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An astonishing 82 percent of Americans believe the United States has become an Orwellian dystopia in which the government...

Since teaming up in 2009, the Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho have created a number of multimedia projects for high - profile venues such as Documenta and the Venice Biennale, dealing with utopia and dystopia in a nebular and speculative mode.

Details about the tunnel, which was reportedly used to send North Korean spies into the South, introduces fragments of division, suspicion and dystopia in the video.

Essential reading this weekend — boredom and dystopia in slow cinema, the return of London's Hayward Gallery and the dark drawings of Gus Bofa

Biernoff has labeled the binoculars a «time machine,» perhaps to suggest, like Moore's Map, the double bind of imagining both an unrealized utopia and dystopia in two future potentialities.

The two teens, Natalie and Bella, talked about their lack of interest in the overabundance of dystopia in the market.

On the heels of my discussion on the allure of dystopia in fiction, here is my list of top ten all time best dystopian novels.

The attractions of computer role - playing have been harnessed in this gripping, reluctant - reader - friendly novel about a dystopia in which inhabitants» fates depend on how their avatars perform in virtual battles.

Steeped in not only sci - fi but neo-noir, Looper submerged viewers in yet another of the filmmaker's intricate and enthralling worlds, this time a futuristic dystopia in which time travel is not just necessary, but illegal.

Life during Wartime also revolves around a 12 year - old (Dylan Riley Snider) studying for his bar mitzvah, but the dystopia in which he is immersed is far more bizarre than anything in the Coen's relatively comical adventure.

Long known for his dark horror, fantasy and detective tales, Poe also created the first futuristic dystopia in fiction.

Super Monday Night Combat exists in a dystopia in which spectacle, corporate greed and marketing are the fundamental pillars that hold society together.

Not exact matches

How, you wonder as you slink out of the store, did we wind up in this dark retail dystopia?

What's your take: Is what's being built in Toronto a dystopia of corporate surveillance for private gain or a giant step closer to a more sustainable, enjoyable urban future?

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Much commentary in the US has suggested that there is no way out of the dystopia that we've constructed for ourselves, short of deleting Facebook and turning away from Google.

Jonas won't rule any of these dystopias out, but he believes the third is most likely --» democracy allying itself with a kind of pseudo-scientific health - worshipping eco-maniacal post-family feminism, culminating in a whopping tyranny to make autocracy, or even oriental despotism, look like a Boy Scout jamboree.»

Bostrom calmly recommends «arranging matters in such a manner that somebody or something could intervene to set things right if the default trajectory should happen to veer toward dystopia.»

The heroine remembers the time before when she and her friends had dismissed news stories of violence done to women (as readers might dismiss literary dystopias) as «too melodramatic»: «We were the people who were not in the papers.

Like the cursed fig tree withered from leaf to root in Mark's passion narrative, the infertility that plagues Atwood's dystopia is a prophetic sign of the withering of a whole culture.

But it's not a furnace - in - the - future type of dystopia.

The sense of the end of history has been expressed, both in the extraordinary popularity of dystopias, as well as, paradoxically, in liberal philosophy that does not lack utopian traits (Francis Fukuyama).

In an era of television characterized by fantasy, science dystopias and larger - than - life drama characters, Penelope Alvarez feels like the Every Mom.

A less sophisticated illustration of this can be seen in the way that science fiction has envisioned various atheistic scientific futures: over the course of the past century such visions of the future have shifted from being utopias to being dystopias.

Challenging the freedom of indifference with freedom for excellence is essential if we are to deploy our new genetic knowledge in ways that lead to human flourishing rather than to the soulless dystopia of the brave new world.

But perhaps the greatest prophet to foresee the advent of technological dystopia was Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian media critic who passed away in 1980.

One decade since the first iPhone was released and we're living in a zombified, siloed, technocratic dystopia.

In this small nation of 1.3 million people, citizens have overcome fears of an Orwellian dystopia with ubiquitous surveillance to become a highly digital society.

The demonstrators choose The Handmaid's Tale, now a series on Hulu and based on a Margaret Atwood novel, in which women are relegated to second - class citizenship without reproductive rights in a male - dominated dystopia.

We're in a fiscal dystopia and playing like there's rainbows and unicorns,» Legis.

Are you prepared to accept shoddy work, inferior and even dangerous products in your pro-business, anti-worker deregulated dystopia?

WHILE many suspect the world is mired in some kind of futuristic dystopia, Feedback finds itself unable to ascertain exactly which writer's fevered imagination we find ourselves stuck in.

The good news is that we are not on the verge of what the Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»

«In discussions of synthetic biology, utopias and dystopias seem to be the only possible scenarios»

In its later life, «instead of trying to model utopia, Biosphere 2 would actually model dystopia — a future plagued by high carbon dioxide levels,» wrote Rebecca Reider, author of a definitive history of the project.

The good news is that we are not on the verge of what The Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»

In fiction, pneumatic technology is often associated with a creaking bureaucratic dystopia, such as George Orwell's 1984 or the satirical film Brazil, but it was once widely lauded.

There are so many complexities to the levels of understanding of the future and the way in which it is represented, that this film, for all its dullard sensibilities and lewd language, is as thought provoking as any film about dystopias and the erosion of our societal standards.

The time in the arena brings home the themes of dystopia and is truly scary at times with all contestants out of their depth and fighting for their lives.

The time swivels in Looper evoke some of Inception's fancy temporal tricks... But it's the glimpses of Children of Men - like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight, and distinguish Johnson's third feature as a marked step forward.

And there it is again in the anarchic dystopia of The Road (less impressive because, despite Hillcoat's flair for brutality, it perversely shied away from some of the key violence of the source novel).

The cast, which includes Jason Momoa as a sensitive cannibal, a nearly unrecognizable Jim Carrey as a sunburnt drifter, and Keanu Reeves as a Jim Jones - style cult leader in a Mad Max-esque desert dystopia, is similarly eccentrically utilized, for better (Reeves» smarmy menace) and for worse (Momoa's ill - advised Cuban accent, clearly stretching his range as an actor).

But that is easier said than done in this surreal dystopia, where even if a Norwegian would, he couldn't commit suicide.

There was a time a decade or so ago when Spielberg, in his fantasy films, shucked his transcendent Pollyannaism and concocted scabrous, scary dystopias like «War of the Worlds» and «Minority Report.»

Jason Segel is the author of the best Dracula puppet musical in existence, but how will his writing skills translate to the world of YA dystopia?

That's right — the Cars franchise takes place in a dystopia where all of humanity is dead, probably.

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The nation of Oceania, to phrase it another way, is so bereft of individualism and free inquiry that life in Orwell's dystopia is ultimately not worth living.

It follows Wade Watts, a lower - class student in a dystopia, who finds solace in a virtual reality game called OASIS.