Alex Hall

The social networking beast that is Facebook usually allows a couple of sponsored ads off to the right of whatever the interface looks like this month, and this one caught my eye because of the attention grabbing headline: “Ultimate Utopia.”  Go figure.  I’m wondering if there’s some utopian online gamer out there who knows anything about SocialCity?  […]

Here’s the second commercial I’ve seen lately that seems to have a utopian theme, or, perhaps, anti-utopian.  It appears to be a parody of the ABC series Lost, which itself has some interesting utopian things […]

I saw this ad during an NFL game some weeks ago, and I can’t get it out of my head.  Utopia?  Anti-utopia?  You be the judge.  Note that the video’s description describes the island as “the perfect party island.”  […]

Stephanie Stripling, having volunteered at the last meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, has come through with a reboot of the utopian bibliography, which was traditionally part of the Utopus Discovered package, but is now its own entity of sorts.  Stephanie has put my blog-designing skills to shame, as you’ll see, but I’m okay with […]

Utopus Discovered is proud to bring you a re-inauguration of the most(ly) informal newsletter of the Society for Utopian Studies.  Now edited by Alex Hall of Kent State University, Utopus is back!  In this issue: “How Came to Utopia,” “In Memory of Art Lewis,” and Miscellaneotopia presents Dystopia you can drink!  Okay, you can’t really drink it. Utopus […]