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General Sources:Ancient, Biblical, and Medieval Traditions
Other Worlds: Utopian Imagination from More to the Enlightenment
Utopia in History: From the Revolutionary Age Through the Nineteenth Century
Dreams and Nightmares: Utopias and Dystopias in the Twentieth Century
Metaworlds: Utopian Visions of the Internet and the Metaphysics of Virtual Life
These sites are not part of The New York Public Library’s website. The Library has no control over their content or availability.
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Digitized Literature
Sites of General Interest
Center for Millennial Studies at Boston College
Utopian Philosophy, with many useful links
The Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia
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Sources: Ancient, Biblical, and Medieval Traditions
Hesiod’s Works and Days (text with bibliographical notes)
The Bible (many text versions)
Medieval Manuscripts of the Apocalypse (online exhibition by the University of Notre Dame)
The Legend of Prester John (bibliography from ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
Meir Bar-Ilan, "Prester John: Fiction and History" from History of European Ideas (article)
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (text)
Marco Polo’s Description of the Tartars (excerpts)
Retracing the Voyage of Saint Brendan (article)
Plato’s Republic (numerous text translations)
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (text with commentary)
Saint Augustine (Catholic Encyclopedia entry with link to texts)
The Decameron Web, a site devoted to Boccaccio’s Decameron (text, images, links)
Christine de Pisan’s The Book of The City of Ladies (excerpts from Millersville University's Women Writers of the Middle Ages)
François Rabelais (text, images, links)
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Other Worlds: Utopian Imagination from More to the Enlightenment
Thomas More’s life and works (text, images, links)
Lakowski, R. I. "A Bibliography of Thomas More's Utopia" from Early Modern Literary Studies
Art Theorists of the Renaissance (Bibliography)
Vitruvius, Illustrated by Cesare Cesariano, 1521 (images)
Leon Battista Alberti (text, images)
Sebastiano Serlio’s Architettura (1537-51) (images)
Francesco di Giorgio Martini (links to images)
Theodore De Bry’s America (images)
1492: An Ongoing Voyage (exhibition at the Library of Congress)
The Diggers and Levellers (text, images, links)
Thomas Harrington’s The Commonwealth of Oceana (text)
Tomasso Campanella’s City of the Sun (text)
William Penn (text, images)
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (images)
Institut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (text, images) - Link no longer functional
Etienne-Louis Boullée (exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in French)
The Works of Francis Bacon (text)
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (text)
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (text, images, links)
The Voltaire Society of America (text, images, links)
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Utopia in History: From the Revolutionary Age Through the Nineteenth Century
The American Revolution (text, images, links, web complement to PBS's Liberty! documentary series)
"Rough Draft" of the Declaration of Independence (text)
Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man (text)
The French Revolution (text, images, links)
William Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (text)
New Lanark Conservation Trust (text, images, links)
New Harmony, Indiana (text, images, links)
Utopians and Socialists (links)
Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon (text, images, links)
Shaker Crafts from the Index of American Design (collection tour from the National Gallery of Art)
Shaker Manuscripts Online (text)
Canterbury Shaker Village (text, images, links)
The Enfield Shaker Museum (text, images, links)
Hancock Shaker Village (text, images, links)
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village (1) (text, images, links)
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village (2) (text, images, links)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (text, images, links)
Mormon History Research Page (text, images, links)
Oneida Community Collection at the Syracuse University Library (text, images, links)
Oneida Community Mansion House (text, images, links)
Marx-Engels Internet Archive (text, images)
Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions (text)
The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-71 at Northwestern University Library (images)
The Paris Commune, 1871 (text, images, links)
Anarchy Archives (text, images, links)
William Morris (text, images, links)
Edward Bellamy (text, links)
Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (text)
Herman Melville’s Typee (text)
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Dreams and Nightmares: Utopias and Dystopias in the Twentieth Century
Futurism (text, images, links)
Karel Capek’s R. U. R. (plot summary, images, links)
Man Ray (text, images, links)
Raymond Loewy (text, images)
Metropolis and Fritz Lang (text, images, links)
The New York World’s Fair, 1939-40 (1) (text, images, links)
The New York World’s Fair, 1939-40 (2) (text, images, links)
Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky (exhibition at the Getty Research Institute)
U.S.S.R. in Construction (exhibition at Howard Schickler Fine Art)
Labor Camps of the Gulag (text, images, links)
German Propaganda Archive (text, images, links)
Stills from Leni Reifenstahl’s Olympiad (images)
United States Holocaust Museum (text, images, links)
Art of the Holocaust (text, images, links)
Letchworth Garden City (text, images, links)
Photographs by Lewis Hine and Berenice Abbott at The New York Public Library (text, images)
Le Corbusier (1) (text, images, links)
Le Corbusier (2) (text, images, links)
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (text, images, links)
The Buckminster Fuller Institute (text, images, links)
The New York World’s Fair, 1964-65 (1) (text, images, links)
The New York World’s Fair, 1964-65 (2) (text, images, links)
Brasilia (text, images, links)
Space Colony Art from the 1970s (text, images from NASA)
Celebration, Florida (text, images, links)
The Official Web Site of the Celebration Company, Celebration, Florida (text, images)
House_n: The M.I.T. House of the Future (text, images, links)
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (text, images, links)
Gene Anthony’s Summer of Love (text, images) - Link no longer functional
The Digger Archives (text, images, links)
"Days of Darkness" (exhibition by the San Francisco Examiner)
"Jonestown" (series of articles from the San Francisco Chronicle)
Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple (text, images, links)
"Kibbutz: What, Why, When, Where" (article with images, links)
Nonviolence Links (links)
George Orwell (text, image, links)
Fellowship for Intentional Community (text, links)
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Technorealism: Related Readings
Information Research:Digital Resources
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: Featured Links
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis: Working Papers and Research
MIT’s Media Lab: The Digital Nations and Digital Life Consortia and the research
projects of the Sociable Media Group
Learning Spaces in the Networlds of Tomorrow
On The Net Resources - Virtual Communities
Yahoo! Search: Virtual Communities
PBS Frontline Report: High Stakes in Cyberspace
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Center for Democracy and Technology
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Online Publications, Books, Articles and Papers, and Discussions
Publications:
Wired Archive of Articles on Virtual Communities
Salon Archive of Articles on Virtual Communities
The Atlantic Archive of Articles on Digital Culture
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"No ‘There’ There: Why Cyberspace Isn’t Anyplace" (Atlantic Monthly, August 2000)
"Mapping a Virtual World" (Mappa Mundi, June 2000)
"Dot Communist Manifesto" (New York Times Magazine, June 2000)
"Utopian Rulers, and Spoofs, Stake Out Territory Online" (New York Times, May, 2000) - Link no longer functional
"The Eroded Self" (New York Times Magazine, April 2000)
"On the Nature of Future Worlds? - Considerations of Virtuality and Utopias" (Information, Communication and Society, Spring 2000)
Chat Event Transcript: Developing Online Communities (Behavior OnLine, March 2000)
"E-Communities Build New Ties, but Ties That Bind" (New York Times, February 2000) - Link no longer functional
"MUDs, Metaphysics, and Virtual Reality" (Journal of Virtual Environments, January 2000)
"The End of the Virtual Community" (M/C, December, 1999)
"Of Cyber Spaces: The Internet & Heterotopias" (M/C, November 1998)
"Internet Congregations in 1999" (Religion-Research.org, November 1999)
Religion Online: Techo-Spiritualism (Cybersociology, September 1999)
Searching for Cyberspace (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, September 1999)
"Playing God in Your Very Own Universe" (Guardian, August 1999)
"Cyberspace as the New Frontier? Mapping the Shifting Boundaries of the Network Society" (Red Rock Eater News Service, June 1999)
Chat Event Transcript: Chat and the Psychology of Cyberspace (Behavior OnLine, January 1999)
"The n-Dimensional Village: Coming to Terms with Cyberspatial Topography." (M/C, November 1998)
Digital Third Worlds & Barriers to Internet Access (Cybersociology, August 1998)
Virtual Societies: Their Prospects and Dilemmas (Information Society, April — June 1998)
The Virtual Community (Rheingold.com, 1998)
Virtual Environments: Part II (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, December 1997)
Virtual Environments: Part I (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, September 1997)
Virtual Communities (Cybersociology, November 1997)
"Finding Utopia on the Internet" (New York Times, October 1997)
"Utopian Visions of Cyberspace" (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, May 1997)
"Internet Communities" (Business Week Online, May 1997)
You Can't Surf a Sine Wave: Metaphors and the Future of the Internet (University of Texas, May 1997)
"Deus Ex Machina vs. Electric Gaia" (Computer-Mediated Communication, April 1997)
"Psyber Psychology: A Literature Review Pertaining to the Psycho/social Aspects of Multi-User Dimensions in Cyberspace" (Journal of Virtual Environments, January 1997)
"Metaphors for Internet May Affect Its Use" (New York Times, October 1996)
"Cybercities/Cybernations" (Information Society, July - August, 1996)
"Social Relationships in Electronic Forums" (Computer-Mediated Communication, July 1996)
"Metaworlds" (Wired, June 1996)
"Envisioning Cyberspace: The Design of OnLine Communities" (La Fundación Telefónica, June 1996)
"Design of Virtual Identities and Behavior in Cyber Communities" (La Fundación Telefónica, June 1996)
"Outer Space or Virtual Space? Space Utopias of the Digital Age" (La Fundación Telefónica, June 1996)
"Forsaken Geographies: Cyberspace and the New World 'Other'" (La Fundación Telefónica, June 1996)
"Dramatis Personae: Casting Cyberselves" (La Fundación Telefónica, June 1996)
"The Net Persona" (University of California at Los Angeles, May 1996)
The Status of the Information Society (Computer-Mediated Communication, April 1996)
Hopes and Horrors: Technological Utopianism and Anti-Utopianism in Narratives of Computerization (Computer-Mediated Communication, February 1996)
"Finding One's Own in Cyberspace" (Technology Review, January 1996)
"A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 1996)
"Inhabiting the Virtual City: The Design of Social Environments for Electronic Communities" (Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet (Columbia University, 1996)
"Transmitting Architecture: The Transphysical City" (CTHEORY, November 1995)
"One Global Community - Many Virtual Worlds" (Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, August 1995)
Society, Cyberspace and the Future: How Can New Interactive Communication Technology Enhance Harmonious and Functional Communities at all Scales Worldwide? (California Institute of Technology, February 1995)
"The Nerd in the NOOSphere" (Computer-Mediated Communication, January 1995)
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
"Preserving Democracy in Cyberspace: The Need for a New Literacy" (Computer-Mediated Communication, August 1994)
"Cybernauts in the Electronic Frontier: Pets on a Leash" (Computer-Mediated Communication, November 1994)
"Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" (The Progress & Freedom Foundation, 1994)
"Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community" (Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, June 1993)
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Forum: Psychology of Cyberspace (Behavior OnLine)
Forums on Technology (New York Times) - Link no longer functional
