This article uses Frederic Jameson’s An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army as inspiration for a utopian-sociological method that brings together aspects of Erik Olin Wright’s ‘Real Utopias’ project Ruth Levitas’ ‘Imaginary Reconstitution Society’. It argues these different approaches can be bridged through presenting fictional sketches imagined futures potentially socially trans...

People have generally been very ambivalent about the potential future roles of new technologies (and the internet specifically) and their possible effects on human society. Indeed, there has been a tendency for polarization between attitudes or perceptions of naive enthusiasm and cynical resistance towards the use of computers and computer networks, and for such related concepts as ‘the informa...

Abstract Engaging non-experts in matters of science and technology has been increasingly stressed both rhetoric action during the past decades. Under call for moving participation upstream, agenda setting processes have identified as viable entry point laypeople’s experiential value-based knowledge into science, innovation governance (STI). Harnessing visioning target promises to elicit such kn...