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Further Reflections on Being a Utopian in These Times

open access: yesOpen 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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Cos’ha di utopico la distopia

open access: yesPagine Inattuali, 2022
Dystopia, as a typically twentieth-century concept, is analyzed in this article starting from the assumption that it can be considered a sort of extreme utopia aimed at problematizing those contradictions that anguish the real through the formulation of ...
Francesco Muzzioli
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Rethinking Climate Change on the Role of Human Power Generation, Alternative Perspectives, Potential Solutions, and a Plea for Action

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
All energy matters Let us broaden the discussion on solutions to climate change. Greenhouse gases have upset the delicate equilibrium of the Earth's energy balance. Consequently, all sources of heat affect the temperature of the Earth. Although the amount of additional heat generated by humans is a fraction of that produced by the sun, it is generated ...
Martin Bertau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Policy Dystopia Model [88].

open access: yes, 2021
The Policy Dystopia Model [88].
Harry Rutter (3221034)   +3 more
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Pandemic, Dystopian Fiction, and Increasing Inequalities: A Reading of Samit Basu's Chosen Spirits

open access: yesUbiquity 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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Role of SoxE transcription factors in development and disease

open access: yesDevelopmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Sox8, Sox9, and Sox10 arose by multiple rounds of genome duplications from a single SoxE gene in ancestral vertebrates. In this review, we will briefly discuss the molecular structure and function of SoxE transcription factors and their evolutionary origin. We will then discuss their expression, function, and developmental disorders.
Merin Lawrence, Gerhard Schlosser
wiley   +1 more source

‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
wiley   +1 more source

DYSTOPIAN VISION OF 2052 IN HENLEY’S “SIGNATURE”

open access: yesФілологічні 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 Need for Fundamental Photovoltaics Research to Ensure Energy Security

open access: yesProgress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, EarlyView.
The center of this graphic focuses on the core of this paper—that fundamental research is central to the continued development of the photovoltaic (PV) industry. To the left, we have depictions of what is being studied—PV materials, PV cell structures, and PV module structures.
Rebecca Saive   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Construction of Dystopia in Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this early emergence, dystopia is not only built by authoritarian oppression but it can be constructed by every individual in the society. This paper intended to analyze how dystopia is constructed through equal power in James Hawes’s 2016 series ...
Putri, Sheila Adena, Nafisah, Nia
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