Frameworks for successful analysis and
management of the structures of understanding.

Road Trip of the Mind

this is a beyondutopia production

Overview
The United States has been a place that has encouraged utopian communities to establish themselves.  Most start out with utopian ideals, but they often degenerate into a horrifying inversion of that. 

Of the readings you have examined, which is your favorite utopian community?

Readings

THEORETICAL BASES
CONSTRUCTED UTOPIAS

More, Sir Thomas
"Utopia" (1516)

Fourier, Charles
Utopia

"Theory of Social Organization" (1820)

Bacon, Francis
"The New Atlantis" (1626)

Harrington, James
"The Commonwealth of Oceana" (1656)

Women in Utopian Societies

Kinsley, Jessie Catherine. "A Lasting Spring" Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press 1983.
This text contains the memoirs, letters, and journals of Jesse Catherine Kinsley, a daughter of the Oneida Perfectionists community.


POETRY

Ray A. Young Bear
"The Aura of the Blue Flower that is a Goddess"

John Donne
"A Farewell to Love"

"Lovers' Infiniteness"

Denise Levertov
"The Metier of Blossoming" ("if we could blossom out of ourselves!)

Claude McKay
"If We Must Die" -- Let it not be like hogs

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Timeline of Work
Unit 1  Personal Frames: The structures of individual knowledge and perception
Unit 2  Cultural Frames: Moving outside one's own frame
Unit 3   When Worlds Collide: The clash of frames
Unit 4  Frameworks of Debate:  Moving beyond simply taking sides
Unit 5  When Frames Collapse: Reconfiguring knowledge in times of upheaval and rapid change
Unit 6  The Big Frame: Global villages and beyond
Unit 7  Who's Watching the Frame?: Discussions on the Limits of Self-Expression
Unit 8  Frameworks for Community Building
Unit 9  Colonialist Frames:  The Myths and Realities of "Tribalism"
Unit 10  Hammering Out Your Own Frame:  Reconfiguring Perception for Times of Change

About the Author

Road Trip of the Mind
Guidebook for the Intrepid Traveler
Designed and developed
by Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.
© 2002