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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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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: Pordzik and Pohl as mentioned in this paper discuss the overlaid spaces of Utopia in their book "The Overlaid Spaces of Utopia: Constructing Borders, Defining Limits".
Abstract: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ralph Pordzik: Introduction: The Overlaid Spaces of Utopia Chapter I: Constructing Borders, Defining Limits: The Ideal Space of Utopia Revisited Gabriela Schmidt: The Translation of Paradise: Thomas More's Utopia and the Poetics of Cultural Exchange Hans Ulrich Seeber: Utopia, Nation-Building, and the Dissolution of the Nation-State Around 1900 Richard Nate: Discoveries of the Future: Herbert G. Wells and the Eugenic Utopia Ralph Pordzik: Persistence of Obedience: Theological Space and Ritual Conversion in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four Chapter II: Homely Spaces, Intimate Borders - Utopias to Live in Nicole Pohl: 'And is not every Manor a Little Common Wealth?' Nostalgia, Utopia and the Country House Christoph Ehland: The Watchdogs of Eden: Chesterton and Buchan Look at the Present of the Future Elizabeth Leane: The Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality Dunja M. Mohr: "The Tower of Babble"? The Role and Function of Fictive Languages in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction Chapter III: Worlds Beyond Worlds - The Limits of Geographical and Perceptual Space Martina Mittag: Rethinking Deterritorialization: Utopian and Apocalyptic Space in Recent American Fiction Doreen Hartmann: Space Construction as Cultural Practice: Reading William Gibson's Neuromancer with Respect to Postmodern Concepts of Space Saskia Schabio: Peripheral Cosmopolitans: Caribbeanness as Transnational Utopia? Antonis Balasopoulos: "Utopian and Cynical Elements": Chaplin, Cinema, and Weimar Critical Theory Index

2 citations

01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: Pamela Golden and Andrew Renton as mentioned in this paper used photographs of American soldiers surfing during the Vietnam War as a visual reference, juxtaposed with found illustrations from retro Science Fiction to explore generational relationships with imagery and visual culture, considering how associations adapt and alter over time.
Abstract: Charlie Don’t Surf explores generational relationships with imagery and visual culture, considering how associations adapt and alter over time. In a departure from the miniature paintings in oil and encaustic Golden is best known for, large-scale sumi watercolour and ink works reimagine found photographs and illustrations to embody an interrelation between past and present. Appropriating the exhibition title from a line in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, which in turn became the title of a song by the Clash, Golden’s new series of paintings use photographs of American soldiers surfing during the Vietnam War as a visual reference, juxtaposed with found illustrations from retro Science Fiction. Influenced by Sontag’s 1965 essay ‘The Imagination of Disaster’, Golden explores cultural anxieties in relation to visual culture; by painting the ‘unthinkable’ – be it conflict, apocalypse or a long lost time-period – the artist exposes universal concerns of the human psyche. Pamela Golden and Andrew Renton in conversation about dinosaurs, surfing and dystopian imagery in relation to the exhibition "Charlie Don't Surf" took place on Wednesday 2 December 2015.

2 citations

Journal Article
TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that the background of a harsh landscape, its convict past and conflicts with Indigenous populations are the reasons for the dystopian texts published, in contrary to the truth, Australia is considered to be a positive eutopia, although it is generally presented as a dystopia in utopian texts.
Abstract: Australia is considered to be a positive eutopia, although it is generally presented as a dystopia in utopian texts. It is suggested that the background of a harsh landscape, its convict past and conflicts with Indigenous populations are the reasons for the dystopian texts published, in contrary to the truth.

2 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: Saramago as mentioned in this paper introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city, where imitation is more valued than the real.
Abstract: Although Plato's Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. Jose Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato's Utopia, a similar desirable separation by the higher authorities is enacted. When a strange ailment leads to the blindness of some of the citizens, we begin to witness the disintegration of both the human and the city. In The Cave, which reverberates with Plato's “Simile of the Cave,” Saramago provides an unrelenting criticism of a city's landscape that is changed by a blind capitalist system. In this unnamed city, imitation is more valued than the real. In the simile, Plato questions what would become of the dwellers of the cave if one were to see beyond the screen. In Saramago's novel, the lone potter is the one who is able to see beyond the shadows.

2 citations

Book ChapterDOI
31 Jan 2010

2 citations


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