Author : Joyce Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995328633
Bypassing Dystopia
Joyce Nelson
Bypassing Dystopia
Bypassing Dystopia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Bypassing Dystopia book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Damming the Peace
Wendy Holm
Author : Wendy Holm
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781459413177
Damming the Peace by Wendy Holm Pdf
Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia's Peace River Valley has been touted by B.C. Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province's increasing energy needs. With its enormous $10 billion price tag, the dam would be the largest public works project in BC history. It would be the third dam on the Peace River, and destroy traditional unceded territory belonging to Treaty 8 First Nations. Following the last provincial election, the newly appointed NDP government called for a review of the project, but work on the dam continues. This comes after protests by aboriginal groups and landowners, several lawsuits against the government, and federal government intervention to let the dam go ahead. More recently, there has been a call from a United Nations panel to review how the dam will affect Indigenous land. This book presents the independent voices of citizen experts describing every important impact of the dam, including: Sustainable energy expert Guy Dauncey on future energy demand, and whether there is likely to be a need for the dam's electricity An interview with aboriginal activist Helen Knott on the dam's assault on traditional lands and culture, in particular Indigenous women Agrologist Wendy Holm on the farm land impact — prime horticulture land important to food security and nutrition Family physician Warren Bell on the effect that loss of traditional way of life and connection to the land has had on the health of aboriginal people Wildlife biologist Brian Churchill with forty years' experience of studying its land and wildlife Former environmental minister Joan Sawicki on government cover-ups and smoking guns Energy industry watchdog Andrew Nikiforuk on the links between dams, fracking and earthquakes Award-winning broadcaster Rafe Mair on how party politics corrupts political leadership, and the role of activism and civil disobedience in shaping government decision-making David Schindler, one of the world's foremost water ecologists, explains the role dams like Site C will play in Canada's climate change strategy Joyce Nelson connects the dots between the Site C dam and continental water sharing plans
Dystopia
Janet McNulty
Author : Janet McNulty
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631875816
Dystopia by Janet McNulty Pdf
Imagine living in a world where everything you do is controlled. In the distant future the United States has been split into two regions separated by a barren wasteland; this is the country of Dystopia. Here the individual is discouraged, freedom is an illusion, food is rationed, and everything you do is tracked by a chip implanted in your arm. This is Dana Ginary's world. At age seventeen, people receive their career assignments chosen for them by a government body. Forced to work at the Waste Management Plant because she was declared too individualistic, Dana finds herself surrounded by death and brutality. Knowing her days are numbered, she looks for a way to leave the plant before she, too, becomes one of its causalities. It is then she meets a man named George and soon finds herself caught up in a cat and mouse game between the resistance and the Dystopian government. Dana finds herself faced with an agonizing choice of whom she will betray and whom she will save: her friend George, her parents, or herself.
Unintended Dystopia
Russ White
Author : Russ White
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781725270473
Unintended Dystopia by Russ White Pdf
Social media, shopping experiences, and mapping programs might not seem like they have much in common, but they are all built on neurodigital media. What is neurodigital media? It lives at the intersection of the Californian Ideology, the digital computing revolution, network ecosystems, the nudge, and a naturalistic view of the person. The Californian Ideology holds individuals should be reshaped, naturalism says individuals may be reshaped, and digital computing provides the tools, through network ecosystems theory and the nudge, that can reshape individuals. This book explores the history and impact of neurodigital media in the lives of everyday users.
The Age of Dystopia
Louisa MacKay Demerjian
Author : Louisa MacKay Demerjian
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Dystopian films
ISBN : 9781443889759
The Age of Dystopia by Louisa MacKay Demerjian Pdf
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, as well as connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes on the individual and society as a whole. Dystopia, as a genre, reflects our greatest fears of what the future might bring, based on analysis of the present. This book connects traditional dystopian works with their contexts and compares these with contemporary versions. It centers around two main questions: Why is dystopia so popular now? And, why is dystopia so popular with young adult audiences? Since dystopia reflects the fears of society as a whole, this book will have broad appeal for any reader, and will be particularly useful to teachers in a variety of settings, such as in a high school or college-level classroom to teach dystopian literature, or in a comparative literature classroom to show how the genre has appeared in multiple locales at different times. Indeed, the book’s interdisciplinary nature allows it to be of use in classes focussing on politics, bioethics, privacy issues, women’s studies, and any number of additional topics.
Defying Dystopia
Ed Ayres
Author : Ed Ayres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351523110
Defying Dystopia by Ed Ayres Pdf
To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet, science confirms that misuse of technology and environmental abuse places our world in grave danger of ruin. The World Scientists' Warning to Humanity places our civilization on a collision course. Defying Dystopia analyses how we have come to this, and what options remain for far-seeing people to take control of their own destiny and survive the future. Ed Ayres, who has worked with some iconic environmental scientists of the past half-century, argues that technology was originally used to augment the natural strengths of humans, but has been increasingly used in ways that weaken us—shifting from useful work to the industries of distraction, entertainment, convenience, pain-relief, and sedation. Ayres advises on how at least some of us can avoid that collision. The most critical task, for those of us who want humanity to survive and thrive, is to disengage from our tech thraldom, and shift to a conscious management of our evolution in which we use technology to enhance our skills and strengths rather than erode or supplant them. Ayres provides insightful, actionable suggestions we can use to increase our odds of survival. He asks far-seeing individuals to take on a mission that the dominant governments and institutions demonstrably cannot: the epic task of shepherding a low-profile, resilient transition to a new kind of human future.
The Bitcoin Dystopia
Dunstan Teo, Alvin Chiang
Author : Dunstan Teo, Alvin Chiang
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781684668922
The Bitcoin Dystopia by Dunstan Teo, Alvin Chiang Pdf
Bitcoin, the brainchild of Satoshi Nakamoto, is as unfathomable as its elusive creator. Is it an instrument of exchange, like currency notes, or is it an investment tool? While many of us could still be grappling with the concept of cryptocurrency, fortunes have already been built and lost; lives have been impacted and, in some cases, ruined in this whole new uncharted universe of digital money. Piecing together published information from various sources, The Bitcoin Dystopia: The Prelude offers a bird’s eye view of the current state of affairs with regard to cryptocurrency and the larger world in which it is situated. At the same time, the book makes a bold prediction about the future of the world through a provocative storytelling approach that is atypical of non-fiction. Bitcoin is unorthodox and any attempt to grasp its impact should be anything but conventional.
Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living
Greg Albo,Leo Panitch
Author : Greg Albo,Leo Panitch
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678435
Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living by Greg Albo,Leo Panitch Pdf
Essays which aim to create a world of agency and justice How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond Market Dystopia, contains a wealth of incisive essays that entice readers to do just that: to wake up to the cynical, implicitly market-driven concept of human society we have come to accept as everyday reality. Intellectuals and activists such as Michelle Chin, Nancy Fraser, Arun Gupta, and Jeremy Brecher connect with and go beyond classical socialist themes, to combine an analysis of how we are living now with visions and plans for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented alternative ways of living.
Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias
Laura Winter
Author : Laura Winter
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783381112234
Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias by Laura Winter Pdf
Serial storytelling has the advantage of unlocking rather than simplifying the complexities of digital culture. With their worldbuilding potential, TV series open up new artistic horizons, particularly for the dystopian genre. Situated at the nexus of dystopia, complex TV, and a metamodern cultural logic, Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias offers readers novel insights into the dynamics of serial dystopias in the contemporary streaming landscape. Introducing the term 'complex serial dystopias' to describe series that allow audiences to engage with the dystopian premise from multiple angles, the book examines four Anglo-American series, including Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Kiss Me First. The in-depth analyses trace the variety of ways in which these series offer critical reflections on the human-technology entanglement in digital culture.
Global Dystopias
Junot Diaz
Author : Junot Diaz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946511041
Global Dystopias by Junot Diaz Pdf
Stories, essays, and interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present. As the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit Handmaid's Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. “It is not only a kind of vocabulary and idiom,” says bestselling author and volume editor Junot Diaz. “It is a useful arena in which to begin to think about who we are becoming.” Bringing together some of the most prominent writers of science fiction and introducing fresh talent, this collection of stories, essays, and interviews explores global dystopias in apocalyptic landscapes and tech futures, in robot sentience and forever war. Global Dystopias engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell's 1984 alongside new work by China Miéville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In “Don't Press Charges, and I Won't Sue,” award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas toward transgender people to create a not-so-distant future in which conversion therapy is not only normalized, but funded by the government. Henry Farrell surveys the work of dystopian forebear Philip K. Dick and argues that distinctions between the present and the possible future aren't always that clear. Contributors also include Margaret Atwood and award-winning speculative writer, Nalo Hopkinson. In the era of Trump, resurgent populism, and climate denial, this collection poses vital questions about politics and civic responsibility and subjectivity itself. If we have, as Díaz says, reached peak dystopia, then Global Dystopias might just be the handbook we need to survive it. Contributors Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Adrienne Bernhard, Mark Bould, Thea Costantino, Tananarive Due, Henry Farrell, JR Fenn, Maria Dahvana Headley, Nalo Hopkinson, Mike McClelland, Maureen McHugh, China Miéville, Jordy Rosenberg, Peter Ross, Sumudu Samarwickrama
DYSTOPIA OF AI
Daniel Iverson
Author : Daniel Iverson
Publisher : Daniel Roldan
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781916996007
DYSTOPIA OF AI by Daniel Iverson Pdf
“Dystopia of AI,” is the result of a unique collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence. While the narrative and storyline were crafted with the help of AI technology, Daniel served as the guiding hand behind the scenes, providing input, inspiration, and direction. This book proves the incredible possibilities that emerge when human ingenuity and AI capabilities merge. It’s a fusion of Daniel’s ideas and the innovative writing assistance of ChatGPT, resulting in a story that pushes the boundaries of imagination and storytelling. “Dystopia of AI,” is the result of a unique collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence. While the narrative and storyline were crafted with the help of AI technology, Daniel served as the guiding hand behind the scenes, providing input, inspiration, and direction. This book proves the incredible possibilities that emerge when human ingenuity and AI capabilities merge. It’s a fusion of Daniel’s ideas and the innovative writing assistance of ChatGPT, resulting in a story that pushes the boundaries of imagination and storytelling.
Violence and Dystopia
Daniel Cojocaru
Author : Daniel Cojocaru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443883528
Violence and Dystopia by Daniel Cojocaru Pdf
Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973), Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) and Rant (2007), and Brad Anderson’s film The Machinist (2004). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-sacrificial crisis as defined by Girard for archaic religion. The third chapter focuses on the psychogeographical writings of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd. Walking the streets of London the pedestrian represents the excluded underside of the world of Ballardian speed. The walking subject is portrayed in terms of the expelled victim of Girardian theory. The fourth chapter considers violent crowds as portrayed by Ballard’s late fiction, the writings of Stewart Home, and David Peace’s GB84 (2004). In accordance with Girard’s hypothesis, the discussed narratives reveal the failure of scapegoat expulsion to restore peace to the potentially self-destructive violent crowds. The fifth chapter examines the post-apocalyptic environments resulting from failed scapegoat expulsion and mimetic conflict out of control, as portrayed in Sinclair’s Radon Daughters (1994), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003), and Will Self’s The Book of Dave (2006).
Scraps Of The Untainted Sky
Thomas Moylan
Author : Thomas Moylan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429977039
Scraps Of The Untainted Sky by Thomas Moylan Pdf
Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation by way of imaginary societies which are even worse than those that lie outside their authors' and readers' doors.In Scraps of the Untainted Sky , Tom Moylan offers a thorough investigation of the history and aesthetics of dystopia. To situate his study, Moylan sets out the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grow out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960 and 1970s (the context that produced the project of cultural studies itself). He then presents a thorough account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the new science-fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the economic, political, and cultural convulsions of the 1980s and 1990s, and he examines in detail three of these new "critical dystopias:" Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower , and Marge Piercy's He, She, and It .With its detailed, documented, and yet accessible presentation, Scraps of the Untainted Sky will be of interest to established scholars as well as students and general readers who are seeking an in-depth introduction to this important area of cultural production.
Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias
Laura Winter
Author : Laura Winter
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783381112227
Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias by Laura Winter Pdf
Serial storytelling has the advantage of unlocking rather than simplifying the complexities of digital culture. With their worldbuilding potential, TV series open up new artistic horizons, particularly for the dystopian genre. Situated at the nexus of dystopia, complex TV, and a metamodern cultural logic, Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias offers readers novel insights into the dynamics of serial dystopias in the contemporary streaming landscape. Introducing the term 'complex serial dystopias' to describe series that allow audiences to engage with the dystopian premise from multiple angles, the book examines four Anglo-American series, including Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Kiss Me First. The in-depth analyses trace the variety of ways in which these series offer critical reflections on the human-technology entanglement in digital culture.
Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition
Jack London,Ernest Bramah,Sinclair Lewis,Anthony Trollope,Milo Hastings,Aldous Huxley,Francis Stevens,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,C. S. Lewis,George Orwell,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Hugh Benson,Yevgeny Zamyatin
Author : Jack London,Ernest Bramah,Sinclair Lewis,Anthony Trollope,Milo Hastings,Aldous Huxley,Francis Stevens,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,C. S. Lewis,George Orwell,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Hugh Benson,Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3583 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547679004
Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition by Jack London,Ernest Bramah,Sinclair Lewis,Anthony Trollope,Milo Hastings,Aldous Huxley,Francis Stevens,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,C. S. Lewis,George Orwell,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Hugh Benson,Yevgeny Zamyatin Pdf
This unique collection of "DYSTOPIA Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: 1984 (George Orwell) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis) That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis) Iron Heel (Jack London) We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) Meccania the Super-State (Owen Gregory) Lord of the World (Hugh Benson) When The Sleeper Wakes (H. G. Wells) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The First Men in the Moon (H. G. Wells) Caesar's Column (Ignatius Donnelly) The Secret of the League (Ernest Bramah) City of Endless Night (Milo Hastings) Looking Further Backward (Arthur Dudley Vinton) The Heads of Cerberus (Francis Stevens) The Fixed Period (Anthony Trollope) Animal Farm (George Orwell)
