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.

The utopia and dystopia of politics, identity and hidden treasures - a review of the UP Visual Arts staff exhibition, Fried Contemporary, 24 November 2010 - 29 January 2011 : views and (re)views

Abstract: The large body of work, comprising paintings, sculptures, digital media, drawings and photography by the staff of the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Pretoria, was uncurated in the sense that most large group exhibitions are, and there was no conscious underlying topical, conceptual or aesthetic unity. With 21 artists on show, the scope of concerns conveyed by the artworks was vast and the challenge lay in remaining receptive to the individual works.

Covid-20 dan sepilahan fiksi lainnya sebagai bentuk sastra distopia

Abstract: This article discusses the literary narrative of dystopia in Covid-20 and Other Sorts of Fiction. This study aims to determine the formulation of dystopia and discourse short stories offered in Covid-20 and Other Fiction. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with the postmodernism approach of Jean-Francois Lyotard. For data collection with literature study. To analyze the data using the descriptive analysis method. The research results found that dystopian literature provides formulations in it, namely, the time landscape (the future of the world and the Divine), catastrophic situations (dehumanization, chaos), coveted transformations, in which a new but unpleasant world is created due to social degeneration, an order. destructive social activities, or the consequences of social transformation efforts that lead to disasters.

Dystopias of Tyranny and Misogyny: The Handmaid’s Tale and The Carhullan Army

Abstract: Displaying the probable future and the doom of humanity and the Earth, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army (2007) are two dystopian novels that present the terrible state of women along with the degradation of the society and the nonhuman environment. Atwood’s the Republic of Gilead and Hall’s the Authority enforce an extremely oppressive, exploitative, and misogynist order on women, which corrupts the natural flow of daily life and destroys the human and nonhuman spheres. Depicting the resistance of women against tyranny through female protagonists, these novels picture dystopian worlds of chaos and destruction ruled by anthropocentric and patriarchal dictate. With this perspective, this article aims to discuss the problem of patriarchal oppression on women in dystopian societies as portrayed in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Carhullan Army from the perspectives of the feminist and ecofeminist theories.

A Commonwealth for Galileo

Abstract: A Hobbesian utopia might sound paradoxical. Hobbes never prescribed a utopia per se, and he is well-known for his practical and pragmatic approach to human nature and to politics. Yet, this article identifies several utopian elements in Hobbes, starting with the ways in which his contemporaries thought of his work as utopian. Following Galileo and others, Hobbes might have been part of a utopian moment, or at least believed that he was, especially due to his novel and historic philosophy. Behind his dystopian description of the state of nature there is a utopian vision of a civilized, peaceful, and industrious society, the result of true moral philosophy. Finally, the differences between Hobbes and Plato notwithstanding, there might be one overlooked similarity: if Plato designed a republic where Socrates would not have been persecuted, Hobbes might have designed a commonwealth that would produce and allow future Galileos to work without hindrance.