ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Geode, Accelerando, Outer Space
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The purer, the more euclidean the reason that builds a utopia, the greater is its self-destructive capacity the rationalist utopia is a power trip. It is a monotheocracy, declared by executive decree, and maintained by willpower; as its premise is progress, not process, it has no habitable present, and speaks only in the future tense. And in the end reason itself must reject it utopia has been euclidean, it has been european, and it has been masculine. ursula k. Terminator rolls around mercury just like its sunwalkers, moving at the speed of the planet"s rotation, gliding over twenty gigantic elevated tracks, which together hold aloft and push west a town quite a bit bigger than venice. The twenty tracks run around mercury like a narrow wedding band, keeping near the forty-fifth latitude south, but with wide detours to south and north to avoid the worst of the planet"s long escarpments.
