Utopias

Hel from Metropolis

Stetson Univeristy FSEM100-18 Utopias in Fiction, Real Life and Vitrtual Reality

Fall 2009

Syllabus (pdf)

initial syllabus

Schedule update of 10/22

final schedule and paper 2

Online Readings (pdf) & Links

Biruk, "Are Slaves Free?"

Llewelyn, "It's a Country?"

Llewelyn, responses to "It's a Country?"

Burning Man

Online videos: Sunday Morning 2007, Short overview 2008, Dust & Illusions Trailers

Rights controversy: Electronic Frontier Foundation article (pdf), Burning Man Blog response (pdf), discussion at BoingBoing

SecondLife

Online videos: Burning Life 08 (HD), Burning Life 08 Wipeout (HD),

My 2005 presentation (powerpoint)

Sl Community Standards

BurningLife 2009

Hancock Shaker Village

Amanas Historical Society

National Park Service Amanas Site

Reading on Heaven's Gate cult

Jonestown Wikipedia entry

Intentional Communities

The Theosophical Society in America

Oneida Community Mansion House

Koreshan Unity unofficial Historic Site

More Unoffical Coverage of Koreshan Site

Celebration: readings on its 10th year

Style Manual for Papers

Copies of Assignments

Discussion assignment 1 (due 8/20/09)

Discussion assignment 2 (9/1/09) (docx)

Discussion assigments 3 & 4 (11/24 and 12/1)

Paper assignment 1

Paper assignment 2