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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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01 Jan 2022
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present the results of the International scientific conference "Philological sciences and translation studies: European potential": conference proceedings (November 3-4, 2022) in Riga, the Republic of Latvia.
Abstract: International scientific conference «Philological sciences and translation studies: European potential» : conference proceedings (November 3–4, 2022. Riga, the Republic of Latvia). Riga, Latvia : «Baltija Publishing», 2022. 344 pages.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors assume that the giant technology corporations that dominate the Internet are becoming a historical power factor competing with governments and that the so-called netocracy has already reached a level of influencing people that may have a real threat to the survival of governments and states.
Abstract: This study presumes that the giant technology corporations that dominate the Internet are becoming a historical power factor competing with governments. The so-called netocracy has already reached a level of influencing people that may have a real threat to the survival of governments and states. It analyses info-technology revolution as a trend and phenomenon that shape state power, the “new separation of powers”, which state governments have to face. Netocrats behind internetbased intelligent applications are becoming more efficient and successful power structures than the states. It is dubious whether any national or regional regulation and sanctioning will be able to limit the web’s technology titans’ power and influence over the people. Regarding the states and governments it is vital for the future whether they can move from the physical reality to digital (virtual) space where its citizens are living more intensively and in an increasing number. The socalled “digital state” is not simply a convenience, efficiency or service development issue. The “digital state” is the issue of the future existence of the state. It concludes that as far as netocracy progresses in governing and manipulating net-addictive people, the vision of the end of the history of state as a kind of archetype in state-theoretical thinking is becoming more and more realistic.
TL;DR: It is argued that Shah's novel imagines apt spaces for rebellion in a gender-imbalanced world, which predates coronavirus’s ravages, and that transformative action and liberation are identifiable in the aftermath of infection outbreaks.
Abstract: ABSTRACT In her 2018 novel Before She Sleeps Bina Shah depicts an oppressive, dystopian society. This has emerged as one consequence of an uncontrollable virus outbreak which resulted in a disproportionate ratio of men to women. In such a gender-imbalanced world intimacy is commodified, allowing women some means of revolt in a misogynistic and fertility-obsessed world. Shah explores the horrifying aftermath of pandemics, identifying opportunities for the emancipation of citizens living under discriminatory policies. As the COVID-19 pandemic causes economic and human devastation across the globe, its repercussions, aside from fatalities, are clear. Entrenched in complexities surrounding employment, political liability, and stretched healthcare systems, the pandemic has challenged society to respond adequately and ethically. Although it predates coronavirus’s ravages, we argue that Shah’s novel imagines apt spaces for rebellion. Both in her imaginative universe and the wider society, transformative action and liberation are identifiable in the aftermath of infection outbreaks.