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Utopian music and the problem of luxury (1).

From: Utopian Studies  |  Date: 3/22/2005  |  Author: Griffin, Michael

MUCH UTOPIAN THOUGHT grapples with the nature and/or necessity of discipline. Utopias of both the right and the left stress the need for discipline for the sake of cohesion, while anarchistic utopias reject outright the idea of discipline as the preserve of illegitimate authority. Discipline and its obverses, luxury and disobedience, are political issues of classical origin, constitutive of a long aesthetic discourse with serious implications for utopian design and imagination. ...

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