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The New Amazons: Second-Wave Feminist Dystopias [PDF]
From Antiquity to Modernity, the topic of the Amazons questioned the relationships between men and women, triggering a series of anthropological, social and cultural issues.
Corin Braga
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Introduction—Special Issue “Dystopian Scenarios in Contemporary Australian Narrative”
The main aim of this Special Issue is to expose how a variety of contemporary Australian dystopias delve into a number of worrying global issues, thus making it clear that our contemporary world is already corroborating and bearing witness to a number of
Dolores Herrero, Pilar Royo-Grasa
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Referring to the discussion on the critical potential of dystopias in fiction, the article examines twentieth century feminist plays by Ann Jellicoe, Bryony Lavery and Germaine Greer for their presentation and critical deconstruction of gender roles ...
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska
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Brazilian Dystopian Futures: Worlding Brazil through SF Movies [PDF]
Relying on the so-called IR aesthetic turn and taking advantage of the critical and epistemic qualities of cinema, this article explores how some Brazilian science fiction (SF) films offer a sensitive and reflective interpretation of Brazil and its place
Gilberto Carvalho de Oliveira
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Fictional Utopias, Dystopias, and the Problem of Evil
Fictional utopias of the early modern time, as an alternative and an opposite to classical social contract theories, and fictional dystopias of the 20th century, as the opposite of the democratic and liberal rule of law, remain a major reference or for ...
Jean-Christophe Merle
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La Bogotá distópica: los cómics sobre una ciudad en caos
This paper explores the narrative and visual resourcesused in Colombian comics, from 1992 to the presentday, in order to describe dystopian representations of Bogotá city.
Sergio Roncallo-Dow +2 more
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This paper examines the possible consequences of mandatory opt-in policies for application service providers on the Internet. Our claim is that focusing the privacy debate on the opt-in / opt-out dichotomy creates false choices for end users. Instead, we
Nicklas Lundblad, Betsy Masiello
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The article deals with the phenomenon of anti-utopian works of the 21st century, associated with a qualitative expansion of the projections of the fear of contemporaries on the world of the future. The relevance of the topic is due to both an increase in
Ilya Suzumov / Илья Александрович Сюзюмов
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Pietra, ferro, fuoco, ombra: città nere da "Magdeburg" a "Los(t) Angeles"
Both utopian and dystopian cities and societies are projects and/or prophecies of Modernity. The three great “classic” utopias were written – indeed – between 1516 (Thomas More) and 1627 (Francis Bacon), while the first modern state was in fieri in ...
Adolfo Fattori
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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 ...
David Konstan
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