Utopian Effects Dystopian Pleasures
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Utopian Effects Dystopian Pleasures
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Author : Peter Fitting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Utopian Effects Dystopian Pleasures written by Peter Fitting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Utopian Dystopian Literature
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Author : Paul G. Haschak
language : en
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1994
Utopian Dystopian Literature written by Paul G. Haschak and has been published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Human Nature And Politics In Utopian And Anti Utopian Fiction
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Author : Nivedita Bagchi
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Human Nature And Politics In Utopian And Anti Utopian Fiction written by Nivedita Bagchi and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with Political Science categories.
While the interest in anti-utopias has exploded over the years, issues of human nature rarely make it into the discussion of these works of literature. Yet conceptions of human nature play a key role in both the utopian belief that the perfect political system can be achieved and in the anti-utopian conviction that an ideal state is neither possible nor desirable, and would simply lead to a repressive state. This book examines two well-known utopias and two anti-utopias to draw out their conceptions of human nature and show that these conceptions are directly related to their views on politics. It shows that utopians emphasize that human nature is knowable, predictable, and therefore, open to manipulation and/or suppression. Anti-utopians, on the other hand, make the claim that human nature is not entirely knowable or predictable. While they worry about the power of the state to manipulate human nature, they also make the case that the natural recalcitrance and unpredictability of human beings would lead inevitably to a search for freedom and individuality and, therefore, to a clash between the state and the individual in the supposedly ideal state. Ultimately, therefore, these anti-utopians suggest a new conception of human beings as people who value the power to choose their own ends and are unable to entirely suppress their desire for freedom. These two conceptions of human nature lead to two dramatically different conceptions of politics. Utopians see the possibility of manipulating human nature to create an ideal political system which synthesizes all political values and issues while anti-utopians reject both the possibility and desirability of an ideal political system and make the case for providing freedom of choice for all people.
Scraps Of The Untainted Sky
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Author : Thomas Moylan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-05
Scraps Of The Untainted Sky written by Thomas Moylan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Social Science categories.
Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation by way of imaginary societies which are even worse than those that lie outside their authors' and readers' doors.In Scraps of the Untainted Sky , Tom Moylan offers a thorough investigation of the history and aesthetics of dystopia. To situate his study, Moylan sets out the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grow out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960 and 1970s (the context that produced the project of cultural studies itself). He then presents a thorough account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the new science-fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the economic, political, and cultural convulsions of the 1980s and 1990s, and he examines in detail three of these new "critical dystopias:" Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower , and Marge Piercy's He, She, and It .With its detailed, documented, and yet accessible presentation, Scraps of the Untainted Sky will be of interest to established scholars as well as students and general readers who are seeking an in-depth introduction to this important area of cultural production.
Exploring The Utopian Impulse
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Author : Michael J. Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Exploring The Utopian Impulse written by Michael J. Griffin and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors which explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the book investigates key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices.
Memory And Utopian Agency In Utopian Dystopian Literature
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Author : Carter F. Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-09
Memory And Utopian Agency In Utopian Dystopian Literature written by Carter F. Hanson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
For a genre that imagines possible futures as a means of critiquing the present, utopian/dystopian fiction has been surprisingly obsessed with how the past is remembered. Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature’s preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as sources of the utopian impulse. Through a series of close readings of utopian/dystopian novels informed by theory and dialectics, Hanson provides a case study history of how and why memory emerged as a problem for utopia, and how recent dystopian texts situate memory as a crucial mode of utopian agency. Hanson demonstrates that many modern and contemporary writers of the genre consider the presence of certain forms of memory as necessary to the project of imagining better societies or to avoiding possible dystopian outcomes.
Tenses Of Imagination
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Author : Raymond Williams
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Tenses Of Imagination written by Raymond Williams and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Criticism categories.
Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, «the British Sartre», as The Times put it. He was a central inspiration for the early British New Left and a close intellectual supporter of Plaid Cymru. He is widely acknowledged as one of the «founding fathers» of cultural studies, who established «cultural materialism» as a new paradigm for work in both literary and cultural studies. There is a substantial secondary literature on Williams, which treats his life and work in each of these respects. But none of it makes much of his enduring contribution to utopian studies and science fiction studies. This volume brings together a complete collection of Williams's critical essays on science fiction and futurology, utopia, and dystopia, in literature, film, television, and politics, and with extracts from his two future novels, The Volunteers (1978) and The Fight for Manod (1979). Both the collection as a whole and the individual readings are accompanied by introductory essays written by Andrew Milner.
Fredric Jameson And Film Theory
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Author : Keith B. Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-14
Fredric Jameson And Film Theory written by Keith B. Wagner and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-14 with Performing Arts categories.
Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in both cases, how these can be applied, revised, expanded and challenged within film studies. Featuring essays by leading and emerging voices in the field, the volume probes the contours and complexities of neoliberal capitalism across the globe and explores world cinema's situation within these forces by deploying and adapting Jamesonian concepts, and placing them in dialogue with other theoretical paradigms. The result is an innovative and rigorously analytical effort that offers a range of Marxist-inspired approaches towards cinemas from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America in the spirit of Jameson's famous rallying cry: 'always historicize!'.
Forever Pleasure
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Author : Theodore R. Eastman
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2008-10
Forever Pleasure written by Theodore R. Eastman and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with categories.
In this futuristic novel, John Seeger accidentally travels from 1986 to 2076 and lands in a revolutionary society where he soon manages to blend in with the utopian lifestyle. Seeger eventually discovers that past influences have left all the intelligent life forms of the local universe converted into euphoric machines. Jeso, a euphoric robot housing a human mind, has a grand plan to spread his Hedonistic Expansion crusade over the vast Local Group of galaxies via his vintage spacecraft, La ielo, built three millenniums ago. Seeger realizes that robots have the capability to devour and reconstruct cities and microbots can take over anyone's emotions in this strange new world where money and property are of no value. After he falls in love with a beautiful woman, Mahea, Seeger inadvertently changes the course of his future in a perfect world as he uncovers a deep secret. Meanwhile, Seeger's beloved sister, Kayla, is still living in 1986, trapped in a bad marriage and in failing health, and Seeger must choose between returning to his former world or moving on with his new life. Jeso and Seeger's paths eventually converge and take them on a collision course that, in the end, will decide the future of their universe.
Utopia Dystopia
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Author : Michael D. Gordin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Utopia Dystopia written by Michael D. Gordin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Dystopias categories.
"Publication in partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University"--P. facing t.p.