Demanding the Impossible: Utopianism in Philosophy, Literature and Science Fiction

在我们这样一个或多或少不断且往往是快速变化的社会中，如何想象未来的问题是至关重要的。因此，研究澳大利亚的美好未来和糟糕未来是如何被想象出来的，以及它们是如何继续被想象出来的，是这个国家人文学科的一个核心研究问题。更具体地说，我们研究的关键主题之一将是文化、生态和乌托邦或反乌托邦之间的关系。我们的许多工作都将相当刻意地面向未来建立一个生态可持续社会的可能性。

In a society like ours, which is subject to more or less continuous and often rapid social change, the question of how to imagine the future is of paramount importance. The study of how better and worse futures have been imagined for Australia, and how they still continue to be imagined, is therefore a central research question for the humanities in this country. More specifically, one of the key themes in our reseach will be the relationship between culture, ecology and utopia or dystopia. Much of our work will be quite deliberately oriented towards the future possibilities for an ecologically sustainable society.