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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 2012
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TL;DR: The authors argued that the painting movement from remote Australia constitutes a utopian communication that wants to bring about better relations between Indigenous people and the rest of the world, despite the many dystopian images of Indigenous communities and the Aboriginal art industry presented by scholars and media alike.
Abstract: Some of the first Europeans in Australia speculated that the centre of the continent hid an inland sea surrounded by well-watered plains. In the late twentieth century, this utopian imagination transferred from an imagination of water to one associated with Indigenous Australians. In an era of global cultural traffic, the painting movement from remote Australia constitutes a utopian communication that wants to bring about better relations between Indigenous people and the rest of the world. Despite the many dystopian images of Indigenous communities and the Aboriginal art industry presented by scholars and media alike, here I want to argue that this painting is itself a utopian communication. It is, first, associated with Indigenous communities whose values are contrary to those of Australian capitalism. Historically, utopian fiction and utopian theory has been critical of capitalism. Painting from remote communities continues this utopian tradition, as it represents an alternative way of life. S...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors traced the utopian and dystopian tradition into modern science fiction and systematized the ideas collected here, which on all points dismissed the tenets and claims of utopian rationalism as false, and in a final section, which discussed utopian thinking and its dangers in general.
Abstract: Utopian rationalism names the belief that science has made utopia a practical possibility. Its characteristics include determinism, collectivism, distrust of individual initiative and belief in the superiority of collective planning in securing human happiness. The first section traces the utopian and dystopian tradition into modern science fiction. The ideas collected here are systematized in the next section, which on all points dismisses the tenets and claims of utopian rationalism as false, and in a final section, which discusses utopian thinking and its dangers in general. Utopian thinking is traced to three traits of human nature, namely, the quests for happiness, perfection, and submergence.
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TL;DR: It’s exam season and I recently happened upon my old English exam paper and stirred some old memories, so I chewed my pen as I wrote a comparison of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Abstract: It’s exam season. I recently happened upon my old English exam paper and stirred some old memories. The invigilator’s jangling keys, sun streaming through the windows, and students slumped at graffitied desks. I chewed my pen as I wrote a comparison of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World . As an intense teenager I felt comfortable with dystopia. And with the return of broodiness in middle age I wonder if these fictional novels have any resonance with today’s wealthy utopia.
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TL;DR: The New Age in the Modern West as discussed by the authors is a study of a family of ideas which include utopia and dystopia, millenarianism and prophecy, nostalgia and the New Age.
Abstract: Nicholas Campion presents The New Age in the Modern West as a study of a ‘family of ideas’ which include utopia and dystopia, millenarianism and prophecy, nostalgia and the New Age – ‘a set of idea...
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