Utopian, Dystopian, and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
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Course Description: What would happen if we were to examine literary texts through the lens of energy? That is, what if we approached William Wordsworth’s Romantic ruminations on the “sublime” crafts of “men’s arts” as a praxis for... more
Thus far, analyses of apocalyptic fiction (or film or other cultural products) have tended to ask a set number of questions. First, we tend to ask about the nature of the threat that the organization or individual is facing and what that... more
In AC Mendes e Cristina Baptista (orgs.), Reviewing Imperial Conflicts. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 40-48.
Contemporary Paganism’s emphasis on sacred story and narrative has led to an interdependent relationship with popular media. Pagans draw inspiration from fiction and also bring their practices to life in popular novels. Robert Heinlein’s... more
Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves presents a post-apocalyptic world in which Canada's government hunts the native populations to extract their ability to dream. As outlined in Tuck and Yang's "Decolonization is not a metaphor," settler... more
Part of the Panel on "Regenerative Play in Utopia" at the Worlding Science Fiction Conference in Graz, 2018
Automata (2014), is a dystopian film that reveals postmodern tendencies around the materialization and conceptualization of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophical notions like territority, deterritorialization,... more
Student Learning Outcomes Students will be able to— 1. Demonstrate familiarity with Plato’s concepts of the ideal society as described in his Republic 2. Demonstrate familiarity with the Socratic method of inquiry 3. Argue whether or... more
George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides (1949), in which a global pandemic decimates the world population, is a classic American post-apocalypse novel, but it is also a thought experiment examining humanity’s changing role on Earth that closely... more
Student Learning Outcomes At end of this class students will be able to… 1. Identify & Discuss some of the classical mythology & history that inspired Suzanne Collins’ novels. 2. Discuss the major themes and ideas in the novel, such as... more
L’une des visées de la littérature est l’analyse critique des évènements et des faits politiques et sociaux, moyennant une réflexion poétique, philosophique, pathétique, satirique ou allégorique. Au cours des siècles l’engagement, la... more
John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic novel The Day of the Triffids (1951) offers a speculative narrative about an apparently spontaneous meteorological display in the earth's atmosphere that blinds the majority of the human population. For the... more
Et gjennomgangstema innen samtidsfilosofien, og saerlig blant tenkere som utøver former for postmoderne kritisk teori spesielt, 1 har helt siden 1980-tallet vaert "utopienes død", på norsk kanskje bedre kjent under betegnelsen "tapet av... more
What Is Your Favorite Novel? Ed. Nicholas Lawrence. Special issue of South Central Review 38.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2021): 149-55. Print.
Let me sketch out here my vision of the cloistered cornucopia of AD 2100: Management of Planet Earth is entirely rationalized. Nature still nurtures. Artificial intelligence is history. The Machine has met its Master. The rich are... more
In the light of the psychoanalytic approach, The Road can be read as a novel about a boy’s growing up in a devastated and barren post- apocalyptic world. The novel reveals that having lost his mother and facing the dead wherever he goes... more
Feed (2002) is a satirical novel portraying the not-so distant future where citizens of the United States of America are given the option to implant a transmitter device into their heads and the heads of their children known as the... more
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She’s never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter,... more
Yönetmenliğini Fransız Marc Caro ve Jean Pierre Jeunet ikilisinin üstlendiği 1991 yılı Fransa yapımı “Delicatessen” (Şarküteri) filmi, sürrealist bir tarzda hazırlanarak günümüze ulaşmış kült statüsünde eşsiz bir eserdir. Caro ve Jeunet... more
E. M. Forster is a writer few would associate with either science fiction or the short story, but in 1909, he published a remarkable example of both. Entitled ‘The Machine Stops’, Forster’s story describes a dystopian future in which... more
The paper examines how two literary genres, satire and dystopia are interrelated and what follows in the process of interpretation from this interralation.
Resenha acadêmica. MACHADO, Jonas. O Misticismo Apocalíptico do Apóstolo Paulo: um Novo Olhar nas Cartas aos Coríntios na Perspectiva da Experiência Religiosa. São Paulo: Paulus, 2015. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-85-349-3089-5.
The paper analyzes the dystopian apocalyptic vision of human civilization in the novel The Stone Gods by a contemporary British writer Jeanette Winterson. This postmodern narrative blends the world’s colonial past with its potentially... more
For all its promise of unlimited connetivity, Apple´s design seems to leave almost everything out. Apple has built a style on impenetrability, providing us with sleek, polished technological gizmos that are not only a product of design,... more
In The Year of the Flood (2009), Margaret Atwood sketches out a dystopic, post-apocalyptic scenario after the spreading of a disease that ends by nearly destroying the human race. Two characters, Toby and Ren, are entrusted with the task... more
A Juan Antonio Ramírez, in memoriam "Entre las especulaciones arquitectónicas de los sesenta debemos concentrar una cierta preeminencia a las de Paolo Soleri. Imagina que la única salvación humana consiste en concentrar el hábitat,... more
Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins has acknowledged that her series was significantly influenced by classical mythology and history. Readers can see echoes of potential sources in the timely descent of those little silver parachutes –... more
Applying Mark Fisher's "capitalist realism" and Subhabrata Bobby
The paper inquires, from a philosophical point of view, the Italian writer Guido Morselli’s last novel (1973): Dissipatio H. G. Its main question is if a philosophically understanding of the relation between utopia and dystopia may be... more
Fourierist utopianism really took root in nineteenth-century Spain. The original focal point in Cádiz had echoes in Cartagena, Granada, Madrid, and Valladolid. Apart from spreading Fourier's ideas, these Spanish Fourierists tried to set... more
El presente artículo argumenta que Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011) puede constituir una ocasión privilegiada para pensar seriamente en la muerte en los términos que Søren Kierkegaard propone en "Junto a una tumba", generando en el... more
Mythic and religious narratives that envision the end of the world position the apocalypse in a futuristic time where certain events would sequentially occur finally building up to the inevitable end. Speculative fiction that depicts... more
Contrary to the recurrent assumption that utopian thinking cannot be separated from its ideological coreas if ideology itself is always already at the core of idealistic politics -Matthew Beaumont's last book highlights the necessity to... more
Eschatological jouissance is defined here as a grim pleasure in the failure of the world. It is a feature of J. G. Ballard's prescient ecological disaster fiction of the 1960s as well as of the sardonic treatment of ecological idealism in... more
This booklet is comprised of three brief essays: * Opening the Gates of Hell Upon the Earth: Prelude to Armageddon * A Nation of Witches and Sorcerers * New Insights in Amillennial Eschatology The first two of... more