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

在我们这样一个或多或少持续不断而且往往是迅速的社会变革的社会中，如何想象未来的问题至关重要。因此，研究澳大利亚的未来是如何被想象得更好和更坏的，以及它们如何继续被想象，是这个国家人文学科的一个中心研究问题。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。我们的大部分工作将非常慎重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.