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anarchotopia

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See also: Anarchotopia

English

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Etymology

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From anarcho- +‎ -topia.

Noun

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anarchotopia (plural anarchotopias)

  1. A society or culture employing anarchism, especially if viewed as utopian or dystopian.
    • 1996, World Art: The Magazine of Contemporary Visual Arts:
      ... culture represented by CarNet , and other impermanent anarchotopias , on - line and off , that have rey that hints at a point where scatology and eschatology meet - where captured the subcultural imagination in recent years .
    • 2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 113:
      It seems a little premature to be performing Last Rites for the myth of subversion , which is alive and well in heady subcultural dreams of Temporary Autonomous Zones , Islands in the Net , and other anarchotopias , online and off .
    • 2007, Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN:
      21 It's a vision that resonates sympathetically with the impermanent anarchotopias, online and off, real and imagined, that have captured the subcultural imagination in recent years: Hakim Bey's notion of the “temporary autonomous zone ...