Showing papers on "Dystopia published in 1984"
01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: The relationship between science and Utopia is explored in this paper, with a special reference to the U.S.A. and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Abstract: I Introduction.- Science and Utopia: On the Social Ordering of the Future.- II Science and Utopia in History.- Science and Utopia: The History of a Dilemma.- Elias Artista: A Precursor of the Messiah in Natural Science.- The Explosion of the Circle: Science and Negative Utopia.- III Socialism, Science and Utopia.- From Utopia to Science? The Development of Socialist Theory between Utopia and Science.- Bogdanov's Red Star: An Early Bolshevik Science Utopia.- IV Utopias in Practice.- Automata: A Masculine Utopia.- Making Dreams Come True - An Essay on the Role of Practical Utopias in Science.- Eugenic Utopias: Blueprints for the Rationalization of Human Evolution.- Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Robots: An Automatic End for Utopian Thought?.- V Utopian Modes.- Meddling with 'Politicks' - Some Conjectures about the Relationship between Science and Utopia.- Science and Power for What?.- Science and Utopia in Late 20th Century Pluralist Democracy, with a Special Reference to the U.S.A..- Epilogue.- Vespers.- Name Index.
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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: The expression of such ideas and reactions to them have been diverse, embracing both the brightest Utopian and darkest dystopian themes, and discussions are found in many different contexts, ranging from myth to critiques of current technology as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Ideas of artificial men or thinking machines have pervaded legend and literature from the earliest times (1) It is perhaps only in the last twenty years or so, however, that technologies such as industrial robots and artificial intelligence have been developed which appear to have the potential to realize these ideas (2) The expression of such ideas and reactions to them have been diverse, embracing both the brightest Utopian and darkest dystopian themes, and discussions are found in many different contexts, ranging from myth to critiques of current technology
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TL;DR: The All Power to the Women (APW) as discussed by the authors is a political satire set in West Germany between 1945 and 1955, where women have automatically become "a majority", women have formed a women's party, and finally under the leadership of Helen Warbeck have come to power in a legal, parliamentary way.
Abstract: In the fantasy aid science fiction novels that appeared in West Germany between 1945 and 1955, the fictional images of a utopian or dystopian future are pervaded by an extreme ideological vagueness. These works are dominated either by openly regressive notions of a return to God, hermit-like isolation, and cave-like seclusion, or else by nightmarish visions of a third, fourth, even fifth world war, if not of gigantic atomic catastrophes destroying all life on earth.1 The one novel that is somewhat more hopeful, more realistic in its depiction of setting, and simultaneously far more concrete in its political vision, is entitled All Power to the Women quite a remarkable title for the year 1950. Indeed, this novel seems to initiate a new hope, a new will for peace, a new relationship to reality. The novel is set largely in Berlin, here depicted as the capital of an undivided Germany. Since so many men died in the second world war, women have automatically become 'a majority',2 have formed a women's party, and finally under the leadership of Helen Warbeck have come to power in a legal, parliamentary way. They turn out to be quite successful, since the author portrays them as far more 'realistic' than men, who are still caught up in a web of 'romantic' ideas and ideologies.3 Christianity as well as National Socialism and Marxism are portrayed as failures, since as male ideologies they are out of touch with human reality, which, according to the novel, consists primarily of knowledge about 'life', a kind of knowledge possessed only by wise women. The author therefore depicts the old extended family as the most ideal social unit, and the wise women, domina figures or spiritual
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the relationship between gender and power as understood by George Orwell and Katherine Burdekin, one world-famous, the other forgotten, in 1984 and Swastika Night.
Abstract: George Orwell's 1984 bears a striking resemblance to a little-known anti-fascist dystopia, Swastika Night , that was published twelve years earlier. While the similarities between the two books are in some cases remarkable, of even greater interest is the different treatment of political domination and gender ideology in the two novels. Orwell's critique of power worship is inherently limited by his inability to perceive that preoccupations with power and domination are specifically associated with the male gender role. By contrast, Katherine Burdekin, a feminist writer who published Swastika Night using the pseudonym ‘Murray Constantine’, focuses her critique on the ‘cult of masculinity’ and the fascist dictatorship to which it can lead. Her novel is set 700 years in the future, after Hitlerism has been established in Europe as the official creed, and with it a ‘Reduction of Women’ to an animal level. This essay analyses the relationship between gender and power as understood by these two writers, one world-famous, the other forgotten.
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TL;DR: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932) is usually and rightly called a novel, but it is a novel of a problematic type as discussed by the authors, torn between the exaggeration peculiar to satire and the realism which is characteristic of the novel.
Abstract: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932) is usually and rightly called a novel, but it is a novel of a problematic type. Satirical in technique, it is torn between the exaggeration peculiar to satire and the realism which is characteristic of the novel. Moreover, as a work in the tradition of Utopian and dystopian literature, Huxley's fable walks a line between the overt discussion of ideas, which is normal in the Utopian tradition, and the novel's tendency towards more dramatized conflict.
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TL;DR: Odoyevsky as discussed by the authors discusses Utopian and dystopia in Russian fiction, and the contribution of V. F. Odoyevskiy to the development of Russian fiction.
Abstract: (1984). Utopia and dystopia in Russian fiction: The contribution of V. F. Odoyevsky. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 59-71.