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 Probably there are more books that could qualify as dystopian, but these came to mind spontaneously.
-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.
+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's stomach on a beach in Thailand, an example of the world wide human produced pollution in oceans and on land. Thousands of cities daily exceed between 10 to 100 times the particulate matter concentration, and still we go to school, to work, bike around, and picnic in the park as if nothing can harm us anyway.
 Recently we came across [[https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-emissary/ | Yoko Tawada: The Emissary]], a subtle and complex novel built on demographic and ecological prognoses. Are there any others?
+===== Films/Movies =====
+This is so beautifull! http://www.dystopia-utopia.com/
+===== Music =====
+To start with the end: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeSVu1zbF94 | Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1941)]] (and what comes after)?
+===== Other Arts =====
+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://digicult.it/digimag-journal
+===== Non-Fiction =====
 // 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...)//