Utopia can be conceived as a possibility – a space within language, a set of principles, or the product of technological development – but it cannot be separated from questions of place, or more accurately, questions of “no place.” In between the theoretically imaginable utopia and its realisation in a particular time and place, there is a space of critique, which is exploited in anti-Utopian a...

Shailer Mathews (1863-1941) was the leading member of what is known as the Chicago School of Theol~gy.~ He was reared in a strict Puritan environment but when he went to college (1880-1884) he was influenced by Darwin, Huxley, and Spencer. Although some of his contemporaries were abandoning their evangelical affiliations, Mathews remained within the evangelical group; but "it led to an attitude...

In this note, we prove that for every θ ≥ 115 121 and x ≥ x0(θ), the short interval (x, x + xθ] contains at least one prime number of the form p = 1+m2 +n2 with (m,n) = 1. This improves a similar result due to Huxley and Iwaniec, which requires θ ≥ 99 100 . §

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a famous dystopia, frequently called upon in public discussions about new biotechnology. It is less well known that 30 years later Huxley also wrote a utopian novel, called Island. This paper will discuss both novels focussing especially on the role of psychopharmacological substances. If we see fiction as a way of imagining what the world could look like, the...

James Stevens CurlMaking Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism Oxford University Press, 2018