Sentences with phrase «with dystopian»

«Portugal doesn't have net neutrality, so it ended up with a dystopian cable - style internet» is also a bad argument for other reasons.

As society continues to seek an understanding of the digital age by rational means, Ida Kvetny's work offers a dark alternative: a Surrealist aesthetic united with dystopian visions of the modern world.

Yet his is not emptiness refined into chic minimalism, but instead a sparseness that commands the space and speaks with dystopian pathos about the human condition in our present moment.

Pierre Huyghe nearly stole the show at the last Documenta with the dystopian, outdoor installation that culminated (if that's even the right word) with the visitor coming upon a large, figurative sculpture of a reclining, nude woman whose head was alive with a swarm of bees.

As can happen with dystopian narratives, Future St. felt weirdly prescient, especially since Segade began to develop his story about a version of despotic gay nationalism (or regionalism, in this case) before the alt - right rose to its current prominence and Milo Yiannopolous became a sensation.

Lipton claims not to have been influenced by any particular artists group, but his exploration of man's «inner reality» mimics the discoveries of the Surrealists, while his fascination with the dystopian relationship between man, nature and machine is consistent with much of modernist art after 1918.

Some artists offer optimistic, utopian angles, others look at the present - future with a dystopian pessimism, and many offer a blurry hybrid.

Together, they create a melting pot of different time zones, mixing utopian promises from the past with dystopian fantasies, and glimpses of potential new futures,» says Joa Ljungberg, curator of the exhibition.

Friday night, things get weirder with a dystopian video game from Jeremy Couillard at yours mine & ours, artwork lost in translation at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and a late - night performance from Actually Huizenga and one - time - AFC - contributor SSION (video above).

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

Lords of the Fallen's Deck13 is back, this time with a dystopian sci - fi tale in The Surge.

Does the next studio have to make a game that stays with the dystopian themes of the previous BioShock games?

Introduction Seven: The Days Long Gone has managed to impress me with its dystopian sandbox structure and stealth gameplay mechanics.

Each location is hyper - stylized with the dystopian 60's futuristic look The New Order established, and it's never been shown better.

Seven: The Days Long Gone has managed to impress me with its dystopian sandbox structure and stealth gameplay mechanics.

23 Science Books That Are So Exciting They Read Like Genre Fiction by Annalee Newitz (great material for all writers with a dystopian bend)

I'm a very big fan of Ayoade's feature directorial debut Submarine (watch it on Netflix), and happily dived headfirst into his second feature, The Double, based on an 1846 Dostoevsky novella with a dystopian plot involving a worker whose entire life is thrown into disarray when his doppleganger shows up.

«Fahrenheit 451»: Michael B. Jordan stars on this movie — in line with the dystopian drama of the similar title by way of Ray Bradbury — a couple of long run the place books are banned and ordered to be burned.

Working through the neophyte filmmaker's genre playbook, director Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her vampire movie A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night with this dystopian flick most reminiscent of the Australian strain in terms of vibe / aesthetics, what with its shantytown sets, symbolic names, and obligatory feral child.

With the dystopian plot and strong, conflicted central heroine, it's hard not to compare «Divergent» to «The Hunger Games.»

Now we're dealing with a dystopian society on the order of Fritz Lang's Metropolis the rich bask in the sunshine and shiny splendor of the United Federation, the proletariats lockstep their way through the acrid murk of the overpopulated Colony.

Hulu's television adaption of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has struck a chord, inspiring new dialogue and even protests with its dystopian depiction of womanhood under theocratic rule.

Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.

And though Akira seems like an even darker story, with its dystopian techno - horror themes and grand - scale action, Waititi has proved that he knows how to dig for the humanity of movies big and small.

I love the whole idea of the purist Western, and if you combine that with a dystopian future, it's really incredible, because it's quite masculine, and it's beautifully masculine.

Zoo is expertly made and fits the current fascination with dystopian what - if scenarios, but it's basic.

Blomkamp is back at the helm with the dystopian Elysium, due in theaters Aug. 9.

«I must disagree with these dystopian views,» he wrote.

Not exact matches

But the dystopian policing doesn't stop there: Intellifusion is now teaming up with social media platforms WeChat and Sina Weibo and local phone carriers to text jaywalkers the moment they offend.

Although this is more to do with the lack of middle ground in modern politics, it's clear he believes Netflix and Channel 4 were poles apart in their approach to the latest series of his dystopian tech drama.

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.

Spielberg's adaptation of the popular dystopian story from Ernest Cline fell to second with $ 25.1 million, while the new Universal Pictures comedy «Blockers» opened in third place.

Hulu's breakout dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale followed its winning ways at the 2017 Emmys by once again winning for Best TV Drama, with Elisabeth Moss also being named the best actress in a TV drama for the popular Margaret Atwood adaptation that became the streaming service's first bonafide hit when it debuted over the summer.

You might find this dystopian, or you might learn to live with it.

In an episode of the dystopian British miniseries Black Mirror, a woman has her mind replicated as an artificial intelligence program charged with controlling her smarthome.

The second season moves away slightly from the pure shock value of Gilead's dystopian horrors, but that real estate is occupied now by a battle with despair.

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

The best dystopian literature takes the status quo and gives it a little twist, or a little ratchet up, and provides a world that is internally consistent with this twist.

I read the book (along with her other awesome dystopian work, Oryx...

The Matrix plot may be dystopian fantasy, but University of Washington researchers have taken a first step in showing how humans can interact with virtual realities via direct brain stimulation.

The latest dystopian prophecy arrives Friday with the release of Ghost in the Shell, one of a few major releases this year to feature AI prominently in its plot.

When a team of Chinese scientists announced last spring that they had edited the genes of human embryos using the powerful new gene editing technology known as CRISPR / Cas9, the world suddenly discovered that the dystopian possibility of «designer babies» was no longer an unrealistic fantasy, but rather a technically achievable possibility that must be reckoned with.

By the time the platform formally launched on Thursday in Houston, the test kits had sold out, meaning there are thousands of people somewhere in Texas so fed up with Tinder they decided to take part in this fodder for a B - rate dystopian movie.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Peter Join the Revolution.

I highly recommend giving Sonny a try if you're into action - packed turn - based combat RPGs that are filled with zombies and dystopian worlds.

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.

After Danny Boyle filmed an adaptation of the book (released in 2000), Garland transitioned into screenwriting, with a proclivity for dystopian science fiction.

Yet another dystopian vision with Steven Spielberg's brand name affixed to it (as executive producer), this time as a cheap - looking but occasionally intriguing sci - fi social study called Falling Skies.

It's a story with eerie echoes of science - fiction novels like J.G. Ballard's «The Crystal World» and Stephen King's «Under the Dome,» though I confess that an early shot of a meteor crashing into a lighthouse put me briefly in mind of a dystopian Nicholas Sparks.

With The Hunger Games» dystopian view of the future of North America, we recap Hollywood's best to worst visions of corrupt governments, sinister medical programs, and hellish landscapes.