Utopia is nowhere and it is also somewhere good. To live in a world that cannot be but where one fervently wishes to be: that is literal essence of utopia. To this extent utopia does share the quality of a dream.
Sir Thomas More (1516) in his book Utopia "here was a place, imaginary, it is true, and accordingly futile to seek out, that where just beyond the boundary of real."
Utopia's value lies in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future.
Utopia's no-whereness incites the search for it. A boundary can either confine and inhibit or it can invite us to go beyond.
What is the boundaries of utopia?
What are its features as a structure of thought?
