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Dystopia

About: Dystopia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2146 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15163 citations. The topic is also known as: cacotopia.


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23 Sep 2022
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors made an attempt to simulate all the possibilities with their analysis to bring Indian smart cities to new technologies like IoT, WoT and Big Data while also getting as a result a high level of scalability and flexibility by incorporating them in our smart city model with reliable embedded devices.
Abstract: With the advancement of technology urban city dynamics are changing rapidly. Cities are becoming smart faster with different initiatives taken by the government along with private organizations. These technical upgradations are changing the life of the citizens at a fast pace. The needs of the citizens are the primary driving forces behind the city's and society's overall technological growth. In this research work, made an attempt to simulate all the possibilities with their analysis to bring our Indian smart cities to new technologies like IoT, WoT and Bigdata while also getting as a result a high level of scalability and flexibility by incorporating them in our smart city model with reliable embedded devices.

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TL;DR: The authors explored the development of the complex temporality of dystopian fiction from the early to mid-twentieth century and discussed the manner in which the fragmented future-as-past is employed critically in relation to the story world and to historical reality.
Abstract: Twentieth century dystopian fictions such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night (1937), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids (1955) strongly adhere to a generic convention by which they project forwards into a narrated future in order to look back critically towards the present. In the course of this focus on the past, such dystopias include slivers of contested and incomplete accounts of how the dystopian state came to exist. I term these fragmentary narratives future histories. Such accounts exist within a timeframe that runs from the authorial present to the point in the future at which the main narrative is set. In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, for example, this period covers the years from 1949 (the publication date) to 1984, in which the main story occurs. I term the timeframe between the authorial present and the future temporal setting of the main story world the future-as-past. This article explores the development of the complex temporality of dystopian fiction from the early to mid-twentieth century. Discussion focuses on the manner in which the fragmented future-as-past is employed critically in relation to the story world and to historical reality. The article concludes that by providing scattered hints from which further information could be deduced or inferred, often but not always with the help of contextual knowledge, this temporal narrative strategy invites the reader to actively participate and politically engage in the reconstruction of future histories. Such future histories can never be completed or fully mapped as dystopian fictions are usually less specifically predictive than they at first appear. Keywords temporality, genre, political fiction, the state, the reader

3 citations

01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on two outstanding Scottish literary texts, the play by David Greig The Architect (1996) and the novel by Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers (1999), and argue that the dystopian disaster which many tower blocks became is rooted in the still too invisible patriarchal ideology defended by the paternalistic politicians that built the blocks.
Abstract: The post-WWII reconstruction of British cities was partly based, as regards public housing, on a mixture of Socialist Utopian ideals and the example of Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation. In Scotland, this process was also connected with widespread slum clearances resulting, particularly in Glasgow, in serious distortions in the application of Modernist tenets to blue-collar tower blocks. Focusing on two outstanding Scottish literary texts, the play by David Greig The Architect (1996) and the novel by Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers (1999), I argue here that the dystopian disaster which many tower blocks became is rooted in the still too invisible patriarchal ideology defended by the paternalistic politicians that built the blocks. By foregrounding the masculinity of their protagonists in contrast to women (as in Greig's play) or younger men (as in O'Hagan's novel), both authors contribute to the Scottish debate on Utopia a gendered critique. This highlights the need to redistribute power when it comes to making decisions about questions that have a high impact on the community. As the texts reveal, so far these decisions have been carried out in the name of a masculinist Utopia which actually lacked the necessary empathy to succeed. Introduction: Utopia, the tower block and gender In the conclusion to their impressive volume on public housing in Britain, Tower Block (1994), Glendinning and Muthesius throw in a word of caution regarding the bandying about of Utopia in the discourse on contemporary architecture. Their "fundamental message" is "a plea, at least to historians, to stand back from the endless clashing of Utopias of housing . . . If it is proper to speak of any kind of 'failure' or 'blame' in respect of Modern housing, then in our view he major 'culprit' must be the polarization of Utopia itself" (327). The title of this final chapter, "Utopia on Trial?" (324-328), alludes directly to the notorious volume by Alice M. Coleman, Utopia on Trial: Vision and Reality in Planned Housing (1985), a book that substantiated Margaret Thatcher's attack on Council housing. Thatcher is a good example of the dangers of polarized Utopia: as she dismantled the Socialist Utopia behind public housing, she sold to 1,000,000 new home owners the very homes they rented, invoking the benefits of Utopian liberal capitalism. Thatcher is gone but twenty years after

3 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a review essay takes three very different types of books, one on new social movements, the second on global governance and the third on dystopia, to reflect on methodological questions in knowledge production for social change which is the professed aim of critical and radical scholarship.
Abstract: This review essay takes three very different types of books, one on new social movements, the second on global governance and the third on dystopia, to reflect on methodological questions in knowledge production for social change which is the professed aim of critical and radical scholarship. The essay reflects on the methodological problems of making connections between philosophical, sociological and empirical analyses in ways that can guide action. The treatment of facts and events, omission to consider gaps and absences in accounts of experiences, the obfuscation of the desirable and the possible in legal liberalism, problems of connecting everyday life to ontological questions of being and reality, perspectives and unity of micro and macrocosms, are some of the themes considered. The essay engages the methodological strategies that are needed to make the moves from space/time in philosophy to spatio-temporality in sociological analysis to here and now in empirical studies. It argues that all levels are interpenetrated in manifest experiences and that it is important to grasp the institutional constraints on knowledge production if knowledge is to provide guidance for transformative action.

3 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023244
2022672
202192
2020142
2019141