These radicals range from unconventional to unhinged, brilliant to bat-shit crazy. 'Radicals Chasing Utopia' is an in-depth look at a selection of outlying organizations that all feel they hold the key to the future, or at least the futures they envision. Jamie Bartlett is back, following up his stellar debut 'The Dark Net' with something equally enlightening and unnerving for the modern age. *Review originally published in the New York Journal Of Books. Their methods may be extreme, but in chasing utopia, these groups are challenging what is possible and previewing the world to come. The success of democratic societies hinges on our ability to listen to-and in some cases learn from-the radical movements in our midst. Bartlett introduces us to some of the most influential movements techno-futurists questing for immortality, far-right groups seeking to close borders, militant environmentalists striving to save the planet by any means necessary, and psychedelic pioneers attempting to heal society with the help of powerful hallucinogens.
In Radicals Chasing Utopia, Jamie Bartlett, one of the world's leading thinkers on radical politics and technology, takes readers inside the strange and exciting worlds of the innovators, disrupters, idealists, and extremists who think we can do better-and believe they know how. But all the things we now take for granted, all the modern wisdoms we hold to be self-evident, were once derided as dangerous or foolish radical thinking." - From the Prologue "It's the hubris of every generation to think that they have arrived at the best way of living.
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