Abstract
In her conclusions, Ramírez Blanco aims to create a brief categorization of what she calls ‘utopias of revolt’. Dividing the chapter into three parts, she discusses the aesthetic particularities, the utopian meaning, and the communitarian aspects of these particular utopias, which are located between construction and destruction, between building a better world and demolishing the previous system.
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John Jordan , interview with the author, 27/02/2012.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, journal entry 1916. Quoted by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination . https://labofii.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/an-open-letter-in-the-dark/ [Consulted: 05/03/2016].
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As ever, this depends to a large extent on the people involved and their vision (narrow or open) of creative processes.
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For example, in many squatters’ social centres the aesthetic elements are controlled by the assembly.
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Stephen Duncombe , in conversation with the author, 16/06/2013.
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George McKay , Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties (London–New York: Verso, 1996), 9.
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Naomi Klein , Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (New York: Picador, 2002), 458.
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Henri Lefebvre, Le droit à la ville (Paris: Anthropos, 1968).
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This is a reference to El Libro de Buen Amor (The Book of Good Love), a fourteenth-century book of poetry by Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita.
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María Salgado, buah!, #a, No pasa hasta que pasa [It doesn’t happen until it happens], self-published fanzine, Madrid, 2011, without page numbers.
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David Harvey , Rebel Cities (London–New York: Verso, 2012), 110.
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Andrew Boyd , interview with the author, 12/11/2012.
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René Char, cited by Rafael Sánchez-Mateos Paniagua in the exhibition ‘En nuestros jardines se preparan bosques’ [‘Our gardens prepare woodlands’], Musac, 2012.
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McKay , Senseless Acts, 45.
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Nicholas Anastasopoulus, interview with the author, 08/12/2012.
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Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 99–100.
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The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2009 (first edition in French, 2007). Also available at: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection [Consulted: 29/01/2016].
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Andrés Pérez, ‘Los neorruralistas asustan a Sarkozy’ [‘The Neo-Ruralists Scare Sarkozy’], Público, 21 September 2009, available at: http://www.publico.es/internacional/253699/los-neorruralistas-asustan-a-sarkozy [Consulted: 29/01/2016].
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In French, ‘Résister, Organiser, Nourrir, Créer, Exister’. ‘Ronces’ is French for ‘brambles’.
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Permaculture is a way of living from the earth taking as a model the functioning of natural ecosystems. In this regard, it pays special attention to the relationship between different organisms, seeking positive synergies.
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L.a.b.o.f.i.i., introductory text to La r.O.n.c.e. Available at: http://utoplib.blogspot.com.es/2010/02/la-ronce-une-utopie-en-morbihan.html [Consulted: 29/01/2016]. Later, John Jordan would move to the Z.A.D.
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Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight (Boston–New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1962), 141.
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Ramírez Blanco, J. (2018). Notes Towards a Conclusion. In: Artistic Utopias of Revolt. Palgrave Studies in Utopianism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71422-6_6
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