Abstract
This article seeks to explore the relation between utopia and modernity on the basis of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as well as two seminal contemporary studies: Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern (1992) and Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism? (2010). The ambiguous nature of the modern prototype of utopia which displays both the eutopian and the dystopian (self-critical) impulse seems reflected in the nature of modernity. With auto-criticism inscribed in the constitution of both utopia and modernity, the leading desires of the modern period—for a greater emancipation and domination—prove to be its greatest burden both in the socio-political sphere as well as in art and literature.
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