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Cast aside fevered imaginings of dystopian sci - fi assessment centres, where the worst candidates get brutally (but...

United States About Blog Girl Plus Book is a YA book blog specializing in young adult book reviews of Dystopian, Scifi, and Fantasy book genre.

I think Person of Interest is the most interesting exploration of Dystopian AI to hit popular culture in a while.

Towards the end of the dystopian 2013 satire The Circle, by Dave Eggers, the protagonist wears a front - facing wearable camera and microphone device that livestreams (except for bathroom breaks) her every waking moment to millions of followers.

There are recently published macro studies like Max Tegmark's Life 3.0 which opens with an apocalyptic (fictional) vision of a dystopian future from w which we are to be (putatively) saved by the (real) intervention of such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking to support the work... Continue reading Artificial Intelligence, Legal Services and Justice →

I guess I'll just have to wait for cockroach milk, described by fellow TreeHugger writer Derek as «the nightmare superfood of our dystopian future,» to hit the supermarket shelves — because, surely, there's nothing I could possibly find wrong with that, right?

A Sanctuary For Plants and People «Located improbably in the «urban voids» created by a vast motorway spaghetti - junction on the Asian side of Istanbul, the Ali Nihat Gökyiğit Foundation has created a series of landscaped spaces that provide sanctuary for plants and people in the middle of a dystopian urban setting,» the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award jury announced.

If you want to see the future they want for you I'd suggest that you watch a movie titled THX 1138 for a great view of the dystopian future they have planned for you.

The general tone, suffice it to say, wasn't cheerful, relying on descriptions of troubling real - life phenomena that, until recently, seemed the province of dystopian science fiction.

Slate reviews The Hunger Games in the context of dystopian effects of climate change in young adult fiction.

«This body of work presents a significant shift for MacPhee who is known for her use of architecture and architectural forms to create narratives around the ideas of a dystopian future / past.

Mixing influences such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, figuration, Cubism, and Minimalism, Salle is able to present the works as «mirrors» that reflect both the wonders and horrors of contemporary mass media culture, thereby creating in his paintings what Roberta Smith once called «a precarious balance of dystopian and decorative.»

TH.2058, by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster, includes bunk beds, replica artworks, dripping rain and a film of dystopian worlds.

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.

As Cooper discusses the technology and his visions of the future, the piece weaves his personal trajectory with that of a dystopian landscape in which natural and digital worlds coexist.

Alexis Vaillant I'm looking forward to Simon Thompson's Proposed Mural for Sick Children, based on a drawing he showed at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne last May; the surprises of Berlin's project space, Silberkuppe; Stuttgart's Hermes und der Pfau, and Mark von Schlegell's explorations of a dystopian future.

Some people say its reminds them of a dystopian Christmas, others notice that the exhibition shows that «there is nothing more permanent in the world then the temporary things».

The most traditional artist on the list is Paul Noble, who for the past 15 years has been producing drawings of a dystopian, fictional city «Nobson's Newtown».

Following Gucci's AW18 Milan Fashion Week show, the brand has faced criticisms for accessorizing white models with hijabs and Sikh turbans under the overarching theme of dystopian abnormality.

The piece has the slickness of a dystopian IKEA catalog spread and recalls Josh Kline by way of Jeff Wall and Rodney Graham.

His work is currently being exhibited in London's prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the science fiction - themed exhibition Memory Palace based upon author Hari Kunzru's futuristic vision of a dystopian London, and next on his agenda is a solo exhibition entitled Controlled Spaces in Portland's Breeze Block Gallery in their main space, alongside UK - based Carl Cashman in Gallery 2.

His works often allude to the sporadic failures of dystopian urban experience, especially our often improvised and convoluted efforts to repair and maintain infrastructure.

«Back to the Garden,» a piece by Richard Prince, part of a series of dystopian works called «Canal Zone.»

Leonhardt's gradient chromatic sweeps have the fervor of a deep autumnal shade or the bleakness of a Dystopian future.

Their forms are often visible in the artist's portrait - format character studies, to anyone with an overactive imagination or a doyenne of dystopian science fiction.

Historical works by Hans Haacke, Robert Breer, Otto Piene, and Gianni Colombo, amongst others, are displayed alongside reconstructions of lost works and realizations of dystopian mechanical devices invented by figures like Franz Kafka.

The show features a recent body of work that represents a creative shift for MacPhee, known for her use of architectural forms to explore the concept of dystopian realities.

Robyn O'Neil, a Los Angeles — based artist, is known for thoughtful and facile depictions of her dystopian subjects in ambitious drawings that range from intimate to monumental in scale.

For her first solo exhibition in L.A., Cameron - Weir expands the scale of her dystopian sculptures, which fill the sprawling 14,500 - square - foot space with a curved adobe wall affixed with neons, a hydrotherapy tub brimming with white sand, and other works that eerily blend the natural and the artificial.

Hulu begins the second season of the dystopian series The Handmaid's Tale, adapted from the Margaret Atwood novel.

Insistently contemporary, Danilowicz's work nevertheless recalls the geometric abstraction of late modernism, and reflects the fractured psychologies that have arisen in the midst of our dystopian techno - isolation.

«This is not the earth, where things are weighed down»; this exhibition imagines a fictional space, following a long tradition of dystopian art and literature (such as Porpentine Charity Heartscape's novella Psycho Nymph Exile).

Dystopia and anti-utopia are not interchangeable, and as terms describe parallel conditions which emerge from diametrically opposed motives: dystopia describes a deliberately oppressive society, built from its foundations as a structure of tyranny; while anti-utopia describes a more complex circumstance where the conditions for building utopia fail, and the results amount to those of a dystopian society.

Hershman Leeson's work plays with the interface between technology as progress and its status as a harbinger of dystopian futurism.

Novoa's imagery falls somewhere along this binary, between the black and white moralities of the dystopian / anti-utopian impulse; neither decidedly malicious nor benevolent, but altogether counter to a utopian ideal.

EM Going back to technology, science fiction and speculative fiction seem to be enjoying a recent surge in popular interest — to say nothing of the dystopian films and books that have followed disasters like global warming or the rise of Trump.

Rothen works in polaroid, producing photographs that act like a window into an unnamed film - set, an overwhelmingly female world of dystopian road trips and seductive yet haunting domesticity.»

Originally released episodically on smartphones, all five episodes of this dystopian drama are rounded up and lumped into a single experience worthy of a full - featured PS4 edition.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution had Letitia, an indigent woman on the streets of a dystopian sci - fi future Detroit who somehow sounded like she came off the set of cheesy 1970s cop drama Starsky & Hutch.

It takes place in 2065, in a sort of dystopian world affected by climate change and new technologies.

Launching this summer on Kartridge, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Steam, Speed Brawl throws players into a balletic symphony of lightning - quick combat through the dank locales of a dystopian London in an all - out bloodsport.

As bonus features, Anna mentions her novelization of The Dystopian Universe for Indie Boards & Cards, her upcoming appearance as a featured presenter at Gen Con 50 next week, and what fun she's had expanding tabletop gaming's inclusivity and representation.

Speed Brawl will take you on a flash - grenade explosion of lightning - quick combat through the dank streets of a dystopian London in an all - out bloodsport.

This visionary work of dystopian future manage to captivate the minds of audiences and scare them to the bones, giving nightmares to generations of viewers.

Noir — A dark, grimy city map inspired by futuristic Brooklyn at night, Noir is a classic three - lane map set against a backdrop of a dystopian future, filled with cafes and parks surrounding a brutal downtown warzone.

It should be said, though, that this is still one of the best cyberpunk games I have played in a long time, and the story really does feel like the birth of a dystopian, cyberpunk future.

In another Blindflug title, Cloud Chasers — also coming to Hatch — a father and daughter are climate refugees forced to navigate the harsh desert landscapes of a dystopian future.

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

Later you're joined by an unlikely ally, an old, abandoned robot and it is your mission to guide these unlikely companions out of this dystopian hell hole and into a brighter, more welcoming world by solving puzzles and outsmarting their oppressors.