Utopias and other Histories of the Future

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A fundamental problem faced by scholars researching the history and functioning of societies is the fact that their object of study cannot be recreated in a laboratory, to replicate events and test hypotheses on causes and effects. A political regime, a development model, a society's relationship with the biosphere are systems too vast and complex to be artificially created or replicated. But not if we move into the realm of the imaginary, and let ourselves be conducted in hypothetical expe...