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Utopian Book Collective

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What we’re about

Come along, join the dissection, cogitation, exuberation, confusion and libation!

We meet in central Bristol on the first Monday of every month, a new and exciting discussion ensues and we normally end with a few drinks and choose the next months wee bit of Utopian ....or DYS-topian literature.

We don't have a hierarchical structure and decisions over the next book can be done in turn, or through discussion and scanning the internet.

Upcoming events

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Mon, Oct 6 · 7:00 PM BST
UBC discuss Utopia by Thomas More
Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Bristol, GB
This month we are going back to the source and reading Thomas More's Utopia from 1516.

This is the text that invented the word 'utopia' (it's a pun meaning both 'good-place' (eu-topia) and 'no-place' (ou-topia) in Greek) and started the genre of utopia in literature.

Does this vision of utopia still seem like a better world? What aspects of the book have become conventions of the genre of utopia? How does it reflect its time in history (it was written around the time of the discovery of the 'new world' and the colonisation of the Americas)? Is it still a good model for imagining better worlds today?

Join us to discuss all this and any other thoughts or questions the book inspires over a drink at the Watershed.
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Kevlin Henney and 3 others

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