Utopias Autárquicas – Autonomia irracional da natureza

Folksonomias: uma análise crítica focada na interação e na natureza da técnica

The folksonomy technique represents an initiative for the organization and the treatment of the information overload on the Web. However, systems that apply the folksonomy technique also suffer with problems of information overload and lack of quality. This paper presents a critical analysis about the folksonomy technique focusing in the user’s interaction and in the technique’s nature. Togethe...

Envisioning Real Utopias

A BOOK on utopias by a Marxist sociologist seems promising, perhaps even courageous. In Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright seeks to counter widespread cynicism about radical social transformation. To do this he offers what he calls “real utopias,” which might appear a contradiction or oxymoron. For Wright, however, utopias are not fantasies, or not only fantasies. In the current period ...

Scientific Utopias

Autonomia: an autonomic computing environment

The prolifeation of Internet technologies, services and devices, have made the current networked system designs, and management tools incapable of designing reliable, secure networked systems and services. In fact, we have reached a level of complexity, heterogeneity, and a rapid change rate that our information infiastructure is becoming unmanageable and insecure. This had led researchers to c...

Guidelines for Envisioning Real Utopias

This essay explores five general guidelines for discussions of democratic egalitarian alternatives to existing institutions in contemporary capitalist societies: (1) Evaluate alternatives in terms of three criteria: desirability, viability, achievability. (2) Do not let the problem of achievability dictate the discussion of viability. (3) Clarify the problem of winners and losers in structural ...