Featuring twenty-five writers in all, this book includes Howard P. Segal's acclaimed work on utopian visionaries.

The rise of proxy wars, the Space Race, and cybernetics during the Cold War marked science and technology as vital sites of social and political power. Women ar

How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade. In the

Segal examines the historical connection between technology and utopia, and shows how this connection is not just a contemporary western concept, but one that s

Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in pr