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2025, Revista do Colóquio

Resumo: O presente artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre o processo de pesquisar cinema, arte e cultura em tempos de desastre do Antropoceno. Partindo de uma pesquisa sobre ficção especulativa no cinema queer brasileiro contemporâneo, construo um pensamento tentacular, através da criação de parentesco interdisciplinar entre diferentes conceitos como Chthuluceno (Haraway), fracasso (Halberstam), bolsa da ficção (Le Guin) vernáculos políticos (Macharia) e futuridade queer (Muñoz).

2025, k@ta

This paper analyzes Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) through Harris's (1983) concept of cross-cultural imagination, which envisions cultural hybridity as a path to healing and coexisting instead of effacement. By focusing on the novel's protagonist, Ti-Jeanne, the paper examines how spirituality and Caribbean mythology guide her in reconnecting with her Afro-Caribbean heritage within a dystopian Toronto setting. Through Harris's (1983) lens, Ti-Jeanne's identity conflict is resolved by embracing both cultures as a means to empower herself and her community. The paper examines whether one can coexist harmoniously with a new culture or if abandoning one's background is the only path to adaptation. Ultimately, the novel suggests that exploring diverse cultures is not just an academic exercise but a transformative process-one that fosters healing, reshapes societies, and cultivates mutual respect.

2025, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University International Journal of Philology and Translation Studies

Feminist utopianism is a speculative and transformative genre that aims to challenge the established patriarchal utopian tradition and the dominant discourses surrounding gender issues. To this end, feminist utopian literature has served as a crucial instrument for both male and female authors who advocate for the importance of achieving gender equality in society. Furthermore, at its heart, utopian writing relies on the act of dreaming as the fundamental component for envisioning and building the future, thereby increasing awareness and participating in a cognitive process called defamiliarization. In addition, the inclusion of women's alternative perspectives has had a significant impact on the overall understanding of gender roles. This article, therefore, aims to provide an overview of the characteristics of a feminist utopian novel and a critique of the dominant masculine perspective in society in order to bring about the essential social transformation needed to create the desired and yet unrealized needs.

2025, Sendas del hispanismo: márgenes, centros y convergencias. Actas del XXI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas,

El steampunk ha venido conformándose como un (sub)género de la ficción especulativa cuyo origen se remonta a los años 70-80 del pasado siglo, recibiendo carta de naturaleza una vez que el término fue acuñado por Kevin W. Jeter en 1987. En líneas generales, se trata de una propuesta discursiva de naturaleza ucrónica, sustentada sobre la idea de un universo alternativo —frecuentemente ambientado en la Inglaterra victoriana— en el cual determinados desarrollos tecnoenergéticos —el uso del vapor o el carbón— se habrían impuesto sobre otros —la electricidad y los hidrocarburos—.
A pesar de su origen anglosajón, el steampunk ha dado pie a una fórmula discursiva con una presencia internacional a la que no ha escapado el castellano. Por ello, el objetivo de nuestra comunicación es indagar en la recepción de este (sub)género en España, a partir tanto de sus cultivadores más conocidos —donde encontramos a Félix J. Palma, Eduardo Vaquerizo o Josué Ramos, entre otros— como de la —aún escasa— labor crítica que se ha llevado a cabo. Todo ello permite concluir que la recepción española del steampunk, desde esta doble perspectiva, ofrece una abigarrada paleta de interpretaciones y lecturas, en consonancia con su naturaleza proteica, mutable y difícilmente asible.

2025, Bódi Katalin

Un siècle de dialogues: Actes du Colloque international à l’occasion du centenaire du Département de Français de l’Université de Debrecen 31 août – 1er septembre 2023 Textes réunis par Andrea Nagy et István Csűry, (Studia Romanica de... more

2025, Drugi Brešanov svibanj: kultura i politika

U Brešanovoj rukopisnoj ostavštini nalazi se i neobjavljeni roman pod naslovom Venera i Proleter, zanimljiv upravo iz perspektive odnosa (političke) fikcije i političke zbilje. Riječ je o romanu s temom tranzicije napisanom u vremenu tranzicije, koji se s pritiscima tzv. „jake zbilje“ suočava strategijama svojstvenim Brešanovu rukopisu, kroz propitivanje ideje. Iskustvo tranzicije kao vremena prijelaza ili privremenosti u Brešanovoj poetici ostvaruje se kroz sklonost da se prijelomni trenutak reprezentira u mitskim kategorijama. Stoga Brešanov protagonist, premda tipični tranzicijski gubitnik, nije motiviran pobunom protiv sustava (jer sustav je vječan i obnavlja se ciklički), nego „misijom“ intervencije u njegovu natprirodnu pozadinu. Premještanjem sukoba s realpolitičke na metafizičku razinu, prevođenjem društvenih odnosa na arhetipsku situaciju, on uranja u političku zbilju reciklirajući mitsku priču te ideju revolucionarne pobune zamjenjuje propitivanjem ideje uplitanja u sveopći kauzalitet. S obzirom na to da se na putu realiziranja te ideje u romanu Venera i Proleter u ulozi kolektivnog antagonista nalazi jedna obitelj, koja u cjelini predstavlja metonimiju „pretvorenog“ društva, cilj je ovog rada propitati ulogu koju obitelj kao središnja sociemska narativna figura igra u Brešanovoj proznoj poetici, prije svega u odnosu prema romanu Država Božja 2053. u kojemu se također javlja kolektivni protagonist distopijske tranzicije. Konačno, zanima nas u kojoj su mjeri imaginarne obitelji Brešanovih romana odraz promjene u politici reprezentacije zbilje, a u kojoj tek reprodukcija diskurzivnog obrata s retorike socijalizma na gramatiku tranzicije u kojoj imperativ obitelji postaje ključna kategorija, u rasponu od promicanja konzervativnih svjetonazora u ideologiji „obiteljskih vrijednosti“ do prakse tzv. „amoralnog familizma“ (Banfield 1958) u ekonomiji kojom upravlja ideal „dvjesto bogatih obitelji“.

2025, Beyond Molotovs - A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies (Ed. IRGAC/kollektiv orangotango)

2025, Revista e-scrita : Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU

A POLITICAL ANALYSIS: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY READING WOMAN PICTURATED BY MARIANNE DASHWOOD IN SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1811) BY JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen e uma das autoras que possuem grande prestigio no cenario literario, principalmente por trazer a tona aspectos da sociedade inglesa na qual estava ligada. Entre muitas questoes descritas por ela, existe uma que parece estar sempre presente como tematica periferica, mas nao de menor importância em seus textos, a saber, a questao da leitura e tambem de seus leitores enquanto fonte de aperfeicoamento social, especialmente para as mulheres. O objetivo deste artigo sera o de estudar este aspecto, em especial, na tentativa de destacar ainda mais sua importância social e academica, especialmente ligada ao seu romance: Razao e Sensibilidade (1811). Ao desenvolvermos este artigo para investigacao da questao da leitura atraves da personagem protagonista do romance, Marianne Dashwood, pretendemos promover o avanco do tema feito na realizacao de u...

2025

Brenda Cooper's For the Snake of Power (2018) presents a future Phoenix, Arizona, shaped by the challenges of climate change. The story's central feature is a snake-like solar panel structure that generates renewable energy while providing shade to protect the city from the desert's extreme heat. This technological innovation symbolizes the potential for human and nature to coexist harmoniously, offering a vision of resilience and adaptability in the face of environmental disasters. However, the story reveals a dystopian reality where only the wealthy benefit from the cooling system, while the poor, particularly the elderly, suffer and die due to unbearable heat. The story critiques the capitalist system, presenting a "capitalist utopian dystopia," where a society appears perfect on the surface but is deeply flawed beneath. The narrative highlights the disparities between the rich and poor in a world ravaged by climate change, emphasizing the need for fair governance to avoid further suffering. The futuristic elements, including AI and eco-friendly technology, contrast with the harsh reality of climate-induced dystopia, warning that without systemic change, even technologically advanced societies will be shaped by environmental 1 The initial abstract and research concept for this article were presented by Kanan Aghasiyev at a symposium. However, the focus of the research evolved from a practopic-ecocritical analysis to an exploration of capitalist utopian dystopia. The original abstract is cited in the References section as A Practopic-ecocritical Analysis: Exploring Capitalist Utopian Dystopia in Brenda Cooper's for the Snake of Power.

2025

Özet-Kısaltma işlemi, dilin sadeleştirilmesi veya ekonomik kullanımı için kullanılan bir düzenektir. Kısaltma süreciyle elde edilen kısaltmabirimlerin verimliliği ve hızı artırmak, uzun yinelemelerin önüne geçmek, alanı etkin kullanmak, karmaşık kavramları sesbilgisel açıdan daha kısa bir yükle ifade etmek vb. gibi işlevleri bulunmaktadır. Bu hedeflerin yanı sıra kısaltmabirimlerin bilinçli olarak ideolojik bir araç olarak da kodlandığı savunusunu ortaya atan çalışmamız, genellikle gelecekteki/olası otoriter yönetimler, baskıcı toplum düzeni, toplumsal denetleme yöntemleri, bireysel özgürlüğün kısıtlanması gibi konuları odağına alan distopik kurgularda ideolojinin kısaltmabirimler aracılığıyla temsil edildiğini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda yazına, politikaya ve popüler kültüre damgasını vuran 1932, 1949 ve 1953 yıllarında yayımlanmış üç distopik kurguda kısaltmabirimlerin ne/ler oldukları belirlenmiş, söz konusu işlevleri tartışılmıştır. Alanyazında sıklıkla yapısal ve yalnızca kullanım amaçları doğrultusunda işlevsel düzlemde ele alınan kısaltmabirimlerin, ideolojik bir araç olarak kodlandığının ortaya koyulmasıyla, çalışmamız özgün ve öncü niteliğiyle alana katkı sağlamaktadır.

2025, Snapdragon Revolution

In the ruins of Occidental University, Reuven Hoffman, a man burdened by the weight of his past, finds himself lost in memories of a bygone era. Before the world was scorched by revolution and pestilence. A complicated love triangle places three Occidental University students in peril, forcing them to each come to terms with their inner demons and tearing at the edges of their grip on reality. All the while, the destitute masses, burdened with hunger and sickness, hover in the backdrop, preparing to rise and fight – and do whatever it takes to see their oppressors torn down.
Snapdragon Revolution is a haunting reflection of the world’s current socio-political crisis. Peeling apart the layers of classist struggles and exploring the raw wounds of the human condition therewithin.

2025, InMedia (The French Journal of Media Studies)

2025, LİTERA

Elaine Showalter believes it is restrictive to read stories about women written by male writers because male-dominated narration is filled with stereotypical representations of women, which consequently maintains the victimization of women. With her idea of gynocriticism, she refers to the need for female writers to write about the female. In that sense, she demands female characters to be put at the centre of literary works in order to reach a more inclusive understanding of human experience. Building on her theory of female writing, this paper attempts to show that female experience, perspective, and voice must be communicated within the literary landscape to have a better and multifaceted understanding of the lives of women and to fix the misinterpretations of womanhood through the analysis of Julia (2023) by Sandra Newman and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell. Even though Orwell manages to critique the horrible outcomes of totalitarianism in his canonical dystopia through his protagonist Winston, he completely ignores what Julia feels, thinks, or experiences. There is not much information about Julia's life as an individual or as a woman. Therefore, Newman reconstructs Julia as the protagonist of her dystopia by focusing solely on Julia's thoughts, endeavours, and emotions by filling in the missing parts that Orwell does not touch upon. Accordingly, this paper examines how a female writer establishes a society that is not solely governed by universally accepted maledominated ideals, creating a space for a formerly silenced and decentralised character so that she can be valued on her own terms.

2025

This research delves into the themes of patriarchy, oppression, and forgiveness within Megan Giddings" novel, The Women Could Fly (2022), examining how they intersect within the context of capitalist-led society. Drawing on feminist and Marxist analyses, the study explores how patriarchy, operating within a capitalist framework, systematically marginalizes and oppresses women in general, and black women in particular. Through an analysis of Giddings" dystopian narrative, the paper elucidates the ways in which female characters resist patriarchal oppression while also grappling with forgiveness in the face of systemic injustice. It discusses the complex interplay between power dynamics, gender relations, and capitalist structures, highlighting the ongoing struggle for women"s empowerment within a society that privileges men and perpetuates inequality. It also recognizes how issues related to both women and nature interconnect in such narratives associating supernatural powers to emancipation endeavors. The paper confirms, as portrayed in the contemporary narrative under study, that patriarchy continues to be the dominant power in capitalism.

2025, Tracing Everyday Conversations in Early Modern Europe: Talking in Everyday Life

Utopias of the early modern period typically envision societies with a transparent communality and no private property. In Thomas More's much imitated and adapted Utopia (1516), the narrator, Raphael Hythloday, reports that "there is nothing private anywhere […] [the Utopians] live in the full view of all". People's homes have doors "which open easily with a push of the hand […] [and] let anyone come in". 1 We might therefore expect utopias to provide a scarce source of evidence about the practices and ideals of early modern private conversations. However, a utopia such as Hendrik Smeeks' Beschryvinge van het magtig Koningryk Krinke Kesmes (Description of the Mighty Kingdom of Krinke

2025, Footprint

The history of shared heritages often contains other figures in the margins: those who were not seen as part of the dominant cultural narrative, or whose contribution to its heritage went unacknowledged. In order to explore some of the cultural narratives that shape our past and envision a shared future, this article takes a closer look at three science fiction authors and how their stories draw lessons from the past into a narration of possible futures. Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood have each envisioned futures that draw from contemporary developments and expand them to an overarching logic as the setting of their tales. Rather than directly examining (un)built heritages, this article examines the underlying cultural logic of building on the past. If architecture provides a foundation for a shared (and inclusive) future, the stories constructed by these authors show how the built environment resonates with societal principles, aiding or hindering particular collective values.

2025

This study explores H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1897) through the lens of digital humanism as defined by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray in Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (2022), analyzing how the novel critiques technological dominance, imperialism, and human fragility. Using a qualitative approach, this research examines how Wells anticipates contemporary debates on human personality, agency, and existence in an era of rapid technological convergence. The analysis focuses on the interplay between the Martians' technological superiority and humanity's struggle for identity and agency, bridging Victorian anxieties with contemporary concerns about technological progress and ethical innovation. By examining Martian technology as a symbol of imperialist, colonialist, and Social Darwinist ideologies, the study investigates its profound impact on human identity in the face of technological advancements. It further explores how the resilience of human existence, agency, and personality emerges under the pressures of technological dominance, offering insight into the broader implications of digital humanism. The collapse and reconstruction of societal norms in response to existential threats highlight the ways in which humanity reevaluates its place in the world, reshapes identity, and reclaims agency. Through close textual analysis, the paper argues that Wells presents a dualistic view of technology-both as an existential threat and a catalyst for human resilience. The Martian invasion serves as an allegory for colonial oppression and technological domination, mirroring contemporary ethical concerns surrounding technological advancements and ethical innovations .The findings suggest that The War of the Worlds offers a cautionary yet insightful reflection on the human condition, emphasizing that while technology may redefine human existence, it is ultimately human resilience and adaptability that determine survival. The study underscores Wells' continued relevance in today's world, highlighting the importance of ethical reflection, responsible innovation, and the preservation of human dignity in the digital age.

2025

El presente texto reseña una obra que analiza el cine distópico contemporáneo a través de la teoría semiótica de Luri Lotman, quien concibe los textos culturales como espejos que reflejan y multiplican significados. Se realiza un análisis transdisciplinar del cine de ciencia ficción, destacando su complejidad al articular lo visual, verbal y simbólico-cultural. Se estudian las tensiones entre utopía, utilizando la epistemología y la semiótica de la cultura como ejes teóricos. A lo largo de cuatro años de investigación, se seleccionó un corpus de filmes representativos que abordan múltiples dimensiones de la realidad: globales, locales y subjetivas. Respaldada por un grupo científico de la ENAH, la obra presenta metodologías innovadoras para la interpretación de narrativas cinematográficas, mostrando cómo el cine distópico no solo refleja la sociedad actual, sino que también distorsiona sus realidades, revelando profundas problemáticas sociales y proponiendo una crítica compleja y reflexiva del mundo contemporáneo.

2025, Dinçsoy, Z. (2025). Ernst Bloch’ta Ütopya ve Ütopya’nın İçkin-Eleştirisi: Felaketler, Savaşlar, Çoklu Krizler Çağında Distopyalaşan Bir Ütopya Mı?

Bu çalışma 20. yüzyılın Almanca konuşulan felsefe dünyasının temel filozoflarından biri olan, yarım yüzyılı aşkın bir süre boyunca ele aldığı konuları farklı yönleriyle analiz eden ve umudun filozofu olarak anılan Ernst Bloch'un umut ve ütopya kavramlarına toplum ve politika felsefesi bağlamında odaklanmaktadır. Umut ve ütopya kavramları olumlu anlamlarının yanı sıra olumsuz anlamlar ve imgeler de içermektedir. Bloch, bu olumsuz anlam ve imgelerin farkında olarak kavramların tarihsel önemine vurgu yaparken, eleştirel noktaları da dile getirmektedir. Bu makalede Bloch'un bu iki kavrama olan tutkulu bağlılığı gösterildikten sonra, Bloch'un özeleştirisi olarak okunabilecek vurguları da ele alınmaktadır. Umut ve ütopya kavramlarının tersi yöndeki (distopya) bir anlayış için de anlamlı olabileceği ve böylece her iki kavramdan beslenen yeni bir sentezin oluşturulabileceği hem Bloch'un kendi metinleri hem de eleştirileri üzerinden aktarılmaktadır. Böylece felaket, distopya, çoklu kriz, kıyamet kavramlarının sıklıkla kullanıldığı bir dönemde umut ve ütopya kavramlarının bir anlamının kalıp kalmadığı ve bu tartışmalara nasıl müdahil olabileceği gösterilmeye çalışılmıştır.
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This study focuses on the concepts of hope and utopia of Ernst Bloch, one of the main philosophers of the German-speaking philosophical world of the 20th century, who analysed the issues he dealt with in different aspects for more than half a century, and who is known as the philosopher of hope, in the context of social and political philosophy. The concepts of hope and utopia contain negative meanings and images in addition to their positive meanings. While Bloch emphasises the historical importance of the concepts by being aware of these negative meanings and images, he also expresses critical points. In this article, Bloch's passionate devotion to both of these concepts is shown, and then Bloch's emphases, which can be read as his self-criticism, are also discussed. It is conveyed through both Bloch's own texts and his critics that the concepts of hope and utopia can also be meaningful for an understanding in the opposite direction (dystopia), and thus a new synthesis that feeds on both concepts can be formed. Thus, in a period when the concepts of catastrophe, dystopia, multiple crises, apocalypse are frequently used, it has been tried to show whether the concepts of hope and utopia have any meaning left, as well as how they can intervene in these discussions.

2025, Electronic British Library Journal

The literary archive of J. G. Ballard at the British Library includes an unpublished story set in the environs of Vermilion Sands, a fictional desert resort that is the exotic location of nine stories Ballard wrote between 1956 and 1966. The stories were subsequently collected and published as Vermilion Sands (1971 and 1973). The unpublished story in the archive – which has no title, is not dated, and was eventually abandoned as a composition – comprises seventeen closely typed pages that were revised and annotated on more than one occasion (in red and blue ink). When was it written? Why was it abandoned? This study attempts to answer these questions by assessing a range of evidence, beginning with the identification of textual clues to the date of composition. The draft story’s thematic relationship to the stories of Vermilion Sands is then considered, particularly its relationship to ‘The Screen Game’, a story with which it has much in common. Finally, and rewardingly, the physical evidence of the document itself is assessed, the distinctive paper on which the story was typed.

2025, Apagón y tiempo

Un artículo de opinión que reflexiona sobre la situación que se dio tras el apagón en España.

2025

Referência bibliográfica: MOLINA, L.. Polifonia em torno do gênero. In: CORRÊA, Liciane Guimarães; JORDÃO, Adriana.. (Org.). Distopias podem salvar o mundo? Reflexões sobre O conto da aia. 1ed.: , 2024, v. , p. 107-121. A complexidade da... more

2025, İstanbul Nişantaşı Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

This paper analyzes the use of dystopian themes in contemporary British poetry, focusing on Simon Armitage's work. Dystopian literature is a powerful medium for addressing social and political issues, reflecting anxieties about politics and social justice. Armitage's poetry, particularly in his collection Out of the Blue, exemplifies this approach by engaging with significant historical events such as the 9/11 attacks. Through vivid imagery and personal narratives, Armitage criticizes social troubles that result in violence and instability. His concern about human nature and social responsibilities highlights the interplay between individual experiences and social criticism. Accordingly, this study emphasizes the relevance of dystopian elements in Simon Armitage's poetry as an embodiment of contemporary British poetry and a critical reflection on our age.

2025, Mizo Studies Vol. XIII No. 1 January - March, 2024

Utopia is a word created by Thomas More. It comes from the Greek words "ou" meaning "not" and "topos" meaning "place." In literature, a utopia is an imaginary place that is peaceful, happy, and perfect. The people living in a utopia live in harmony, without any trouble from inside or outside their world. They do not worry about other worlds, and they may not even know other worlds exist. If development is not done carefully, the Earth could become unlivable. The soil and water may no longer meet human needs, and progress will not be successful. This idea led to the concept of ecotopia, which means an ecological utopia—a world where people live in harmony with nature. It is based on the belief that development should be sustainable and not harm the Earth or future generations. The word dystopia comes from the Greek prefix "dys," meaning bad, abnormal, or diseased. A dystopia is an imaginary world worse than our own. In literature, writing about such terrible futures is called dystopian literature. While a utopia is full of hope and happiness, a dystopia is full of fear and suffering.
In C. Lalhmingthanga’s story Zofate Ni Tawpah Mittui, the village of Sesihzawl was once an ecotopia—peaceful, self-sufficient, united, and eco-friendly. But due to poor leadership in Mizoram, this ideal village turns into a dystopia. The story shows how bad governance can destroy a dreamland.

2025

Barbara Hill Rigney has described the project of Margaret Atwood's fiction as "a moral issue. ...it is the responsibility of the writer/artist not only to describe her world, but also to criticise it, to bear witness to its failures, and, finally, to prescribe corrective measures perhaps even to redeem" (1). The moral responsibility of the author is evident in Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy, in which the author's known concern for the environment and wildlife conservation provides the impetus to the trilogy's biological catastrophe. Though Atwood describes herself as a "pessimistic pantheist," nevertheless, her post-apocalyptic story-world is not without hope (Atwood, para. 3). Indeed, Atwood describes her speculative America initially overwhelmed with environmental crises, mass extinctions, rampant poverty and greed, social anarchy, and political corruption before a human-designed global pandemic wipes out most of the human species as an &q...

2025

This project follows the path blazed by such scholars as Jodi Byrd (Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma), Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene First Nation), Vine Deloria Jr. (Oglala Sioux), Lawrence Gross (White Earth Chippewa), Kwes Kwentin (Musqueam), Audra Simpson (Mohawk), Ines Talamantez (Mescalero Apache), and Zoe Todd (Red River Metis/Otipemisiwak), who have all argued for the value in using Indigenous epistemologies as critical theories in a largely non-Indigenous academic context. Following their research and their practice, my project uses the Anishinaabe epistemology of Mino-Bimaadiziwin, or “the good life,” to read Margaret Atwood’s speculative “ustopian” (dystopia / utopia) novel, MaddAddam. While scholars have approached the novel, as well as the trilogy as a whole, in terms of post-structuralism, post-colonialism, post-humanism, feminism, and trauma narratives, few (if any) have addressed the novel in terms of Indigenous ways of seeing and being part of an interconnected and i...

2025

Lyhyt kirjoitelma Phineas Gagen elämästä ja hänen kokemastaan onnettomuudesta, joka vaikutti merkittävästi moderniin käsitykseen aivojen toiminnasta, persoonallisuudesta ja käyttäytymisestä. Tapaus on yksi neuropsykologian historian tunnetuimmista, ja se tarjoaa ainutlaatuisen näkökulman siihen, miten fyysinen aivovaurio voi muuttaa ihmisen luonnetta.

2025, Critical Insights: The Hunger Games series

Machiavelli wrote his famous dissertation on power, The Prince, in 1517. In this tome, Machiavelli offers political leaders (royal or otherwise) rules for gaining, using, and keeping power. The Prince has been called "the greatest single study of power on record" (Berle 19). As such, it has served as a blueprint by many since the sixteenth century to gain, keep, use and explain the nature of power. Despite Machiavelli’s ideas being derided as evil, The Prince has continued to be widely read and studied. Even its detractors agree that The Prince only defines the conquest for and the reality of power. Machiavelli does not attempt to defend the ethical or moral questions raised within his work. Instead, as Machiavelli wrote, he wanted “to write something of use,” and as such deemed “it best to stick to [the] practical truth of things rather than to fancies. Many men have imagined republics and principalities that never existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation" (Donno 7).
Nowhere else in adolescent literature do we see Machiavelli’s maxims on power play out more vividly then within the pages of The Hunger Games. The actions of both President Snow and District 13’s President Coin to hold and/or gain power clearly demonstrate Machiavellism in action. Through a close examination of the text, this essay will examine the ideas Machiavelli outlines within The Prince and how these are portrayed within The Hunger Games. Further, I will argue that Machiavelli’s recommendations are the only logical course for President Snow and President Coin to pursue given the situation both find themselves in. Such an examination is valuable because it deepens our understanding of the complex political climate of the novels and also provides an accessible framework to illustrate and develop the reader’s understanding of Machiavellism.

2025

Este trabalho procura elaborar aproximações do subgênero literário cyberpunk, que ganhou vigor a partir da década de 1980, com o conceito de Realismo Capitalista desenvolvido pelo filósofo marxista e crítico literário Mark Fisher, traçando, assim, um paralelo entre os diversos desdobramentos de seu conceito e as principais características do movimento cyberpunk presentes na sociedade neoliberal, analisando, também, filmes desse subgênero sob a ótica de tal conceito.

2025, Extrapolation

The use of salvaged objects in post-apocalyptic narratives has primarily been addressed in relation to Evan Calder Williams's concept of "salvagepunk"-a repurposing of objects in an idiosyncratic way that Williams sees as a form of capitalist critique. Such a reading, however, accommodates neither the frequent emphasis on the novelty or sublimity of such objects, nor their tendency to collapse into nostalgia and ultimately capitalist reification. Far more often than not, the break between pre-apocalyptic past and post-apocalyptic narrative present is less a profound rupture opening up the possibility of a reimagined Utopian future based on reconfigured social relations, and more an inconvenient and lamentable fissure that will eventually be bridged. Attending to a variety of primary texts such as Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven (2014), David Macauley's Motel of the Mysteries (1978), and Ruben Fleischer's film, Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), this essay considers the ways in which salvaged items in post-apocalyptic narratives end up reaffirming the present status quo, once again proving the oft-cited maxim that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than an end to capitalism.

2025

En 2020 reparaît fort opportunément en poche Espion de l'étrange de Serge Lehman. Ce recueil s'ouvre sur un roman paru dans la collection Anticipation du Fleuve noir sous le pseudonyme de Karel Dekk en 1991. Mêlant le fantastique et la science-fiction, c'est aussi et surtout un hommage à la collection même qui l'accueillait alors, à travers les lectures de jeunesse du narrateur Karel Dekk et du personnage de Phil Grimaud. Tous deux sont fascinés par les romans du FNA de la première période, celle de la fusée sur la tranche, responsable de leur attrait pour la science-fiction, et dont Grimaud livre avec nostalgie une poignée de titres choisis. Parmi ceux-ci, Bureau de l'invisible frappe par l'écho qu'il crée avec Espion de l'étrange. Quel est donc ce roman qui semble une source d'inspiration assez claire du roman de Lehman ? Le Fleuve noir Anticipation des premières années compte pour principaux auteurs connus ses deux chevilles ouvrières, F. Richard-Bessière et Jimmy Guieu, puis le fascinant météore Stefan Wul, le singulier Kurt Steiner et quelques auteurs qui feront carrière dans la collection sur des décennies. Jean-Gaston Vandel n'est pas le nom le plus cité et reste oublié, alors qu'il a publié vingt romans entre 1952 et 1956. Mais on sait qu'il s'agit du pseudonyme de deux auteurs belges, qui mèneront une prolifique et prospère carrière dans le roman d'espionnage sous le nom de Paul Kenny, avec le personnage de Francis Coplan. Mais avant cela, Jean Libert et Gaston Vandenpanhuyse avaient joint leurs prénoms et contracté leurs noms pour se vouer à la science-fiction. Le recours au pseudonyme unique, l'entrée dans l'édition française et l'évasion dans le space opera apparaissent comme une nécessité surtout pour Jean Libert. Dans Écrire en Belgique sous le regard de Dieu (2004), l'historienne Cécile Vanderpelen-Diagre nous apprend en effet que ce natif de Laeken, qui a grandi dans le scoutisme et l'Action catholique, suivant ses

2025

Set in a society predominantly marked by compulsory coupledom, Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist black comedy The Lobster (2015) depicts a world where singles must secure a partner or be transformed into animals if they fail to do so within 45 days. To be an animal is to inhabit a subordinate status; it signifies punishment for those unable to graduate into the amatonormative ideal of romantic partnership, and whose singlehood registers as a form of deviance. David and the other characters display an aversion towards being turned into animals, whom they regard as an inferior species. Yet, in attempting to avoid this outcome, their desperation to couple up ironically gives rise to behaviours both feral and animalistic. From maiming themselves to feign compatibility with the opposite sex to hunting runaways in the woods to earn extra days at the hotel, these characters participate in an economy of bestial violence, herd mentality, and a primal instinct for survival. In contrast, the animals that hold a marginal position in the film serve to accentuate the savagery of the human world. By animalising the humans and humanising the animals, this sardonic reversal reveals that humans are “no different from any other”—David and the other citizens are not rational and autonomous beings elevated above the animal kingdom, but socially conditioned subjects shaped by institutional and ideological pressures (Gray 30). In so doing, The Lobster critiques the self-aggrandising logic that underpins species hierarchies: though we try to separate ourselves from non-human others to affirm our own superiority, this veneer of exceptionalism is ultimately torn apart when Lanthimos lays bare the most egregious aspects of human nature.

2025

portuguesEste artigo tem por objetivo analisar os direitos das mulheres no contexto brasileiro, principalmente, seus direitos reprodutivos. Para atingir este proposito, o artigo por meio da combinacao entre Direito, Filosofia e Literatura tenta repensar por que as mulheres nao possuem voz quando decisoes sobre seus direitos sao tomadas? Metodologicamente, utiliza-se de revisao bibliografica, a partir da obra O conto da Aia, escrita por Margaret Atwood (2006) e os conceitos de homo sacer e estado de excecao desenvolvidos pelo filosofo Giorgio Agamben (2004; 2007) para ilustrar como as narrativas de vida podem promover os direitos humanos. EnglishThis paper aims to analyze the women's rights in the Brazilian context, mainly, reproductive rights. So, to achieve this purpose, this paper through the combination of Law, philosophy, and Literature tries to rethinking why women can’t have a voice when the decisions about their rights are taken? Methodologically, it was used a bibliograp...

2025, Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2024

This paper explores diverse interpretations of growth within the (anti-)utopian narratives of Aldous Huxley and Michel Houellebecq. Both authors challenge traditional views of historical progress, questioning teleological narratives and the concept of perpetual advancement. While Huxley warns against the dangers of techno-scientific developments hidden behind economic prosperity, Houellebecq, by highlighting the threats of environmental degradation, dismantles the purported linearity of history and introduces the concept of evental temporality.

2025, REVEC - REVISTA DE ESTUDOS DE CULTUR

O trabalho objetiva compreender a relação que a audiência estabelece entre acontecimentos factuais com fragmentos de ficções de caráter distópico, dando a estes um cunho premonitório. Analisa-se, por meio da exploração de postagens em redes sociais digitais, como a função oracular tem sido atribuída às obras televisuais seriadas com o recorte voltado para Os Simpsons (1989) e The Handmaid's Tale (2017). Adota-se o Método Compreensivo de análise, sustentados pelos conceitos de violência neuronal de Han (2015); análise da cultura das séries de Jost (2018) e Silva (2014); e as funções distópicas de Hilário (2013). Concluiu-se que as séries distópicas assumem um caráter divinatório para uma parcela da audiência que busca neste gênero ficcional a compreensão acerca das atualidades mundiais.

2025, International Journal of Creative Research Thought

Even though dystopia has been constantly emerging in writing, it is currently such tragic fiction that has become particularly famous. The argument of this paper is to examine how contemporary Indian fiction exhibits the barbarity of contemporary Indian religious beliefs conditioning the society, specifically the arrangements upheld by an Indian state where custom and immaculateness are esteemed above multiculturality, discourse, and equity. This paper centers around an acclaimed novel When the Moon Shines by Day (2017) by Nayantara Sahgal . The present paper substantiates the characteristics of a dystopian world modelled by Nayantara Sahgal, who tries to show the harsh reality of contemporary Indian society.

2025, Subir, salir, entrar, bajar: 50 años de rascacielos de J.G. Ballard. ISBN 978-84-1369-930-1.

En este capítulo se analiza la obra "Rascacielos", de J.G. Ballard, en relación con las estéticas de la negatividad, propias de la distopía, estableciéndose relaciones entre la novela y su adaptación cinematográfica, estrenada en 2015 y dirigida por Ben Wheatley.
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In this chapter, the work "High-Rise" by J.G. Ballard is analyzed in relation to the aesthetics of negativity characteristic of dystopia, establishing connections between the novel and its film adaptation, released in 2015 and directed by Ben Wheatley.

2025, Con A de animación

El estudio del anime en la actualidad se encuentra acotado entre los extremos del determinismo cultural y el transnacionalismo. Sin embargo, en su modo apocalíptico, aparece estrechamente relacionado con la identidad nacional y la historia japonesas, en ocasiones como un agente subversivo de memoria. Si además el urbanismo reproduce simbólicamente los imaginarios de cada momento histórico, puede plantearse que las distopías del anime apocalíptico enuncian determinadas ideologías sobre el pasado de Japón. Esta investigación analiza la representación urbana en su relación con el pasado en la película Akira, planteando como hipótesis que, más que elucubrar sobre el futuro, su distopía enuncia un comentario sobre los traumas nacionales japoneses del pasado. Se realiza un análisis textual de la película, concluyendo que el filme descontextualiza y reúne diversos episodios conflictivos de la historia nipona del siglo XX en un mismo momento histórico fabulado que permite reinterpretarlos d...

2025

This project aims to peruse the select texts, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Earnest Cline's Ready Player One and to bring to the forefront, the idea of transhumanism that is strewn deep in the columns of these speculative science... more

2025

Zaśpiewajmy, siostrzyce, zawiedźmy nasz pląs przeraźliwy, by moc naszą poznał struchlały morderca! Niechaj wie, jaką służbę przeznaczył nam los, jaki urząd sprawujem wśród ludzi! Sprawiedliwy, zaiste, czynimy tu sąd: jeśli czysta twa dłoń, jeśliś niczym nie zbrukał żywota, nie pogoni za tobą, człowiecze, nasz gniew, dojść sądzono-ć do kresu bez szkody. Lecz kto zbrodnią się skalał, jak ten oto mąż, komu dłonie krew plami wylanatemu biada! Krew pomścim! Nie chybia nasz cios! Zmarłym świadki my wierne, obrona ich praw, zmarłych mścimy się krwawej niedoli! (Ajschylos, Eumenidy, w. 290-3091

2025, TİYATRODA ZAMAN / MEKÂN

Bedenlerin, bireylerin, şeylerin, merkezi bir bakış altında tümüyle görünür olmaları modern toplumun temel yönetim ilkelerinin en belirgin olanıdır. Modern toplumlarda iktidarın gözetleme dizgesinin, bireyin psikolojisine gittikçe artan bir ölçüde, 'ıslah etme' tasarımının bir parçası haline getirilmesi, Micheal Faucault'a göre disiplinci iktidarın gereğidir.İnsan, bedeni ve kimliği ile iktidar tarafından inşa edilen bir varlıktır. Bireyin içinde bulunduğu çağın kurumları, söylemleri iktidarın belirlediği, gözlenebildiği kendini açığa vurduğu yerlerdir. Birey asla yaşadığı toplumdan ve toplum değerlerinden bağımsız değildir. Birey yapıların ve söylemlerin üzerine inşa edildiği, onların taşıyıcısı ve hedefidir.

2025

Orientador: Alfredo Luiz Paes de Oliveira SuppiaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de ArtesResumo: A obra do diretor Terry Gilliam possui filmes que são emblemáticos dentro da história do cinema. Os filmes do diretor carregam a forte marca estilística de Gilliam - seu estilo cartunesco e caricato, suas colagens elaboradas e seu humor repleto de crítica social - e trazem questões que passam pelos estudos de cinema, gênero e estudos sociais. Dentro desta obra o filme de 1985, Brazil, se destaca, sendo visto como o expoente do diretor e também como marco na produção cinematográfica. O filme retrata uma sociedade distópica onde a burocracia impera, e as pessoas são tratadas como meros processos dentro de uma vasta máquina social. Já em 2013, outro filme se destaca na obra do diretor: O Teorema Zero. Mais recente, e não tendo alcançado o sucesso de seu antecessor, o novo filme se aproxima do anterior ao trabalhar com muitos temas em comum, atualizando-o...

2025

This qualitative study uncovers the voices of five Latin@ 1 students who are high-"achieving" and undocumented and have strong aspirations in science, in a Southern, Title I high school. Through critical race methodology and these students' testimonios/counter-stories, these students' struggles and successes reveal their crossing of cultural and political borderlands and negotiating structures of schooling and science. The students dream of someday pursuing a trajectory in the field of science despite racial, ethnic, and political barriers due to their undocumented status. I use three key theoretical approaches-Borderlands/Anzaldúan theory , Loving Playfulness/World Traveling (Lugones, 2003), and Latino Critical Race Theory (in which many Latin@/Chican@ studies contribute)-to put a human face on the complex political and educational situations which the students in this study traverse. Data were collected during a full school year with follow-up contact into the present, with over 133 hours immersed in the field, involving 22 individual student interviews, six student focus group interviews, 14 teacher interviews, field notes from over 79 contact hours with participants in formal and informal science education settings, and document review. This study reveals high-"achieving" students flourishing in formal school science and informal science settings, starting a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and 1 This study uses the term Latin@, as is the preferred term among Latin@ Critical Race (LatCrit) Scholars , instead of "Latino" or "Latino/a" to de-emphasize the androcentric or cisgendered "o/a" fragmented terminology regarding individuals of Latin-American heritage, and move towards more inclusive language which incorporates the full diversity and unity of gender among our rich and diverse communities. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Math) club and the first community garden in a Title I high school in their state, to benefit their immigrant-rich community. Each student professes agentic desire to follow a science trajectory but testifies to their struggle with racism, nativism, and state policies of restricted college access. Students persevere in spite of the additional obstacles they face, to "prove" their "worth" and rise above deficit narratives in the public discourse regarding students of their ethnicity and undocumented status, and hold onto hope for legislation such as Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) or the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act. These students' lived realities, identifying as undocumented and DREAM Act eligible, also known as "DREAMers," show that more work must be done, beyond the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) permits some have received, before these students' dreams can be realized. The students' testimonios call for a space in the U.S. where their talents and dreams in science are welcome and can thrive. These students speak to the injustice inherent in shutting out talented youth with potential contributions to make to science due to an immigrant status that was never their choice. Given the dearth of highly skilled and committed contributors to the field of science in the U.S., especially scarce in Latin@ representation, these students' prospects are vital in an increasingly globalized scientific world. This study makes this case as a deliberate appeal to interest convergence, while also attending to issues of social justice and problematizing the culture of school power that these students must navigate and assimilate into to "prove" themselves. This study adds to the science education research by providing insights into the lives of students who are Latin@ and undocumented, a considerable population in many science classes yet rarely discussed in science education literature, and elucidating how they negotiate science and science education framed by the larger structures they must face. Implications of this study suggest new ways of understanding this population in nondeficit ways that advocate changing the public dialogue and taking educational and political steps towards social change in solidarity with this group of students.

2025, Subir, salir, entrar, bajar. 50 años de Rascacielos, de J. G. Ballard