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Bookmark The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea
Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. A big shift is apparently underway in Silicon…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - Architecture - e-flux
We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

February 4 2021, 12:55pm | Comments
Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…
Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments
Reddit Jeff Bezos makes $3,182 per second submitted by /u/idontexpectrespect to r/ABoringDystopia [link] [comments]

September 15 2019, 7:41pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Dark deconstructions of children's TV shows/characters? I've read fantastic, dark - often very political analyses - of TV shows like Thomas the Tank Engine, Teletubbies, Mr.Blobby, and Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch.... but I'd like to find some more. What other dystopian, playful, surreal, philosophical, deconstructive readings of kid's…

August 18 2019, 8:47am | Comments
Bookmark Dystopias Now • Commune
The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins. Dystopias are the flip side of utopias. Both of them express feelings about our shared future; utopias express our…

November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: cities in sci-fi and fantasy novels Looking for recommendations of science fiction and fantasy books (or short stories) in which the city settings are central or at least important to the story. Utopias, dystopias, segregated or in space, am looking for all kinds of stories.

July 2 2018, 9:24pm | Comments
Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards
Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments
Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux
We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks
Some of the first people to be called “engineers” operated siege engines. A siege engine is a very old device used to tear down the walls of an enemy city.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Ursula K. Le Guin Explains How to Build a New Kind of…
By Ursula K. Le Guin These are some thoughts about utopia and dystopia. The old, crude Good Places were compensatory visions of controlling what you couldn’t control and having what you…

December 6 2017, 10:19pm | Comments
Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…
Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Future is Fungal – Mask Magazine
The future as shown to us by science fictions is almost always shiny. Whether in aspirational daydreams or depictions of dystopia, the vision continues to be one of gleaming metal, stark…

August 17 2017, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark Cyberpunk Through A Woman's Mirrored Lens | Neon Dystopia
Science fiction, cyberpunk included, has always been a bit of a boys club. Think of the names that we most readily associate with the genre. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson,…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
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I take responsibility stating that therourke I have turned the horror/dystopian now and future into a meaningful platform for acting

December 5 2016, 10:15am | Comments
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Our dystopian vision needs amending

November 9 2016, 3:40am | Comments
Bookmark The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future |…
Through the past few decades of summer blockbuster movies and Silicon Valley products, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly familiar and sexy, and imbued with a perversely dystopian allure.

October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments
Bookmark Transhumanists are searching for a dystopian future - The Washington Post
Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about transhumanism. Need a primer? Catch up here. Charles…

June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments
Additivism 3D Printing & Art Activism Workshop + Talk and Q&A

June 3 2016, 2:07am | Comments
Bookmark Litter, Landscape and The Road | Alluvium
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) presents a dystopian vision of a near-future world in which most organic vegetation has died and human life is becoming increasingly rare.

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Bookmark Cyberpunk: Our (Post) Modern Mythology
Yearly reminder: unless you're over 60, you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia. Here you go. An always-on, pervasive computer network offers addictive levels of immersion…

March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments
Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments
Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments
Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research
“Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia
Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium
Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Stanford scholar asks: What does the traumatic past mean for our future?
Images of a post-apocalyptic world are rife in contemporary literature. Written in 2006, The Road by American author Cormac McCarthy depicts a nearly decimated planet Earth. The probable end of mankind…

November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Beyond Google Glass: Good writings on Augmented Reality I want to read about Augmented Reality. Tech developments IRL; techno-utopian / transhuman dreams, and hard-fought aspirations; and any sci-fictional dystopian nightmares you know of. Articles and academic papers especially welcome, but what sci-fi stories have dealt imaginatively with Augmented Reality? Where's it…

September 4 2013, 6:33am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Modern doublethink? What are some actual (non-fictional) modern, Orwellian / dystopian phrases?

November 12 2012, 1:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) : Adventures in the Dream…
Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward,…

May 23 2012, 10:00am | Comments
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Neal Stephenson's Hieroglyph and the dystopian sci-fi rut.

March 23 2012, 5:07am | Comments
Bookmark The Exegete
When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

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