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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: Theoretical constructions and political enterprises that have been encouraged by modern Utopian tradition have been criticised by contemporary political philosophy as mentioned in this paper, who have critically reflected on and denounced these constructions.
Abstract: Contemporary political philosophy has critically reflected on—if not denounced—the theoretical constructions and political enterprises that have been encouraged by modern Utopian tradition. This pr...
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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of an all-female dystopia on patriarchal laws and their adaptations is analyzed in the Y: The Last Man comic book series, denoted by the near-extinction of males on earth.
Abstract: Patriarchy is threatened in Brian K. Vaughan’s apocalyptic graphic novel series Y: The Last Man, denoted through the near-extinction of males on earth. This study incorporates modern critical theory and philosophy in the analysis of Vaughan’s comics. Thematically, this essay employs works by Judith Butler, Joan Riviere and Sigmund Freud regarding the analysis of gender, sex and feminism. Because Y: The Last Man incorporates religious and scientific philosophy as a framework for its gender theme, this essay focuses on the impact of an all-female dystopia on patriarchal laws and their adaptations, which in turn determine the evolution of normative social relations post-apocalypse.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a more nuanced and inter-sectional consideration of the systemic implications of new food innovations highlights the role of the law both in enabling the exploitation and social injustices underlying conventional methods of industrial animal agriculture, and its possibilities in helping to rectify and address them.
Abstract: This article (re)considers the vegan-feminist stance in light of some of the recent scientific and technological developments changing the contours of dietary practices. Specifically, it focuses on animal products of biotechnology, including in vitro meat, and the complex questions that they raise. Though many are in favor of developments like in vitro meat, the technical evaluations on which these opinions are based are conspicuously incomplete. Given the social, political, economic, and ethical contexts that food occupies, universal veganism is not necessarily compatible with a broad, anti-oppression agenda, and new food innovations do not represent a panacea for the multifaceted problems they seek to solve. A more nuanced and inter-sectional consideration of the systemic implications of new food innovations highlights the role of the law both in enabling the exploitation and social injustices underlying conventional methods of industrial animal agriculture, as well as its possibilities in helping to rectify and address them.
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TL;DR: The 1990s, which marked the five-hundred year anniversary of Columbus' “discovery” of the Americas, coincided with the emergence of new additions to the canon of dystopian literature as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The 1990s, which marked the five-hundred year anniversary of Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas, coincided with the emergence of new additions to the canon of dystopian literature. Produced by authors who are not typically associated with the genre, these novels argue that dystopia is not something
we need to imagine because it is already here. Two examples—Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991) and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997)—overly equate our dystopia with the ruinous impact that colonialism and capitalism have on racialized non-white persons.
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