A 'natural history' of dystopia thus concentrates upon the centrality of the passion or emotion of fear and hatred in modern despotisms. The work of Le Bon, Freud, and others is used to show how dystopian groups use such emotions.
Dystopia
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, as well as connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes on the ...
In Progressive Dystopia Savannah Shange explores the potential for reconciling the school's marginalization of Black students with its sincere pursuit of multiracial uplift and solidarity.
From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar ...
Imagine living in a world where everything you do is controlled. In the distant future the United States has been split into two regions separated by a barren wasteland; this is the country of Dystopia.
This new collection (edited and with a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford, and a foreword by Whitbread Prize winner D.J. Taylor) brings together Orwell's two celebrated novels and some of his seminal nonfiction (extensive ...
This book draws from popular culture to show economic principles at work in the dystopian societies depicted in TV, literature and film.
It reminded him of the first time, as a twelveyear-old boy, he had seen Anita Bryant singing about oranges on television. “Take your pick, Mike. Sex isn't nasty or ungodly; it's productive! Especially since we started using our wombs to ...
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, a theoretical framework emerging from research into linguistic anthropology in the late ... from Myra Barnes's foundational attempts to formalise the complex intersections of language, plot, character and ...