A Book Review of Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming - The Exploration on a Time-space Utopian Model

Abstract

This view situates the book Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming edited by Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini, contributes to a Time-Space Utopian Model as a critical method of sociology. Utopia has been characterised as a proper and separate device for assessing social systems and providing social remedies for a better future as a sociological method. Since the year 2000, the functions of Utopia have gotten more attention. Twelve well-known utopian scholars engaged in a two-year research seminar to address this topic.  They contributed their perspectives of the utopian method to the book Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming. Utopia’s time and space attributes are significant to make the abstract function of utopia more concrete. Several scholars have studied utopia in the time-space dimension in the art engagement and utopia’s mathematical boundary but fail to discuss time-space utopia as a sociological method. As an authoritative book in the utopian method fields in sociology, there is only one book review on Utopia Method Vision without mentioning the time-space attributes of utopia, not to mention developing them as a systematic model. To fill in the gap, this study will develop the Time-space utopian model after devising space and time models respectively through the method Bricolage. The products will be conducive to the systematic understanding of utopia methods in a time-space dimension and the promotion of a visualized Time-Space Utopia Model as a critical method of sociology.