Utopian dreams have long carried humanity’s hopes for a better future until the promises of modernity
fractured into dystopian shadows. From Utopia to Retrotopia traces this transformation through
Zygmunt Bauman’s powerful vision of modernity and Edward Bond’s ardent War Plays trilogy—Red,
Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, and Great Peace.
Through the lenses of solid modernity, liquid modernity, and retrotopia, the book reveals how dreams of
progress turn into syst ...