Utopian StudiesJune 1, 2025Benjamin Haber, Daniel Sander1 citation
Something queer is haunting the digital and the psychedelic. Though it is now hard to remember, there was a time when digital culture was abundant with utopian potentialities around identity play, proliferations of difference, and social experimentation. Today’s digital culture, however, strikes many as a resolutely dystopian space that never forgets, that holds you accountable, and that is all...
ABSTRACT The Transcendental Meditation movement bought a bankrupt Presbyterian college in Fairfield, Iowa, in the 1970s and established its own university and settled a community of about two thousand followers there. The movement transformed the town's culture, politics, and social life. Followers, however, have grayed, and the movement's numbers nationwide have dwindled. Transcendental...