I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share
The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals:… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
