How To Use Dystopia In A Sentence

Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
Cui Jie's dystopian scene from 2011, "Bar," also evokes the painterly eeriness of German artists Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch. China's Rising Art Stars
Re: and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare. Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
Not all of his admirers were fully aware of the satirical or dystopian aspects of his work, however.
Part of what's called the dystopian genre, "Hunger Games" is set in a bleak futuristic world where the government forces teens to fight one another to the death as their parents look on, airs the battle on television and calls it a national holiday. Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Understanding Why Teens Love Disaster, Distress And Dystopian Lit

For instance, George Orwell almost called his dystopian masterpiece The Big Bad Book Blog
It's all packed into this two-hour dystopian space odyssey. Times, Sunday Times
The outcome of the book, while almost overwhelmingly dystopian, is also the most fascinating perspective on the nature of humanity in a very long time. Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish?
Doing a PHD in social networking (and stints at Yahoo) would make Danah forecast 'social network fatigue', but her dystopian Desperate Housewives meets their always-on kids in the gootube bazaar is so funny it must be true - Class will be split into private mean girls cliques and interspersed with child star bonaduces, security guard gary coleman playing net nanny, and Marcia Cross tubd spankn vignettes. "Forget dirty laundry, we're talking a full inversion of the house."
Either the valorization of accumulation, profit, and the subjection of human beings to mechanistic systems will wind down into the sort of dystopia so widely and lavishly depicted to scare us witless; or we will awaken from our trance, take a deep breath to dispel the catecholamines, use our big neocortices to recognize that we still possess the resources, intelligence and skill to enact a redemptive vision—and then do it. Annals of The Culture of Politics: Tea and Empathy
A rather good tale that beings with a tense and exciting mission of subterfuge to escape from a very fascist dystopia to start a colony in interstellar space. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Coyote - Allen M. Steele
‘The future,’ as a social construct, is commonly understood in terms of utopias and dystopias.
In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition.
Eiriz's works resist the world and maintain a critical space apart from the propaganda of the world in a way profoundly akin to Adorno's formulation; they stand as powerful and moving signposts on the road to Dystopia.
This volume seeks to explore the saturation of visual technologies in our everyday lives, widely seen by theorists as the path to cultural destruction and a dystopian future.
By 2015, academics had coined the phrase "urban neo-Victorian dystopia" to describe the dramatic social and spatial changes in the city they had begun to compare, with only a little exaggeration, with the London described by Charles Dickens 160 years earlier. The Guardian World News
Yet, this technological naivety finally does not matter, for the dystopians' purpose is moral and political.
To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass - produced boys.
I've got two ideas: one of which is a dystopian, which is a very hot genre right now. Make It
This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in seriously water constrained future. A. Siegel: Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap
It's extremely difficult to imagine a realistic dystopia because we're so tempted to create a caricature.
But the stark, dystopian science-fiction tale has become a cult oddity if not a classic.
When the novel's fifth section gives you the interrogation of a rebellious clone, Sonmi~451, in some dystopian future, it is to draw the reader into an unlikely sympathy with the "fabricant", treated as non-human by the "purebloods" she serves. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Now it appears we face the prospect of two contradictory dystopias at once - open markets, closed minds - because state surveillance is back again with a vengeance.
There seems to be a trend these days with postapocalyptic dystopian novels. Lisa Yee: Happy 95th Birthday, Beverly Cleary
Magneto is the kind of character that is more commonly found in dystopian SciFi novels and more artist graphic novel offerings like the Watchmen. Rumor: Magneto Spin-Off Shooting Next Year? « FirstShowing.net
Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic.
Still, it strikes me as odd that conservatives seem so convinced that a set of countries whose populations are healthier and longer-lived, and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare. Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
Then hear this, Sir Thomas: fie on utopia, hooray for dystopia!
I am not a dystopian who thinks that making some efforts to make tools for slaughtering large numbers of people inaccessible to maniacs will transform America into Amerika.
But in Y2K's dystopian mode, nature is not a land of plenty and ease to which we might return and linger, but rather a howling wilderness, a return to bestiality and the Hobbesian war of all against all.
In our time — in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia — no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of Clans of the Alphane Moon and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report. 03.04
The story is a delirious, chaotic, often impenetrable allegory of tribalism in an industrial dystopia.
Though the film "World on a Wire" most resembles is Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 pulp-fiction dystopia "Alphaville," with wider neckties and groovier furniture, it may have just been a genre Mr. Fassbinder wanted to try out. Taking a Relic Over the Moon
This soulless remake of the 1975 Norman Jewison-directed dystopian sci-fi picture starring James Caan skipped all the social commentary and went straight for jazzed-up, hyperviolent roller-derby action. Top 10 Pointless Remakes » Scene-Stealers
Despite my deep interest in dystopian societies, I only read 1984 this year, I have just started Brave New World and I have never read Lord of the Flies. Confessions of a literary fraud « Write Anything
It's set in a future dystopia, where a lone individual fights against a totalitarian regime.
You must confront the sulphurous dystopia of industrial New Jersey.
A student whom I tutor is reading Fahrenheit 451, and reading it with him has made me wonder what the best dystopian literature for young adult and youth readers is. New Notes, Back to School edition
Yevgeny Zamyatin -- whose early dystopian novels influenced Orwell, Le Guin, and Vonnegut -- once wrote that Children are the boldest philosophers. MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
The dystopian political program of this utterly marginal, extremist sect has absolutely no traction with anyone of significance.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin would also be a great addition to the dystopian "canon," and anyone who enjoyed 1984 should be familiar with it, as it acted as a precursor to Orwell's influential novel. MIND MELD: The Perfect SF/F/H Books to Give to People Who Don't Read SF/F/H
In its dystopian vision, the first mega city around New York began construction in 2030, intended to house three to four million people.
Now seems an apt time to stage George Orwell's dystopian novel about the corruption of language.
A chilling tale in the tradition of Fahrenheit 451 and Logan's Run - the sort of dystopian narrative where a protagonist policeman who previously hasn't questioned his society wakes up to the knowledge that he is doing very bad things - the novelet is screaming for a Hollywood option and subsequent screenplay adaptation. Archive 2006-11-01
Nothing about Appalachia makes it memorable or distinct, except perhaps the setting, though a reader can find the same setting for a religious dystopia in Lon Prater's 2005 short story, "Deadglass. Archive 2008-08-01
Orwell's genius was to take the theme of a totalitarian dystopia to the max.
A different kind of dystopian prediction comes in The Discovery. Times, Sunday Times
The only escape from the situation comedy of a dystopian society is into the audience, the position of absolute exteriority. THE SAVAGE GIRL
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 the title inverted the last two digits of 1948, the year when it was published, he imagined a world divided into three despotic superstates—Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia—permanently at war with one another. The Great Experiment
Young Sr wrote the 1945 Labour manifesto, virtually invented what is now called social entrepreneurship, set up the Consumers' Association, Which? magazine, the University of the Third Age and the National Extension College prototype for the Open University, and wrote The Rise of the Meritocracy, a dystopian satire about the consequences of continuing with the 11-plus. Can Toby Young's free school succeed?
These dystopias of capitalism are squeezing out communities' hope as they sedate them with the best salaries around.
Blackly funny and chillingly dystopian, Battle Royale has been having quite a resurgence recently.
Either it's possible to write (and film) non-awful dystopian fiction, or "awful dystopian" is redundant. Warning: political cooties
Both McLuhan's and Marcuse's dissection of modern technology is neither dystopian nor pessimistic.
It is not surprising that the two greatest literary dystopians, Huxley and Orwell, were English.
To bring this back around to the original point, any enforced political dystopia must be rooted in a kind of existential amusia, in which one has lost the ability to detect the rhythm, melody, and harmony of history. One Cʘsmos
What's off the mark about his dystopian predictions is that his narrator is saying these things, as opposed to merely thinking them.
The outcome is dystopian politics in which the motive that most influences politicians is getting re-elected. The Times Literary Supplement
The story revolves around Harrison Ford's policeman, Rick Deckard, and his hunt for four cloned humanoids, known as replicants, in a dystopian version of Los Angeles.
Virilio writes about the dystopia that has already happened.
In Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange, famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, the unruly youngster Alex is subjected to "the Ludovico Technique" by the crazed authorities.
Never Let Me Go, which I'd describe as dystopian were it not for the fact that it is set in a wholly recognisable Evening Standard - Home
The novel conjures up a lawless dystopian world of youth violence and institutional mind-manipulation.
a powerful visualization of a future dystopia
Incidentally, George Orwell (penname of Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950), author of the celebrated dystopian fantasy Nineteen Eighty-four (published in 1949), knew London's work and wrote of him (quite unevenly, depicting too short a time spent reading London's works) in a 1945 Introduction to the British edition of Love of Life and Other Stories. “Malicious chance was having its laugh at him.”
Will all tomorrow's cinematic dystopias be virtual?
The majority of dystopias - Orwell's included - have been written by men and the point of view has been male.
Walton brilliantly captures the glissade from compromise to compromise that leads to dystopia, and the courage of decent people who are betrayed by the laws and people they trust. Farthing
The best movie of the year, which no one saw, is Mike Judge's Idiocracy, a terrifying vision of a dystopian future in which language has deteriorated to a series of agrammatical corporate logos, the only mention of history is a vague assertion that "the dinosaurs were wiped out by the Nazis," and anyone who speaks in full sentences is derided as a "fag. Frankie Thomas: On Becoming Adequite: or, Why Lindsay Lohan Wasn't Cast in The History Boys
The filmmaker just can't help himself - leave it to him to find a silver lining in the dystopia he so carefully sets up.
I also seem to recall a hefty children's fantasy quartet in which families are assigned colors (browns, reds, yellows) according to a strict caste system, but I can't remember the name of the book, and I'm not sure if it would actually qualify as dystopian. New Notes, Back to School edition
Yet in the dystopias of his late novels, the evil of oligarchic collectivism crowds out the petty, everyday struggle for socialist policies in this world.
I realized that he's right, it's easy to write (and think) in dystopian terms, and it's harder to be both optimistic and realistic -- or, inspiring, even -- about the future. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gord Sellar
Out of all the queered out individuals i know that for some reason choose play this horribly lame sport, non of them ever listen to dystopia, earth, etc etc etc let alone partake in the chillum to my knowledge. The Slap of Luxury: Vulgar Displays of Earning Power
Right Wing Dystopia you have to kind excuse diaper-rash-boy see his mother didnt come home and change his diapers for a week now and well that rash is just bugging it bad. Think Progress » Rove Backs Off His Criticism Of Counterterrorism Center, Perhaps Remembering Chief Is A Bush Holdover
A combination of greed, corruption and bad planning has transformed many cities into polluted dystopias, friendly neither to the bike nor the human being.
But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic.
It is arguable that 1984 is therefore the greatest of all dystopias.
This nostalgic embrace of primitiveness leads dystopians to interpret every technological advance as another step toward an ultimately dehumanized existence.
Emotional disconnect, man-machine sexual politics, dystopian futurism, German electronic-music fetishes - Bowie was post-millennial before we even hit 1980.
Try to forget those wretched sequels and endless inferior imitators, because this stylish dystopian sci-fi thriller still stands up as a dazzling pinnacle of highbrow pulp cinema. Times, Sunday Times
In Lee's dystopian vision of the world of entertainment, television is all-powerful and all-corrupting.
A dystopia (or alternatively cacotopia) is a fictional society, usually portrayed as existing in a future time, when the conditions of life are extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror. Dystopia
My favourite genre is the dystopia, and this novel is filled with references to a horrible future, filled with fascists and war.
The two works together conjuring the horror of a dystopia which is never as far away as you might imagine.
He touches on this at the beginning and end, but most of his narrative is an engaging odyssey by questionable boats and jouncy automobiles through "a vast, malarial dystopia of stinking swamps, thorns, bandits, bugs the size of rats and dark carnivorous forest"—and one with an equally seamy history. From Guyana to Guiana
Considerations such as the above serve to explain why writers and film directors ‎ since George Orwell's 1984 have depicted the future, not as paradise regained, but as a ‎ series of dystopias and cacotopias (perhaps the most memorable, after Orwell's haunting ‎ novel, was Anthony Burgess's more 'lyrical' cacotopia, "A Clockwork Orange", which ‎ found the perfect director in Stanley Kubrick, the misanthrope of the twentieth century). ‎ The Incoherence of Progress
That is why there is such a rich future for people of color in science fiction and fantasy, because the genre allows us to speculate on our future whether utopian or dystopian.
It's all packed into this two-hour dystopian space odyssey. Times, Sunday Times
By using existing modernist architecture for locations, and having their characters speak a mutated form of English, they persuasively create a high-tech dystopia.
Neither do I agree with the even more dystopian picture of entire nation states now under threat from the new terrorist activities.
Tintin meets Carrie in a beautifully drawn dystopian mystery X'ed Out by Charles Burns – review
His present work concerns itself with the surreality of living in urban dystopias that is experienced on a collective level.
By excavating these ruins of information's past, the author hopes to gesture beyond totalizing visions of information society as knowledge-based utopia or Orwellian dystopia.
Freegans are people who want it all for free - seriously, they're dedicated to living off the fat of post-industrial wasteland that is our capitalist dystopia.
British dystopian Watkins prophesizes in his film that protestors and lefties are arrested, tried, and surreptitiously executed in the desert.
His stories were dreams of technological utopias in which nightmares of personal and political dystopia were played out.
Turkle turned dystopian with her new book, Alone Together, which decries machines' disrupting human relationships. Digital Anthropologist
Not when there is dystopian, nightmary stuff to peddle. Times, Sunday Times
But vitally, it as an unmistakably modern effort, possessed of a distinctive dystopian angst.
These 1960s science-fiction films were aimed at a critical adult audience and were categorized as dystopian and post-holocaust.
It's not just the oil spill, it's the melting polar ice caps, it's the mysterious, scientifically inexplicable dead zones spreading through the oceans and the precipitously collapsing fish and invertebrate populations: seemingly discrete events all crescendoing together towards a terrifying dystopian climax. Larry Abrams: Expropriating British Petroleum
I'm not an Internet utopian, but I'm not an Internet dystopian either.
However, before we start running away with some Gibson-esque dystopian nightmare fantasy, it should also be noted that Schmidt was joking.
AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages
This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in (seriously) water constrained future. A. Siegel: Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap
Set in a dystopian near-future, it's told in a series of letters between a loving, liberal grandmother, her resilient grand-daughter and the pinched, conformist mother who divides them.
The swarm is a recurring form of force in our dystopias and fears of destruction.
But the narrative of the afterlife is so fully developed it seems to be Self's surreal dystopia of urban alienation.
For some dystopians, new technology is a source of control.
For his dystopian vision of the future, George Orwell chose the year 1984.
It is hardly surprising that a century of utopian dreams and coercive social engineering to achieve them should have been a century rich in imaginative dystopias.
Dystopians, in contradistinction to utopians, believe that technology is more regressive than progressive, more a force for evil than good.
This narrative arc to a sense of hopelessness in such classic dystopian works as Nineteen Eighty - Four.
There are two stories set in dystopian futures - one of them a hi-tech world of zombified clones, the other a post-apocalyptic stone age.

How To Use Dystopia In A Sentence

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