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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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20 May 2019
TL;DR: If it is possible to observe how the dystopian atmosphere of the Orwellian concept is created in the novel by applying sentiment analysis on the sentence level, and by exploiting a polarity lexicon as well, then the possible applications of sentiment analysis of fictional work of art in academic curricula are highlighted.
Abstract: Recent daily political events returned the focus of the general public to a fictional work of art that may yet prove to be one of most influential through the use of its concepts and language – George Orwell’s 1984. The language of Orwell’s novel, specifically its terminology, has been proven by linguists and other researchers to be in common use in media speech and writing. The author’s intent, in which he unanimously succeeded, was to create a dystopian world reminiscent of totalitarian regimes, through the careful use of style and language. Could this intent be somehow investigated and measured by using precise natural language processing methods? Basing this research on related work, the aim of this paper is to evaluate if it is possible to observe how the dystopian atmosphere of the Orwellian concept is created in the novel by applying sentiment analysis on the sentence level, and by exploiting a polarity lexicon as well. Moreover, can a computer by utilising a classification technique based on the Bayes’ theorem demonstrate Orwell’s intention of creating a dystopian atmosphere? In addition, this paper tries to highlight the possible applications of sentiment analysis of fictional work of art in academic curricula.
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21 May 2018
TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to examine, through the application of computational analysis of concordances, the possibilities to measure the true, totalitarian nature of the concepts and catchphrases used affirmatively by the characters in the text of Orwell's 1984.
Abstract: Fictional literary work, in the case of the dystopian genre, could be exemplified in the context of totalitarian utopia of George Orwell's novel 1984. The terms and concepts of the novel have been subject of a vast and storied critical reception, especially regarding the terminology concerning what makes this particular fictional literary work an ideal example of dystopian literature. Many of the terms used in 1984 have been in common use in the English language since the date of the novel's publication. The main hypothesis in this paper is that terms related to the Orwellian concept, such as “Big Brother” or “Newspeak”, are applied in an affirmative and positive way, and that a computer is not suitable for distinguishing the totalitarian implications of those terms, as computers are inherently not able to put them in the context that is in fact a dystopian work of fiction and that the novel's characters employ these terms as a mean of, in the novel's expression, thought control. The aim of this paper is to examine, through the application of computational analysis of concordances, the possibilities to measure the true, totalitarian nature of the concepts and catchphrases used affirmatively by the characters in the text of Orwell's 1984.
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TL;DR: The Shining Girls (2013) and Broken Monsters (2014) as mentioned in this paper explore the productive tension between the global and the local in Beukes' work, framed within the concepts of developing world science fiction and the figure of the hybrid.
Abstract: Lauren Beukes’ latest novels—The Shining Girls (2013) and Broken Monsters (2014)—present forays into new generic and geopolitical spaces, shifting from the Joburg and Cape Town-based “allegorical apartheids” of the science-fictional texts Moxyland (2008) and Zoo City (2010) to supernatural crime novels set in dystopian American cities. This paper explores the productive tension between the global and the local in her body of work, framed within the concepts of “developing world” science fiction and the figure of the hybrid. I argue that the esthetics and generic conventions of “cyberpunk” often associated with Beukes animate a seemingly ubiquitous dystopian space. Her writing explores the dissemination of commercial icons, visual fads, and digital pop-objects around and within global bodies: networked, linked electronically, and sometimes physically in what I suggest comes to form the illusion of a digital, dystopian everywhere, relentlessly performing transcendence of locality.
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TL;DR: DickDick as mentioned in this paper argued that pre-crime will no longer be an independent agency and that the Senate will control the police, and after that, they'll absorb the Army too, which will end the check and balance system.
Abstract: It will end the check and balance system. Pre-crime will no longer be an independent agency. The Senate will control the police, and after that … They'll absorb the Army too. (P K Dick, 1956, Minor...
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TL;DR: The Five Star Movement, or M5S, is a popular anti-establishment, populist political party in Italy as discussed by the authors, whose key feature is the Rousseau platform, an online space designed to enable direct democ...
Abstract: The Five Star Movement, or M5S, is a popular anti-establishment, populist political party in Italy. One of its key features is the Rousseau platform, an online space designed to enable direct democ...
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