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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 paper, an ultra-realist analysis of AMC's The Walking Dead is presented as a form of popular criminology, and it is argued that dystopian fiction such as the Walking Dead offers an opportunity to explore the possibilities of popular crime theory.
Abstract: This article provides an ultra-realist analysis of AMC’s The Walking Dead as a form of ‘popular criminology’. It is argued here that dystopian fiction such as The Walking Dead offers an opportunity...

18 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore hope and hopelessness in young people's dystopias about the future and suggest that a pessimistic view of the future does not have to be negative in itself: it can also illustrate a critical awareness of contemporary social order.
Abstract: Within the academic field of futures in education there has been concern that pupils’ negative and pessimistic future scenarios could be deleterious to their minds. Eckersley (Futures 31:73–90, 1999) argues that pessimism among young people can produce cynicism, mistrust, anger, apathy and an approach to life based on instant gratification. This article suggests that we need to discuss negative and pessimistic future visions in a more profound and complex way since these contain both hope and hopelessness. A pessimistic view of the future does not have to be negative in itself: it can also illustrate a critical awareness of contemporary social order. This article therefore aims to explore hope and hopelessness in young people’s dystopias about the future. Adopting dystopias may open up possibilities, whereas adopting disutopias will only lead one to believe that there are no alternatives to the current dominant model of global capitalism. Even a dystopia that predicts the end of the world as we know it might be the beginning of a world that we have not seen yet.

17 citations

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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the future to predict the past is used to predict future prison population projections and the colonisation of penal Imagination, and the case of Electronically Monitored Control is discussed.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Utopia and Its Discontents Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro 2. Crime, Critique and Utopian Alternatives Margaret Malloch 3. Utopia and Penal Constraint: The Frankfurt School and Critical Criminology Bill Munro 4. Erich Fromm: From Messianic Utopia to Critical Criminology Michael Lowy 5. Crime and Punishment In Classical and Libertarian Utopias Vincenzo Ruggiero 6. Visualising an abolitionist real utopia: principles, policy and praxis David Scott 7. Towards a Utopian Criminology Lynne Copson 8. Using the Future to Predict the Past: Prison Population Projections and the Colonisation of Penal Imagination Sarah Armstrong 9. Techno-Utopianism, Science Fiction and Penal Innovation: the case of Electronically Monitored Control Mike Nellis 10. From Penal Dystopia to the Reassertion of Social Rights Loic Wacquant

17 citations

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David Ayers1
01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The Politics of the Personality as mentioned in this paper is an attack on what Lewis calls "time-philosophy" which he claims to be a consensus established among philosophers and literati that serves an ultimate political end: the reduction of men to mechanical, manipulable producers in an industrial dystopia, as described in The Art of Being Ruled.
Abstract: The 1927 Time and Western Man, originally to be entitled The Politics of the Personality, is generally considered to be the most important expression of Lewis’ philosophical beliefs.1 The whole work is an attack on what Lewis calls ‘time-philosophy’, which he claims to be a consensus established among philosophers and literati that serves an ultimate political end: the reduction of men to mechanical, manipulable producers in an industrial dystopia, as described in The Art of Being Ruled. The book is divided into two parts. The first part treats the dissemination of the time-philosophy in a vulgarised form in literature. The second part examines the beliefs of several contemporary philosophers. Lewis greatly generalises the nature of the time-philosophy in such a way that he is able to find traces of it in the work of almost all his contemporaries. The general argument of Time and Western Man is easily expressed. Lewis associates philosophies that celebrate time, and therefore change, with instability of self and society. Philosophies that emphasise space — particularly his own — he identifies with stability and common sense. The time-philosophers emphasise the self within history as part of a process, and therefore, according to Lewis, tend to a mechanistic view of history and of the self which eliminates entirely the free agency of the independent subject. These time-philosophers, then, whether operating at the level of literature or philosophy, are contributing to the dawning of an age of the machine in which all are enslaved and manipulated on Pavlovian principles, dreaming a collective dream of the progress of history towards the millenium. Conversely, those who insist that space rather than time is the essential human medium — and Lewis’ principal ally in this is Bishop Berkeley — refuse to fetishise time and change, and cultivate the intelligence as a reflection upon the world and not a mechanical function of matter. This in turn creates a stable and temporally continuous self. One passage from Time and Western Man is worth quoting at length to indicate how fundamental a conflict Lewis held this to be: So from, say, the birth of Bergson to the present day, one vast orthodoxy has been in the process of maturing in the world of science and philosophy. The material had already collected into a considerable patrimony by the time Bergson was ready to give it a philosophic form. The Darwinian Theory and all the background of nineteenth century materialist thought was already behind it. Under the characteristic headings Duration and Relativity the nineteenth century mechanistic belief has now assumed a final form. It is there for anyone to study at his leisure, and to take or leave. It will assume, from time to time, many new shapes, but it will certainly not change its essential nature again till its doomsday; for I believe that in it we have reached one of the poles of the human intelligence, the negative, as it were. So it is deeply rooted, very ancient, and quite defined. (TWM, 103)

17 citations

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TL;DR: In recent years, a new genre of military futurology has emerged which owes as much to apocalyptic Hollywood movies as it does to the cold war tradition of scenario planning.
Abstract: In recent years, the military establishments of the US and the UK have produced a series of reports that attempt to 'think the unthinkable' in imagining future threats to the security of the West. A new genre of military futurology has emerged which owes as much to apocalyptic Hollywood movies as it does to the cold war tradition of 'scenario planning'. Often outlandish and bizarre in its prophecies, and always dystopian, this new military futurism sees threats to the western way of life emanating not only from rogue states, weapons of mass destruction and terrorism but also from resurgent nationalism, conflicts over dwindling resources, migration, disease, organized crime, abrupt climate change and the emergence of 'failed cities' where social disorder is rife. This article provides a survey of the genre, showing how the grim predictions of the military futurists provide a justification for endless global war against enemies that may never exist.

17 citations


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