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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 , the authors examined how the American science fiction author Octavia Butler (1947-2006) reflected the issue of how Olamina, the protagonist of Parable of the Talents (1998), attempts to establish a new religion, Earthseed, while changing her dystopian world.
Abstract: This study examines how the American science fiction author Octavia Butler (1947-2006) reflects the issue of how Olamina, the protagonist of Parable of the Talents (1998), attempts to establish a new religion, Earthseed, while changing her dystopian world. Butler is a distinguished novelist who brings to light the narrative on human life and challenges in a society where individuals are treated with discrimination and deprived of their rights, freedom, and independence, and takes a serious note of these topics by offering a representative portrait of the American society through her fiction. Here, we explore issues of human freedom, choice and self-realisation in a civil society by utilising a novel combination of the concepts of freedom and choice by John Rawls and Isaiah Berlin as well as self-realisation by Karl Marx as the fundamental elements to examine Olamina’s belief, attitude and the act of making choices. Our findings reveal that Olamina becomes an assertive and independent woman through two stages of self-realisation, namely self-actualisation and self-externalisation: she finds her voice, succeeds in challenging her ideological social system and, at last, successfully spreads her new philosophical ideas to another part of the world. Through our original methodology of combining the concepts of freedom, choice and self-realisation, we found that Butler has skillfully depicted the social and technological evolutions which have caused the futuristic dystopias in 2030s California, and further illustrates the ways that characters can confront these changes if given the freedom and the autonomy to act and change their oppressive existence.
TL;DR: Waste Tide as discussed by the authors attests to the dual alienation of nature and humans, and describes how technological advances, such as artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, biochemical technologies, and cyborg construction, accelerate the alienation of humans from their bodies, from one another, and from nature.
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Chen Qiufan's sci-fi novel Waste Tide attests to the dual alienation of nature and humans. Global capitalism, geopolitical conflict, the scramble for natural resources, and rash development have destroyed the rural community, ruined the health of local populations, and eroded the natural environment. Technical advances—artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, biochemical technologies, and cyborg construction—aggravate metabolic rifts in the human-nature relations, threatening human bodies, regional culture, and local traditions. Driven by profit motives and the desire for power, the advanced technologies are accelerating the alienation of humans from their bodies, from one another, and from nature.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a case study of the XZero City metodolojisi (case study) metodelojisi seçilmiştir, in which they show how kentlerde ortaya çıkan mekansal, çevresel, ekonomik, kültürel ve sosyal sorunlarda kamu yöneticilerinin süreci yürütme biçimi sıklıkla sorgulanmaktadır.
Abstract: Son yıllarda kentlerde ortaya çıkan mekansal, çevresel, ekonomik, kültürel ve sosyal sorunlarda kamu yöneticilerinin süreci yürütme biçimi sıklıkla sorgulanmaktadır. Yukarıdan aşağıya yönetim yaklaşımlarına yönelik eleştiriler artmakta katılım sürecinin kurgusunun başarısız bir şekilde yürütüldüğü yaklaşımlar sorgulanmaktadır. Kentsel alan ve nüfus artışının farkında olan ve bu olguyu lehine çeviren yöneticiler ise başarılı sayılmaktadır. Kamu yöneticileri veya şirketler, kentlerin sosyal, kültürel, mekansal ve ekonomik rekabet düzeyini artırabilmek için farklı arayışlara girmektedir. Bu arayışlardan bir tanesi de sıfırdan bir kent inşa etmektir. Çalışmada nitel araştırma desenlerinden biri olan örnek durum incelemesi (case study) metodolojisi seçilmiştir. Çalışma, Güney Kore’den Songdo, Kanada’dan Sidewalk Labs, Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri’nden (BAE) Masdar, Portekiz’den PlanIT Valley, Çin ve Singapur’dan Tianjin ve Kuveyt’ten XZero City dahil altı projenin ortaya çıkışı, yenilikçi çözümleri ve proje çıktıları üzerinden kapsamlı bir şekilde değerlendirilmesi üzerine kurgulanmıştır. Ayrıca, kentlerin rekabet gücünü yükseltmede bir araç olarak görülen uygulamaların ortaya çıkardığı endişelere ve sorunlara vurgu yapılarak değerlendirmeler sunulmuştur. İncelenen örneklerden yola çıkarak genel olarak ütopik hayallerle sıfırdan yaratılan kentler uygulamada distopyaya dönüşmektedir.
TL;DR: In envisioning alternative futures as mentioned in this paper , we historicize the present by reading science fiction as the new Lukácsian historical novel, and turn to a further distant future, elaborate on the new perceptions of time and space offered in SF as visions that push toward cosmic and nonhuman scales.
Abstract: In envisioning alternative futures—utopian, dystopian, cataclysmic—we historicize the present. Marxist critics like Fredric Jameson read science fiction as the new Lukácsian historical novel.[1] Others, turning to a further distant future, elaborate on the new perceptions of time and space offered in SF as visions that push toward cosmic and nonhuman scales.[2] As such, SF
TL;DR: The authors argue that Feng employs the carnivalesque as an alternative narrative strategy to perform subversive resistance, to counter monolithic and hegemonic discourses of Chinese modernity, and to expose social issues in the context of China's tightening of censorship restrictions.
Abstract: ABTRACT This paper seeks to illustrate how Chinese film director Feng Xiaogang constructs and delivers social commentaries in his New Year comedies The Dream Factory (1997) and Personal Tailor (2013). These two films are unique in terms of narrative strategy compared to his other New Year films. Both films turn on the premise of temporarily granting people’s wildest wishes, out of which arise multi-layered utopian and dystopian elements that I connect to Feng having made these two films shortly after his realist films were censored. Exploring these two films, I argue that Feng employs the carnivalesque as an alternative narrative strategy to perform subversive resistance, to counter monolithic and hegemonic discourses of Chinese modernity, and to expose social issues in the context of China’s tightening of censorship restrictions. A comparative study of these two films reveals their value as visual records of Chinese modernity over the course of a decade and as important facilitators or mediators of societal self-critique.