Tom Moylan
Biographic Data
| ID | 769134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Moylan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Moylan |
| SIGNATURE | MOYLAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4173-9093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cognitve (re)mapping: Superseding Utopian and Dystopian Space in Notes from a Coma
I suggest in this essay that affiliated cultural work can be found in the residual corners of the Western imaginary, such as Ireland, especially as Irish culture and politics has confronted the onslaught of disciplinary neoliberalism and xenophobic fascism in a series of rapid turns in the last two decades. From within a diverse project of tracking and tracing Irish science fictionality, I turn my attention to Mike McCormac ́s Notes from a Coma (…
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation
A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires political activists and science fiction writers alike. In this book Tom Moylan – one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies – explores the theory, the practice and the urgency of the utopian impulse. From the theoretical writings of Frederic Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou to science fiction works by Kim Stanley Robinson and China Mieville, from Latin Am…
Good Days for Irish SF Studies
556 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 48 (2021) REVIEW-ESSAYS Tom Moylan Good Days for Irish SF Studies Richard Howard. Space for Peace: Fragments of the Irish Troubles in the Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White. Liverpool UP, 2021. 304 pp.£90 hc and ebk. In his groundbreaking study, Irish Science Fiction ( 2014), Jack Fennell refers to the received impression that very little sf has been written on the island, much less in the Republic. He…
Darko Suvin, Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels
Darko Suvin's Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels teases out the dialectical connection between poetry and revolution. The book is comprised of an amalgam of essays and poems that constitute a “series of epistemological probes.” In their totality, they inform as a book-length essay on the politics of form that focuses on equally revolutionary ways of knowing and being in the terrible world of the present and of anticipating what is to be don…
The Necessity of Hope in Dystopian Times: A Critical Reflection
In today’s global order, for those seeking a just, equal, and healthy existence for humanity and nature, it is time to exercise the transformative utopian impulse. Yet, against such praxis, capitalism’s retrieval mechanism subsumes and consumes the potential of utopianism. Within this co-optation, an enclosure of “eutopian” sensibility within a resigned “dystopian” structure of feeling compromises the radical utopian project through practices of …
Thus, We Must Choose Utopia
Lyman Tower Sargent stands at the core of contemporary utopian studies. While the utopian proclivity to reach for a better world, and to reflect on how we think about and engage in that hope-ful practice, has been with us in most cultures for centuries, the scholarly field of utopian studies dates back to the 1960s; and from the beginning Lyman has been formative to its development. To situate this accomplishment, I believe he can be counted as o…
Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of he…
Transgressive, Totalizing, Transformative: Utopia's Utopian Surplus
This article reaffirms the utopian standpoint in transformative political culture and practice. Herein, it does not deploy utopia as a noun—an object—but, rather, an adjective, a modifier: as the utopian that identifies a triad—transgressive as it breaks with the status quo, totalizing as it analyzes the system that produces that status quo, and transformative as it moves social reality toward a horizon comprehensively better for all human beings…
Further Reflections on Being a Utopian in These Times
In this essay (a revision of my contribution at the closing session of the Imaginaries of the Future Leverhulme Network held in London in September 2017), I offer a situated commentary (by ‘me’) on ‘ourselves’ (and I know that category has to be deconstructed, complicated, exploded, erased, and yet retained) as utopians and on the work ‘we’ do, and can do (for this was a utopian conference). I begin with a reflection on the current mobilization o…
To Live Consciously Is to Sow the Whirlwind
Like utopianism, nonviolence is frequently feared, misunderstood, and/or underestimated. Rather than the passive stance that many attribute to it, nonviolence requires a robust agency that speaks truth to power in the service of radically transforming society. Drawing on my studies and my personal and political experience, in this essay I reflect on the utopian qualities of nonviolence: first in terms of its general characteristics (especially as…
Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination
nuova edizione, corretta, ampliata e arricchita di una sezione, a cura di R.Baccolini, sulla discussione del testo originale.\nIl volume è stato peer-reviewed
Dark Horizons
Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
Introduction: The Once and Future Orpheus
Research Article| January 01 2010 Introduction: The Once and Future Orpheus Ruth Levitas; Ruth Levitas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom Moylan Tom Moylan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2010) 21 (2): 203–214. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.2.0203 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Faceboo…
Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice
Introduction: Tracking Utopia in Irish Culture(s)
Other| January 01 2007 Introduction: Tracking Utopia in Irish Culture(s) Tom Moylan Tom Moylan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 295–298. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719878 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tom Moylan; Introduction: Tracking Utopia in Irish Culture(s). Utopian Studies 1 January 2007; 18 (3): 295–298. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20719878 …
Irish Voyages and Visions: Pre-figuring, Re-configuring Utopia
Research Article| January 01 2007 Irish Voyages and Visions: Pre-figuring, Re-configuring Utopia Tom Moylan Tom Moylan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 299–323. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719879 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tom Moylan; Irish Voyages and Visions: Pre-figuring, Re-configuring Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2007; 18 (3): 299–323. d…
Reading Utopia, Reading Utopian Readers
Symposium on Social Science Fiction
Utopia, the Postcolonial, and the Postmodern
A Variety Of Utopian Forms
People or Markets: Some Thoughts on Culture and Corporations in the University of the Twenty-First Century
Sitting in the dentist's office last spring, I glanced at the March issue of Time magazine. On the cover was an illustration of a hominid face identified as Homo erectus and the words, How Man Began: Fossil Bones from the Dawn of Humanity Are Rewriting the Story of Evolution. My reading of the cover story revealed, however, that it was not bones that were responsible for this revisionist history but the ideology of the marketplace. For in his des…
Utopian Studies: Sharpening the Debate
Denunciation/Annunciation: The Radical Methodology of Liberation Theology
board placed on a large table. A system of mirrors created the illusion that this table was transparent from all sides. Actually, a little hunchback who was an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet called historical materialism is to win all the time. It can easily be a match for anyone if it enlists the services of theology, which to…
The Locus of Hope: Utopia Versus Ideology
The Necessity of Hope in Dystopian Times: A Critical Reflection
In today’s global order, for those seeking a just, equal, and healthy existence for humanity and nature, it is time to exercise the transformative utopian impulse. Yet, against such praxis, capitalism’s retrieval mechanism subsumes and consumes the potential of utopianism. Within this co-optation, an enclosure of “eutopian” sensibility within a resigned “dystopian” structure of feeling compromises the radical utopian project through practices of …
Further Reflections on Being a Utopian in These Times
In this essay (a revision of my contribution at the closing session of the Imaginaries of the Future Leverhulme Network held in London in September 2017), I offer a situated commentary (by ‘me’) on ‘ourselves’ (and I know that category has to be deconstructed, complicated, exploded, erased, and yet retained) as utopians and on the work ‘we’ do, and can do (for this was a utopian conference). I begin with a reflection on the current mobilization o…
To Live Consciously Is to Sow the Whirlwind
Like utopianism, nonviolence is frequently feared, misunderstood, and/or underestimated. Rather than the passive stance that many attribute to it, nonviolence requires a robust agency that speaks truth to power in the service of radically transforming society. Drawing on my studies and my personal and political experience, in this essay I reflect on the utopian qualities of nonviolence: first in terms of its general characteristics (especially as…
Denunciation/Annunciation: The Radical Methodology of Liberation Theology
board placed on a large table. A system of mirrors created the illusion that this table was transparent from all sides. Actually, a little hunchback who was an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet called historical materialism is to win all the time. It can easily be a match for anyone if it enlists the services of theology, which to…
Ideological Contradiction in Clarke’s The City and the Stars
The Locus of Hope: Utopia Versus Ideology
Denunciation/Annunciation: The Radical Methodology of Liberation Theology
board placed on a large table. A system of mirrors created the illusion that this table was transparent from all sides. Actually, a little hunchback who was an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet's hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet called historical materialism is to win all the time. It can easily be a match for anyone if it enlists the services of theology, which to…
Utopian Studies: Sharpening the Debate
People or Markets: Some Thoughts on Culture and Corporations in the University of the Twenty-First Century
Sitting in the dentist's office last spring, I glanced at the March issue of Time magazine. On the cover was an illustration of a hominid face identified as Homo erectus and the words, How Man Began: Fossil Bones from the Dawn of Humanity Are Rewriting the Story of Evolution. My reading of the cover story revealed, however, that it was not bones that were responsible for this revisionist history but the ideology of the marketplace. For in his des…
A Variety Of Utopian Forms
Utopia, the Postcolonial, and the Postmodern
Symposium on Social Science Fiction
Reading Utopia, Reading Utopian Readers
Introduction: Tracking Utopia in Irish Culture(s)
Other| January 01 2007 Introduction: Tracking Utopia in Irish Culture(s) Tom Moylan Tom Moylan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 295–298. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719878 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tom Moylan; Introduction: Tracking Utopia in Irish Culture(s). Utopian Studies 1 January 2007; 18 (3): 295–298. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20719878 …
Irish Voyages and Visions: Pre-figuring, Re-configuring Utopia
Research Article| January 01 2007 Irish Voyages and Visions: Pre-figuring, Re-configuring Utopia Tom Moylan Tom Moylan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 299–323. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719879 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tom Moylan; Irish Voyages and Visions: Pre-figuring, Re-configuring Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2007; 18 (3): 299–323. d…
Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice
Introduction: The Once and Future Orpheus
Research Article| January 01 2010 Introduction: The Once and Future Orpheus Ruth Levitas; Ruth Levitas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom Moylan Tom Moylan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2010) 21 (2): 203–214. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.2.0203 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Faceboo…
Dark Horizons
Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination
nuova edizione, corretta, ampliata e arricchita di una sezione, a cura di R.Baccolini, sulla discussione del testo originale.\nIl volume è stato peer-reviewed
To Live Consciously Is to Sow the Whirlwind
Like utopianism, nonviolence is frequently feared, misunderstood, and/or underestimated. Rather than the passive stance that many attribute to it, nonviolence requires a robust agency that speaks truth to power in the service of radically transforming society. Drawing on my studies and my personal and political experience, in this essay I reflect on the utopian qualities of nonviolence: first in terms of its general characteristics (especially as…
Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of he…
Transgressive, Totalizing, Transformative: Utopia's Utopian Surplus
This article reaffirms the utopian standpoint in transformative political culture and practice. Herein, it does not deploy utopia as a noun—an object—but, rather, an adjective, a modifier: as the utopian that identifies a triad—transgressive as it breaks with the status quo, totalizing as it analyzes the system that produces that status quo, and transformative as it moves social reality toward a horizon comprehensively better for all human beings…
Further Reflections on Being a Utopian in These Times
In this essay (a revision of my contribution at the closing session of the Imaginaries of the Future Leverhulme Network held in London in September 2017), I offer a situated commentary (by ‘me’) on ‘ourselves’ (and I know that category has to be deconstructed, complicated, exploded, erased, and yet retained) as utopians and on the work ‘we’ do, and can do (for this was a utopian conference). I begin with a reflection on the current mobilization o…
The Necessity of Hope in Dystopian Times: A Critical Reflection
In today’s global order, for those seeking a just, equal, and healthy existence for humanity and nature, it is time to exercise the transformative utopian impulse. Yet, against such praxis, capitalism’s retrieval mechanism subsumes and consumes the potential of utopianism. Within this co-optation, an enclosure of “eutopian” sensibility within a resigned “dystopian” structure of feeling compromises the radical utopian project through practices of …
Thus, We Must Choose Utopia
Lyman Tower Sargent stands at the core of contemporary utopian studies. While the utopian proclivity to reach for a better world, and to reflect on how we think about and engage in that hope-ful practice, has been with us in most cultures for centuries, the scholarly field of utopian studies dates back to the 1960s; and from the beginning Lyman has been formative to its development. To situate this accomplishment, I believe he can be counted as o…
Good Days for Irish SF Studies
556 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 48 (2021) REVIEW-ESSAYS Tom Moylan Good Days for Irish SF Studies Richard Howard. Space for Peace: Fragments of the Irish Troubles in the Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White. Liverpool UP, 2021. 304 pp.£90 hc and ebk. In his groundbreaking study, Irish Science Fiction ( 2014), Jack Fennell refers to the received impression that very little sf has been written on the island, much less in the Republic. He…
Darko Suvin, Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels
Darko Suvin's Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels teases out the dialectical connection between poetry and revolution. The book is comprised of an amalgam of essays and poems that constitute a “series of epistemological probes.” In their totality, they inform as a book-length essay on the politics of form that focuses on equally revolutionary ways of knowing and being in the terrible world of the present and of anticipating what is to be don…
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation
A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires political activists and science fiction writers alike. In this book Tom Moylan – one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies – explores the theory, the practice and the urgency of the utopian impulse. From the theoretical writings of Frederic Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou to science fiction works by Kim Stanley Robinson and China Mieville, from Latin Am…
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