You've written in one of your essays on the dystopia that every dystopia contains — — a little utopia, and every utopia contains a little dystopia.
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I honestly worry much more about the VR-dystopia than the AI-dystopia.
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The Hunger Games became a runaway hit and is a dystopia, so Divergent is a dystopia.
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It was a competent dystopia, and we are clearly moving towards a much less competent dystopia.
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Life in a dystopia may be repetitive, but a TV drama about life in a dystopia can only thrive on this chaotic brand of monotony for so long.
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The word "dystopia," meaning "an unhappy country," was coined in the seventeen-forties, as the historian Gregory Claeys points out in a shrewd new study, "Dystopia: A Natural History" (Oxford).
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By the time Blade Runner 2049 picks up, the world's become a full-on dystopia By the time Blade Runner 2049 picks up, the world's become a full-on dystopia.
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Fame and Fortune," and the new tales rub shoulders with well-loved classics like the sex-numbed dystopia of "Welcome to the Monkey House" and the artificial intelligence-driven dystopia "EPICAC.
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Elsewhere, global warming is fodder for a couple of books, one of them fiction ("The Wall," a climate dystopia) and one of them non ("The Uninhabitable Earth," also a climate dystopia).
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It's either dystopia or utopia, depending on one's bank account.
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It's your dystopia' so dress to kill… or be killed!
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But sometimes our current reality is a more interesting dystopia.
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Are we living in a Minority Report type of dystopia?
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You'll probably love it because it gives you a dystopia.
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That dystopia is not here yet — at least, not today.
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Could you handle being the heroine in a YA dystopia?
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The line between utopia and dystopia can be disturbingly thin.
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Dystopia is a pretty frequent topic in popular science fiction.
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The Darkest MindsMeet the newest interchangeable YA dystopia film franchise.
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Let's hope that Mexico doesn't become yet another socialist dystopia.
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A utopia is a paradise, a dystopia a paradise lost.
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Surveillance dystopia is not inevitable, but we must act now.
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Which Margaret Atwood dystopia do you want to live in?
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Transported from the miniature dystopia, we received some transient reprieve.
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Whose utopian ideal was powerful enough to create this dystopia?
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James Macdonald directs this contained dystopia for Manhattan Theater Club.
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Some critics see the technology as a harbinger of dystopia.
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It had been ten years of this wilderness, this dystopia.
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Postmodernism didn't set us on our path toward information dystopia.
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This story appears in VICE magazine's Dystopia and Utopia Issue.
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And in this dystopia, Trump offered himself as the savior.
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Probably Samsung would be less interested in the dystopia store.
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The difference between utopia and dystopia isn't how well everything runs.
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The difference between utopia and dystopia isn't how well everything runs.
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We see a lot of parent-child love stories in dystopia.
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At first glance, you might call that world a cyberpunk dystopia.
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The novel is a fictional dystopia about the destruction of privacy.
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Yet the country has not turned into a grey socialist dystopia.
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I feel like the dystopia in Uglies was really well run.
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What started as an experiment had slid into an abusive dystopia.
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Thankfully, it's just $60, so it's a cheap dystopia at least.
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It's an administrative dystopia that's flavored strongly by Orwell and Huxley.
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Some of which sound straight out of a science fiction dystopia.
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Sen. John McCain saw shades of dystopia during a hearing Wednesday.
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Whatever. Daily Dystopia is a semi-regular investigation of late capitalism.
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The Dystopia has felt like it's been pending for a while.
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Once again, our laws lag behind as we hurtle toward dystopia.
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Naming your new album "Dystopia" says a lot in one word.
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What message are you trying to put out there with Dystopia?
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The theme of dystopia is frequently used to describe your work.
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Absent such a movement we may not join China in dystopia.
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An authoritarian state imposes brutal forms of social control. Ugh. Dystopia.
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Others accuse Google of wanting to maintain an ad-tracking dystopia.
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They live in a futuristic utopia (or is it a dystopia?).
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That one group's utopia is another's dystopia suggests an intractable challenge.
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It was, or seemed to be, both utopia and dystopia simultaneously.
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Technology in Osmosis doesn't create a dystopia or a utopia in itself.
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In China, by contrast, the monitoring could result in a digital dystopia.
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To many in the technology industry, America under Donald Trump means dystopia.
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In 2020, are we closer to the dystopia you describe in Uglies ?
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Their contrasting strategies say a lot about what makes a dystopia work.
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Well, without the Wild West, we're left with just the corporate dystopia.
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I think that consumerism, basically what it is is a cute dystopia.
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Our dystopia looks more like a Taco Bell than a concentration camp.
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Cold-dystopia futures have gone through several eras, and several specific inspirations.
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CO: Which is why our publisher says it's a post-dystopia affair!
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Americans weren't living in a digital dystopia before the FCC seized power.
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Either way, the night-shrouded dystopia of Los Angeles still looks amazing.
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But they tell two different tales of dystopia, and with varying success.
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I was honestly surprised that Dystopia didn't make the ballot this year.
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Good. Not allowed: Alien invasions, medical dramas, doomsday dystopia, and the like.
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Huxley believed that his version of dystopia was the more plausible one.
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"For me the show wasn't even so much about dystopia," he says.
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We're firmly into the dystopia now, which means we aren't going back.
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To a certain extent, Trump's dystopia is comfort — of a different sort.
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We're living in a "soft dystopia" now, he writes, but when/if the Antarctic ice sheet becomes unmoored and the world's major cities are flooded, this will become a "hard dystopia" as people scramble for resources around the globe.
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But the only difference between a utopia and a dystopia is the storyteller.
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Now you can embrace our country's crumbling dystopia the Lil Nas X way.
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Blade Runner imagines the America of 2019 to be a damp, depressing dystopia.
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I guess I'm failing to see why this cyber dystopia scenario remains unlikely.
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Where does the film then fall on the spectrum of utopia and dystopia?
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Sure, things are bad, but it's not like we've gone full dystopia yet.
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"We're hoping that message shines through beyond the story being a timely dystopia."
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It's safe to say that since November, dystopia has been in the air.
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The time: the future, of course — this is a dystopia we're talking about.
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Other entries that I enjoyed included ESPNU, EQUUS, RAGWEED, SPUNK, DYSTOPIA and OUTIES.
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Only doom, dystopia, dread, darkness — and a bumper-sticker solution to restoring greatness.
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The next step in this ever-evolving dystopia may be something much bigger.
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If it sounds as if we're living in a dystopia, trust your instincts.
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The dystopia was the pre-revolution world, ruled by fascist-like big business.
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Which brings us back to the notion of America as a nightmarish dystopia.
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Yes, this late capitalist dystopia is very far from Thatcher's 'property owning democracy.
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On the front it said utopia, and on the back it said dystopia.
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He ran caravan ads, the full Trumpian dystopia, but it couldn't save him.
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"Dystopia can look pretty beautiful in the world," Nolan said, according to Deadline.
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We wanted to find a version of dystopia that we hadn't seen before.
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The Trump administration has just brought us one step closer to that dystopia.
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As with all wonderlands, though, there's a fine line between fantasy and dystopia.
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The report is academic research, not a Sears catalog for the cyberpunk dystopia.
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Not even Orwell, after a feast of psilocybin, could have predicted this dystopia.
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"It is not wallowing in dystopia," Mr. Pizzolo said in a phone interview.
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These ideas about defeating death and living indefinitely long lives, that's a dystopia.
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It would usher a dystopia for others, providing a new form of textual panopticon.
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Condie's novel Matched came out just as the great YA dystopia boom was cresting.
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Elvia Wilk combines satire, dystopia, sci-fi, and millennial ennui all in one book.
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Overall you're pretty much guaranteed a healthy helping of tech-caused dystopia, of course.
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A record with a complex core narrative, weaving together false gods, dystopia, and apocalypse.
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Is The Handmaid's Tale pure fiction, or is the dystopia not too far off?
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A pandemic that's sparked an abortion rights dystopia and legit discussion of genetic warfare?
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Perhaps, but it is to the artist's credit that this dystopia remains resolutely uncomfortable.
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But us dunderheaded fight fans need not worry about the prospect of impending dystopia.
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It's more of a straight-ahead dystopia than a meditation on consciousness and memory.
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The tech world moves so quickly that dystopia can arrive without us realizing it.
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Even in the dystopia you paint, he needs to be a believable candidate, right?
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Films such as "A Clockwork Orange" turned Brutalist masterpieces into symbols of future dystopia.
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As a potential customer, why forego a sophisticated technology just to stave off dystopia?
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Set in a sci-fi dystopia, the world of "Borderlands" is, quite frankly, nuts.
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A gelatin-like food of the future created as part of Klint's Dystopia series.
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So we are left trying to create a utopia inside of a giant dystopia.
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It's about the only thing that remains, because that 1984 dystopia is so pervasive.
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James just gets something about contemporary culture and utopia/dystopia dialectics that I appreciate.
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A dystopia is an imagined, horrific place where people's humanity is replaced by fear.
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We also have dystopia and prison violence and government dysfunction and grand theft dinosaur.
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As such, Australians who have not traveled America view it as a pornographic dystopia.
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To be sure, Ooo, where Finn and his pals live, isn't a traditional dystopia.
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San Francisco's radical left wing government has turned their city into an American Dystopia.
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There's something about this middle ground between utopia and dystopia that really moves me.
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The dystopia survived the apocalypse, nobody can get their head around it—too bad!
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GUTFELD: What she is, though, is she&aposs the master queen of a majestic dystopia.
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Are you drawing a line between the gig economy and the post-biological dystopia then?
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The show reveals our reliance on technology, showing how quickly we could slip into dystopia.
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Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's eerily resonant dystopia was a pure powerhouse of dramatic television.
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The chaotic world of Children of Men is the ideal dystopia for Theo's complacent masculinity.
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Dystopia is easy for us to imagine, as humans are hard-wired for loss aversion.
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So why watch this damn thing if it's just dystopia porn for the Trump era?
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What results is less a dystopia than a cutting send up of the promised utopia.
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The other side: These dark futures were balanced by experts saying dystopia is not inevitable.
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Fast forward two years and we've progressed to a political dystopia beyond our wildest dreams.
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Do you see those worlds as a dystopia or a paradise, or something in between?
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And yet as a stealth portrait of the dystopia of 2019, it's not half bad.
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If you're writing a YA dystopia, these are the qualities your central character must have.
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I'm really excited about this dystopia, I just want to keep doing what we're doing.
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Dalcher's Vox is half really successful feminist dystopia and half kind-of-disappointing pulp novel.
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In this new Keynesian dystopia, growth and inflation are deemed as one and the same.
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But still — this reads like a line from science fiction book about a farcical dystopia.
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The most bleak thing is that it considers itself to be complicit in that dystopia.
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If there was ever a real-life workplace dystopia, it is the modern call center.
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We lie there for a long time, contemplating Lang's quaint dystopia as it silently unravels.
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It may sound outlandish, but this dystopia is increasingly what stockmarket investors are banking on.
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Killing, Peace, Rust, Countdown, Dystopia, I think those are probably my top 5 favorite records.
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Its dystopia is perfectly plausible, a deft rendition of the problems panting against our present.
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But as I point out, some people's dystopia is other people's utopia, and vice versa.
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Is it wise to dream about utopia while living in the dystopia of the present?
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Anthology Film Archives has put together a scorching bill of movies about dissent and dystopia.
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As Smokey Bear might say of our smoldering online discourse: Only you can prevent dystopia!
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I really appreciate how the writers want this dystopia to feel unfamiliar to everyone watching.
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City of Caterpillar took the stage of Double Entendre and turned it into a dystopia.
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It's a kind of recognition, finally, of having lived in a dystopia for a long time.
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As Russia transitions into an internet dystopia, it appears that Snapchat has been dragged right in.
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It&aposs going to be dystopia if the president gets to appoint another Supreme Court justice.
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After Dystopia is released Friday, the iconic band will have 15 studio albums to its name.
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State media lambasted Canada's human-rights record; social media portrayed Canada as a drug-addled dystopia.
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The dystopia predicted in the late 2010s, of widespread technological unemployment, has not come to pass.
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Altered Carbon trades thoughtful writing and design for a blinkered focus on polemic and prefab dystopia.
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Super Bowl viewers are about to get a very timely glimpse at life in a dystopia.
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This reversal wasn't necessary to solve any problem; we were not living in a digital dystopia.
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By 2034, drugs will no doubt be the hot investment opportunity in a post-capitalist dystopia.
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But if our future really is a robot dystopia, at least there will be ping pong.
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"This is not a dystopia, it's wreckage," the speaker, a single mother living in Florida, proclaims.
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Nobody, it turned out, actually wanted to live on the set of a retro-futuristic dystopia.
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On the right, however, you increasingly find prominent figures describing our society as a nightmarish dystopia.
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For his series Dystopia, Fernando Montiel Klint created his own sci-fi vision of the future.
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In "Scribe," a slim and dense novel about an American dystopia, Alyson Hagy gives us both.
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With Alphaville (1965), Jean-Luc Godard turned contemporary Paris into a dystopia just by filming it.
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There are, in other words, multiple models to creating what others see as an urban dystopia.
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I thought, I grew up in a dystopia—will I have to die in one, too?
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This sound installation by the Irish playwright Enda Walsh closes the door on its intimate dystopia.
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The exhibition creates an immersive, multi-sensory experience that explores the juxtaposition of utopia and dystopia.
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The potential for something like a dystopia is very real, however, and I understand that too.
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Described this way, America's economy has become a capitalist dystopia; a system of extraction by entrenched giants.
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A true dystopia exaggerates a trait in our own society, taking it to its worst possible extreme.
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But what the best part isn't all the cool dystopia stuff—it's how the wasteland was made.
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Watching this film, you literally start to wonder if history has been warped toward a sickening dystopia.
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Dystopia also marks Megadeth's first foray into the VR realm, although innovation has always been a priority.
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Performances of five Dystopia tracks have been translated to VR experiences that'll be released alongside the album.
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There are enough unique and terrible horrors in the world to offer everyone their perfect, personal dystopia.
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And then there's the whole VR dystopia that it envisions opening up over the next few decades.
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Osmosis features a group who thinks the Osmosis tech will envelop users in a Black Mirror dystopia.
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The magic is in both the inherent cuteness of the scene, and the dystopia of it, too.
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The surveillance dystopia is on the horizon, and companies like Microsoft and Amazon are helping build it.
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If you love reading about hopeful technologists building our future utopia/dystopia, check out Wired's latest story.
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From the depths of our fake news Trump dystopia rises an old and welcome hero: Murphy Brown.
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"We have one of the building blocks of a cyberpunk dystopia materializing before our eyes," wrote blookies.
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The key to avoiding a Black Mirror dystopia lies not in rejecting technology, but in embracing humanity.
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The world of online advertising remains split: there's the Wild West and then there's the corporate dystopia.
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Set in the very near future, Hulu's new adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale subtly updates Atwood's dystopia.
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His voice rises as he paints a portrait of the United States as a crime-ridden dystopia.
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Does this mean that Glitch City isn't necessarily dystopian, or that we're living in a dystopia already?
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Unlike dystopia, tragedy does not need a real-world referent; it can run on its own steam.
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Pervasive facial recognition surveillance is not just something out of a sci-fi dystopia: It's already here.
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Maureen Dowd CLEVELAND — LIKE any masterly comic book villain, Donald Trump is reveling in conjuring a dystopia.
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Here's how one manages to write a dystopia in the age of Trump that resonates beyond it.
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Little in these dynamics suggests a high-tech utopia — or dystopia, for that matter — in the offing.
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From the point of the people in that brave new world, the previous arrangement is the dystopia.
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With "1984" recently closed and "A Clockwork Orange" up and running, it's been a season of dystopia.
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Her 40-odd novels, traced over the past 50-odd years, mark an increasing tendency toward dystopia.
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"Their present emptiness, a public health necessity, can conjure up dystopia," writes Michael Kimmelman, our architecture critic.
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Bina Shah is an essayist and novelist whose latest book is "Before She Sleeps," a feminist dystopia.
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"In television dramas like 'The Walking Dead,' dystopia seems to be this constant theme," Mr. Benedetto said.
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" Mr. Harari, thinking about all this, puts it this way: "Utopia and dystopia depends on your values.
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In calling it a dystopia, we've accepted that The Circle is already some vision of some future.
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Is the price of reclaiming one's identity in such a dystopia worth the violent punishment that follows?
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But they're almost certainly just as scared as you are about the climate dystopia on the horizon.
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Or they can be the fist-pumping construction crew for a Trump dystopia — muscle for a menace.
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America will become Hillary's dystopia, the ideological and the incompetent leading the unwilling to do the undesirable.
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Spielberg's upcoming film, "Ready Player One," depicts a future dystopia where many retreat into a virtual world.
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You can catch him this weekend at Dystopia Festival in Belgium and Abode at Sanseis in Ibiza.
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But is that an improvement, or is it a mind-control dystopia à la Brave New World?
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But even as Orwell's dystopia has failed to materialize, Huxley's dystopia has: We are buried under ignorance disguised as information, confused by entertainment masquerading as news, distracted by a dizzying procession of lies and outrages and ginned-up controversies, inured to misbehavior and corruption that would've consumed past administrations.
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In the dark dystopia that is Trump's media bubble, Downey's random musings exuded a welcome ray of light.
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When constructing a dystopia, it takes some doing to be both Orwellian and Huxleyan at the same time.
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And there's Glass Gardens (1982), a graphite-on-paper vision of a woman wandering a post-consumerist dystopia.
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The Handmaid's Tale depicts a totalitarian dystopia in which women are raped, tortured, and stripped of all rights.
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It's his most significant self-awarded award to date, and this is only Season 1 of our dystopia.
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Just because a narrative is dystopian doesn't make it Orwellian, or like any other dystopia for that matter.
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Wide shots in Handmaid's have a painterly beauty that serves to highlight the grotesque order of this dystopia.
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Every utopia is also a dystopia if you look at it from the right angle, and vice versa.
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For many, this "dystopia" has existed long before a man named Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office.
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A preview of an industrialized dystopia that's decided humans aren't even efficient enough to play their own sports!
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I was positing near-future here, and even for an optimistic story, I couldn't quite shake off dystopia.
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Monáe draws her take on the social dynamics of Metropolis from Aldous Huxley's famous dystopia Brave New World.
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The Darkest Minds, written in 2012, is the latest YA dystopia series to get a big-screen adaptation.
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Indeed it is the merciless sorting by technical criteria that makes the world of "Player Piano" a dystopia.
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The tomorrow of Cleverman is much like today — which means the dystopia for marginalized people has simply continued.
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But instead the show took the Zombie Express to dystopia, creating another series with wandering characters behaving inexplicably.
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When Margaret Atwood first wrote Handmaid's, she famously decided that nothing in her dystopia would be pure fiction.
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The aesthetics of this glammed-out dystopia are pure bombast — a sensibility that's been replicated many times since.
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The rendering of such a misogynistic dystopia surely lends itself rather easily to discussions of contemporary feminism, right?
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The connection between Nineteen Eighty-Four and World War II makes it the wrong dystopia for our times.
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These are questions we pose in our Dystopia and Utopia Issue, though there's no right or wrong answer.
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They feel Valhalla is more about coping with living inside a dystopia rather than trying to change one.
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To add to its myriad sins, The Mandibles fails to imagine a convincing near future for its dystopia.
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The episode knows that in the very near future, all sorts of factors will lead us into dystopia.
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Would a silent dystopia, with its heightened sounds and visceral squirms, have made for a more haunting effect?
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This means that for people with addiction, the post-virus world could possibly be more utopia than dystopia.
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Robert Schenkkan's "Building the Wall" imagined President Trump's presiding over a near-term dystopia of immigrant concentration camps.
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Is it also kind of depressing that people are seeing echoes of your fictional dystopia in contemporary politics?
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Bourdain elaborated that the market should bring to mind "Blade Runner"—high-end retail as grungy, polyglot dystopia.
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This glossy dystopia runs according to a formula, an infinite string of code — a unified theory of everything.
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A commercial dystopia can be averted only by private resistance and principled decisions by the leaders of institutions.
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A government shutdown is not the terrifying dystopia that many in the media are making it sound like.
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Eastern Aleppo may not have been Raqqa, where ISIS advertised its rigid Islamist dystopia and its mass beheadings.
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American social networks have fueled genocide in Myanmar, an authoritarian dystopia in the Philippines, and lynchings in India.
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He captures the dystopia of making art in the face of armed conflict, as he experienced in Urfa.
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The association with Her makes this fun and quirky spot feel like just the beginning of an existential dystopia.
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But dystopia actually sells pretty well now, though it doesn't sell anywhere near as well as just complete fantasy.
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We could call it "pre-dystopia" or something like that, though I'd rather leave the labeling to the critics.
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The outbreak of the Zika virus sweeping the Americas has all the fixings of a dystopia in the making.
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There's more fresh blood — Lamb of God's drummer Chris Adler sat behind the kit for the recording of Dystopia.
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A world awash in AI-generated content is a classic case of a utopia that is also a dystopia.
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Apple is adding customized, animated emojis of your own face because the future is a dystopia masquerading as progress.
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Today, I was supposed to write about the sexist, fascist dystopia that is the final season of The Strain.
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Does the reality-show dystopia of Fifteen Million Merits come before or after the social media hellscape of Nosedive?
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We're all going through kind of a hard time right now, because of, like, our fully realized tech dystopia?
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It assumes the world won't fall into a dystopia and therefore is optimistic about our chances for human success.
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The technique took the concept of creating DIY kink content and cranked the dystopia level clean off the dial.
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The closest Adonis gets to suggesting an alternative to his monotheistic dystopia is at the beginning of the poem.
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Within the past year, we've seen the publication of multiple books that fall under the genre of feminist dystopia.
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Amidst the darkened post-USA-not-qualifying-for-the-World-Cup dystopia, there is a light in the world.
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This is not dystopia, this is not fear-mongering; this was the reality for women just a generation ago.
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In its vision of a corporate dystopia, "Incorporated" builds on earlier shows that positioned powerful businesses as puppet masters.
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His walkaways are trying to turn a dystopia into a utopia by writing better computer code than their enemies.
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I think that Dystopia would have been dropped in after Countdown To Extinction, it's a full-on natural progression.
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Barb Wire takes place in the dystopia of—believe it or not—2017, during the Second American Civil War.
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Protagonist Henry (Jack Nance) is reluctantly settling into life as a family man, caught in his own personal dystopia.
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Russell T Davies's near-future dystopia, like the reality it builds on, can be too overwhelming to connect with.
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She drew a picture of an America that often resembled the fictional dystopia of Gilead in A Handmaid's Tale.
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The machine dystopia is at interesting odds with life in Copenhagen, where everything is digitized and runs like clockwork.
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The human age will be no Eden or dystopia, but an everlasting struggle among different people seeking different futures.
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To my mind, the central question of "Gather the Daughters" is this: Does the island represent dystopia or utopia?
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On these songs, the technological dystopia is breaking down, although it's unclear whether that's something to fear or celebrate.
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Waters's subjects have always been the signifiers and manners of American class, and Mortville is a uniquely American dystopia.
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When "The Handmaid's Tale" was published, in 23, some reviewers found Atwood's dystopia to be poetically rich but implausible.
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Critic's Notebook The dystopia described in George Orwell's nearly 25-year-old novel "1984" suddenly feels all too familiar.
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This gentle optimism, this refusal to descend into dystopia, is what is most surprising about Hamid's imaginative, inventive novel.
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Anthology Film Archives has put together a scorching bill of movies, showing Friday through Tuesday, about dissent and dystopia.
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Essay Maybe because we're living in a dystopia, it feels as if we've become obsessed with prophecy of late.
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"The utopia of our parents is the dystopia of our age," a Harvard student said, summarizing the general distemper.
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Homefront: The Revolution, a new first person shooter being published by Deep Silver, imagines exactly that kind of dystopia.
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I'm eating up every ounce of "this is how a dystopia is created" world-building that's happening this season.
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The weekend parties, which often spill into Monday morning, can be a dystopia and a utopia at the same time.
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Will you construct an efficient interstate for the endless traffic of colorful cars, or trap them in a gridlocked dystopia?
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Because technology likes to remind us that this is a dystopia, Twitter is promoting baseless conspiracy theories about the packages.
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You've mentioned the "unforgiving" world they live in — how did you come up with the world of this specific dystopia?
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Michonne is iconic: the almost-samurai with the locs swinging as she slices and dices her way through a dystopia.
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But as history and literature have taught us, one person's utopia is another's dystopia, and The Jetsons is no exception.
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We've had about 10 years of a lot of teen dystopia, and I didn't want to write another dystopian novel.
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Until now, The Handmaid's Tale has offered up a retro dystopia, with a world so small you can hardly breathe.
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The report also notes that 2017 television tended towards dystopia, which meant that the abortion storylines took on horrific implications.
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But in the twisted capitalist dystopia we live in, rich people are often the beneficiaries of the sweetest free goods.
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Though it was originally released 91 years ago, Lang's early stab at a silver screen dystopia still feels amazingly fresh.
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So rest assured that whatever dystopia does befall us, there'll be Huawei products and services ready to capitalize on it.
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Each of the film's five vignettes portrays a dystopia in which China, explicitly or covertly, has taken control much sooner.
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In Normal, futurists aren't just detoxing from their jobs—they're recovering from the dystopia of their over-reliance on technology.
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The future is now... on Kickstarter Josan Gonzalez's future is the kind of dystopia you want to hang out in.
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And their new album, Infrared Horizon, issues a forewarning to the dystopia that awaits should humanity continue its current trend.
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I last wrote about my sobriety in February; life seemed tolerable then, as we weren't yet living in a dystopia.
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Since 2011, Charlie Brooker has produced the digital dystopia "Black Mirror," but his fourth season, on Netflix, is atypically spotty.
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In this dystopia, the father and daughter - dressed as a boy - fear discovery and plan escape routes wherever they stop.
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More questions illuminate the senses: Has Edelson framed a utopia at its end or a dystopia in its dawning moments?
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Both climate change and inequality were "two key issues" that would drive us to either utopia or dystopia, Lagarde stated.
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Atwood's Gilead is a dystopia written in the '80s for the age of the Moral Majority and feminist sex wars.
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As author Patrick Tomlinson noted on Twitter, it really shouldn't surprise us if teens are following the YA dystopia playbook.
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Shriver's dystopia is imagined as minutely as a pointillist image, with every detail adding another dot to the overall picture.
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Wade for the most part like normal citizens of a normal democratic state, not as dissidents within a murderous dystopia.
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Okay: In 1955 it published "The Crooked Man" by Charles Beaumont, a story about a dystopia where heterosexuality was taboo.
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When the big players don't consider nature and future generations, it's very difficult to imagine anything other than a dystopia.
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But what you might not realize is that the Dystopia has already arrived and it's a soccer stadium in Serbia.
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His illustrations offer a deep-dive into the dark streets of a Tokyo dystopia filled with bikers, katanas, and dragons.
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Otherwise, only the very rich will own robotics and AI companies, leaving the rest of us in a jobless dystopia.
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Johannes Leiacker's set is a plain courtroom; the dystopia seems to have doomed everyone to identical suits and cocktail dresses.
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The Big Apple's dystopia of 1977 was also flavored by racial squabbles, a nasty mayoral election and excessive financial woes.
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It's an absurd, laugh-out-loud funny critique of (and antidote to) the dystopia that is late-stage capitalism. —A.
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He's in the right place: in this hackneyed, Tarantino-esque dystopia, everyone seems to be intent on killing everyone else.
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Future historians — assuming that any such creatures exist — will surely identify the present moment as a golden age of dystopia.
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He'd prefer a dystopia on the Pacific, largely because he lost the Golden State by more than four million votes.
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It is the opposite of Trump's dark diorama of carnage and dystopia — but just as false a picture of America.
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ZUCKED Waking Up to the Facebook CatastropheBy Roger McNamee The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in "1984" wasn't a prediction.
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Tamara Henderson's sculpture "The Scarecrow's Holiday" (2015) confronted me with a sense of dystopia the moment I entered Vancouver Special.
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This week, emoji chocolate, museums and toxic money, Eli Valley on drawing dystopia, bingeing on Game of Thrones, and more.
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The game explores themes of morality, dystopia, immigration, and more, and went on to be a critical darling back in 2013.
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Any dystopia that's realistically based—that is this planet, not a galaxy far far away in another time—they're all blueprints.
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What they excel at, however, is acting as harbingers of the omni-present surveillance dystopia experts have long sounded alarms about.
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You could argue that the social dystopia of the late 2010s is fueled by a general rejection of a collective humanity.
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Blood Drive is set in a near-future dystopia, but Elvis' corpse hints at how much it's steeped in decaying nostalgia.
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Years and Years is a sometimes sweet, sometimes schlock family drama injected with increasing levels of full-blown sci-fi dystopia.
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This is a crucial part of Monáe's dystopia: It seems to perpetually feed off its mini rebellions, which are necessarily brief.
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The Dystopia Project is Mashable's ongoing book series reflecting on what dystopian fiction has to tell us under a Trump administration.
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Even while barely surviving the extremely violent dystopia of The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen has time to ponder a love triangle.
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Stories from China's dystopia, not to mention recent troubles at India's national Aadhaar identity service, might seem to reinforce his point.
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The YouTube star announced Thursday the launch of his first fiction book Children of Eden, which is set in a dystopia.
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In RoboCop's version of the future, Detroit is basically a dystopia, riddled with crime and protected by an underfunded police department.
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Clearly it's just a test of the software, but it the result lends a very different feeling to that singular dystopia.
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There's been a growing movement within the science fiction community to imagine the future as something other than a dreary dystopia.
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But you cannot legislate veracity and reality, or put it up to a vote, and expect any result but a dystopia.
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The Dystopia Project is Mashable's book series looking at what dystopian fiction has to teach us in our new political climate.
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The media and intelligentsia were partly complicit in Trump's depiction of the world as a dystopia headed for even greater disaster.
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VICE caught up with Johnson to talk about Trump and sock hoarding, and to get a tour through his vibrant dystopia.
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We're supposed to believe that while the United States has descended into gendered dystopia, it is also, somehow, a racial utopia?
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When we suspect that we are living in a dystopia characterized by clumsy propaganda, it's the book we buy from Amazon.com.
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This is an alternative vision—an "alt-history" perhaps—of the second half of the twentieth century, not an abstract dystopia.
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It shows just how close to dystopia we truly are, teetering on the edge of a button waiting to be pushed.
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Dystopia has been the new black for a while now, but Mr. Pelsue rings some novel variations on this familiar theme.
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Keanu Reeves plays the messiah for a grim dystopia in the first installment of the Wachowski siblings' modern sci-fi classic.
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What if, as in a Ray Bradbury-esque dystopia, we prefer another reality to our own, and we just ... stay there?
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This award-winning science-fiction novel, published in 1966, paints a picture of a dystopia not too far in the future.
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One would think that if Mr. Trump believed this dystopia existed, he would have a clear and detailed plan for change.
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There's a dissonance in his bleak dystopia and his brash diss-topia as he switches from Dr. Strangelove to Don Rickles.
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There are many types of rap songs, but two of the best are paranoid illuminati dystopia burners and RIP tribute songs.
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If the current political climate hasn't soured your taste for dystopia, the 20-minute sequence of vignettes is a great watch.
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But it also takes baffling creative liberties with the setting, twisting the game's iconic surrealist kingdom into a hyper-realistic dystopia.
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"I've been trying to get out of my house this summer and enjoy our dystopia more," she wrote in an email.
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In any dystopia, the utopian part is the something better, and in a utopia, the dystopian part is the something worse.
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Naturally, I was into some concepts of dystopia and dead-tech around that time; it was a trend, it was fashionable.
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And aside from that early outburst, the Yankees' offense was in a state of dystopia for the rest of the afternoon.
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The scorching summer blasted Parisians off the streets and turned the city into an eerie dystopia of what may lie ahead.
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The thing left out of most dystopian stories is that people still have to get through everyday life in a dystopia.
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The Hard Tomorrow's vision of how that dystopia works (our own, ratcheted up a few more levels) sometimes feels politically iffy.
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To the producers' credit, they didn't whitewash that from the show, namely that its religious dystopia would require scrubbing out Catholicism.
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After his Monday segment on General Suleimani, he introduced a five-part series, "American Dystopia," chronicling urban decay in San Francisco.
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A diplomat friend liked to say two things work superbly in Castro's tropical Orwellian dystopia: political control and the black market.
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I could act like this is some sign that we're living in a broadcast dystopia, but that would be too melodramatic.
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The company's vast headquarters, in Menlo Park, California, might be either the most utopian dystopia or the most dystopian utopia ever.
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After all, any good dystopia needs a significant gap between those who have power and money and those who do not.
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Opinion Columnist In "The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood's ever-resonant tale of misogynist dystopia, Christian fascism has a sordid, perverse underbelly.
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BioShock's EVE is a particularly clever example of this—by centralizing its Randian dystopia around the use of magical psychoactive drugs called Plasmids, the developers behind the game not only grant the player character fun superpowers, such as shooting lightning out of his hands, they also justify murdering the inhabitants of said dystopia with these abilities.
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He has claimed that Democrats want to establish a socialist dystopia in America that would reshape it in the image of Venezuela.
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"Once-witty supermarket tabloid shifts to fabricated palace dissent as propaganda for the regime" is definitely a square on Dystopia Bingo pic.twitter.
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Trapped in hellholes of hyper-niche programming, we will wander this grim media dystopia, like the mindless zombies of The Walking Dead.
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The plot and its soundtrack—a combination of fun-loving party songs and an emotionally-charged score—offered an alternative to dystopia.
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But of all these antidotes to dystopia, the most intriguing is the Punkt MP01, a handset that only offers calling and texting.
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We have today what Winston and Julia of Orwell's dystopia lost, fought so hard to reclaim, and failed to achieve: free speech.
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If you're a VC cut ties from members of your class that actively destroy free speech and rant about the coming dystopia.
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I feel like the most likely scenario is a consumerist dystopia propped up by a whole range of new and widespread addictions.
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There are dystopias that deal straightforwardly and honestly with the fact that America has always been a dystopia for people of color.
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She rides across a rural dystopia Doña Barbara-style, except on an AI horse with an all-seeing consciousness and marksman's aim.
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"We are not living in a digital dystopia," he explained, questioning the motives behind the push toward net neutrality in recent years.
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It was neither coronation nor confirmation, but a reminder of a better time that seems alien and imperceptible in the current dystopia.
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The Dystopia Project is Mashable's ongoing book series reflecting on what dystopian fiction has to teach us under our new political climate.
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"You finished college, you'd walk down the street, you'd go in there and it was like walking into some dystopia," Forbes remembers.
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Like all the best works of dystopian fiction — World War Z, 1984 — it makes the dystopia seem not just plausible, but probable.
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But at least the paintings, in this surreal dystopia, come out alright—as if Bob Ross had painted them peacefully in 1990.
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Rodchenkov reads excerpts from 1984 often in the documentary, but one, about doublethink in Orwell's dystopia, perfectly describes today's quandary in Pyeongchang.
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Including raising the spectre of Black Mirror style dystopia once smartphones can recognize and track moving objects in a scene — and 6d.
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On the other side of the vast badlands of dystopia is something better, something that shares a border with a utopia, maybe.
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Patrick's troubled by the swiftly evolving dystopia typified by this Planet Money episode on China's experiment in giving citizens "social credit scores".
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People recognize that unless we start entertaining some of these more radical solutions, the dystopia of today will remain with us forever.
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Presented via projection, the looped animations critique culture, the military, religion, capitalism, the looming threat of a techno-dystopia, and art itself.
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They would have been better off without it, because Mankind Divided's "mechanical apartheid" is an incredibly abstract and symbolic kind of dystopia.
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In 2008, one journalist called it "reminiscent of an Orwellian dystopia" for its security features, arguing that it encouraged consumerism and cheating.
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"The Darkest Minds" plays like a lightning round in which the goal is to hit as many teenage-dystopia tropes as possible.
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There is a sense that watching a show about a repressive dystopia isn't the best escapism when your political reality feels repressive.
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In that, it has something in common with today's tech dystopia as it attempts to capture more and more of human life.
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As "Years" shades from a how-we-live-now sketch into a futuristic dystopia, there is a confident inevitability to its momentum.
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"In Trump's comments, there is an echo of the logic that drives Margaret Atwood's dystopia The Handmaid's Tale," wrote the New Statesman.
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What you're describing is a dystopia that I don't want to live in and I don't want my daughter to live in.
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And yet the world we live in is both the sort of dystopia Postman feared and worse than anything he dared predict.
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But that's just not going to happen at this stage and Margaret Atwood, the author of the classic 1985 dystopia, knows it.
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That is certainly the case with one of the year's most acclaimed television series, about a dystopia of the not-distant future.
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In his new work, "Almodóvar Dystopia," Mr. Ramos channels the Spanish filmmaker's droll extravagance into an uninhibited escapade for six naked performers.
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But these are small details, and fans will immediately identify the familiar "feminist dystopia," as the book is frequently tagged in academia.
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His reasoning is alarming: Privacy is dead and nothing should halt the march of technological progress — not even the possibility of dystopia.
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Wired called the project "something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia" and Read Write called it "a human science experiment".
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David Foster Wallace, a more recent prophet of dystopia, provided us with another cautionary tale of the rise and fall of "videophony".
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The populist Ms. Le Pen, 48, offered up a forbidding dystopia in urgent need of radical upheaval, much like Mr. Trump did.
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But if you're seeking proof that he was right about our insecure techno-dystopia, all you have to do is look around.
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The music they make locates itself in the spaces between future-shock and techno-optimism, where dystopia and utopia blur into one.
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If you live in a neon-drenched future sci-fi dystopia and you're looking for a workout song, your search is over.
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"The internet wasn't broken in 2015; we were not living in a digital dystopia," Pai said in a statement after the vote.
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It centers on two planets: New Genesis, an arcadian planet ruled by Highfather, and Apokolips, an apocalyptic dystopia ruled by the formidable Darkseid.
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There's a documentary about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a series about teens trapped in a dystopia, and the controversial Zac Efron Ted Bundy movie.
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At his inauguration he didn't celebrate with a positive vision of the country, but instead described a nation on the brink of dystopia.
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It's initially jarring to see someone like Yorke, who's made a career out of singing about dystopia and paranoia this vulnerable and open.
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On Sunday, tens of thousands of unrelenting enemies of the racist surveillance dystopia enveloping America took to Times Square to protest Big Brother.
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Modern NRA ads present America as a dystopia of violent crime and terrorism, urging citizens to arm themselves to keep loved ones safe.
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That's the idea behind the Dystopia Project, which Mashable is launching today — and which we plan to continue for as long as necessary.
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But even when the series falters, it treats us to a story that exemplifies the best of teenage dystopia, and transcends the worst.
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Those costs include the risks for Western firms of doing work that supports the brutal techno-dystopia that China has built in Xinjiang.
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The LobsterYorgos Lanthimos' loony-bin dystopia is hilarious and dark and contains images so upsetting and deadpan you'll fight not to look away.
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Like Atwood, he extends his discomfort into a dystopia where current social mores are enforced at terrible costs to individual freedom and feeling.
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And it showed how much it can feel like a cop-out when the dystopia lets in exceptional heroes to save the world.
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The move instantly evoked the "memory holes" in the novel's totalitarian dystopia, and it inspired about equal measures of shock, outrage, and jokes.
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Besides being a badass in general, this Game of Thrones star's time spent roleplaying in Westeros could prove relevant in a dystopia scenario.
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In April we released our Dystopia and Utopia Issue, in which we investigated whether we should be terrified or optimistic about the future.
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Then there's the corporate dystopia, in which the vast majority of online ad dollars are vacuumed up by two companies: Google and Facebook.
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It is Future Dystopia 101, and director Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) is too workmanlike to give it much visual pizzazz.
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It portrayed a dystopia in which machines have subdued humans by trapping them in a simulated reality while their bodies languish in vats.
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I've been thinking about this dystopia since the reality star, mogul and icon cut back on social media following her dreadful Paris robbery.
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According to the Bloomberg billionaire tracker, which is its own little slice of wealth-worshiping dystopia, Bezos' net worth just topped $106 billion.
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The series, available for streaming on Hulu, details a dystopia in the near future in which women are reduced to their reproductive purpose.
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The distraction-fueled dystopia of Alodus Huxley's Brave New World comes to mind as easily as the gold-lined streets of El Dorado.
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The Dystopia Project is Mashable's new biweekly book series looking at what dystopian fiction has to teach us in our new political climate.
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Danish government officials are pushing back on a Fox Business segment that framed "socialist" Denmark as an overtaxed dystopia with high unemployment rates.
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" Last month, in a piece titled " De Blasio's Dystopia ," the National Review claimed that "rodent proliferation can be laid at de Blasio's feet.
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This isn't a five-alarm fire warning of impending dystopia but it should give everyone pause at a crucial moment in Amazon's history.
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House of Cards is not meant to be an optimistic and pleasant show, but a dark, almost-horror-like drama steeped in dystopia.
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Universal Paperclips shows us that, as long as AI and technological advancement serve the ends of capital accumulation, dystopia is the likeliest outcome.
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The interesting thing about that book is that from the point of view of John the Savage, Brave New World is a dystopia.
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It couldn't be more fitting that the latest adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 finds its home on Hulu, proud purveyors of dystopia.
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As I said last week, we weren't living in some digital dystopia until the FCC delivered these Depression-era rules to save us.
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All of which hints that a genuinely post-liberal politics might, indeed, someday be required — to save liberal civilization from dystopia or disaster.
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Turning Points asked the writer Maggie Shen King to explore a data-driven dystopia, and she responded with a piece of flash fiction.
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Yet, while we can envision a safer, more livable utopia, we can also imagine a dystopia, clogged with yet more cars and congestion.
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Bleakness is a hurdle for any dystopia, an imaginary society of the worst kind that articulates anxieties about the world we're in now.
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Our dystopia isn't just the product of mustache-twirling billionaires drunk with power and fueled by greed — though it is that, too, sometimes.
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You'll play as Alyx, embodied fully in VR, as you sneak into the alien dystopia of City 17 in search of … something important.
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The Times Square of today may be a Disney dystopia, a soul-crushing slice of Midtown where musty Elmo costumes go to die.
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Years after encountering the devastating dystopia in high school English class, we'll learn what happens to Offred on her journey out of Gilead.
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The rap boasts that it was "recorded with tape hiss," matching a video clip using glitchy VHS images: gateway to an analog dystopia.
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On this occasion, it is reasonable to ponder what the CCP's accomplishments might be, and the answer is that they created a dystopia.
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But here's the bizarre quirk of the Facebook dystopia, whose sheer perversity would have likely pleased Orwell: It's all Big and no Brother.
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It is a heavy trip to consider what design we are currently living out, in a society that seems increasingly tilting toward dystopia.
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But perhaps the most terrifying thing about this is that Google simply refuses to acknowledge it's on a collision course with a scifi dystopia.
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From political chaos to economic disparity, corrupt authorities, unveiled patriarchy and racism, and the threat of catastrophic climate change, dystopia touches us all daily.
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Other than Netflix's autoplay dystopia, one of the dumbest decisions of the last decade was Hulu's user interface redesign, which also arrived in 2017.
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Now a teenager, John is aware of the role he's supposed to play in the future to save the world from a mechanized dystopia.
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Ones that'll convince you you're going to wake up in a dystopia (American Gods) and others that'll have you combing Reddit for clues (Westworld).
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So why do tech CEOs continue to meet with a regime that's pushing the US further into an authoritarian dystopia with each passing day?
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This series treats a lot of aspects of American dystopia as "What if other countries, but too much?" which gets awkward in a hurry.
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A tiny indie team is making the dystopia beautiful "We aren't making a cyberpunk game," says Magdalena Tomkowicz, story designer on the upcoming Ruiner.
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Before we were transported to high-tech dystopia with Black Mirror, twisted sci-fi and fantasy anthologies thrived in the world of short fiction.
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In other words, he and his team are the ones trying to keep us from hurtling, unprepared and unaware, into a Black Mirror dystopia.
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Iconic cinematographer and 13-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall) depicts a vibrant dystopia awash in gritty, neon hues.
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If his amendment stands, the left's grand vision of a single-payer government-run health insurance dystopia will go up in smoke for good.
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So, if they break that control, that's ruining the fetish, that's ruining the fun, so I think it's that kind of dystopia creeping in.
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In other words, to understand how global warming wreaks havoc on the human body, we don't need to be transported to some imagined dystopia.
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I'd just like to believe that a hashtag #hoebag campaign wouldn't be successful even in our fascist-fetishistic post-apocalyptic never-ending political dystopia.
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The combined result of Brexit and Corbyn could be the dystopia that Rand warned about: a stagnant society driven by resentment of the successful.
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For some, it's an 'extreme' kind of love, where the vehicles are customized to resemble metallic monster bikes straight out of a Hollywood dystopia.
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But what if instead of being a harbinger of a future utopia or dystopia, VR was just a hell of a lot of fun?
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Children of Men is a devastatingly tense near-future dystopia that's all the more effective because it's such a recognisable extrapolation of our own.
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The author's most famous dystopia is the one in The Handmaid's Tale, which Hulu will soon be adapting into a series starring Elisabeth Moss.
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Having read one's Paley, one feels while reading Zumas's book that yes, this imagined dystopia is terrible, but the reality would be far worse.
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For many black people, making America "great again" is especially threatening, as it signals a return to a more explicit and unapologetic racial dystopia.
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I thought that the clue, which refers to Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," was directing us to something about dystopia, but no.
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In Orwell's dystopia, "Ingsoc," English socialism, is not really an ideology at all, just a tissue of lies and a tool for mass hypnosis.
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Why Reddit's face-swapping celebrity porn craze is a harbinger of dystopia CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald resigns after reports that she bought tobacco stock
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The easiest example, sure, is that the concept that Donald Trump would be our president—a dystopia set out by The Simpsons in 2000.
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That's why it's our most relevant dystopia: because the dark mirror it holds up to our face isn't distorting our reflection much at all.
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But Divergent fails to include the political commentary that gives a dystopia its power or the world building that gives personality sorting room to breathe.
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Are we capable of saving ourselves from our worst impulses as a species, or doomed to end up in one form of "dystopia" or another?
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Sheldon has been all but forgotten in this modern dystopia resurgence, even though what she created as James Tiptree might resonate louder now than ever.
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Houston, depending on your perspective, is either a dystopia or a utopia — and your perspective probably hinges a lot on your gender identity and politics.
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Heather Busby, executive director of reproductive rights nonprofit NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, wondered if those symbols of patriarchal dystopia could be put to other use.
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The Handmaid's Tale couldn't suddenly become just another exploration of an anti-women dystopia because, well, there aren't any examples of that in TV history.
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The alternative is a gigantic dystopia, because the way we are moving today is creating nothing but hopelessness and despair and a shrinking middle class.
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Jack is stuck in the techno-dystopia brought on by the demon Aku, and he's seemingly lost all hope of traveling back to the past.
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The industrial landscape on which it sits is interrupted by plumes of smoke and looks blasted and forlorn, like a medieval battlefield or futuristic dystopia.
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That is, most science fiction franchises either go the "post-apocalyptic Dieselpunk desert road warrior gang" route or the "high-tech space opera dystopia" route.
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The Mad Men alum will, once again, portray a true rebel — albeit this time, she won't be fighting against the government within a patriarchal dystopia.
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Details about the world around the couple were scattered and never provided real insight into which flavor of dystopia Renton and Hannah are living in.
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I was going to call that a satirical dystopia, but even South Park seems a little freaked out by how close it hits the mark.
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It captures a bunch of extremely 2017 feelings, including dystopia, fear of job automation, and the general mood of absurdity that's going around a lot.
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If Mill's vision of a marketplace of ideas was utopian, Google didn't want its code to contribute to a digital dystopia, in China or elsewhere.
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Rather, Latinos need to be cast in roles as diverse as Hollywood storytelling itself -- Wall Street traders, heroes in a future dystopia, or stranded astronauts.
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That means we're 9 years away from dystopia ... and the Three 6 Mafia founder thinks we'll need all the guns we can get for protection.
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Some portrayals, like Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, envision groups of people stripped of their personal dignity without the need to work, leading to a dystopia.
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Not quite a dream, but not set in its contemporary almost-dystopia, the show depicts members of a millenarian sect as they wait for doomsday.
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Almost always, the calamity that created the dystopia was an environmental crisis caused by climate change, and a teenage girl almost always saved the world.
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Those sexbots are a particular campy signifier of dystopia, but they also fit neatly into Atwood's other major preoccupation: the idea of a shadow self.
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" In 2015, Jill Lepore profiled the Archive's founder in the New Yorker: "[Brewster] Kahle is a digital utopian attempting to stave off a digital dystopia.
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While some cities have rebuilt, much of the world is still a bombed-out dystopia, where scavengers roam the landscape stripping old Jaegers for parts.
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The path from suburbia to dystopia is narrated by an unnamed teen-ager with a fractured family, preternatural poise, and an appreciation for good diners.
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" (Can't beat reading that on a small plane zooming over the Kenai Peninsula!) I can't get enough of Lionel Shriver's scary dystopia in "The Mandibles.
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The album has a reputation as an account of a bleak dystopia set in a future that doesn't look all too different from the present.
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A cabal of ultra-Thatcherites is using Brexit to tear up the social contract and turn Britain into a "US-style dog-eat-dog dystopia".
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Dystopia By Gary Shteyngart When my parents lived in the Soviet Union, having a Jewish-looking "physiognomy," as it was called, proved a daily liability.
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"What I find quite difficult is Atwood created a world — this incredibly brilliant, original dystopia — and she did that in the first book," Hirsch said.
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Composed of computer-generated images, painting and pencil drawings, the film's textures clash to create a dreary dystopia out of this sparse but colorful setting.
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The Testaments also takes place in Gilead, Atwood's famous dystopia, 17 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale — but it's not at all nightmarish.
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"Whether we point at a future that is utopia or dystopia, if everybody believes in it, then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy," Lee says.
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Turns out a 1981 BBC miniseries presaged this exact scenario, providing further irrefutable proof that we do really live in the sickest kind of dystopia.
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With the surveillance dystopia becoming increasingly pervasive, we've begun to witness some of the backlash, particularly as it relates to tech giants working with law enforcement.
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By setting the game in a futuristic corporate dystopia, Klei entertainment's dev team is able to handwave their decision to prevent player characters from doing this.
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A glance at the album art of Cyber Nazi—with its jackbooted cyborg cops going door to door—shows how for fascists, this dystopia is utopia.
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Plenty of work at Untitled addresses dystopia, the reclamation of history and identity, and the absurdity of an art market that tries to address these topics.
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It's one thing to tell our kids, 'Oh, this is what a utopia looks like,' especially when we are living in a dystopia, in a sense.
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The case is ultimately kind of a dystopia in miniature, one that resulted in a lot of unnecessary fear and and at least some physical pain.
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Those films are about dystopia, transhumanism, and the fatal incursions of capitalism, but strangely, De Lorra says his craft is focused on exactly one feeling: nostalgia.
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The region is struggling with the exodus of over 3m of its people fleeing hunger, repression and the socialist dystopia created by the late Hugo Chávez.
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Black Mirror's new interactive episode Bandersnatch lets you experience one — and then concludes that a career in the arts is a nightmare dystopia with no escape.
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Cyberpunk 2077's dystopia doesn't seem quite so on-the-nose, but it also seems to be playing with heavy themes without truly delving into them.
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That's a common tack for science fiction — particularly satires and dystopia stories, which poke fun at America's less-desirable elements, and challenge people to do better.
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In 1982, Velvet Underground architect John Cale recorded Music for a New Society, an album of wrenching, emotionally-shattered torch songs that prophesied a denatured dystopia.
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"And just when you thought things couldn't get any more redolent of outright corporate dystopia, wait till you hear what those savings will be "plowed into.
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That simmering contrast between the dissonant roar of dystopia and the looming danger of a frail piano line, is a major theme running through his music.
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For Deus Ex's speculative fiction, that's the jumping off point for a cyberpunk dystopia where the enhancements that "Augs" possess threaten the rest of the population.
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"It's really important to take people away from the dystopia idea, which switches everyone off when they hear all this terrible doom and gloom," he said.
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So I'm super not convinced by what this trailer shows of Equals' sci-fi / dystopia / love-story plot, but I am pretty into the visuals alone.
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"We were not living in some digital dystopia before the partisan imposition of a massive plan hatched in Washington saved all of us," Pai said Wednesday.
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"If we only care about profit maximisation, we will go rapidly into dystopia," said Rosenstein, who admits to distancing himself from the platform he helped build.
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In the 18th century, the plan was to make Australia a continent that could contain an entire criminal class—the idea being not utopia, but dystopia.
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It's the story of a very near-future dystopia in which the religious right runs a military state after infertility rates dropped to a terrifying low.
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On top of everything else, the controversy gives ammunition to people who believe that platforms like YouTube are deliberately crafting some kind of saccharine liberal dystopia.
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Watching Metropolis is textbook stuff for any cinephile pupil, but the set design of the film's tech utopia (and its underlying dystopia) is still awe-inspiring.
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This concept of paying institutions to plug in to to virtual reality is abundant throughout science fiction novels—novels that routinely skirt the borders of dystopia.
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The universes she conjures skate between science fiction-like dystopia and an all-too-familiar present reality saturated by bad news, selfish people and endless memes.
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This is the strange GIF created by Qieer Wang as part of her Utopia in Dystopia series, where she picked 12 disorders social issues to illustrate.
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In "Skinnamarink," a new play from the unpredictable troupe known as Little Lord, school is a Dickensian dystopia filtered through the skewed aesthetics of Tim Burton.
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Of course, nobody knows exactly what brand of dystopia—if any—will emerge in the decades to come, but Motherboard wanted to collect some educated guesses.
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To paraphrase Edmund Burke, all that is necessary for the triumph of an AI-driven, automation-based dystopia is that liberal democracy accept it as inevitable.
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Like that play, this latest work is set in a dystopia around the corner, in a world that at first glance seems much like our own.
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I read a joke the other day that went something like: your cyberpunk dystopia name is just your actual name because the corporations have already won.
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China's internet, provided through telecom giants aligned with the Communist Party, is a digital dystopia, filtered by the vast censorship apparatus known as China's Great Firewall.
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It's exactly the kind of life-threatening conundrum that people in modern China face today, and the exact reason why this real-life dystopia still continues on.
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In the rush to address these extreme measures, which pose an obvious threat to women's reproductive freedom, many have painted images of a Handmaid's Tale-esque dystopia.
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The Ready Player One dystopia also shows an enormous gap between the rich and the poor, resulting in a very unequal balance on how resources are shared.
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Michael C. McMillen combined the languages of vernacular architecture, retro-futurism, sci-fi whimsy, and a healthy dose of dystopia — all the rage nowadays — in this show.
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If I were to invest my energies and the only two options were a massive dystopia and a potential utopia, I would rather go for the utopia.
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These are Trump's "unspecialists"—anti-experts, candidates that would be laughed off as absurdities if we weren't living in the middle of a Philip K. Dick dystopia.
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But it's also meant to be the sign of a dark future dystopia, where privacy has disappeared, and facial-recognition scanners and complicated algorithms target consumers individually.
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Instead, it got possessed by a dystopia which I think reflects that generation's fear of mortality because they can't see anything going on beyond their own death.
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That might lead to a different kind of dystopia (also with historical antecedents): one in which fast, functional transport is available only to those who can pay.
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And like something that shouldn't take place in a grim dystopia where a rogue government is holding the sun hostage and humankind has retreated to the sewers.
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One day, we might be living with a Philip K. Dick dystopia where you can buy new eyeballs to evade police, but there's no time to wait.
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But in this path, John ends his story middle-aged, divorced, and watching helplessly as tensions among his superpowered friends escalate into fascist dystopia and guerilla warfare.
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It risks descending into a 21st-century dystopia that is almost as bleak, in its impersonal way, as those imagined in the darkest novels of the 20th.
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"Turn Left" doesn't skimp on the dystopia, and one of its focuses is the rising xenophobia that eventually leads to non-British citizens being imprisoned in camps.
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Sesame Credit sounds like a dystopia because we can easily imagine how the Chinese government can use a system like this to enforce conformity and stifle dissent.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Look no further than the current political landscape of the United States to witness that one person's utopia is another's dystopia.
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Wine curator Lot18 has officially canceled its new line themed around The Handmaid's Tale—the sexual slavery dystopia based off Margaret Atwood's book of the same name.
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Rather, those protests were fueled by a fear that Trump's America will be an anti-future, a hateful and small-minded dystopia with a plummeting global reputation.
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Younger viewers who've never seen Scott's movie will be granted a delicious jolt as the fully formed dystopia rises out of nowhere to greet their virginal gaze.
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Amid the visions of dystopia and provocation, however, Superstudio did offer hope for the future, perhaps nowhere more so than with its unexpectedly poignant 1972 "Supersurface" project.
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In the show's alternate 2019 America, Robert Redford has been president since 1992, presiding over a dystopia-lite that's supposed to be at turns disquieting and cartoonish.
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If you've clicked on a coronavirus story, you've probably seen it: an Asian person in a face mask looking alone, solemn, often wandering around some urban dystopia.
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Musk fans' impact on our late-capitalist dystopia is probably more substantial than Allen fans', but their fandom doesn't involve defending a man accused of child molestation.
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At least as impressive as Roth on this score is Leni Zumas, whose novel "Red Clocks," envisioning a near-future fetal-rights dystopia, was published last year.
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Even as the conflict between Elliot and his alter ego have taken on Gothic dimensions, much of the show's power comes from its dark but plausible dystopia.
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In The New Yorker, a reviewer discussed its "grotesque timeliness"; another at the same publication said that already "we live in the reproductive dystopia" the show presents.
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In this latest take on all-too-realistic dystopia, those in debt can enter a form of indentured servitude, serving as "Dociles" to a wealthy trillionaire class.
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Set in a rigidly ordered dystopia whose motto is "Keep It Clean," the movie concerns an autocratic president who decides to intern all children he finds unattractive.
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Published in 1994, it's come to mirror our present dystopia in some extraordinary way, I assume by working from fundamentally dysfunctional aspects of our basic primate hardwiring.
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Here is how her piece, a Critic's Notebook essay, begins: The dystopia described in George Orwell's nearly 216-year-old novel "13" suddenly feels all too familiar.
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The relentless pursuit of profit has killed the planet and brought us fully into the cyberpunk dystopia that captured the imaginations of so many in the '80s.
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Consider, for example, a dystopia in which no regional or local media outlets exist in the United States – with one exception, let's say the New York Times.
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Proponents see the continent as a dark twin of America, a "there but for the grace of God" dystopia the Islamists are on the verge of conquering.
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Though she told me it was unlikely, it's not hard to imagine it's a possibility in a world that's inching closer to a dystopia seemingly every day.
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Offred, a child of the post-feminist '80s, finds her mother's radicalism silly and faintly embarrassing — until she finds herself living in the misogynist dystopia of Gilead.
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The pure volume of Easter eggs has all but confirmed a long-running theory that all of Black Mirror takes place in the same twisted techno-dystopia.
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In the first three episodes provided to reviewers, it's a dystopia that manages to stand out in a television landscape already full of apocalypses and oppressive imaginary societies.
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You saw women dressed up as characters from the Handmaid&aposs Tale, which is the fictional miniseries about a misogynistic dystopia where women are forced into sexual slavery.
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Equals is his biggest film to date, both in terms of scope (this vast, meticulously designed dystopia) and star power (including an executive production credit from Ridley Scott).
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When I interviewed Fisher two years ago about his Facebook project "Boring Dystopia," he was certain that Facebook, Twitter and their ilk would die away within our lifetimes.
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That pre-debate Facebook Live broadcast by Donald Trump, which combined farce, dystopia and reality-TV in three tawdry minutes, presaged the tone of the encounter that followed.
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Dave Eggers' best-selling 2013 novel The Circle is coming to the big screen, and it looks like the slick near-future dystopia will make a smooth transition.
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The dystopia in the novel is simply America in the 1970s, in which marginalized people are experimented on, disbelieved, and murdered, without regard for their rights or humanity.
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The term "Orwellian" has always struck me as curiously Orwellian — a mild example of doublespeak that ties an author's good name to the dystopia he so memorably depicted.
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" Further up the coast, a postcard on sale in the former fishing town of Whitby depicted the shuttered hulk of Redcar's steelworks above a banner, "dystopia-on-sea.
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Kim Kelly, Angaleena Presley Doesn't Need Nashville, but Nashville Needs Angaleena Presley Infrared Horizon issues a forewarning to the dystopia that awaits should humanity continue its current trend.
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The week culminated in Trump's speech on the fourth night, in which he portrayed the United States as something of a lawless dystopia that he "alone" could fix.
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Another Twitter account / blog, Humans of Late Capitalism, does much the same thing; it's a chronicle of life under capitalism, as told through pictures of our current dystopia.
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We see you <3 The Gilead we were introduced to in Season 1 was the very definition of authoritarian dystopia, with strict, evil laws and swift, horrifying consequences.
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The Handmaid's Tale excels at making us squirm with cognitive dissonance, and this is no exception — even in this psycho dystopia, people are still living their ordinary lives.
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Meanwhile, Kiko [Loureiro], David [Ellefson], Dirk [Verbeuren] and I are in the studio, working on the follow up to Dystopia — which I can't wait for everyone to hear.
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Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale conjures a theocratic dystopia—a version of the United States taken over by fundamentalist Christians after a terrorist attack on Washington.
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The last two years, in fact, have been terrible for the urban-chaos conspiracists, who predicted the de Blasio mayoralty would be an era of crime and dystopia.
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A time came when I was itching to leave my noisy dystopia, so I obtained permission from my job to work remotely (after dry-heaving in the bathroom).
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West returned to Twitter from an 11-month hiatus, rattling off random tweets about custom designed neck tats that bear an eerie similarity to Art Dystopia on Dafont.com.
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But underneath these colors lie others associated with war, conquest, and deprivation, the dusty browns and military greens that we're led to believe are shades of impending dystopia.
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Imagine the city of the future and you'll almost definitely think of a Jetson-style landscape of towers and flying cars, or the smoggy urban dystopia of Bladerunner.
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In The Handmaid's Tale, dystopia isn't just an interesting or dramatic idea, and it doesn't require a nuclear war or some other catastrophe for us to get there.
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I beg to differ: there's nothing more cathartic than watching a bisexual love triangle set in a dystopia ruled by androids who make humans perform for them unfold.
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The unknown side effects of humans tampering with complex planetary systems demands a cautious approach, lest our good intentions lead us to some kind of Snowpiercer-style dystopia.
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Petting a headless robot cat and shaming yourself into eating better Do we live in a world of transcendent progress and innovation, or an increasingly inhuman techno-dystopia?
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Critics cast it as a recipe for a surveillance-driven, corporate-controlled urban dystopia and objected to turning over public spaces to one of the world's wealthiest companies.
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There's also poetry and dystopia and history and science, and a couple of takes on the state of American Judaism — something for everyone, even your angry Uncle Bot.
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American artist Tabor Robak's "20XX" (2013) combines images of real-life skyscrapers to create a fictional city and corporate dystopia awash with the logos of video game companies.
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The tech dystopia shown in the movie, adapted from a 2013 novel, may feel eerily familiar if you've ever worried about how much your phone knows about you.
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LONDON — The 21984 film Blade Runner imagined 21 Los Angeles as a dystopia of noirish neon and replicants, robots sent to do hard labor on off-world colonies.
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Police in Australia on Saturday reminded the public that the situation "isn't 'Mad Max,'" a post-apocalyptic dystopia, after shoppers were videoed brawling over toilet paper in Sydney.
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And I was looking at that guy, and he's got a coat and tie and a biker jacket, and I'm like, 'Who are the lawyers in a dystopia?
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As with climate, it can be hard to avoid lurching into dystopia in talking about COVID-19: We've all probably seen one too many pandemic and disaster flick.
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Over the past decade, Britain has produced some truly glorious television — from the dark dystopia of Black Mirror to the gleeful euphemisms of The Great British Bake Off.
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The violent progression from back to front gives Bong an opportunity to comment on the stratification of this mechanized dystopia, which echoes the current conversation on economic inequality.
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"The narrative came from kind of colliding dystopia and utopia together, finding ways to have this coexistence of things that are considered to be not compatible," she said.
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Set in Glitch City's cyberpunk dystopia, the player meets and serves drinks to a variety of women characters at a dive called VA-11 Hall-A (pronounced "Valhalla").
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If this were Mike Pence's America, sure, Gilead would feel very close, but Donald Trump is such a determinedly secular figure that I have trouble fearing a theocratic dystopia.
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For me, however, "21984" has been more than a cautionary tale of dystopia: The concepts, characters, and lessons have in a real sense guided me both personally and professionally.
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It's as if House of Cards wants to make Frank go full authoritarian dictator, but lacks the wherewithal to actually push its reality toward some sort of alternate dystopia.
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If the winners of the 2016 National Book Awards are sure about one thing, it's that America is a violent, racist dystopia of a country — and always has been.
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The goal: to elbow out contrasting viewpoints and smaller news organizations, resulting in a troubling homogenization of local news reporting that can often teeter somewhere between comedy and dystopia.
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Todd VanDerWerff: One of the things I sometimes worry about when it comes to The Handmaid's Tale is all the different layers of dystopia it has to sift through.
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Their relationship is what eventually gets her out of her Hollywood dystopia, and it's the only plotline that abstains from all the surrealist elements that swirl around everything else.
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Why Brave New World is No Longer the Terrifying Dystopia it Used to BeBrave New World used to be one of the most terrifying stories about a false utopia.
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With this shift, Black Mirror's third season attracted new audiences who might not have already been dystopia fans, but who nevertheless could still get something profound out of it.
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In July this year, Musk tweeted a link to the "Skynet" Wikipedia page -- the all-knowing computer network from robot dystopia "Terminator" -- suggesting AI might bring a robot apocalypse.
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Through the eyes of the geek, he could drag cultural tendencies to their logical endpoints and distort the world into a dystopia he claimed to prefer over real life.
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People hurting for money in Riley's dystopia appear on a game show called I Got the Shit Kicked Out of Me, which involves getting beaten in exchange for cash.
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Both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America have made statements in response to the news, describing it as "unimaginably dangerous" and likening its ideology to that of dystopia.
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The 10-episode series, which debuts on Hulu on April 26, takes place in a dystopia called Gilead — a totalitarian society, once the U.S., rooted in twisted religious fundamentalism.
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In video of the incident, the billboard could be seen spilling debris as it continued to flash ads for data collection, which seems about right for our digital dystopia.
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You'll certainly draw that conclusion from Wrong Todays — and you'll also end it with the feeling that maybe our present dystopia has actually been the utopia all along. Woah.
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It's easy, it's convenient, and it's a privacy nightmare that serves as a constant reminder of the fact that we live in a techno-dystopia of our own making.
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While Ruiner will be a challenging game, the developers realize that some people will be frustrated by the gameplay, yet still intrigued by the beautiful dystopia you can explore.
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The point of a dystopia is to hold up a mirror to our world and show us our sins, the worst things about the way we've built our society.
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James is played by Alex Lawther, who had the leading role in "Shut Up and Dance," one of the most disturbing episodes of "Black Mirror," Charlie Brooker's digital dystopia.
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You know that dystopia in which income inequality is so extreme that society invents a game show that forces the less wealthy people to fight one other for survival?
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But the unconscious parallels are undeniable; in the dystopia of "1984," the Ministry of Truth devoted itself ruthlessly to revising the historical record to back up Big Brother's pronouncements.
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Facebook considered offering a credit score to lenders based on social media profiles; in this Black Mirror–like dystopia, your friends could damage your ability to get a mortgage.
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Robert Kramer's 1969 fiction/documentary hybrid Ice — which screens as part of the series on January 21 and 22 — provides a unique, New York City-centric take on dystopia.
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To answer these important questions, I turned to polling data, the very same thing that has driven our society towards a blood-thirsty dystopia over the past few months.
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Mr. Zhou's Pearl River Delta is a sci-fi dystopia with no need of special effects, an update of Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville" for a century of ecological crisis.
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But this book's dystopia of walled-off communities, useless government, unchecked violence and corporate slavery feels like the waiting headlines of tomorrow — and too many of our headlines today.
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By emphasizing diversity over dystopia, her film does not simply warn against the dangers of who we might become, but celebrates the vast richness of who we already are.
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While the backlash to Douthat's article has been intense (and, in some respects, misplaced), his point — that we're headed to a dystopia of sex robots — is worth engaging with.
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Yet the repair clinics and bail funds and the broader shadow social net must exist because the world we exist in can seem dangerously close nowadays to a dystopia.
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This White House may embrace some future dystopia to cement its "America First" legacy, but it has no right to take the world's children and grandchildren down that path.
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For the first two-thirds of "Arlington," which runs a dense 85 minutes, the nature of the world that gave birth to this dystopia is revealed only by indirection.
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Framed that way, it sounds like an unnecessary product that may indicate some kind of incipient dystopia, or at least the increasing encroachment of past satire on present reality.
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How we respond to this abuse will determine whether the web lives up to its potential as a global force for good or leads us into a digital dystopia.
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Scary stuff, certainly, but maybe the more frightening dystopia is the one no one warned you about, the one you wake up one morning to realize you're living inside.
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Gazelle Twin: Pastoral (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) Throughout her career as an avant-electronic producer, Gazelle Twin has fashioned musical depictions of dystopia: capitalism, the surveillance state, bodily failure.
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They're about survival in the midst of dystopia, about the idea that those who are oppressed continue to find ways to live and hope, even when doing so seems pointless.
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One of the best things to come out of this current tech dystopia of staring at our phones all day long is that getting fast food is easier than ever.
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She didn't know, however, that Eden was going to be publicly executed for running away with a young guardian and become the catalyst for major change in the fictional dystopia.
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While it's easy to draw parallels between the movie and our current corporate dystopia, it actually works because it offers a brief reprieve from anything rooted in context or reality.
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Whether traditional, novel, simple, high-tech, free, or prohibitively expensive, I pseudo-scientifically analyzed how they'd fare at keeping things chill once we're all living in a Mad Max dystopia.
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But now that the technological dystopia they've long-dreaded is finally here, on their first album in half a decade they seem to have largely abandoned their anxieties about it.
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It's a story about dystopia and extreme consequence, but it's not so far flung that we don't all see a little bit of ourselves or our real world in it.
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Set in the capitalist dystopia of Grave City, suicide bombers affiliated with the Tea Party attack coffee shops, and we witness the final conversations of various patrons before the blasts.
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These insanely detailed illustrations of an all-too-familiar dystopia take on the most insidious aspects of contemporary society, from corporate greed to casual bigotry and the culture of violence.
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What if Bill Murray were replaced with a CW star and the entire thing was set in the kind of grim dystopia Jennifer Lawrence would feel right at home in?
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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.
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Bixel Boys wanted this dystopia to be universal, adds Brenner, so he recruited a diverse cast, including Lando Wilkins, Habby Jacques, Mislee, Konkrete, and Miss Moore, to play the victims.
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A debate raged as to whether the American population would be subdued through fear, as in 1984, or sated by pleasure, as in Aldous Huxley's iconic dystopia, Brave New World.
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Everything about Slaughter Race – a game set in a dystopia so hilariously gritty, Mad Max would be at a loss – feels instantly recognizable, even though Slaughter Race doesn't actually exist.
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With 1984's popularity, the debate about whether our current world is more like Orwell's dystopia or the one described in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World has resurfaced as well.
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Our takeaways: The lineup of speakers presented a United States in danger, threatened from abroad and from within, a once-proud nation on the very brink of chaos and dystopia.
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Mr. Trump has presented himself as something of a one-man anti-crime plan, arguing that he is the lone force standing between the United States and semi-lawless dystopia.
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With minimalist typography assuring you that there is 2.12 oz, 60g, and 250 calories of...something... in there, will that be enough to sustain us in our hyperefficient culinary dystopia?
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You've said that Future Politics calls for a "a commitment to replace the approaching dystopia," can you elaborate on how this became a mission statement of sorts for the album.
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They're also creating a massive record of our idle thoughts, bad jokes, and conversations, which is the subject of today's piece—a chat-logged dystopia, as imagined by Sam Biddle.
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Lacey is at her best when she is skewering, and while the emotional dystopia she constructs is not necessarily the core of the novel, it is the most successful part.
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And not only that, they had something to say through this transformation: OK Computer's lyrics, package design, and overall aesthetic demanded to know what technology's role in dystopia would be.
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Where The Handmaid's Tale focuses almost entirely on misogyny as the driving force of dystopia, MaddAddam imagines multiple interconnected causes — including climate change, income inequality, religious evangelism, and scientific hubris.
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Playing with stock genres — including elements of gangster noir, futuristic dystopia and cutthroat boardroom intrigue — has given Mr. Braxton the chance to explore ideas regarding cultural progress (or lack thereof).
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Based on Ernest Cline's 2011 sci-fi novel, Steven Spielberg's adaptation explores a dystopia in the year 2045 where citizens escape into a Virtual Reality paradise known as the Oasis.
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I am not frightened of the Chinese dystopia, or the coming Googlocracy; it is those hordes jaywalking with their faces buried in their phones that scare the data outta me.
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Every imagined Utopia, from Plato to the present day, helplessly becomes a Dystopia, almost certainly because the writers just couldn't resist the urge to make the "place" sound halfway interesting.
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The election of Donald Trump was a wake-up call for so many; it revealed an American dystopia that communities on the margin have endured and fought against for generations.
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I never had a hard time talking about my addiction to Fallout: New Vegas, a big-budget role-playing dystopia where you can kill and/or seduce non-player characters.
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The city had evolved from an anything-goes dystopia that only Martin Scorsese could love (but such a fun one!) to a playground for rollerblading professionals, a macrocosmic "Friends" set.
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Our current data dystopia isn't just about forking over information; it's also about how that information moves across the web and how it leaks to both neutral and bad actors.
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The story, set in a drought-ridden near-future dystopia, follows Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who is harboring secrets from a troubled past when she returns to her childhood home.
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If you need any better proof that we're all now living in a dystopia, merrily celebrating the instruments of our own planetary demise, Fiji Girl is your meme of the moment.
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I spoke to Courtwright about the problems this has created, why the battle against limbic capitalism is seemingly endless, and if he thinks we're destined to live in a consumerist dystopia.
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Blade Runner 2049 hits theaters this October, but if you're looking for more grungy science fiction dystopia, there's another Blade Runner-related project out there to check out: Slice of Life.
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Also, we've been dealing with simulated dead celebrities and virtual pop stars for decades, and their impact has been relatively modest, so "Ashley Eternal" probably wouldn't tip the scales toward dystopia.
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Without a speck of dialogue, the Pixar-esque film builds a terrifyingly relatable late capitalist dystopia where order and work ethic literally choke the color and creativity out of its inhabitants.
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Click here to view original GIFAs our newly-elected leaders do everything they can to roll back environmental regulations, the future is looking more and more like a smog-filled dystopia.
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And so, The Darkest Minds is connected to The Hunger Games under the grand YA dystopia umbrella, which is still steadily chugging along, despite all rumors that the genre is dead.
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Hill is the author of the horror novel Heart-Shaped Box, the future dystopia The Fireman, and the supernatural drama Horns, which was adapted into a 2014 movie starring Daniel Radcliffe.
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The 10-episode series, which debuts on Hulu on April 26, follows people in a dystopia called Gilead — a totalitarian society, once part of the U.S., rooted in twisted religious fundamentalism.
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HBO has released the first teaser for Fahrenheit 451, a film based off the Ray Bradbury novel and starring Michael B. Jordan as a rebel in a dystopia that burns books.
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So basically, these are bills that work to create a misogynist dystopia in which women have no control over their own bodies and are forced to breed children against their will.
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Social media applauded Negan's protective moment en masse, with many celebrating how an anti-rape culture position is more cut and dry in a zombiepocalypse dystopia than our current political climate.
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In this dystopia Paul and Ana giddily explore the treasures of a lost civilization, which might turn out to be a vacated archery range or a sloppy replica of the Batmobile.
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Risks aside, even if Prime Air shakes out faultlessly, it indicates a future dystopia in which tiny machines are constantly whirring over our heads to simply speed up the delivery window.
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The British far-right have helped a creature of their own take the most powerful job in the world; how will Trump's triumph there impact our own quickening slide into dystopia?
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In just two minutes, we see a Brave New World-type dystopia dominated by self-driving cars, towering fascistic holograms, and a mysterious baddie with some kind of techno-psychic powers.
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NPR interview stalwart Fresh Air held strong as the top podcast, and The Handmaid's Tale took top honors on the book list, courtesy of a Hulu adaptation and general societal dystopia.
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This suggests that, far from being a neo-Stalinist dystopia, the contemporary United States is a place where lots of people care about offending others and take care to avoid it.
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But do not be deceived: We may be sailing to dystopia, but it is not Gilead but an undiscovered country, awaiting some new visionary to map its coastlines and dark heart.
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He presents a vision of dystopia, where African Americans are all poor unemployed crime victims and he suggests he can change the game because Democrats have caused all this mess. Really?
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In 218, Apple introduced the public to its groundbreaking new personal computer, the Macintosh, with a now-iconic Super Bowl ad portraying the Mac as liberating consumers from a conformist dystopia.
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What constantly concerns me with The Handmaid's Tale, though, is that as June accumulates more power, the dystopia of Gilead starts to feel less real and hence less interesting to me.
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To remain is also to exist in a time-space puzzle — perhaps another dimension, or a Philip K. Dick-style dystopia — in which German forces are flooding into present-day Paris.
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The AP reported that some Venezuelans say the country is beginning to represent the dystopia portrayed in The Hunger Games, where the nation's outer districts suffer to benefit the capital city.
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Our pet, our favorite, was a sci-fi movie we called "Yet Another World," a tale of alternate nightmare Earths—one a "Mad Max" post-apocalyptic landscape, the other an Orwellian dystopia—that begin to communicate with each other to form a mutual resistance to their twin conditions; in the story, a man from the post-apocalypse (Harrison Ford, probably, or Bruce Willis) falls in love with a lady scientist from the dystopia (Michelle Pfeiffer, so hot in glasses!).
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You can't know how tightly bound a dystopia is until you try to escape; you can't know how much has been taken from you until you realize you can't get it back.
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After that, it's her flashbacks, those glimpses of a life that looks very familiar in 2017, that make the new adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale especially resonant—and its dystopia especially unsettling.
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" The way Frum sees it, in our current social media dystopia that is fueled by half-truths and straight up lies, "We are all vulnerable to weaponized falsehoods that exploit our prejudices.
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She pays tribute to dance music as a vehicle for political activism and/or escape, framing her array of funk basslines and snappy rhythm guitars in the context of a modern dystopia.
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Leaving them in a world doomed to some horrifying tech dystopia at Bishop's hands simply wasn't an option — and yet me leaving everyone seemed like the only way I could stop him.
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Mr Song suggests that, by contrast, Chinese sci-fi makes a dystopia out of the act of discovery itself, often presenting the truth as not worth knowing, or not worth the risk.
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Just as Hulu's Emmy-winning The Handmaid's Tale offered a depressingly timely dissection of gender roles and power dynamics in an all-too-plausible near-future dystopia, so Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs.
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The Purge film that most closely mirrors our own reality is the one set at the point where its fictional United States is taking its most drastic turn toward fascism and dystopia.
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In the past, I would have assumed that idealistic projects like these were doomed, but there seems to be a heightened awareness these days of the dystopia created by the tech giants.
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America is a paranoid dystopia with an orange man-child in charge of the nuclear codes, and we need an album that [REMINDS US OF/DISTRACTS US FROM] this harsh, unstable reality.
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And it was a space we could easily transform into a depopulated dystopia, a post-apocalyptic world, perhaps a clean state, after the end of history (an impossibility, but a seductive idea).
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Sinclair Lewis never actually made the famous claim that "when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross," but religion is inextricable from his dystopia.
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But Budget Cuts' short demo — a stealth / teleportation game about throwing knives at robots in order to get your job application approved in a corporate dystopia — is great in its own right.
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Vulture aptly describes the potential similarities between present-day reality and the dystopia depicted in the series: Offred says that she is awake to the world now, that she was asleep before.
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Released from the suburban bubble of the first film, we see more of what the Purge means in this near-future dystopia — how different groups purge, why purge, upon whom, and where.
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Outside these enclaves, the rest of the world would struggle for survival in a wasteland that offered both freedom and scarcity; this wasteland was generally either redemptive or another dystopia in disguise.
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Playing out just 203 miles from where George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin, in a state slowly receding into the rising seas, it felt like Disney Dystopia — just in time for Election 2016.
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Adapted from Alexandra Bracken's book, the movie begins with a flurry of dystopia, as a pandemic kills a major percentage of the U.S.'s children, leaving those that survive with strange abilities.
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"Nosedive" (co-written by Brooker, Mike Schur, and Rashida Jones) is a pastel dystopia ruled by a social network with instant ratings for social interactions, from posting a photo to ordering coffee.
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Today, Orwell's repressive dystopia is manifest across the globe, leading us to wonder what is to come in the country that so firmly upholds the greatest illusion of freedom, these United States?
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But if we do nothing to rein in our ongoing accidental geoengineering of the climate, we may well end up in a Mad Max dystopia, so it's worth considering all our options.
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It's a big ask to take time for eight episodes of near-future dystopia, and though it's sometimes confusing and meandering, it's worth letting this smart miniseries unfold at its own pace.
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They didn't come here to live in some "woke" socialist dystopia that seeks to destroy traditional values in pursuit of a post-modernist utopia dreamed up by gang of Harvard college professors.
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In more recent years, there has been a lot of backlash, a lot of fear, a lot of dystopia, a lot of all of the ways in which tech is threatening us.
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Prey is the story of a terrifying corporate dystopia gone wrong, from the point of view of those who had the misfortune to work in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Season one's "Fifteen Million Merits," for example, was hardly the first story to pair a rigid dystopia with a highly stylized reality show (see: everything from Running Man to The Hunger Games).
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But I learned that if you pray to the PUBG Gods hard enough, you'll survive crashing into a building at 75 km/hr and across a half mile of Soviet Union dystopia.
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Mustaine, 57, and his bandmates were in the studio working on a follow-up to their 2016 album "Dystopia," the singer said, adding he could not "wait for everyone to hear" it.
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We could theoretically live in some kind of dystopia where we're all just pretending to work and sending emails and writing unnecessary reports, and the robots are doing all the real, valuable work.
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Yet surprisingly, very few have neither unpacked the full measure of the parallels between Orwell's dystopia and the Trump administration, nor the import of the Trump administration's practices (so far) if left unchecked.
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It may sound basic, but how we move forward in an age of information is going to be the difference between whether we survive or we become some kind of fucked-up dystopia.
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As The Handmaid's Tale gears up to premiere its third season on Hulu, actors on the show said they never expected the fictional dystopia to be as culturally relevant as it is today.
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After the controversy around the recent confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which harkened back to the Clarence Thomas hearings, many of us feel like we're already living in a feminist dystopia.
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In a 2012 essay for the Guardian, she expanded on the pyramid idea: In a feminist dystopia pure and simple, all of the men would have greater rights than all of the women.
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That would be Andrew Yang, a Democratic candidate with deep Silicon Valley roots who wants to stave off what he sees as technology-led dystopia through a guaranteed income of $1,000 a month.
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The novel and show portray a dystopia in which women are stripped of their rights under the Republic of Gilead, an oppressive theocratic regime that rises up in place of the United States.
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He did propose $54 billion in defense spending, so at least future members of our spartan dystopia will get to live in a real-life version of The Hunger Games-meets-Mad Max.
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This did not temper the arrogance or the wishful thinking of the people most empowered to define the online landscape, and we live now in the online dystopia that their ignorance has wrought.
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The reality in China, a place where even public bathrooms are being designed by government decree to keep track of every citizen's movements, is more harrowing than any dystopia our imaginations can conjure.
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Horses was one of the maps that led from the '60s rock and '90s punk of my early adolescence to the funky utopia, or dystopia, of New York City in the mid-'703s.
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The Handmaid's Tale presents the story of a near-future patriarchal dystopia, where women are forbidden from reading or using money and are categorized by their supposed virtue and utility as child-bearers.
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One of the most exciting fiction debuts of the year is Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Friday Black, a darkly satirical short story collection that plays on our ideas about race, capitalism, and dystopia.
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But these are commonplaces, and without a plausible link back to the real world—some insidious force in the culture we can recognize amplified in the dystopia—the film's overall effect is silliness.
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The graphic novel gives another vision of Atwood's dystopia, but Nault's spindly-skinny characters look distractingly like fashion illustrations; even the supposedly drab outfit of the "Econowives" appears glamorous in Nault's dreamy rendering.
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Homicides did shoot up between the early 1960s and the 1980s, and images of a future dystopia — think "Escape From New York" (1981) or Blade Runner (1982) — became a staple of popular culture.
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The part of the country that many on the left used to think of as America's shadow self has seized control of the country, and dystopia feels as though it's looming ever closer.
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Of course, the idea of our phones becoming nurses and effectively following us around scanning for trouble is its own kind of dystopia—probably one that an extreme mountain biker would otherwise abhor.
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Well, this is probably going to sound really shallow and an obvious answer, but I think we kind of had a spell where we weren't playing music like Dystopia for quite some time.
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Listen to Grind's hot-wired version of Metallica's Hardwired... to Self-Destruct below: And get an earful of his "grinded down" instrumental cut of Megadeth's latest album, Dystopia... sans Dave Mustaine's trademark whine.
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It was the work of the digital artist Jon Rafman, whom Gvasalia had met at Art Basel, and the effect was practically mind-melting, a digi-dystopia for an elegant but surreal collection.
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The paintings' jangly details and conceptual tensions — between utopia and dystopia, nature and culture, photography and painting, reality and fantasy — suffuse them with ambiguity, a sense that something's not quite right in paradise.
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After she and her mother arrive, Judith befriends a boy of about her age, Moses, and these two forge the kind of honest, caring relationship that escapes everyone else in this desolate dystopia.
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The landscape is part sci-fi dystopia, part Wild West; the silhouettes of oversize wheels and pile drivers grind slowly against the horizon, while strange pods and skeletal boxes rise from the sand.
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Domestic tourism to Xinjiang has flourished even as police checkpoints and surveillance cameras turned the region into a techno-authoritarian dystopia, with famous Chinese travel bloggers marvelling at how safe the region is.
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London (CNN Business)Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has warned of a "digital dystopia" if the world fails to tackle threats such as disinformation and invasion of privacy.
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Just kidding, it was a brutal dystopia and the Aleck in question teamed up with Melinda, a prostitute who was of course also his wife, to rob and extort well-to-do patsies.
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Using reverse image search: Some of the trolls use the same avatars or images on multiple pages or social media accounts, says Ben Collins, a reporter on the "dystopia" beat for NBC News.
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Over a century after its origins, the commissioned works at Performa 17 will explore the movement again, this time in the midst of a dismal dystopia as erratic and ludicrous as Dadaism itself.
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Refracting a nostalgia for the 80s and a love of capitalism through the prism of Trump, fashave projects an image of a looming dystopia, one that grows a little more plausible by the day.
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Former Facebook executive Antonio Garcia Martinez at his remote island hideout, ready in case automation causes social breakdown Antonio isn't the only tech entrepreneur wondering if we're clicking and swiping our way to dystopia.
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The original Blade Runner had everything from enormous video screens to burning oil fields to serve as a helpful reminder of the fact that the movie was taking place in an advanced technological dystopia.
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In the last two weeks, I've gotten around to reading a 4,000-word piece about the coming AI dystopia, a 6,000-word overview on the Constitution, and a 7,000-word profile of Lamaleran whalers.
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And yet I cannot say for certain whether we are on the cusp of an e-scooting paradise or a dystopia — or if by this time next year we'll care about scooters at all.
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Spaces like Seiwa Market are simultaneously totems of our current dystopia; where, a couple hundred miles south, hundreds of families have been separated and detained for no other reason than their point of origin.
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The show is based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, and depicts a future in which the United States is replaced by the Republic of Gilead, an extreme, religious dystopia where women are subjugated.
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Back in his Stalinist dystopia, Mr Kim has peddled a conflicting but equally stirring story, says a scholar from a Chinese government-sponsored think-tank who travels to North Korea several times a year.
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Each episode also opens with a montage Bell cuts together from salvaged commercials and VHS tapes, set to vaporwave music to enforce the conflicting feelings of touring a post-capitalist dystopia in present day.
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Hooded Fang shed any trace of their late Torontopia indie-pop origins on Venus on Edge for lo-fi post-punk dystopia, exposing the shortcomings of their so-called music city metropolis and others.
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It is instructive now, as a road map for how we arrived at our present cyber-dystopia, and the dangers of building a world for "everyone" on the concerns and fantasies of the few.
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But these stories were created when dystopia felt less like a looming reality — and more like sweet, sweet permission to discard the digital devices that weight our pockets with the woes of the world.
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In Back to the Future II , Biff turns Hill Valley into a hellish version of Las Vegas, a dystopia the movie's screenwriter recently admitted was based on what life would be like under Trump.
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But let's remember to do so with a grudging respect, because there doesn't seem to be a whole lot else out there offering much in the way of alternatives to various flavors of dystopia.
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For months, the show promised a rich dystopia punctured by seeds of resistance — but what we didn't count on was the emotional punch of seeing how things got so bad in the first place.
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"We deduced to dress in the 'Handmaids'-inspired costumes because the novel/television series presents a dystopia where women's bodies are not their own," the 21-year-old student, from Albany, New York, said.
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Or maybe I'm just into the way director Floria Sigismondi uses narrow shafts of light and the gray winter sunlight of Canada to create a dystopia that feels at once familiar and still horrifying.
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He is very good at describing the gated community where people are going totally mad so translating that onto the screen was a challenge, and translating dystopia to the screen is always very challenging.
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Atlas Shrugged is her magnum opus, a futuristic dystopia in which citizens who don't contribute to society leech off the business classes, who create both wealth and useful material goods (mostly trains and railroads).
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While it's customary for politicians who are arguing for change to describe a troubled nation with an unsustainable status quo, Trump evoked a dystopia out of "The Hunger Games," a land damned near unlovable.
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By contrast, the horror of a defunct Soviet bloc seems a far more distant threat than the current dystopia of billionaires seeking to found private space colonies while most of humanity lives in squalor.
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The trailer gives a quick-cut synopsis of the world's quick progress from essentially contemporary reality into a fictional dystopia in which women essentially have no rights and are basically used as breeding stock.
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Leading up to today, liberals were acting like the impending order was going to throw us into a Handmaid's Tale–level dystopia in which gay people were barred from employment or eating at restaurants.
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From the endlessly enduring Magic: The Gathering to the cyberpunk dystopia of Android: Netrunner and the bloody intrigues of A Game of Thrones, there's a universe of stories and strategy out there to discover.
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As such, we live in a dystopia in which pregnant couples have switched from using cakes to announce whether they're having a boy or a girl, to filming themselves pulling complex and dangerous stunts.
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Directed by Julia Hart (Miss Stevens), who re-teamed with her husband, producer Jordan Horowitz (La La Land), to co-write the screenplay, the story is set in a drought-ridden near-future dystopia.
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The bigger question is: Will the future of work be a dystopia in which thoughtful young people like Gupta tell themselves they want to save the world, but end up ruling the world instead?
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Beginning with the Reagan era, economic policy played a key role in this dystopia: Just as forces of globalization and technological change were contributing to growing inequality, we adopted policies that worsened societal inequities.
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Of course, Westworld falls into the sci-fi genre, a type of storytelling which has been known to promote women into positions of power precisely because it adds to the sense of displacement and dystopia.
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So since it's the holidays, here's a little gift from Motherboard: a friendly reminder that repealing net neutrality wasn't the only thing the government did this year to bring us closer to an internet dystopia.
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The term grinder came later, lifted from the comic book Doktor Sleepless, set in a near-future dystopia in which young people called "grinders" use extreme body modification to incorporate computers into their own bodies.
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The original trilogy followed heroine Everdeen in the fictional dystopia of Panem as she squared off against other teens in a fight to the death and eventually led an uprising against the oppressive ruling class.
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China's new social media craze: Paying random people to shower you with over-the-top compliments China may be a dystopia, but praise groups are one of my favorite social networking developments of the year.
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If Sam could turn that admiration into social media infamy and a seat as prom queen when the pre-apocalypse world was full of competing distractions, what can she accomplish now in a barren dystopia?
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While it's an influential novel, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale isn't the only one out there to examine life in a dystopia or collapsing society, or examine the challenges women face when confronting an authoritative power.
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Instead, The Handmaid's Tale does approximately nothing to explain how the collapse of the US into a dystopia where women are subjugated and queerness is forbidden would suddenly eliminate racism and the idea of race.
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So let's be honest: though long held up as the quintessential utopia, The Jetsons is a perfect dystopia, built on the corpses of a billions-strong underclass deemed unworthy of a life in the clouds.
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The series, based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a modern-day totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States.
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Dick's fantasy/sci-fi short stories predate the popular Netflix series by several decades, and are an oft-cited forerunner of the technological dystopia genre (perhaps you've heard of a little film called Blade Runner?).
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Like everyone else, I took heart from the demonstrations at JFK and around the country; it was evidence that America is full of good people and that we are not doomed to some Trumpian dystopia.
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Dance Festival (through May 29) This eclectic monthlong East Village festival continues with additional performances of Tiffany Mills Company's "urban dystopia" work "After the Feast" (through Sunday) and the fiery Flamenco dancer Sonia Olla (Friday).
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Any suggestion it can do so presupposes that the inherent genetic differences between people somehow can be mitigated through modification, and I like to think about the future of baseball without a side of dystopia.
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My expectations for humanity took a big downturn after the 2016 elections, but seeing a dystopia on the horizon has led me to become politically involved in ways that I would have previously thought unimaginable.
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Robert Jackson Bennett, author of the Divine Cities series, launches a new trilogy with FOUNDRYSIDE (Crown, $27), an absolutely riveting secondary world fantasy that grounds its magic in industrialized processes, heavy machinery and capitalist dystopia.
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"Every sci-fi thing I've seen since I was 10 years old, there's generally a future dystopia, and I rarely see [a future] utopia," Millar said, explaining why he loves the joy of Star Wars.
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Photo by Chris Martindale Doom metal and dystopia have always made for morbid bedfellows, and Salt Lake's SubRosa have been proving themselves to be remarkably adept at putting apocalyptic warnings to mournful music since 2005.
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In contrast to the "preposterous scenarios" imagined by the pro forma feminist dystopia, Gilbert notes that it's those settings like Braithwaite's, those that "aren't preposterous at all," that rightly strike us as even more alarming.
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The fifth season of "Black Mirror" is coming in June — brilliant and unsettling technological dystopia that's so close to our present moment that I can only bear to consume a single episode at a time.
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For countries whose leaders recognize the dystopia we are headed toward if significant emissions-reducing measures aren't taken immediately, the One Trillion Trees initiative is a brilliant arrow in the quiver of climate-change policy.
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The dancers whirl and break down and go, go, go, until they collapse, without quite matching the raucous energy of the music (Michael Gordon's "Dystopia") or the beauty of Robert Wierzel's Color-Field-like lighting.
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You can do post-apocalypse things, survivalist stuff, rationing, killing, new tribalism, but you can also go the dystopia route, struggle against the decadent lords and masters, smash the seductive machine that's controlling your head.
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But the commercial—a 21-second spot full of dystopia and propaganda smashed into smithereens by Anya Major's flying hammer—framed everything about what Apple stood for, and would come to mean, in the coming decades.
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But the commercial—a 22005-second spot full of dystopia and propaganda smashed into smithereens by Anya Major's flying hammer—framed everything about what Apple stood for, and would come to mean, in the coming decades.
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The once far-off dystopia seems to inch closer every day, which means Villeneuve's follow-up isn't just another adventure in the Blade Runner world; it's a darker iteration of what our own future could be.
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Someone with a more alarmist disposition might argue that seeing the world's wealthiest person casually walking around with autonomous robots, not unlike those already deployed on the battlefield, is literally how a scifi dystopia movie starts.
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However, it's hard for the novel survive on satirical interludes alone, and her attempt to combine satire, dystopia, sci-fi, and millennial ennui feels too tightly packed for a book that is less than 350 pages.
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On the flip side, though, there's something naggingly bleak about the idea that a good Instagram photo can make or break an animal's survival, a dynamic that eerily parallels our modern dystopia of crowdfunded health care.
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Existential dread, the feeling that the world will soon suffer an all-enveloping heat death, that we are insignificant and ill-equipped to face our coming dystopia, will be the real star of The Peach Panther.
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There's no specific release date yet for HBO's Fahrenheit 451, an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel about a future dystopia where books are illegal, and "firemen" are special operatives who find them and burn them.
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Somehow the most difficult and the most approachable four-figure-page book you'll read, Wallace's monumental compendium of dystopia, comedy, tennis, drug recovery, and high-impact footnotes has been alternately under- and overrated for 20 years.
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The First Purge ends with the none-too-subtle suggestion that the only way to prevent a racist, classist, authoritarian dystopia from coming to pass is by taking to the streets, ideally with weapons in hand.
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Martin and Muñoz are obviously fans of dystopia, having last exhibited work in 2011 at UMIH Gallery in the form of a series of odd, morbid snow globes, which went on to become an internet sensation.
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Related: Dude, Wes Anderson's New Movie Is Coming Out on 4/20 Thom Yorke of Radiohead Is Scoring the Remake of a Legendary Horror Film The Newest 'Blade Runner 2049' Trailer Teases a Gorgeous Neon Dystopia
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I'm sure having a back catalog helps to a certain degree, but you address that rather directly here on "Life Savings," and how dystopia isn't some sci-fi concept, there are very human concerns in that.
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All of the themes rest on the unvarnished view that our current form of civilization is a nightmarish technological dystopia, despite the fact that there is still a wide range of human experience within this setting.
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Related: Why Science Illustration Still Needs a Human Touch Two Minute Timelapse Captures 75 Hours of Intense Illustration Enter a Kaleidoscopic Dystopia Rendered in Ink and Charcoal A Cambodian Artist's Intricate Ink Drawings | Monday Insta Illustrator
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For instance, her original explanation posits that The Handmaid's Tale is an example of hopepunk, because even though the world of that story is a grim dystopia, the main character never stops fighting against the system.
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Thanks to a new Handmaid's Tale parody from Funny Or Die, we now know what Margaret Atwood's chilling dystopia would look like if the kind of men who throw around the term "feminazi" were the stars.
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Although we live in a largely wireless world, the most potent symbol of our information age is the earthbound server farm, brilliantly depicted on HBO's "Silicon Valley" as a diode-blinking dystopia stretching toward the horizon.
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"The Handmaid's Tale" on Hulu, about a slave-class enduring a misogynist dystopia, and "Big Little Lies" on HBO, about privileged wives and mothers and their domestic struggles, were the big winners at television's top honors.
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Its two protagonists, Horace and Virginia Pruitt, are on trial after having been accused by their 13-year-old son, Adam, of taking him to church against his will — a criminal act in Ms. Williams's dystopia.
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As I stood at the top of the zip-line myself, heart pounding and cheeks stiff from smiling, I realized that the truth is somewhere between Gruen's socialist utopia where dreams come true and critics' capitalist dystopia.
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A viral clip showing a confrontation between CNN reporter Jim Acosta and a White House aide at a Wednesday press conference with President Trump has provided us with a handy example of the coming video manipulation dystopia.
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In a Reddit AMA yesterday, Margaret Atwood shared her impressions of the first three episodes of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, said America is dangerously close to dystopia, and pretended that it's not cool to like Mel Brooks.
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Early in the morning on Friday, December 28th, Netflix slipped its viewers a late Christmas present: a new episode of Charlie Brooker's technological-dystopia anthology series Black Mirror, in the form of an interactive movie called Bandersnatch.
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Whether the outcome is viewed as people and machines each playing to their strengths in a harmonious team, or a corporate techno-dystopia with a Starbucks twist, is perhaps—like preferences in coffee—a matter of taste.
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Unfortunately, that fact hasn't discouraged Twitter nuts from making bad Game of Thrones jokes or generally freaking out about the sinister dystopia that would be a world of longer tweets:But you can't tweet over 140 characters yet!
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Instead of going back to Orwell for a sense of what a coming dystopia might look like, we might be better off reading We, which was written nearly a century ago by the Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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When Margaret Atwood first published The Handmaid's Tale in 1985, she was working with one of literary fiction's most effective ways of looking at how misogyny is baked into the structures of our society: the feminist dystopia.
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The Handmaid's Tale's premise — a puritanical authoritarian dystopia where women are reduced to breeding stock — requires the show's cast to confront the upsetting realities of Gilead, like governnment-sanctioned rape, genital mutilation, corporal punishment, and victim-blaming.
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It suggests a more profitable political path for young people: Instead of canceling an entire generation, why not set your sights on a smaller, more specific group, one that bears more direct complicity in America's widening dystopia?
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Authorities said the riots were stoked by messages circulated on social media, apparently inspired by the Hollywood horror film franchise "The Purge", which depicts a violent dystopia in which all crimes are made legal for a day.
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The Grammy house band played "Master of Puppets"—arguably the most recognizable song from Dave Mustaine's former bandmates in Metallica—as Megadeth walked up to the stage to collect their Metal Performance award for the album Dystopia.
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The videos produced by Funny Or Die tend to be, you know, funny — but its latest mashup, titled "Trump's The Handmaid's Tale," shows the frightening parallels between America's current political climate and the dystopia created by Atwood.
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"People needed relief from all of the terror and from all of the dystopia and from all of the anger, and 'Scooby-Doo' is groovy," said Sandler, who is working on an upcoming book about the show.
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It was the early blogosphere instead of Twitter mobs, serendipity instead of ruthless curation, geek culture as an insurgency rather than a corporate establishment, online as an escape for eccentrics rather than an addictive dystopia for everyone.
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"Utopia" was not the first scholarly attempt to imagine a perfect society—More frequently acknowledged Plato's "Republic"—but it has become the name that we use to describe such visions (with "dystopia", its opposite, appearing in the 1950s).
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In her new music video — her first release since her 2016 album Dangerous Woman — Ariana Grande seems to have been caught in the hipster Upside Down, a highly Instagrammable dystopia where, erm, gravity does not appear to exist.
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So, recently, I spoke to Wirkola about how he came to work on a near-future dystopia, how he thinks about violence in his movie, and what he hopes Netflix viewers get out of What Happened to Monday.
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Equal parts bizarre political thriller, paint-by-numbers dystopia, and a boxing match, New World Order is a Logan Paul comeback tour vehicle dragged down by a premise that its filmmakers seem to find alternately boring and confusing.
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Sasha and Obi have some genuinely charming banter as they debate which science fiction dystopia is worse: Sasha's Mad Max-style irradiated Earth, or Obi's resource-scarce Moon base, which harkens back to The Expanse or Battlestar Galactica.
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That this barren dystopia is drawn from modern real life only sharpens the desperation fueling this tense story, as two brothers attempt to pull off a daring string of bank robberies in order to save the family farm.
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"Some of you know me from The Hunger Games in which I play Effie Trinket, a cruel, out-of-touch reality-TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia," Banks said.
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Instead I found that even in a world that feels like it's spinning inevitably and ever faster towards dystopia that it's actually possible to make a community that can work and get along and not fuck everything up.
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"Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket — a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia," she said.
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But none of his adventures have been so strangely familiar as " Prussian Blue ," whose plot takes in high crime, sexual scandal, financial fraud, methamphetamines, and murder in Hitler's Alpine dystopia during the week before the Führer's fiftieth birthday.
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Dystopia used to be a fiction of resistance; it's become a fiction of submission, the fiction of an untrusting, lonely, and sullen twenty-first century, the fiction of fake news and infowars, the fiction of helplessness and hopelessness.
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It brought sci-fi crashing back down to Earth after the '223s and '222s pristine dreams of space travel, and infected the creative waters for years with its post-industrial dystopia, where mega-corporations and androids corrupted humanity.
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The lyrics on Dystopia are as dark as ever, though, especially tracks like "Bullet to the Brain" and "Fatal Illusion" (which is the first song I've ever seen that brought together the idea of prison reform and zombies).
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I doubt anybody will change their habits from seeing Muriel talk about how we should be fighting against a slow slide into dystopia, instead of bemoaning it and doing nothing, but it's nice to hear all the same.
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Essay Mark Doten's new novel, TRUMP SKY ALPHA (Graywolf, paper, $16), is a funny book and a sad one, a bright one and a dark one, a distant sci-fi dystopia and a ripped-from-the-headlines tragedy.
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I'm a woman in sports media and you're a woman in the tech bro dystopia that is modern-day San Francisco, so I feel uniquely qualified to advise you on all the things that could go wrong here.
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This fits neatly into the paradigm many violent games like to employ: Forcing the player to engage in self-defense by tossing their character into a hostile environment, be it literal hell, future dystopia or foreign military exercise.
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Where Reagan smoothed the rougher edges of his vision with soaring patriotic imagery, Trump walked down a dark dystopia in which crime, joblessness and foreign exploitation had laid the country low while a shadowy elite profited at every turn.
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To commemorate another heartbreaking season inside a patriarchal dystopia, the staff of io9 have gotten together to talk about the second season finale of The Handmaid's Tale, including that shocking ending that's divided even hardcore fans of the series.
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Image from Google's DeepDream research Image from Google's DeepDream research Discussions of AI often veer toward extremes, whether the promise of a utopia free of human suffering or the danger of a dystopia where robots enslave their human creators.
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Add this to the growing pile of evidence the world is slowly transitioning into a sci-fi dystopia: a billionaire entrepreneur with a sideline in building space rockets has been showing off by piloting a 13-foot-tall robot.
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Now, in 2018, she's playing the starring role of Ruby in The Darkest Minds, another major sci-fi film anchored in an all-too-real political allegory and set in a dystopia where teens take on an oppressive society.
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As Amazon and other firms embrace new tools to monitor and direct their workers, the difference between progress and dystopia comes down to whether workers feel comfortable demanding raises, and whether they can quit without fear of serious hardship.
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In a lot of ways The Handmaid's Tale does dystopia fairly well — it draws upon modern misogyny, extremist pseudo-Christian ideology, and observable human rights abuses and imagines a world where all of society is governed by those terms.
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Just like Arrival was at its best when we saw the elegance of how the space ship and the aliens within it actually functioned, this version of Blade Runner shines when we get to watch how Villeneuve's dystopia operates.
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Back in 2014, one of the biggest stories in the cinema world was the long-running war between studio mogul Harvey Weinstein and Korean director Bong Joon-ho over the American edit of Bong's science fiction dystopia movie Snowpiercer.
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Ridley Scott's 1982 film, based on a Philip K. Dick novel, forged a new vision of postmodern dystopia: "The map of our collective dream world was permanently redrawn," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times this week.
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Where Moore wrote an alternative history of Cold War America — a pre-apocalyptic dystopia in which masked vigilantes have been outlawed — Lindelof reaches back and forward in time to root his caped-crusaders story in a brutal American tragedy.
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It's dark as hell to invoke a hyperpatriarchal dystopia, but the last few years of this decade have given us sufficient occasion to feel like we were hurtling towards an autocratic nightmare — and under his eye, of all eyes.
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The heroes of this dystopia are a small caravan of people who live on the run, moving from ruin to ruin, carrying with them all the books, movies, computer drives and gadgets they could save along the way — i.e.
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"Big Little Lies" characterized its upper-class families partly through their children's precocious musical tastes; "Legion" created an unstuck-in-time mod soundscape; "The Handmaid's Tale" drops incongruous pop anthems into its dystopia like pirate broadcasts from free territory.
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And what is currently a nightmare will turn into dystopia as the Puerto Rican government is unable to make payments as it did this week and again later in July on its debt obligations totaling more than $70 billion.
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Rather more disturbing is the fact that Nineteen Eighty Four is number 215 on the list, which means the most important dystopia of this or any age is far less widely read than it should have been by now.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has officially launched the Contract for the Web, a set of principles designed to "fix" the internet and prevent us from sliding into a "digital dystopia," The Guardian reports.
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This is the start of the French director-choreographer Raphaëlle Boitel's stark and stunning "When Angels Fall," a blend of circus and dance set in a mechanized dystopia whose inhabitants yearn for human connection — a bicycle built for two.
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On his excellent comparative politics blog, Tom Pepinsky wrote back in January about how most authoritarian politics is characterized not by daily dystopia but by "boring and tolerable" existence in which political participation had little effect on the government.
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Not spelling out the severity of the dystopia these heroes are living in feels like a lost opportunity, and it makes the drama seem more personal as opposed to a bigger, more sweeping exploration of the idea of a superhero.
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Here's what we're left with: a dystopia that has no political statement to make; a flat world built around a single, flimsy plot device that can't support it; and a character study of a dull and unlikable one-note character.
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In all the dystopia that we see every day, I saw a tweet from a guy, I think he was in India who was teaching poor inner city people, homeless people how to do design work using a product called Canva.
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Looking over so much of his work in one place, it becomes clear how attuned Pettibon is to the fact that all leaders do bad things, and how that's a big part of what got us into this current dystopia.
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Nestled between the blood-soaked The Hunger Games (2008) and the categorically minded Divergent (2011), Matched was a romantic dystopia that played into particularly teenage anxieties: Is the person you're dating at 17 the person you should stay with forever?
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The clanging percussion and woozy synth work only echo the techno-dystopia of the concept, but it's hard not to feel giddy when the odd rushes of caffeinated arpeggiations and rapid-fire synth bells come in during the films tensest moments.
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You may see this as a clever amusement, interesting but unscientific, in which case you clearly lack the vision to lead this country into the looming nightmare dystopia to come—equal parts 1984 and a bad episode of Black Mirror.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The author of "Trainspotting", a grim comedy about young Scottish drug addicts that proved a huge hit in the 1990s and still enjoys cult status, sees "bleak dystopia" in the age of Donald Trump and Britain's Brexit vote.
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Then the action leaps five years forward, as grim heroine Wyldstyle, aka Lucy (Elizabeth Banks), explains that since anything remotely shiny or bright attracts the invaders' attention, Bricksburg has become a dark, gritty post-apocalyptic dystopia as a form of defense.
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When Tiger and Wolf arrive in Josh's room, they explain that they sent the Biotic Wars game back in time from their "Lost Angeles" of 2162, to locate and train the person who'll liberate future humanity from its techno-dystopia.
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Such is the through-the-looking-glass world of Leni Zumas's harrowing Red Clocks — a novel so uncannily close to our own surreal political dystopia you might just find yourself reaching to call your Congressperson with the turn of every page.
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But the unfocused attempt at satire through the stage design only amplified the main problem with Everything Now as a whole; it regurgitates the budding dystopia of 2017 back at its audience, with barely any commentary, insight, or—importantly—solutions.
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Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror has pretty much cornered the market on technology-inspired dystopia, but long before prime ministers were having sex with pigs or autonomous robot dogs were terrorizing the Scottish moors, there was the work of Andrew Niccol.
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MICHAEL PETERSONEugene, Oregon I see that the secretary of state for exiting the European Union has sought to reassure our European partners that post-Brexit Britain would not be a "Mad Max" dystopia ("The right way to do Brexit", February 24th).
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Add this one to the growing pile of evidence that the world is slowly transitioning into a sci-fi dystopia: a billionaire entrepreneur with a side-line building space rockets has been showing off piloting a 13-foot-tall robot.
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Margaret Atwood's bestselling book, published in 1985, takes place in a dystopia called the Republic of Gilead -- a totalitarian society, formerly known as the US, where a class of women called the handmaids are subjugated and used only for reproduction.
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Envisioning a future in which transhumanism's wildest desires are realized is a heady thought experiment, one that quickly devolves into a vision of dystopia: too little space, too many bodies, and—if brains are uploaded from centuries past—obsolete software.
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He has written extensively in admiration of the British filmmaker Peter Watkins, one of the best to blur the lines between fiction and nonfiction in works like like the unconventional biopic Edvard Munch or the desert-set dystopia Punishment Park.
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The pacing, too, is somewhat off, with the first two thirds of the film -- which runs 2 hours, 44 minutes -- feeling a tad too leisurely, as if luxuriating in its futuristic dystopia, before rushing toward its slightly messy climactic act.
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This is a dystopia shaped from the ingredients of our particular America, a country where words are carelessly strewn about by the executive branch on Twitter, where fake news is read as real news by a segment of the population.
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But the prospect of enforcing that hatred wholesale, rather than retail, with, say, a police-state dystopia "wall" of drones and automatic facial-recognition checkpoints enveloping the southern borders of Europe and America — that is something entirely new and terrible.
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Season of the Witch instead treads a line between Lovecraftian horror and a corporate sci-fi dystopia, planting itself in California instead of Illinois and insinuating a terrifying global Halloween night conspiracy, all originating in a tiny rural company town.
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No, it's not a new Toxic Holocaust record (and definitely not a new Tiger Junkies joint); instead, Mr. Grind has turned his attention to two of the past year's biggest thrash-adjacent releases: Metallica's Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, and Megadeth's Dystopia.
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In a statement released by her publisher, Atwood said she decided to return to the story not just because of her voracious fans, but because she wanted to explore the eerie parallels between her imagined dystopia and our current political climate.
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