polytopian

plural polytopians

1. rareSomeone who visits many places.

   Through which our polytopian and raconteur finds romance and the thrill of the highly unusual […]

   1948, Michigan Living - Motor News, volume XXXI

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   Alex: […] Despite outward appearances, I am an artist, not an intrepid polytopian. / Fanny: Oh, Alex, for goodness sakes, yes you are. You're one of the original polytopians, don't dissemble. / Alex: Well, yes, I am. High adventure and stupefying risk are my metier.

   1985, Eric Overmyer, On the Verge; or, The Geography of Yearning (play), New York, N.Y.: Broadway Play Publishing Inc., published 1986, page 32

   Synonyms: peregrinator

comparative more polytopian · superlative most polytopian

1. rareExisting or occurring in many places.

   The suggestion that Despard's ideas were utopian (in the sense that utopia = no place) was, however, false. It would be more accurate to say that they arose from many places; they were polytopian.

   2012, Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh, The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, revised edition, London: Verso, unnumbered page

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   But what we need just as desperately is a new and different politics, the politics of new spaces of liberty (to paraphrase Negri and Guattari), a politics capable of acknowledging that a true solidarity and an absolute singularity, far from being mutually exclusive, are in fact conditioned on each other in a polytopian world. A global culture would exist only if it permitted—"systemically," as it were — the coming into being of communities of such absolute singularities.

   1995 Fall, Kenneth Surin, “On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture”, in The South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 94, number 4, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1196

   As the women discover their own polytopian tendencies to be the structuring principle of the new world of the future, their celebration of the language of faraway places turns out to have unexpected totalitarian powers: […]

   1995, Una Chaudhuri, Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama, Ann Arbor, M.I.: The University of Michigan Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 143