Utopian/Dystopian Visions: Plato, Huxley, Orwell

Panagopoulos, Nic

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.8n.2p.22

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“…Just as studies of the space of man and society would be incomplete if the latter were not examined in close relation to time, so certain events, objects and ideas on socio-spatial utopian/dystopian dialectics (Greene, 2011;Gill, 2020;Panagopoulos, 2020) would be useless if they are not placed on the time axis. Some interpret utopia as a phenomenon "where past and future produce the present" (Kallis & March, 2015: 362).…”

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Making Post-Dystopian Future Possible: Alternative Policies for Bytom

Mihaylov,

Zuzańska-Żyśko

2023

BGSS

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This article follows the argument that urban dystopia is reserved not only for the sphere of the fictional but also as a state of reality that academic methods can capture and describe. Taking the example of the city of Bytom, a traditional centre of coal mining in Southern Poland, the article discusses four spheres where the dystopian present is clearly visible – namely, the four elements that led Bytom to a socio-economic and spatial collapse: depopulation, social polarisation and ghettoisation, degradation of the urban fabric and mining damage. Apart from showing empirical evidence, the article critically considers the possibilities of a post-dystopian urban future for the city. A discussion of possible policy answers to these dystopian trends is based on two possible visions of how the urban future could look. First, the semi-dystopian vision assumes that the expected direction and the results of current policies will lead to some improvement in the quality of the urban environment and the residents’ quality of life. Second, the post-dystopian future is based on an optimistic vision, which assumes that a post-dystopian future is possible. However, the desired salvation from the dystopian present will not come about through the search for new utopian visions. It will rely instead on the improvement and mitigation of some of the substantial social, economic and environmental problems that exist and continue to present an unbreakable social image.

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Making Post-Dystopian Future Possible: Alternative Policies for Bytom

Mihaylov,

Zuzańska-Żyśko

2023

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Methodological potential of the dystopia genre in the development of students' reading competence

Ушакова¹

2022

Management of Education

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В статье рассматриваются характерные черты антиутопий и анализируются причины их популярности среди студентов. Обозначен круг проблем, затронутых в этих произведениях, и намечены возможности обращения к данному жанру в обучении, его значительный потенциал в формировании читательской компетентности студентов. Отмечается, что в современной ситуации, когда происходит падение интереса к чтению, именно данный жанр может помочь увлечь обучающихся в мир литературы. Немаловажным аспектом является и использование на занятиях элементов сопоставления произведений современного кинематографа и художественной литературы, выявление схожих сюжетных особенностей и проблематики, что способствует развитию критического мышления. Разработаны вопросы и задания, рекомендации по работе на занятиях по истории литературы в колледже и вузе, определены условия и этапы проведения семинаров и дискуссий. Представлены пути решения проблемы повышения интереса студентов к изучению творчества русских и зарубежных писателей. Предложенные для анализа романы-антиутопии затрагивают проблемы свободы и независимости личности, обретения ценностных ориентиров, роли прогресса и господства современных научных технологий в развитии человечества как наиболее близких для молодого поколения в поисках самоопределения. The article discusses the characteristic features of dystopias and analyzes the reasons for their popularity among students. The range of problems raised in these works is outlined, and the possibilities of turning to this genre in education, its significant potential in shaping the reading competence of students are outlined. It is noted that in the current situation, when there is a drop in interest in reading, it is this genre that can help to captivate students into the world of literature. An important aspect is the use in the classroom of elements of comparing modern cinema and fiction works, the identification of similar plot features and issues, which contributes to the development of critical thinking. Questions and assignments, recommendations for work in the history of literature classes at colleges and universities have been developed, conditions and stages for holding seminars and discussions have been determined. The ways of solving the problem of increasing the students’ interest in the study of the work of Russian and foreign writers are presented. The dystopian novels proposed for analysis touch upon the problems of freedom and independence of the individual, obtaining value orientations, the role of progress and the dominance of modern scientific technologies in the development of mankind as the closest for the younger generation in search of self-determination.

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Post-Utopia: The Long View

Konstan

2021

Humanities

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The present article is divided into three parts. The first discusses the nature of utopias and their hypothetical anti-type, dystopias, and also disaster scenarios that are sometimes assimilated to dystopias, with reference also to the idea of post-utopia. An argument is made for the continuity of the utopian impulse, even in an age when brutal wars and forms of oppression have caused many to lose faith in any form of collectivity. Representations of social breakdown and its apparent opposite, totalitarian rigidity, tend to privilege the very individualism that the utopian vision aspires to overcome. The second part looks at examples of each of these types drawn from classical Greek and Roman literature, with a view to seeing how utopias were conceived at a time before the emergence of the modern ideology of the pre-social self. Finally, the third part examines several stories from the collection A People’s Future of the United States which imagine life in the near future. While most illustrate the failure of confidence in the social that has encouraged the intuition that a utopian future is passé, one, it is suggested, reconceives the relation between the individual and the social in a way that points to the renewed possibility of the utopian.

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Utopian/Dystopian Visions: Plato, Huxley, Orwell

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