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Water Scarcity in the Zambezi Basin in the Long-Term Future: A Risk Assessment [PDF]
, 2003 The aim of this paper is to explore possible futures for the Zambezi basin and to estimate the risks of different water management strategies. Existing uncertainties are translated into alternative assumptions.
Hoekstra, Arjen Y.
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1793. Realismo distopico nella Stoccolma di Niklas Natt och Dag
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie OccidentaleDuring the twenty-first century, dystopia has occupied a dominant position in the literary market. Nowadays ‘dystopia’ almost automatically compels readers to project their mind towards inscrutable futures.
Calvani, Emilio
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Pandemic, Dystopian Fiction, and Increasing Inequalities: A Reading of Samit Basu's Chosen Spirits
Ubiquity Proceedings, 2022 This paper examines Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (2020), a speculative narrative, which depicts a world of extreme surveillance and dystopia, technology-controlled, and the deep differences between the privileged and the underprivileged.
Anindita Shome
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, 2004 Locative media uses portable, networked, location aware computing devices for user-led mapping and artistic interventions in which geographical space becomes its canvas.
Hemment, Drew
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Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence as Web 4.0: The Next Generation of the Internet
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study utilizes systems thinking to explore and entwine an evolving metaverse scholarship to a relatively underexplored phenomenon of Web 4.0. We adopt a soft systems thinking framework to guide the interpretation of complex and evolving metaverse scholarship, using bibliometric mapping of 5587 publications sourced from Scopus.
Anton Klarin +3 more
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The Distortion and Demise of Language and the Written Word in Aldous Huxley and Selected Russian Dystopias [PDF]
Polish Journal of English Studies, 2022 Critical studies of classic British dystopic novels from the first half of the 20th century have undeniably been extensive and voluminous, whereas the more contemporary Russian dystopias came into being later and there is therefore much less critical ...
Marek Ochrem
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The algebra of happiness: Yevgeny Zamyatin’s we [PDF]
, 2015 The article was submitted on 05.06.2015.Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel We is one of the most important “Utopian-Dystopian” novels of the first half of the 20th century and was originally considered a criticism of the Communism established in Russia after the ...
Базиле, Дж. М.
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DYSTOPIAN VISION OF 2052 IN HENLEY’S “SIGNATURE”
Філологічні студії, 2021 Modern drama tends to catch up with the representation of the dystopian alternative worlds much like the contemporary mass culture. Sci-fi and dystopian productions become popular onstage because the medical and technological breakthroughs occur so ...
С.Г. Попова +1 more
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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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Further Reflections on Being a Utopian in These Times
Open Library of Humanities, 2018 In this essay (a revision of my contribution at the closing session of the Imaginaries of the Future Leverhulme Network held in London in September 2017), I offer a situated commentary (by ‘me’) on ‘ourselves’ (and I know that category has to be ...
Tom Moylan
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