{"id":176,"date":"2011-10-23T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/?p=176"},"modified":"2011-10-23T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T18:01:17","slug":"the-open-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/the-open-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/files\/2011\/10\/Screen-shot-2011-10-23-at-1.56.04-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/files\/2011\/10\/Screen-shot-2011-10-23-at-1.56.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/files\/2011\/10\/Screen-shot-2011-10-23-at-1.56.04-PM.png 968w, https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/files\/2011\/10\/Screen-shot-2011-10-23-at-1.56.04-PM-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/files\/2011\/10\/Screen-shot-2011-10-23-at-1.56.04-PM-500x221.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;. . . though no one owns anything, everyone is rich.&#8221; \u2014Thomas More<\/p>\n<p>You may have seen the fliers for <em>The Open Utopia<\/em> on the tables at the Welcome Reception at this year&#8217;s SUS annual meeting, but if you haven&#8217;t yet visited the site, here&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about: Stephen Duncombe has created an open version of Thomas More&#8217;s Utopia, &#8220;open to read, open to copying, open to modification.&#8221; The latter refers specifically to &#8220;an annotatable and \u2018social\u2019 text available for visitors to comment upon what More \u2013 or [Duncombe] \u2013 have written, and then share their comments with others.&#8221; There are even audio versions of Utopia, &#8220;user-generated galleries of Utopia-themed art and videos,&#8221; and &#8220;[f]or people interested in creating their own plan of an alternative society, . . . a wiki with which to collaborate with others in drafting a new\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>.&#8221; Additionally, &#8220;<em>all<\/em> the letters and commendations, as well as the marginal notes, that were included in the first four printings of [<em>Utopia<\/em> in] 1516-1518 in which More himself had a hand&#8221; are included.<\/p>\n<p>Duncombe has clearly put a lot of work into this project, and it&#8217;s definitely worth checking out. Do so at <a href=\"http:\/\/theopenutopia.org\/home\/\">http:\/\/theopenutopia.org\/home\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;. . . though no one owns anything, everyone is rich.&#8221; \u2014Thomas More You may have seen the fliers for The Open Utopia on the tables at the Welcome Reception at this year&#8217;s SUS annual meeting, but if you haven&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/the-open-utopia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneotopia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lSaF-2Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}