“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” (Shakespeare, Hamlet) 1. I edited a book, Utopia Giudecca, which has just been published. I wrote the introduction and the position paper, inviting eighteen scholars and professionals to propose their projects according to my provided guidelines. The following is my introduction. Giudecca is the largest island in the historic center of Venice and the most peripheral one. The pivot question was how to make a community of 5,000 people almost entirely self-sufficient in food, energy, waste disposal, education, and more. 2. Max Horkheimer wrote, “Utopia has two aspects: the critique of […]