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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 compare the utopian and dystopian discourses about the electronic town meeting concept and critique the media's dystopian vision of technology and demagogy at the expense of any utopian vision for technology and democracy.
Abstract: Utopian thinkers since the nineteenth century have advocated or opposed different forms of direct democracy. In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of experiments with teledemocracy were conducted, yielding a rich discourse on the relationship of technology to democracy. However, in the 1992 presidential campaign, the “electronic town meeting” concept was represented by selected print news media without a hint of this discourse. Instead, the idea was analyzed as a crackpot proposal with roots going back to the 1960s made by a dubious candidate, Ross Perot. This article contrasts the utopian and dystopian discourses about the electronic town meeting concept and critiques the media's dystopian vision of technology and demagogy at the expense of any utopian vision of technology and democracy.
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26 Jun 2015
TL;DR: Caballero and Totten as discussed by the authors discuss the politics of perception and identity in travel writing and the role of gender, race, ethnicity, and otherness in a travel guidebook.
Abstract: Introduction Miguel A Cabanas, Jeanne Dubino, Veronica Salles-Reese, and Gary Totten Part I: Travel and the Politics of Perception 1 "The Pain of 40 Lashes": Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin Island and the Emergence of the Russian Prison System David G Farley 2 Traveling Lies: Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia and Adrian Gimenez Hutton's La Patagonia de Chatwin Miguel A Cabanas 3 "Road to Road": Syncretism and the Politics of Identity in M G Vassanji's A Place Within Shizen Ozawa Part II: Gender and Sexuality 4 Clashing Tastes: European Femininity and Race in Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil M Soledad Caballero 5 Exceptional Perspectives: National Identity in US Women's Travel Accounts of Greece, 1840-1913 Christopher Richter 6 Great Mirrors Shattered: John Whittier Treat and the Politics of Queer Travels through Gay Japan Mark DeStephano Part III: Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness 7 "A Herd of Deer Chased by the Hunters": Travel Writers on the Dilemma of Indian Removal Donald Ross 8 Racial Identity, Travel, and Music in Philippa Duke Schuyler's Adventures in Black and White Joyce E Kelley 9 The Dystopia of Border Crossings in Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway Diana Gumbar Part IV: Empire 10 Traveling to Ithaca Jonathan S Burgess 11 Representations of the Near East in Travel Writing and Conjectural History during the Late Eighteenth Century Pamela M Barber 12 "picturesque in its motley processions": The Infrastructure of Empire in Emily Eden's Up the Country Jeanne Dubino 13 Seeing with a New Lens: Louise Arner Boyd's Polar Expeditions Michele Willman Part V: Travel, Globalization, and Geopolitics 14 Seeing for Themselves: US Travel Writers in Early Revolutionary Cuba Peter Hulme 15 "And I am the King of May": Allen Ginsberg's Travel Poetry and the Cold War Politics of Dissent Adam Beardsworth 16 From to Ha Noi: Travel Guidebook Writing as a Political Act Steven K Bailey
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Nicole Pohl and Brenda Tooley as discussed by the authors discuss a fragile utopia of sensibility for 21st-century feminists, where women negotiate difference in Utopian exchanges between men and women.
Abstract: Contents: Introduction, Nicole Pohl and Brenda Tooley Utopian exchanges: negotiating difference in Utopia, Lee Cullen Khanna A fragile utopia of sensibility: David Simple, Joseph F. Bartolomeo Gothic utopia: heretical sanctuary in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, Brenda Tooley Rewriting Rousseau: Isabelle de CharriAre's domestic dystopia, Caroline Weber Utopia in the seraglio: feminist hermeneutics and Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes, Mary McAlpin Transparency and the enlightenment body: utopian space in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom, Ana M. Acosta 'Emperess of the world': gender and the voyage utopia, Nicole Pohl 'A man might find every thing in your country': improvement, patriarchy and gender in Robert Paltock's The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Elizabeth Hagglund and Jonathan Laidlow Generating regenerated generations: race, kinship and sexuality in Henry Neville's Isle of Pines, (1668) Seth Denbo Thinking globally, acting locally: enlightenment utopianism for 21st-century feminists?, Alessa Johns Works cited Index.
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TL;DR: The authors reviewed the older utopian and dystopian responses to the title question, and examined their assumptions about the nature of science which no longer are empirically or theoretically justifiable, and identified themes in recent empirical and theoretical work which point the way to a more realistic understanding of the kind of philosophy of science necessary to contribute to sciences in the service of social justice.
Abstract: One long cited rationale for doing and funding Western modern sciences has been that such research advances social welfare in egalitarian ways. Yet the long service of these sciences to militarism, nationalisms, profit–maximizing, and the desire for social control would seem to provide compelling evidence, at least in the contemporary era, against the happy relation imagined in this rationale. This essay reviews the older utopian and dystopian responses to the title question, and examines their assumptions about the nature of science which no longer are empirically or theoretically justifiable. It then identifies themes in recent empirical and theoretical work which point the way to a more realistic understanding of the kind of philosophy of science necessary to contribute to sciences in the service of social justice. Philosophies of science, like the sciences on which they reflect, always participate in larger social discourses.
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TL;DR: The Ark as discussed by the authors is a series of interrelated documents (including emails, text messages, newspaper clippings and blog posts) narrated through an interactive digital novel that epitomises the contemporary world.
Abstract: Told through a series of interrelated documents (including emails, text messages, newspaper clippings and blog posts), Annabel Smith’s interactive digital novel The Ark epitomises the contemporary ...
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