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.

Apocalipse sem revelação? Profecia e crítica em Mangabeira Unger

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to debate the relationship between prophetic vision and critique of ideologies in the thought of brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger. We will try to demonstrate how the messianic promise structures Unger's work and differentiates it from other works related to Critical Legal Studies (a movement he helped to found). Modernity secularized the Biblical-Christian Theology of History, interpreting this as the last moment in the human trajectory, within the framework of an eschatological panel. Thus, the Apocalypse is always present in our field of vision – although, unlike the religion Salvation Stories, our Armageddon is not succeeded by a utopia, a time of forgiveness and reconciliation for pious men. Now, if dystopian and post-apocalyptic fictions are configured in the most complete translations of Zeitgeist, Unger's millenarian utopianism (secularized) imposes itself as a consistent counter-hegemonic canon. At first, we will approach the nihilism that configures late capitalism, and that engenders “false needs” (in Unger's terminology). Afterwards, we will show how Critical Legal Studies ended up being tarnished with an anti-utopian logic. Finally, we will discuss, taking as main reference the book The Religion of Future, about the prophetic visions of/in Unger.

From a Favourite to an Enemy: The Development of Leaders in George Orwell's Animal Farm and William Golding's Lord of the Flies

Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to prove that in their novels, Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies, both authors, George Orwell and William Golding, work with the same type of a character, who once being a leader becomes community's arch enemy and by such development he portrays shift of this community from democracy to totalitarianism. The first part of the thesis focuses on totalitarian regimes as a new political system in the first half of twentieth century. The second part describes the reflection of totalitarianism in literature, its influence on George Orwell and William Golding and, at the same time, it presents the novels as a result of their perception of totalitarianism. Finally, the last part analyses the development of heroes, Snowball and Ralph, in their communities. The analysis proves that both protagonists move from the position of leader to the position of arch enemy, and it concludes that through their development, both of them represent shift of society from democracy to totalitarianism.

The characteristics of dystopian fiction genre in the hunger games novel written by suzzane collins

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Marco Zero: da crise à violência fundadora do estado distópico

Abstract: One of the most notorious names of the Brazilian dystopian fiction is, without doubt, Ignacio de Loyola Brandao, through Nao veras pais nenhum [1981], published during the military dictatorship. Recently, the author returned to the dystopian genre through Desta terra nada vai sobrar, a nao ser o vento que sopra sobre ela [2018], revealing in this choice the symptom of a political atmosphere that – rather than being limited by national boundaries – joins other international manifestations such as the recent dystopian BBC series Years and Years and The Testments, an unexpected sequel for the most famous of Atwood’s dystopias, The Handmaid's Tale. With the publication of his new dystopia, Brandao identifies the ending of a trilogy started with the novel Zero. Different from the others, Zero is not, however, associated with dystopian fiction but, instead, more commonly considered a political satire of the dictatorship era – which lead to it being censored. With an assumption of the association with the dystopian novels that form the trilogy, this work aims to read Zero not by the common approaches, but rather as within the dystopian tradition, understanding it as a representation of the transition between a present crisis and a dark future that replaces it – with a transition marked both by political and physical violence.