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- | Lots of historical dystopic/ | + | ===== Newspaper item ===== |
- | One could add most of the novels by William Gibson (the trilogy Neuromancer, | + | |
- | But in troubled times like ... now, what are the newer dystopics, and what do they add to the ideas and messages the previously mentioned authors wanted to put through? Recently we came across [[https:// | + | {{ :succour:scheur.png?300 |}} |
- | So far for the fiction.. Oops what a fool I am: non-fiction means that it is real, but how can the future be real at all? | + | ===== Fiction/ |
- | //(.. still thinking and hopelessly puzzled...)// | + | Lots of historical dystopic/utopic novels have been written, in almost any existing language, about the past, the future, and the present. Like in pop music one has the heroes and stars, like George Orwell (1984, 1949 and Animal Farm, 1945), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, 1932 but also Ape and Essence, 1948), Samuel Butler (Erewhon, 1872), H. G. Wells (When The Sleeper Awakes, 1899), Jules Verne (Paris in the Twentieth Century, 1863), Yevgeny Zamyatin (We, 1921), Ernst Jünger (Heliopolis, |
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+ | One could add most of the novels by William Gibson (the trilogy Neuromancer, | ||
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+ | Probably there are more books that could qualify as dystopian, but these came to mind spontaneously. | ||
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+ | About the authors and project you can read [[https:// | ||
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+ | //“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope,” Le Guin said in a fiery speech at the 2014 National Book Awards. “We’ll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, | ||
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+ | Now, in troubled times like ... Now, what are the newer dystopics, and what do they add to the ideas and messages the previously mentioned authors wanted to put through? Currently there are World War IIIs raging through Africa and the Middle East. The world economies are changing rapidly and massively, with new power blocks popping up, and ignoring most of the established rules. The information and communication obsessed societies are ageing. Industrialisation means that the food is poisened while growing and before being harvested, ignoring any effects on life or vegetation afterwards. Up to 80 plastic bags were extracted from a dead pilot whale' | ||
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+ | Recently we came across [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Films/ | ||
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+ | This is so beautifull! http:// | ||
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+ | ===== Music ===== | ||
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+ | To start with the end: [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Other Arts ===== | ||
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+ | Digimag issue 77 from winter 2017-2018 deals with The Arts Ecosystem and is all about the environmental crisis, climate change, data, ... To be downloaded in full colour from https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Non-Fiction ===== | ||
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+ | // So far for the fiction.. Oops what a fool I am: non-fiction means that this is real, but how can the future be real now at all? (.. still thinking and hopelessly puzzled...)// |
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