anarchotopia

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noun

A society or culture employing anarchism, especially if viewed as utopian or dystopian.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

anarchotopia1

nounanarchotopia (plural anarchotopias)

plural anarchotopias

  1. A society or culture employing anarchism, especially if viewed as utopian or dystopian.

    ... culture represented by CarNet , and other impermanent anarchotopias , on - line and off , that have rey that hints at a point where scatology and eschatology meet - where captured the subcultural imagination in recent years .

    1996, World Art: The Magazine of Contemporary Visual Arts
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    It seems a little premature to be performing Last Rites for the myth of subversion , which is alive and well in heady subcultural dreams of Temporary Autonomous Zones , Islands in the Net , and other anarchotopias , online and off .

    2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 113

    21 It's a vision that resonates sympathetically with the impermanent anarchotopias, online and off, real and imagined, that have captured the subcultural imagination in recent years: Hakim Bey's notion of the “temporary autonomous zone ...

    2007, Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN

Anarchotopia2

proper noun
  1. A hypothetical society which operates under anarchism.

    Revitalizing the militia system and then supplementing those militias with market security and justice services at the local level is conceivably more expedient than trying to carve Anarchotopia or Ancapistan out of land already claimed ...

    2021, Ken Yamarashi, Money, Militia, and the Market: Three Elements to Secure Liberty, Everyday Samurai

Origin

Anarchotopia · proper noun

From anarcho- + -topia.

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