User:Chen Junyu/Thematic Project/The Politics of Craft

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“News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.As Morris, the romance character, quests for love and fellowship—and through them for a reborn self—he encounters romance archetypes in Marxist guises. The book offers Morris' answers to a number of frequent objections to socialism, and underlines his belief that socialism will entail not only the abolishment of private property but also of the divisions between art, life, and work."

My project aims to present to audiences " utopian of crafts" in another way. "Drawing a perfect Circle" I image myself to be a craftsman, who in works in such a utopian society. She concentrates on “drawing circles" in the whole of her life. She gains pleasures from doing this simple thing, keeps her esteem to this crafts, gets meaning from the circulating movement. what is the difference? In “News from Nowhere (1890) Morris talks about how to get pleasure and enjoy life, you can choose what to do. In Eastern society people tend to specialise. For Morris doing what you want (autonomy) gives the most pleasure. Sometimes there is conflct and this is productive

see orwell's essay on morris