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Le fiasco de la smart city de Google à Toronto
Published 2024-01-01“…Between utopia and dystopia, the concept of Smart city is in question. …”
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Le continuum Gibson : le Cyberespace et les récits du Mervyn Kihn de Gibson
Published 2017-11-01“…Ultimately, rather than presenting cyberspace as a liberatory, utopian space, as some postmodern theorists would have it, Gibson’s treatment of hallucinatory and futuristic iconographies suggests that cyberspace functions as the embodiment of past "Dreams" of the future, dreams which, Gibson hints, are at least partially responsible for the "near dystopia" of the present.…”
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Building a Partnership World: Imagining a Future of Cooperation and Equity
Published 2024-12-01“… In a world dominated by narratives of control, conflict, and dystopia, envisioning a future based on partnership principles is both a revolutionary and a necessary endeavor. …”
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Compte rendu de l’exposition « Cityscapes in Anime Background Art »
Published 2024-12-01“…These creations are so intricate that we can consider them “doubles” of the Japanese city – sometimes inspired by reality, sometimes by dystopia.…”
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The Landscapes of Eco-Noir
Published 2020-09-01“…This article examines the Norwegian climate fiction television series Okkupert [Occupied] (2015–), focusing on the ways in which it reveals the complicity of Nordic subjects in an ecological dystopia. I argue that in illuminating this complicity, the series reimagines the Norwegian national self-conception rooted in a discourse of Norway's exceptionalist relation to nature. …”
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Metabolic cities of the future. Between Agriculture and Architecture
Published 2020-12-01“…Resuming the fascination of mega-structures proposed in the second half of the twentieth century, in the gap between utopia and dystopia, this essay investigates models and solutions for the integration of agricultural production systems within above-ground architectures, designed to meet the demand for new living spaces in future ultra-populated cities, as a possible response to the soil impoverishment that made it difficult to implement traditional farming systems in and around urban areas.…”
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The Politics of Utopia: Walter Pater’s “Lacedaemon”
Published 2016-05-01“…His political commitment appears as a meditation upon a specific form of citizenship, historically remote, and presented through a literary genre that was used for the first (and last) time in his writings—utopia, or rather dystopia, when it appears that the city-state is devoid of man’s essential characteristic: his paraleipomenon.…”
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“Isso vai ser um caos!”: distopia e autoritarismo em Namíbia, não!*
Published 2022-01-01“…(2020) y de Gregory Clayes, en Dystopia: A Natural History. A study of modern despotism, its antecedents, and its literary diffractions (2017).…”
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L’utopie chez Houellebecq : interprétation des éléments dominants et du style d’écriture dans l’univers houellebecquien
Published 2016-12-01“…As for the form, “Utopia” is the future city created by Houellebecq, which transcends time and space. “Utopia” and “dystopia” together construct Houellebecq’s narrative discourse. …”
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Privatized Futures, Climate Control, and Resistance in Recent Scottish Dystopian Fiction
Published 2022-11-01“…The essay shows how these novels also anticipate recent critical perspectives on climate change and dystopia, particularly Amitav Ghosh’s call (2016) for fiction that confronts the potentially intractable effects of global weather events, and Tom Moylan’s advocacy (2020) of works that resist presenting dystopian spectacles for passive consumption and instead call upon readers for active, constructive interpretation.…”
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Dunia Yao - Utopia /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Gromov -- The "unhomely" city : a literary figuration in Swahili dystopian literature / Clarissa Vierke -- Postmodernism in Swahili fiction and drama / Elena Bertoncini -- From mimesis to mize : philosophical implications of departures from literary realism / Alen Rettová -- Magical realism and utopian/dystopian impulses in Said Ahmed Mohamed's Babu Alipofufuka / Peter Simatei -- Fasihi ya Kiswahili na Mabadiliko ya Jamii za Afrika ya Mashariki : Nukta Chache / Abdilatif Abdalla -- Taswira za zukosoaji na "Utopia" katika Ushairi wa Said Ahmed Mohamed / Geoffrey Kitula King'ei -- Generational conflicts in Dunia Yao : utopia versus dystopia / Magdaline N. Wafula -- Unravelling the riddle of "their world" and "our world" in Said A. …”
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Dunia Yao /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Gromov -- The "unhomely" city : a literary figuration in Swahili dystopian literature / Clarissa Vierke -- Postmodernism in Swahili fiction and drama / Elena Bertoncini -- From mimesis to mize : philosophical implications of departures from literary realism / Alen Rettová -- Magical realism and utopian/dystopian impulses in Said Ahmed Mohamed's Babu Alipofufuka / Peter Simatei -- Fasihi ya Kiswahili na Mabadiliko ya Jamii za Afrika ya Mashariki : Nukta Chache / Abdilatif Abdalla -- Taswira za zukosoaji na "Utopia" katika Ushairi wa Said Ahmed Mohamed / Geoffrey Kitula King'ei -- Generational conflicts in Dunia Yao : utopia versus dystopia / Magdaline N. Wafula -- Unravelling the riddle of "their world" and "our world" in Said A. …”
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La « science-fiction bouffe » de Maïakovski. Autour de Mystère-Bouffe, La Punaise, Les Bains et de leur réception par le metteur en scène Antoine Vitez
Published 2021-12-01“…The anticipation of a better politico-social world, time travel, cryogenics, fear of contamination, utopia, dystopia, eugenics are all themes that punctuate this corpus. …”
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Cli-fi Young Adult et imaginaire urbain : (re)configurations génériques
Published 2023-12-01“…Young Adult Cli‑Fi benefits from young readers appetite for science fiction and dystopia and the attention they give to environment, climate crisis and ecology. …”
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The specificity of urban landscape arrangement in the novel 'The City & The City' by China Miéville
Published 2018-02-01“…Miéville “The City & the City” (2009), which synthesizes elements of various genres: noir-novel, dystopia, mystery, social novel, etc. The relevance of the study is associated with issues raised in the novel: inter-ethnic communication, political and social identification, and construction of a multicultural society. …”
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Thabo Mbeki’s Decolonial Idea of an African in the African Renaissance
Published 2022-11-01“…This dehumanised African is the subject who travels from the dystopia of colonialism to the utopia of reconciliation and a renaissance of Africa. …”
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From Science to Utopia: Marcuse and Critical Utopianism
Published 2024-12-01“…The first transforms utopia from never-being into “past”, the second provides two inversions, considering it as 1) a dystopia, the other of utopia, which is declared to be the hidden truth of utopia; and — when it is fundamentally possible according to its own concept — 2) as impossible, in connection with which utopia and its concept return to the discourse as a kind of empty place around which modern pessimism circles, correctly believing that the future is unimaginable. …”
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Définir la fiction climatique, ou cli-fi
Published 2023-06-01“…It then proceeds to explore the history of Francophone climate fiction, from Jules Verne to Jean-Marc Ligny, through conceptualisations borrowed from utopian studies, especially the distinction between classical and critical utopias and dystopias. It argues for the importance of fictions that are scientifically plausible, but which nonetheless retain a credible utopian content and concludes by offering Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future as a model of such fiction.…”
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Lecteur méfiant de science-fiction et développement de savoir-faire en lecture
Published 2024-06-01“…This article looks at cultural and didactic approaches to the study of utopias and extraordinary journeys from the classical period to more contemporary dystopias, as well as resistant texts and the paradigm of the reader subject. …”
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