  • Palestinian freedom riders
  • Reviews 74
  • Pigeon English
    Julienne Isaacs
  • Beauty Will Save the World
  • Solid State

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