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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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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that despite their presentism and apocalypticism, Solomon's novels are very much utopian: they simply locate their utopian desire in radical kinship and salvage, rather than universalism or futurity.
Abstract: In response to this special issue’s question of whether mainstream science fiction has become stuck in presentism and apocalypticism, this article examines how utopia is expressed and salvaged in the work of Rivers Solomon. Using three of Solomon’s novels and the theoretical lenses of black utopia studies and salvage-Marxism, I suggest that scholars and activists should approach this question from a different perspective. While Solomon’s novels may seem dystopian from the perspective of liberalism or whiteness, they can also clearly be placed within the long, if marginalized, history of leftist and black utopian thought. Likewise, where the ‘traditional’ utopia (a concept I interrogate) is often imagined as grounded in hope and futurity, black utopia and salvage-Marxism reject these concepts as counterproductive to the actual work of social justice and utopia-building. Despite their presentism and apocalypticism, then, I argue Solomon’s novels are very much utopian: they simply locate their utopian desire in radical kinship and salvage, rather than universalism or futurity.
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a list of Juvenile science fiction series and the coming-of-age of the characters in the coming of age series, including: The City of Gold and the City of Lead: Utopias and Dystopias We Must Learn to Get Along: Aliens and Others Juvenile Science Fiction Series and the Coming of Age Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of Juvenili Science fiction Series Bibliography Index
Abstract: Preface Introduction That Spark of Subversion: Robots, Androids, and Artificial Intelligence The Celestial Barnyard: The Familiar and the Strange No Business in Space?: The Female Presence Science Is Serious Business: The Role of Humor But What Is a Superconductor, Anyway?: The Absence and Presence of Science The City of Gold and the City of Lead: Utopias and Dystopias We Must Learn to Get Along: Aliens and Others Juvenile Science Fiction Series and the Coming of Age Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of Juvenile Science Fiction Series Bibliography Index
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12 Dec 2013
TL;DR: The first two novels from Margaret Atwood's projected MaddAddam eco-trilogy, Oryx and Crake (2003) and The Year of the Flood (2009), depict a corporate capitalism or corporatism, constantly pushing its limits by privileging unregulated techno-scientific endeavours with palpable results and high financial yield as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The first two novels from Margaret Atwood’s projected MaddAddam eco-trilogy, Oryx and Crake (2003) and The Year of the Flood (2009) depict a corporate capitalism, or corporatism, constantly pushing its limits by privileging unregulated techno-scientific endeavours with palpable results and high financial yield. This lack of regulation—legal, ethical, moral—emerges as the main problem highlighted by the two companion dystopias. This article argues that Atwood critiques the privileging of the techno-scientific epistemology to the detriment of the humanistic one, and emphasizes the need for an integrated episteme in an immanent system. Methodologically, the comparative analysis focuses on close readings of illustrative excerpts from the novels, side by side with Michel Foucault’s theorization of the episteme and Felix Guattari’s concept of the three ecologies, while Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s description of the plane of immanence of capitalism informs the conceptualization of corporatism.
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the British nineteenth century, a period rich in new philosophical and creative approaches to 'good', 'bad' and 'alternative' places for both man and woman to imagine and inhabit.
Abstract: From a reading of the major theoreticians in this field, it would appear that the general concept and status of utopia has suffered a transformation along the centuries. This probably reflects the disparate ways in which Man, as a social and creative being, tends to negotiate life perspectives and choices involving three major, though opposed, loci of human existence and agency – Dream, Reality and Nightmare. This paper intends to focus its analysis on the British nineteenth century; one that is rich in new philosophical and creative approaches to ‘good’, ‘bad’ and ‘alternative’ Places – for both man and woman to imagine and inhabit. Through the exploration of the poetry and the thought of poets like Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, Morris and Wilde, it proposes to reflect briefly on the development of the concept of utopia along the successive literary movements that these poets have respectively embodied – Romanticism, Realism and Aestheticism. And it will argue that the concept, far from being dead or irrevocably reduced by the end of the century, indeed flourished and expanded in different ways – whether we interpret these products as eutopian, dystopian or else heterotopian versions of it, eventually suggesting that “Poetry dwells in a perpetual utopia of its own”.
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