• 96 TEASER | What is Utopia? Part IV. Bacon's New Atlantis

  • Aug 28 2024
  • Length: 15 mins
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96 TEASER | What is Utopia? Part IV. Bacon's New Atlantis

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  • In this episode we talk about the weird little unfinished utopian novel The New Atlantis, written by founding enlightenment figure Francis Bacon. We talk about his fetish for differential novelty, his understanding and valorization of knowledge production, and his ambivalent status as a pivotal figure between medieval and modern science. He’s right that European rationality is sickly, but what can orgiastic science deliver for utopian consciousness? Not clear! But it definitely would be cool to be able to make meteors and multiply natural forms.

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    References:

    Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis, in Bacon et. al., Three Early Modern Utopias (New York: Oxford, 2009)

    Music:

    “Vintage Memories” by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

    “My Space” by Overu | https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN
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