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Modern Dystopias and Theories of Totalitarianism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The diploma thesis Modern Dystopias and Theories of Totalitarianism deals with comparation of this two phenomena. The thesis is based on the concept of Giovanni Sartori.
Machart, Filip
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Tra antiutopia e pedagogia: analisi di modelli e funzioni critiche

open access: yesStudi sulla Formazione, 2013
The paper aims to consider the contribution of antiutopia to the pedagogical studies. The examples of three authors (Orwell, Huxley and Bradbury) and their dystopias (respectively 1984, 0Brave new world and Fahreinheit 451) show that this literary genre ...
Cosimo Di Bari
doaj   +1 more source

Adaptive Spaces and Rural Futures: Climate Change, Agrarian Dynamics, and Knowledge Politics in Southeast Asian Socioecological Transformations

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary rural change in Southeast Asia is shaped by complex, intersecting forces that defy simplistic narratives. Researchers must therefore develop new ways to grasp nuanced, non‐linear, and locally specific processes to understand how transformational shifts may occur (or not) in the region.
John F. McCarthy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
wiley   +1 more source

Library Utopias and Dystopias Today and in 2040

open access: yesBibliothek, 2023
Open access is a key utopian ideal for a large proportion of librarians, but before discussing libraries in 2040, it is important to define the term “library”.
Seadle Michael
doaj   +1 more source

Shaping Global AI Governance? Assessing EU Actorness in the Negotiations of the Council of Europe's AI Framework Convention

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract International organisations (IOs) have increasingly engaged in the governance of AI to address potential risks. Soon after the European Union (EU) adopted its Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), the Council of Europe (CoE) adopted its Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, the ‘first ...
Sina Hoch
wiley   +1 more source

Dystopias and Transhumanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Este artigo examina distopias enquanto profecias de um futuro indesejado se não se esforçar para evitá-lo; mais que isso, serão examinadas enquanto experimento mentais.
Borges, Luiz Adriano Gonçalves
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El imaginario distópico-apocalíptico en el teatro español actual de mujeres: hacia una nueva sensibilidad ecológica

open access: yesModerna Språk
The dystopian boom has been prominent in narrative and cinema over the past few decades. However, more recently, playwrights have also turned their attention to the genre, bringing the dystopian imagination to the stage.
Karolina Kumor
doaj   +1 more source

How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Repurposing management for the public good involves realizing alternative ideas to serve societal interests. Humanistic management is centred on such ideas as human dignity and well‐being. Realization refers to the generation and maintenance of social realities corresponding to these ideas.
Oliver Laasch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s dystopian work of fiction, became a cornerstone of libertarian philosophy and its influence continues as an articulation of contemporary capitalism. In introducing this Special Issue, we revisit its core assumptions and contradictions in order to reimagine capitalism and reflect on the potential of management studies
Rick Delbridge   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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