Sentences with phrase «dystopian futures»

As enjoyable as it is to consider the Newtonian implications of iterative and compounding actions and reactions to the chain of events triggered in Monroe's hypothetical «what ifs», exceedingly few of the justice «what ifs» or proposals offered above will result in decimation of judicial precincts or dystopian futures where justice is brutally dispensed by dolphin - guided drones.

She imbues images of bicycles, rainbows, clouds, landscapes with subtle humor and irreverence, providing a silver lining to possible dystopian futures.

However, the desirability and practicality of such spaces remains unclear, allowing the work to carry undercurrents of the ongoing commodification of natural resources and the potential of dystopian futures.

Others present science - fiction fusions of the human, natural, and technological, imagining unknown dystopian futures.

Politically Engaged Art Resonating with themes explored across this year's international biennials, many galleries are presenting work exploring the role of art in climates of conflict — from colonial pasts to dystopian futures.

Resonating with themes explored across this year's international biennials, many galleries are presenting work exploring the role of art in climates of conflict — from colonial pasts to dystopian futures.

Offering an in - depth view of this artistic period, Past Futures is centered on four principle themes: representations of cosmic spaces and otherworldly encounters; the possibilities of space travel through new visual technologies; the dynamics of time travel; and the preoccupation with utopian or dystopian futures.

Cellular World: Cyborg - Human - Avatar - Horror, the group show he has devised in the difficult, overdecorated and pillared ground floor gallery at GoMA, plays on familiar tropes of failed dreams and dystopian futures.

We find popular culture and literature increasingly obsessed with dystopian futures filled with disaster and darkness.

Dark dystopian futures and a long island ice tea are not exactly natural accompaniments.

The Hunger Games, The Divergent series, Mad Max: Fury Road, and the upcoming Ready Player One are all recent cinematic examples of dystopian futures.

The music was composed by Australia's Power Glove and the soundtrack «mirrors the game's vision of a nostalgia - drenched journey into the world of VHS - inspired dystopian futures.»

Speaking of dark, dystopian futures, in Atwood's latest the economy has collapsed.

So, brace yourself for an exciting assortment of space operas, a gritty collection of dystopian futures, and a little dash of steampunk for flavor.

Saturday at Comic - Con is the closest thing to being in one of the many fictionalized dystopian futures of...

Saturday at Comic - Con is the closest thing to being in one of the many fictionalized dystopian futures of literature and film that keeps the fans coming out to the convention.

HBO is the next network to churn out an adaption of a book about the dystopian futures after the successes of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale and Amazon's The Man in the High Castle.

Silver screen representations of artificial intelligence are hardly unfamiliar; in fact they are as frequent in modern filmmaking as portraits of dystopian futures or cliché - ridden teen angst.

Firstly it is almost futuristic in its sound and pronunciation conjuring up images of dystopian futures.

We can undo the dystopian future that lurks around the corner.

To go along with the «dystopian future» vibe, the club's managing partner Peter Feinstein told The Daily Beast that his club is using the robot strippers as a means of attracting a more diverse crowd.

«In a dystopian future, I'm not allowed to enter a Pizza Hut because my identity says I'm overweight, and there's some kind of overweight tax.

Unlike some skeptics, Yoky Matsuoka believes that today's cutting - edge robots won't lead to a dystopian future in which machines enslave mankind.

On shelf after shelf in the Indigo bookstore downstairs, they're peddling the same story, that of a dystopian future where teens are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of adults.

That said, nothing makes me feel quite as anxious as when I watch or read a futuristic sci - fi about a dystopian future of an abandoned society crumbled by technology.

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

They may be viewed as an object lesson for a dystopian future of debt peonage.

Here's the synopsis: In a dystopian future, every American spends most of their time in a VR video game called The Oasis.

But even Orwell, with all his visions of a dystopian future, restricted this unbridled hate to a daily two - minute period.

Set it in a dystopian future in which only your hero stands between civilisation and a 1,000 - year reign of terror?

In the futuristic Metropolis, (and almost every dystopian future) wealth and privilege are reserved for an upper crust of society, while an enslaved working class allows for excesses and keeps the city running.

In each of these novels — by Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury — books become an enemy because they represent a written record of the past to a dystopian future where the past is something to forget.

If it looks like an orange and it tastes like an orange but it's not really an orange, then everything is a lie and I must be living in a dystopian future where everybody wears matching grey jumpsuits.

By Oon Yeoh - November 5, 2017 A common theme in science fiction movies is a dystopian future where food is scarce.

Or to create SkyNet and inadvertently send us all into the dystopian future of the Terminator film franchise.

«In some dystopian future, you might imagine reference patterns for 10,000 mental states, but that would be a woeful application of this technology,» says Greicius.

Now, it might be exaggerated when the media constantly paints a picture of a dystopian future where school classrooms are empty and civilians stride through the streets hastily while wearing face masks and talking to no - one.

It feels like the dystopian future of countries managed by major conglomerates dawns ever closer.

You've probably seen toy commercials that present a more thoughtful dystopian future.

PLOT In a dystopian future, the victors of a deadly competition become symbols of a populist uprising.

Convinced by ambitious scientist Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) that the solution to the problem is to green - light a line of mutant - targeting drones called Sentinels, Tricky Dick acts with predictably self - serving expediency — and inadvertently triggers a series of events that leads to a dystopian future in which humans and mutants alike teeter on the verge of extinction.

Cable has brought some nigh - unbeatable weaponry along from his dystopian future, and Wade realizes he'll need help.

Autómata is yet another film that would be considered a science - fiction film revolving around a dystopian future.

As we learned in the first film, a dystopian future society divides citizens into factions based on their abilities — except for «divergents», who act as wild cards in the system.

Its 2018 and the world is a corporate state, a dystopian future where everything is controlled by various global corporations.

In a dystopian future where the year is no longer counted, citizens without jobs are sent to work camps and never heard from again.

It is an ode to pop culture nostalgia, enjoyed from a dystopian future.

Judge Dredd (Urban) lives in a dystopian future where catastrophic wars have transformed Earth into a devastated wasteland.

And certainly, as far as stories about a dystopian future go, it can't get much bleaker than director Ridley Scott's imagining of Los Angeles in the (then) far future of 2019.

Is it possible that Magneto and Professor X live in a dystopian future (they got better!)