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A Formal Theory of Robert Nozick's Framework for Utopia

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers the very first formal model of Robert Nozick's model of possible worlds and his vision of a utopian society, as outlined in Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick envisioned utopia as a meta‐utopia—a collection of self‐organized, voluntary sub‐communities—arguing that such an institutional framework is equivalent to ...
Susumu Cato, Hun Chung
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Countercultures n°2: Utopias, Dystopias, Anarchy [PDF]

, 2012
Our December publication of Volume !’s Countercultures issues moves from the opening discussion on Theory and Scenes that appeared in the September edition, to articles that explore Utopias, Dystopias and Experimentations.
Whiteley, Sheila, Sheila Whiteley
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Egyptian Dystopias of the 21st Century : A new literary trend?

, 2021
During the first two decades of the 21st century an increasing amount of narratives termed as Arabic dystopian fiction appeared on the Arabic literary scene, with a greater part authored by Egyptian writers.
Bakker, Barbara, Bakker, Barbara,
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Possible Worlds, Eutopias and Dystopias in some Contemporary Fictional Universes

Between
In this article, I examine the Possible Worlds Theory and its application to contemporary fictional universes, specifically focusing on eutopias and dystopias. I trace the historical development of the Theory from the 1970s.
Françoise Lavocat
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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Twentieth-Century Linguistic Dystopias: A Continuum between Commitment and Autonomy

, 2023
This paper aims at showing that dystopian art holds a schizophrenic unstable position in-between commitment and autonomy. Since linguistic dystopias are not mere ‘science-fiction’ but ‘linguistic-fiction’, they give pride of place to the linguistic ...
Sorlin, Sandrine
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Review: Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias, by Dunja M. Mohr (Mc Farland, 2005)

Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy
Review of "Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias," by Dunja Mohr (Mc Farland, 2005)
Kyle T. Smith
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Recycled Dystopias: Cyberpunk and the End of History

Arts, 2018
While cyberpunk is often described as a dystopian genre, the paper argues that it should be seen rather as a post-utopian one. The crucial difference between the two resides in the nature of the historical imagination reflected in their respective ...
Elana Gomel
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Young Adult Dystopias: Bildungsroman for the 21st Century

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2012
The paper examines young adult dystopian novels written in the first decade of the 21st century, as heirs to the tradition of the bildungsroman, and the great dystopias.
Ljiljana Gavrilović
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