Throughout the semester this course has deeply explored and introduced to me the essence of what makes something a dystopia. If I had to reiterate what I’ve learned briefly, I would say that a dystopia is a society that is corrupted by ignorance at its core. One instrumental source that Continue reading
Out of all the suggestions that Robinson provides, I would consider myself more of an anti-anti-utopian thinker. While I do agree with the usefulness of utopian, dystopian, and anti-utopian thought, I think now more than ever is the time to go into action and make noticeable choices that head toward Continue reading
I actually do consider man-made climate change as a form of oppression, although I feel that it belongs to an entire class of its own in terms of scale. The typical forms of oppression we see in this world are heavily based on what we determine as “groups.” One or Continue reading
We have previously discussed that a common characteristic of dystopias is that they exhibit some form of oppression. We have also broken down oppression into 5 faces: exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. If dystopias are fundamentally built on oppression, then a utopia would have to have an absence Continue reading
Freud’s main argument in his work Civilization and its Discontents was that in their efforts to achieve happiness, humans have formed civilizations, which are actually the source of their suffering. In his analysis of human nature, Freud stated that the cause of this suffering is due to humans forcing themselves Continue reading
To me, a dystopia is a society (both real and fictional) that fails to become a utopia. Although the definition of dystopia given on Merriam-Webster.com states that a dystopia is an “imagined world or society,” I believe that any given world/society can be a dystopia. This is because my given Continue reading
