| 单词 | dystopia |
| 例句 | It would become a corporate-run dystopia, an overpriced theme park for wealthy elitists. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We are living its dystopia, and hardly need a reminder. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z A housing board rules over a dystopia in the off-kilter satire “We Might as Well Be Dead.” ‘We Might as Well Be Dead’ Review: Housing by Neighborhood Watch 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z I’d read extensively in science fiction, speculative fiction, utopias and dystopias ever since my high school years in the 1950s, but I’d never written such a book. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Syms writes in the press notes to “The African Desperate” that the overlapping dystopias of an advanced art college in the bucolic Hudson Valley came laced with racism. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Admittedly, it's usually by accident, but the genre's obsession with dystopias means it's always engaged in futurology. Prophetic and poetic: in praise of heavy metal 2010-08-31T19:00:00Z For millions of people around the world, the dystopia our two polarized camps are debating is an everyday reality. Stop making “The Handmaid’s Tale” about your liberal anxiety 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z What is the only discontented character in Huxley’s dystopia called? Quiz: Banned books 2010-09-27T07:31:00Z From here to dystopia … Tom Cruise at Oblivion's UK premiere. Tom Cruise to star in Japanese sci-fi saga Yukikaze 2013-04-16T09:51:29Z Indeed, I'm tempted to call an exercise in utopian writing; an unfashionable mode nowadays, when grim-and-gritty dystopias rule the publishing roost. The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – review 2012-06-20T07:00:01Z Is it also kind of depressing that people are seeing echoes of your fictional dystopia in contemporary politics? ‘I’m Too Old to Be Scared by Much’: Margaret Atwood on Her ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The producers of this dystopia will count their money from penthouses. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Scenes of heavily mechanized factories and those showing depersonalized, speed-driven masses of humanity call to mind post-“Koyaanisqatsi” dystopia films like “The Matrix.” Music Review: Glass?s ?Koyaanisqatsi? From New York Philharmonic - Review 2011-11-03T21:41:14Z I dearly love a good YA dystopia, and am mixed race myself, so both the book and the brouhaha seemed relevant to me. Racism row novel Revealing Eden falls at every hurdle 2012-08-23T09:55:46Z In fact, unlike the grim world of 1984, the Trump brain rot is far more complex than Orwell’s dystopia. The resistance is all in your head: 6 ways to fight Trump brain rot 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Yet he was at least ten years ahead of the great fashion for dystopias in highbrow circles, and anyhow hadn’t judged how his book’s slightness, and its vein of real perversity, might play against it. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z It takes place in the 1960s with the United States in deep dystopia mode. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z But the film proves uninterested in exploring this dystopia, instead settling into generic survivalist sensationalism. ‘Nowhere’ Review: Sensationalism at Sea 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z But in this era of terrifying dystopias, Jonathan Lethem imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse: no pandemic laying waste to humanity, no asteroid shattering the Earth, no zombies snacking on us. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z If there is such a thing as a cozy dystopia, that’s what “Zoo” is: an Animal Planet spectacle for people who don’t like reality television but who aren’t in the mood for anything too surreal. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s refreshing to see not just an indie dystopia with a strong sense of location, but one made by a Black director. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z All his previous insight about the way different groups of people live together and contend for resources could have illuminated this dystopia with real fire. Review | ‘The Wall’ imagines the wall of Donald Trump’s dreams 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Like The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s a dystopia that imagines white women in the future suffering from the oppression visited on women of colour. Mad Max: Fury Road is less radical than its B-movie influences 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Indeed, in the movies, it’s never been necessary to create an Orwellian dystopia in order to assume a state of constant surveillance. Spy Games: 10 Memorable Surveillance Movies 2013-06-17T09:45:56Z “The Kill One Race,” conceived by the choreographer Raja Feather Kelly and his company Feath3r Theory, brings us to a dystopia where 24-year-olds become contestants in a reality competition full of social experiments. Theater, Reality TV and What Is Stranger Than Fiction 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z When he wasn’t dreaming up sci-fi dystopias, Capek was in the garden. In Praise of Karel Capek 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z But this is Sam Holcroft's Edgar and Annabel: not just a drama of political resistance set in some parallel British dystopia, but also a cute sendup of theatre acting and writing. Double Feature 1 ? review 2011-08-04T21:30:05Z Southern California is a preposterous paradise, a luxurious dystopia. California will never stop burning 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z 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. Improvisation Is the Heart of Cuban Animation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z But, more importantly, the love triangle is secondary to a much more interesting story about a civil war in a future dystopia. Teen-Heroine Smackdown: 5 Ways Katniss Is Better Than Bella 2013-11-20T10:45:36Z 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. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Or perhaps it's just another symptom of the hollow, celebrity-saturated dystopia that we inhabit. A Robert Pattinson–Kristen Stewart break-up may be good for #robsten fans 2012-07-26T11:50:17Z In many scripted stories, dystopias usually don’t begin with a sharp plunge but a steady series of slips and slides until the tumble cannot be stopped or slowed. Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS rose ceremony: When networks help Trump win ratings, democracy loses 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Having written dystopias before, it seems you’ve outdone yourself with “The Heart Goes Last”: It features a dystopia within a dystopia. Margaret Atwood on our real-life dystopia: “What really worries me is creeping dictatorship” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z After “The Road,” “Oryx and Crake,” “Station Eleven” and other unnerving dystopias, “The Silence” feels like Apocalypse Lite for people who don’t want to get their hands dirty. Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The third and final part of "The House" feels the most like a novel, a sweeping dystopia that would be given the bestseller treatment and maybe a streaming adaptation. What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z A name for that place, in the postwar years, would be America, which emerged as a kind of Promised Land — or nightmarish dystopia, depending on whom you asked — of middlebrow culture. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z His smirked verses hang over the beat like a smoggy alien sunset, evoking paranoia in paradise, dystopia at the magic hour, an endless summer dissolving into the end of days. Perspective | Listening to Los Angeles rap music feels like eavesdropping on the future 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “For me, this is not a novel about dystopia; actually it’s about looking for signs of hope and optimism in the future.” Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian I don't do God, but I do do dystopias, and I do feast days too. Why Riddley Walker rivals the Passion as the perfect Easter story 2013-04-01T09:00:02Z He blurs the relationships between present and future, reality and dystopia. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z By emphasizing diversity over dystopia, her film does not simply warn against the dangers of who we might become, but celebrates the vastness richness of who we already are. I Saw Myself in ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ But I Had to Work Hard. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Wright plays an actress who sells a complete digital version of herself to a movie company, later winding up partly in a digital world and partly in a strange dystopia. The literary films of summer 2014 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Vertigo contributors say they have seen changes in the kinds of comics being published — less gothic fantasy, more urban dystopia — and believe that DC’s hands-off approach to the imprint has come to an end. Comics’ Mother of ‘the Weird Stuff’ Is Moving On 2013-05-29T21:48:48Z Leave it to the maker of some of television's darkest dystopias to conjure a new one, and once again at Netflix, now the home to ongoing seasons of "Black Mirror." "Black Mirror" creator Charlie Brooker sets Netflix mockumentary about 2020 with Hugh Grant 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z By expanding it into a series, there is more time to linger on the everyday horrors of June’s life in dystopia. Review | ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ isn’t just timely, it’s essential viewing for our fractured culture 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z If you think that many of the top 10 end-of-year movie lists could use a little more dystopia, fight scenes or bone-chilling moments, our genre experts hear you. The Best Genre Movies of 2021 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z When both "Mr. Robot" and the audience lived in 2015, the fictional dystopia it presented felt heady and unconventional. Unhinged melody: "Mr. Robot" puts a grim holiday bow on its endgame 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Action, comedy, animation and dystopia made up an eclectic slate of upcoming films that 20th Century Fox presented at Comic Con on Friday, hoping to engage the convention's avid fan base. 'The Book of Life,' 'Kingsman' lead Fox's eclectic Comic Con peeks 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z It's the book that truly got me into dystopia and I've read the books over and over again and still I'm not bored of them! My top ten: Favourite books by TheBookAddictedGirl 2012-07-09T11:00:00Z It also scared me the way a top-notch horror or a sci-fi dystopia might. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z There’s a darkness to dystopia: it’s embedded in the very word— the opposite of a utopia, a world gone wrong. Review | Gish Jen’s ‘The Resisters’ reminds us of the importance of standing up for what’s right 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z On the phone from a Brooklyn hotel, the ever-outspoken Atwood spoke with Salon about dystopias, robot sex and beer — in fiction and reality. Margaret Atwood on our real-life dystopia: “What really worries me is creeping dictatorship” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The characters and her dystopia are one-dimensional in order to drive Greenfield's broader technophobic narrative, as she explains in an afterword. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T10:00:00Z Divergent, directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth’s dystopia: six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants’ skills. REVIEW: There's Nothing Urgent About "Insurgent" 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z George Orwell criticized liberals for apologizing for Communism; he continues to inspire me to persist in my position that Islam unreformed, when put into practice, leads to a dystopia. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z And there was Batman, whose loss and menace and darkness spoke to our beloved dystopia, which is to say the New York of the late 1960s and ’70s, a place of light and many shadows. Superheroes: Born in New York City 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z For opera watchers, Miskimmon’s decision to start with a dystopia may seem appropriate. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z No matter the phase of his career, the Weeknd has always depicted a version of dystopia — one that has expanded from his own world to the world at large. The Weeknd’s decade of dystopia 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Design fictions, like “Lithopy” may be most interesting when they are experienced as neither dystopias nor utopias, but imagined solutions for societies — in all their messy, sometimes unexpected, human ways. Design Fiction: Real Solutions, Unreal Problems 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z What if we rebrand the dystopia as wacky? the show asks. Our Masked Singers, Ourselves 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s one of those dystopias in which the prosperous locations vaguely resemble the World Trade Center Oculus and the impoverished zones are strewn with fires burning in oil drums. Review: Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’ Is Neither Brave Nor New 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z As she paused to think for a moment you could almost see the post-apocalyptic dystopia of a coffee-free New York reflected in her eyes. Give up coffee? Fuggedaboutit, say New Yorkers after California ruling 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z A lot of utopian thinking plays off the dystopia of our present reality. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In the midst of this digital dystopia, relatively fragile tracks such as “Living With You” and “Mary” feel even more poignant. Album review: John Cale, 'Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood' 2012-10-02T17:48:00Z “It is not wallowing in dystopia,” Mr. Pizzolo said in a phone interview. Comic Books That Put the Pow in Political Power 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Because even when characters do rise up in the best British dystopias, they do so wearily and against their better judgment. Forget America, nobody does cinematic dystopia better than us Brits 2011-02-11T15:19:19Z Tuesday’s proceedings looked instead like a tribunal in some depopulated cyber-western dystopia. Fauci Hearing: Who Were Those Masked (and Unmasked) Senators? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Suburban Britain, as it happened, made the ideal location for a story about a conformist, emotionless, anti-intellectual dystopia. Blown up – how cinema captured the dark heart of the swinging 60s 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But there are still no screeners of any kind available for Fox’s “Terra Nova,” a mix of time travel, dystopia, dinosaurs and family drama that carries Steven Spielberg’s name as executive producer. ArtsBeat: Fox's 'Terra Nova' Steeped in Mystery 2011-06-09T20:00:45Z Together they've created a vivid dystopia of severe black and white with dramatic splashes of color. `Anna Karenina' inspires 5 super-stylized films 2012-11-15T22:38:12Z End times, the rapture, futuristic dystopias all figure prominently in the work of this company of intellectual thrill-seekers. Hands down, ‘Baby Screams Miracle’ is the windiest show in town 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z And that to me is the kind of hidden dystopia surrounding the whole question of outsourcing. Our outsourced lives 2012-08-15T15:37:00Z Possibly the grimmest dystopia committed to film: a barren Earth habitable only by robots, while obese humans waddle about on an endless space cruise. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Yes, dystopias — those stories where everything has gone to hell, hopefully in a compulsively readable way. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Arguably, given The Hunger Games and Maze Runner, dystopia was already a thing; previously, though, it was a teen-thing, and the Atwood-Moss-Morano axis has made it an adult’s thing. Haunting, chillingly plausible, peerless … how The Handmaid’s Tale changed TV 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z That’s because in this version of Orwell’s story of one man’s revolution in the dystopia of Oceania, our hero, Winston Smith, is the ultimate unreliable narrator. London Theater Journal: Mind Games 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z One really satisfying one that we've wanted to do for a while that we finally get to do is George Miller, Mad Max, post apocalyptic, diesel-fueled dystopia, nuclear wasteland kind of genre. Dan Harmon on the Future of Rick and Morty and That Community Movie 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z “We were sold, through entertainment, an idea that dystopia was going to be exciting,” he says. 2020 reads like a TV script. So we asked screenwriters how it should end. 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Here are two: First, because dystopias inherently have drama in them: The world is either falling apart or has fallen apart and survival — or not — is the order of the day for our various protagonists. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Why people don't read it: It's the glummest dystopia imaginable. George Orwell, Mills and Boon writer: taking literary mashups to the next level 2010-05-21T12:28:00Z Why do contemporary teenagers like futuristic dystopias so much? Review: The 5th Wave Washes Out 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z “The dystopia is now,” Gary Shteyngart said in an urgent tone, a few decibels shy of a yelp. Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Cutting-edge special effects and postmodern philosophy combined to give us a dazzling dystopia for the digital age, whose suggestion that we are living in a computer simulation has yet to be disproved. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It is the measure of his creative radicalism that he welcomes these desperate dystopias with every atom of his being. The Drowned World by JG Ballard 2012-07-13T07:00:07Z For decades, Atwood resisted writing a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” her classic feminist dystopia about a country called Gilead in which fertile women are enslaved to produce children. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share the 2019 Booker Prize 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z In another literary dystopia, “The Transition,” poet-turned-novelist Luke Kennard builds a textually disruptive world full of corporate communications in which a couple find themselves at the mercy of capitalist forces. Books: An editor with a vision, the late Denis Johnson and more book news 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z If those feelings sounds familiar in our current Trump-addled dystopia, that was not Kelly’s intention. Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Before the Think Different campaign, there had already been the notorious 1984 Macintosh ad, directed by Ridley Scott, which also cast Apple as the rebels and the troublemakers, bringing down some grey, Orwellian dystopia. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z We’re living, it would seem, in a utopia for feminist dystopias. Review | Donald Trump has made feminist dystopias great again 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z It is such an amazing trilogy - anther dystopia, so perfect for Hunger Games fans! My top 5 movie adaptations of 2013 2013-04-01T08:00:00Z In Egypt, in the decade of slow, simmering discontent before the revolution, novelists produced texts of critique, of dystopia, of nightmare. Ahdaf Soueif: In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat 2012-08-17T15:00:01Z See it live at Neumos and understand the meaning of "southern fried dystopia." Local music this week: Truckasauras, Velella Velella, more 2012-06-26T23:09:20Z Set in a sci-fi dystopia, it hinges on the actions of Emanon, a “rogue philosopher” urging resistance to fear and oppression. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s a stark reminder that this is contemporary Europe, not some cruel dystopia. Shot at, beaten, starved: the child refugees who will stop at nothing to reach Europe 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z In its vision of a corporate dystopia, “Incorporated” builds on earlier shows that positioned powerful businesses as puppet masters. A Rich TV Legacy for Corporate Mega-Evil 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Noting that he has starred in several dystopian movies, including the ill-starred “The Dark Tower,” I wonder if he thinks America is headed toward a racial dystopia under the stewardship of Donald Trump. Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba! Actor Opines on Sex, Race, Bond 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z "It was an effective way of showing this level of present-day dystopia that humans are creating," Brandt said. Nick Brandt's 'Inherit the Dust' photos track Africa's tragic urban sprawl 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Local playwright Caitlin Gilman taps into fiction’s increasingly pervasive dystopia trend with her adaptation of “Life Is a Dream,” the Spanish Golden Age play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Staying mostly faithful to the reality of ‘Life Is a Dream’ 2014-04-24T22:31:43Z As the real world feels ever closer to dystopia, “Lazarus” is a powerful warning against where we could be headed. The comic book “Lazarus” is a frightening vision of where America could be headed 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Hers is the dystopia at America’s back door, where stateless people, desperate for even a foothold in the country where they live, find themselves hounded by danger at every turn. Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z BioShock took players beneath the Atlantic to the underwater Art Deco dystopia known as Rapture in a fearless, mesmerizing depiction of Randian philosophy run amok. Video Game Review | BioShock 2: Making Another Dive Into Evils of the Deep 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z Thanks to a strong pair of lead performances and a simple yet effective black-box set, Kafka’s bureaucratized dystopia shines through with a fresh lacquer of bleak humor. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Americans in 2021 might not agree on much, but everyone can agree that the world depicted in “1984” is a dystopia — which is to say, it’s obviously and indisputably bad. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Is the price of reclaiming one’s identity in such a dystopia worth the violent punishment that follows? ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1 Finale: The Resistance 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z “We live in an age of dystopias, not just because of women’s matters but because of what’s happening to the planet,” she said. Margaret Atwood Will Write a Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Yoko Ogawa's brilliantly chilling "Memory Police" imagines a dystopia in which a totalitarian government censors people's memories as things themselves mysteriously disappear: birdsong, perfume, books, people. Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The more plausible future dystopia is related to the nature of America as a geographically large, culturally heterogeneous and politically decentralized country. The Divisions That Are Destroying the Country 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Maybe the museum has tamed Kline, I don’t know, but a visitor could easily look at his climate change dystopias and unemployment tableaus and conclude: well, you better vote blue! Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “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. Judging Margaret Atwood’s Top Secret New Novel 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z It folds neatly enough into the plot of La Jetée, in which scientists in an imaginary dystopia employ time-travel "to call past and future to the rescue of the present". Zoi Dimitriou Company; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-16T23:05:44Z The Laotian drama “The Long Walk” takes a languid look around a near-future dystopia where fighter jets leave smoke trails in the sky and government authorities track missing people using microchips embedded in their bodies. ‘The Long Walk’ Review: A Ghostly Future in Laos 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z There’s a wicked irony in trying to ban this feminist dystopia while Republicans are conniving to make it come true. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z He’s in the right place: in this hackneyed, Tarantino-esque dystopia, everyone seems to be intent on killing everyone else. Review: Revenge Goes Sour in ‘Terminal’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Critics mostly panned the series for being too dark, too didactic—perhaps, Elon said, grimly, “because Israel is its own kind of dystopia.” Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z They imagine postapocalyptic futures or dystopias where ecological collapse is inevitable, environmentalists are criminals, and eco-mindedness is the driving force of villains. Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z It takes place in a woodland dystopia where cloning is an option for terminal patients seeking to replace themselves. ‘Dual’ Review: Seeing Double, Inviting Trouble 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z As dystopias go, this one has some things to recommend it. No spare time in lockdown? That's not such a bad thing 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn’t a prediction. An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Orwell became a direct model for me much later in my life – in the real 1984, the year in which I began writing a somewhat different dystopia, The Handmaid's Tale. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z Thomas More’s hope for a utopian America has decayed into a Trumpian dystopia. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Its protagonist was a young girl living in a future dystopia triggered by the slowing of Earth’s rotation, which wreaked havoc on the planet in unforeseen ways. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z And it's a Must Read for all dystopia, steam punk and historical lovers! The Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin - review 2012-08-24T08:00:00Z Also up: a best-selling Korean novel about young queer love, a biography of the photographer Vivian Maier, a novel of climate dystopia from Neal Stephenson and an exploration of San Francisco’s housing crisis. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Readers like dystopias for all sorts of reasons. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z As Ms. Glaser put it for Slate, some of them are opting out of the Big Tech pipeline and trying, instead, “to use technical skills as an insurance policy against dystopia.” ‘Techlash’ Hits College Campuses 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Whenever something goes awry, we worry less about Pandora’s box dystopia than about the psychological toll of Cameron’s limbo. ‘Swan Song’ Review: Second Life 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z But if the dystopia bubble bursts, as the horror market did in the early 1990s, we may see an entirely new wasteland emerge. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Local playwright Caitlin Gilman taps into fiction’s increasingly pervasive dystopia trend with her adaptation of “Life is a Dream,” the Spanish Golden Age play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Staying mostly faithful to the reality of ‘Life is a Dream’ 2014-04-23T00:44:37Z The only real dangers are other people, who may or may not have decided to be decent in dystopia. Review | A new TV version of ‘The Stand’ pits good against evil after a deadly pandemic. Been there, done that. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “One of the things about looking at the world through a feminist lens is that we are already in a dystopia.” How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Leave the dystopias to the novelists and leave the fiction on the page. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z With “1984” recently closed and “A Clockwork Orange” up and running, it’s been a season of dystopia. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z There are lots of dystopias on display, but also a few wonderlands. In the galleries: ‘Strange Landscapes’ explores gardens of unearthly delights 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z A neighboring community of thugs poses some slight menace, but without crime or crisis, “The Arrest” is the sort of cruelty-free dystopia you might pick up at Whole Foods. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Television publicized the American dystopia with crude, cynical, selfish characters modeling the New Nihilism. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z And now I hear myself sounding like Orwell or Chomsky, spotting dystopia in every tweet, and I don’t like that. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z In all of them, a palpable sense of dystopia is tempered by Chan’s unexpectedly humane gaze—a point of view that embraces the complexity of his subjects and the sweet sorrow of the modern metropolis. A new gallery show spotlights Benny Chan’s unique photographs of Los Angeles 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Rogers's work, as seen at the Pompidou Centre, did not evoke a collapsing dystopia, but a clean, shiny, optimistic, sophisticated and rather luxurious future. Richard Rogers at 80: principles and power 2013-07-20T07:00:20Z The subject isn’t the dystopia, but a marriage. ‘Foe’ Review: The Space Between 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Whatever mix of instinct and serendipity produced such a vivid dystopia for such a vividly dystopian time, the shock and originality of that nowness can’t be repeated. Haunting, chillingly plausible, peerless … how The Handmaid’s Tale changed TV 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z How quickly women leaped to action in the face of this impending dystopia. Perspective | Abortion bans have some women preparing for the worst. It involves ‘auntie networks.’ 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z It is a dystopia in which money buys everything, especially youth; the main markers for the poor are now signs of aging even more than signs of starvation. ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Don't respect a fictional dystopia more than real people of color; you're gross. Yandy's 'sexy Native American' costume sparks Twitter backlash: 'You're filth' 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Anthology Film Archives has put together a scorching bill of movies, showing Friday through Tuesday, about dissent and dystopia. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z As with Rocker’s comments, the framing of a subway tableau as some kind of debased and terrifying dystopia was met with widespread derision. This Is the Joke That Liberals Need 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Season 1 of “High Castle” debuted in 2015 when the thought of a fascist dystopia seemed, if not impossible, at least more farfetched than it does a mere three years later. Why #Resistance TV shows are so hard to watch 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z “I don’t think the show presents either a utopia or a dystopia,” she added. Gemma Chan Explains the Art of Being a Robot on ‘Humans’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Set in a suburban dystopia, “Men, Women and Children” examines the loneliness of a world in which Facebook messaging, texting and chatting online with fellow World of Warcraft players serve as intimate communication. A Raw Voice of Young Manhood Makes a Bid for Literary Respect 2011-06-22T21:09:48Z It might seem counterintuitive — or a perverse form of escapism — to turn from the dystopia of reality to that of fiction. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z For readers hungry for something like "The Hunger Games," Roth's dystopias featuring a female teenage hero fit the bill. Veronica Roth, author of 'Divergent', to launch new book series 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Part fantasy, part environmental dystopia, the novel explores our deepest fears about climate change and the endurance of human love. Think science fiction is dominated by men? Think again. 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Pro tip from a science fiction writer: You don’t want to live in a dystopia. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “Moonfish” imagines a dystopia in which the only unpolluted-enough element left for the fish is the sky. Showing the Indelible, Imperiled Bonds Between Animals and People 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Post-apocalyptic dystopias rarely consider childhood with much care, expecting young survivors to relinquish immaturity to focus on staying alive. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z For them, American dystopia is tragicomedy; for Rage, it’s a call to arms. Rage Against the Machine Returns for Fresh Battles 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z That perverse dystopia is brought faithfully to life by director Gary Ross. New DVDs | 'The Hunger Games,' 'The Raid' 2012-08-13T21:28:04Z Having followed the feminist dystopia of our time faithfully in the outstanding first season, Offred and the red cloaks found themselves cast adrift in a rudderless Gilead created by a misguided writers’ room. Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z But if the performance doesn’t illuminate heart and soul and mind, maybe it’s because in this dystopia, such things are almost extinct. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z It looked like the best of all possible uniforms for a conformist dystopia. A Message of Useful Beauty from New York Fashion Week 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The author of the werewolf thriller “Red Moon” and the gothic eco-thriller “The Wilding,” Percy joins a parade of contemporary writers slouching toward dystopia. Book World: ‘The Dead Lands’ by Benjamin Percy 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z To accomplish that goal higher education must be destroyed and remade in keeping with the revanchist dystopia that American conservatives dream of inflicting on the country. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z As with all wonderlands, though, there’s a fine line between fantasy and dystopia. My 27-Hour Vacation in Singapore’s Changi Airport 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Michael Bay is set to produce a futuristic adventure about a Trump-esque dystopia. Michael Bay to produce Little America, sci-fi adventure in Trumpian wasteland 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z And the nuggets of seriousness in Time Traveling Bong’s future make it more chilling than a slew of YA dystopias, precisely because it sounds so much like the present. Time Traveling Bong: Doctor Who for the 4/20 generation 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Notwithstanding the assumed tech capabilities of the Glade's unseen string-pullers, "The Maze Runner" puts a refreshingly primitive slant on dystopia. Lost in the dystopian nightmare of 'The Maze Runner' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The most obvious example of that desire has been the movie Hunger Games, set in a brutal, futuristic dystopia where the bow-wielding heroine is a ferocious young girl called Katniss Everdeen. Bella beats Bond as Twilight movie topples Skyfall from box-office peak 2012-11-24T16:22:26Z It’s a dreamlike story of dystopia, set on an unnamed island that’s being engulfed by an epidemic of forgetting. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Unlike the "Hunger Games" and "Divergent" novels, "The Giver" offers a more cerebral dystopia. On road to film Lois Lowry's 'The Giver,' Jeff Bridges gave his all 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z As before, there’s no theme music, no narrator to escort you into its clean dystopias. Review: ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror and Soul in the Machine 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Taken together, they depict a wildly aspirational luxury metropolis that seems to have tipped over without warning into “Blade Runner” dystopia, a city agglomerating by algorithm, recalling a line from J.G. He Stalks Delirious, Unfinished New York as It Rises 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z 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. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Science fiction is the home genre of dystopian literature, and any knowledgeable student of the form can lay out dystopias for you like a car salesman can talk up his floor models: Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Beck made a name for himself as leader of a movement that was convinced — absolutely convinced — that President Barack Obama was going to lead the United States into some sort of fascist-communist dystopia. Tomi Lahren steps on the third rail: 3 things we learned from her suspension from The Blaze 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z He created an Orwellian dystopia and forced his captive followers to live in it. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z On the other hand, in stories like “12 Monkeys,” “The Terminator,” and “Timecop,” the central conflict is so large—apocalypse, dystopias, national or global disasters—that the narrative can easily sweep past issues of race. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Just a few days until the election, and a writer’s thoughts naturally turn to dystopias. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Not visions of the future, not imagined dystopias, but the present. Readers recommend: songs about modernity ? the results 2011-01-13T16:36:31Z When I wrote Oblivion, the conclusion to my Power of Five series, I was thinking of several writers who had gone before me; what follows, my favourite dystopias, could be seen as a confessional. Anthony Horowitz's top apocalypse books 2012-10-04T10:49:38Z And the British dystopia rarely looks more distinctive than in contrast with America's. Forget America, nobody does cinematic dystopia better than us Brits 2011-02-11T15:19:19Z True, surveillance is the territory of a different literary dystopia, George Orwell’s “1984,” but for a moment, the intrusion felt eerie. Reading 'Brave New World' in Aldous Huxley's former home 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Shortly after Diaz made that comment, dystopia became the default narrative for American politics as well when Donald Trump stepped off the set of “The Celebrity Apprentice” and into the Oval Office. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z I wish I had the political imagination to steal Kane's dystopia. Sarah Kane's debut play Blasted returns 2010-10-24T20:31:00Z Her art depicts the beautiful and the grotesque, earthly landscapes and sci-fi dystopias, human bodies and cyborgs — in a style that fuses art-making traditions with high-tech contemporary techniques. An Artist in Pursuit of Balance 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Rowling’s blockbuster series, dreams up a new fantasy dystopia with explicitly modern parallels. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z "Utopia," meanwhile, is a fiction that imagines a dark, dystopic fantasy of our reality, which is already a dark dystopia, and attempts to resurrect the sort of cryptographic mystery that defined "Lost" in our memory. "Utopia" shows the disheartening problems of pandemic TV 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Evening at the Talk House’ Is Just the Dystopia Next Door 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s obsessed with dystopias, like in Elysium or The Hunger Games. Slavoj Žižek: ‘We are all basically evil, egotistical, disgusting’ 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z It looks like a third-world shantytown, a refugee camp, a dystopia inhabited by the damaged and desperate. Dumping ground and refuge: For those who know how to navigate L.A.’s Skid Row, it can provide community — but crackdowns have made life even harder 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z If you want a proper YA dystopia about racist segregation – with the historical hierarchy inverted – read Noughts and Crosses and its sequels. Racism row novel Revealing Eden falls at every hurdle 2012-08-23T09:55:46Z In all of these cases—dystopia, conspiracy, bureaucracy, despair—the salient feature of the rabbit hole is that you cannot find your way out. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The movie's main preoccupation is much the same as Bird's real-life one: dystopia, and why we're in such a hurry to get there, via either our movies or a cultural resignation. 'Tomorrowland' director Brad Bird's mantra: 'We have to bring in new ideas' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z And that in the macho dystopia of Putin's Russia, where everything cultural is political and vice versa, three remarkable women have gone to prison to prove it. From Pussy Riot, a lesson in the power of punk 2012-08-19T18:30:00Z “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. Elizabeth Banks: ‘My film is loaded with sneaky feminist ideas’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Hollywood is bloated with stories about future capitalist dystopias, because that's all that the capitalist imagination can envision: a depressing future with more oppression, or the status quo. Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z So, this season, was the sense of dystopia. Calvin Klein’s Electrifying Popcorn Fashion Apocalypse 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Then there’s Blade Runner, whose dystopia merely exaggerates the prevalent civic phantasms of 1982 Los Angeles – smog, overpopulation, overdevelopment, acid rain, traffic, immigrants – until they become a single nightmare. Battle of Los Angeles: San Andreas just the latest film to kick the crap out of LA 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z “Black Mirror,” a British anthology series, is less about dystopia than mystopia — most of its stories are mysteries woven around the perils of digital progress and computer technology unbound. A ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Tale on DirecTV 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Because the dystopia it cloaks in vivid costumes and outrageous Aunt Lydias has been the reality for millions of poor people, many of them Black and Latinx, for decades. No, we're not living "The Handmaid's Tale" – it's worse, and a show highlighting how was passed over 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z So what, exactly, comprises dystopia in the deranged landscape of 45? “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The idea that the Trump administration is an Orwellian dystopia was just a nightmare before Conway made it explicit. Kimmel, Covfefe, ‘Wonder Woman’: Washington’s Views on Pop Culture in 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z About the only other thing worth mentioning is that this is yet another cinematic dystopia, in the wake of “Elysium” and “Divergent,” with a villainous female leader. ‘The Giver’ Adapts Lois Lowry’s Novel 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z His sci-fi films, his quests and dystopias, find their home properly on the big screen. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “Maybe people are tired of dystopia,” she muses. Don’t despair: Beverly Glenn-Copeland actually has hope to offer us in 2020 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Returning to the show's chilly, elegant dystopia as our country pulsates with red rage over elimination of abortion rights also changes the lens through which one might view the story. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z And, at the same time, I wasn’t entirely joking about that dystopia. Why I set my Young Adult novel about abortion in the 1990s 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Watching Superstore is like being stuck in a badly lit consumerist dystopia where displays of toilet paper are constantly being knocked down. Superstore: Walmart-inspired sitcom isn’t such a bad deal 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z He pioneered multiple prose forms in English, among them the satire, the dystopia, the Theophrastian character sketch, and the Neostoical meditation. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z But now, dystopia has caught up to him, and he’s had to recalibrate. Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Alternately, maybe it’s a sign that the dystopia of desperation and mob anarchy is not just the backdrop of sci-fi pulp set in the distant future — it’s already creeping into our daily lives. Don’t blame commercialism for your shopping madness 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z Mind over matter is most certainly the rule in the Wachowski siblings' stylish dystopia. 'Inside Out,' 'The Matrix' and more: Ranking cinema's notable head trips 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The virtual world is a post-apocalyptic dystopia in which the Baryshnikov Arts Center stands in for the orchard. Chekhov Two Ways, With a Robot and Baryshnikov Along for the Ride 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Donald Trump may be a disaster for women’s rights, but he’s made feminist dystopias great again. Review | Donald Trump has made feminist dystopias great again 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z America is the usual representative for such dystopia, but Max was born in Britain. Max Headroom, Original Talking Head, on DVD 2010-08-07T02:20:00Z Beginning of the year listicles covering everything from essays to dystopias, as well as free images, gay tours of the Vatican and unionization attempts at California art schools. Roundup: The Broad unveiled, digitized museums plus reports of art's death 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z But also about a version of dystopia that is already becoming real to them: a world where no one listens to what they have to say. Experts agree: Trump has made Washington hostile to experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z But as I point out, some people’s dystopia is other people’s utopia, and vice versa. ‘I’m Too Old to Be Scared by Much’: Margaret Atwood on Her ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z But his signature form is wild digital designs of urban futures that are both green and humane — the inverse of dystopia, though he’s gifted in imagining that, too. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z We were aiming for something other than the build-up to the collapse of the world, or the immediate dystopia that exists right after it. ArtsBeat: Apocalypse Soon: Tom Hanks Discusses His Web Series 'Electric City' 2012-07-16T12:00:46Z Were you thinking about the dystopias of your earlier films, like “The City of Lost Children” and “Delicatessen,” when you were writing “Bigbug”? Whether He’s Talking ‘Amélie’ or ‘Bigbug,’ Jean-Pierre Jeunet Doesn’t Hold Back 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In popular conceptions of dystopia, names are often among the first things to disappear. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z A superlative cinematic experience where the euphoric sound and stunning, Oscar-requiring cinematography only scratch the very surface of its intriguing dystopia and multi-layered mysteries. 'Blade Runner 2049 is a roaring achievement': readers on the best films of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z “X” documents a dystopia that has only just arrived, suggesting that perhaps there was a moment when we could have taken a different path. The Dystopia Has Just Arrived 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z 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. Kids to the Rescue: Film Festival Shines a Light on Activism 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z In truth, it’s not so much a dystopia as a thought exercise. ‘Lemons’ Review: A Fun Thought Exercise, Without Deep Thoughts 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Currently, imaginary dystopias are replacing familiar fictional backgrounds of historical upheaval such as the French Revolution or the second world war as places where children are forced into managing their own lives. Book doctor: Are children's books darker than they used to be? 2013-06-24T16:30:35Z Schenkkan methodically walks us through a series of policy initiatives and plausible public catastrophes to cook up a gruesome dystopia akin to the 20th and 21st century’s cruelest atrocities. Review | Schenkkan’s ‘Wall’ imagines Trump consequences. Disaster! 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Future historians — assuming that any such creatures exist — will surely identify the present moment as a golden age of dystopia. Review: Cannibalism, Hallucinogens and Keanu: ‘The Bad Batch’ Has It All 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The word “liminality,” which broadly refers to intermediate or transitional spaces, evokes visions of New Age-y women with flowing scarves, armchair psychologists or insidious miracle drugs in Burgess-esque dystopias. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z 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. Review: In ‘Skinnamarink,’ Follow Instructions. Or Else. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Blade Runner really did trigger an interest in dystopia, an exploration of the city of the future as messy and dark. Building an audience for architecture 2011-01-20T21:45:01Z Last year, I published a novel, Entropy, whose central theme revolves around a dystopia in which 60-year-olds are having babies and twentysomethings put grey in their hair in order to get work. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Anthology Film Archives has put together a scorching bill of movies about dissent and dystopia. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s often been said of Le Guin that her dystopias are less comments on fantastical realities than they are comments on our own. Michelle Dean loves Ursula K. Le Guin's cat stories. Which is a good start. 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z We also have dystopia and prison violence and government dysfunction and grand theft dinosaur. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of uncanny, elegiac image we’ve seen in a thousand dystopias. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Latest Novel Imagines Life in an Underwater New York 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, “Incorporated’s” stylish but depressing dystopia falls flat in the current moment. A month ago, ‘Incorporated’ would have felt different. Same with Dolly Parton’s Christmas movie. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z 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. An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Plants sprawl around the space, dotted among beautiful modernist furniture, like some kind of beautiful dystopia where vegetation is taking back the city. Top 10 industrial-chic hotels and hostels 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It’s Afro-futurist dystopia from an album slated for release in September that tells the “Her”-like love story of a man who survives a slave uprising on an interstellar ship and an onboard computer. The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Kurt Russell stars as a tough Yukon cop in an arctic dystopia. | Reed Krakoff: Bulletproof Clothing: Take Your Best Shot 2010-09-21T21:46:00Z We knew that, for many of the non-Emirati laborers who are largely invisible to the casual tourist, Dubai is worse than a non-place, closer to a dystopia. Dubai, the World’s Vegas 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z I wanted to try a dystopia from the female point of view – the world according to Julia, as it were. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z Like the sci-fi tradition it samples so heavily, industrial posits a central theme: dystopia is already around us, if only we were awake enough to see it. Nine Inch Nails: a human scream in Reagan’s postindustrial America 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Contemporary fictions set in future dystopias tend to reflect liberal anxieties, such as climate change or the corporate takeover of our public institutions. The bankruptcy of liberal America: ‘The Mandibles,’ by Lionel Shriver 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “In television dramas like ‘The Walking Dead,’ dystopia seems to be this constant theme,” Mr. Benedetto said. Outing Death 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z For millions of Chinese citizens, the authorities are experimenting with the tools and weapons of dystopia. The stories to read to be the smartest person at the Thanksgiving table 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z “Utopia” is actually more of a dystopia, a society without plumbing, pizza or Wi-Fi, but all the Orwellian indignities of omnipresent, unceasing surveillance cameras. In ‘Utopia,’ on Fox, Real People Build an Unreal World 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z This includes “A Space Exodus,” a film piece from the Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour, for whom utopias and dystopias become lenses through which to view conflict in the Middle East. | Past, Future or Alien? 2014-02-07T19:22:56Z It’s true — the outer dystopia is the thugs and living in your car; the inner dystopia is the Consilience/Positron project, so there are layers of utopianism and dystopianism, sort of like an Easter egg. Margaret Atwood on our real-life dystopia: “What really worries me is creeping dictatorship” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Following the actual carnage of World War I, the writers of the 1920s and ’30s gazed into the future and saw mainly darkness and dystopia. Review | Forget the bestseller list: These lesser-known works deserve your attention 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z It's like Barnum's circus, a wild west boom town and that strange, splashy dystopia foreseen in Blade Runner, all under one roof. San Diego Comic-Con: 5 things we're excited for 2013-07-17T20:13:44Z His daughter becomes a generator for paradise, the underworld, utopia and dystopia. Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Played by Mr. Sands as a winningly awkward naïf, Dash here puts a friendly face on the Spielberg film’s dystopia. Review: In ‘Minority Report,’ a Case of Precognitive Dissonance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z If language is a technology—prone, like any other, to weaponization or obsoletion—will ours lead us out of dystopia, or only further into it, winding up an arcane relic of some fallen civilization? The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, Shteyngart's dystopia is a truly frightening society dominated by social media, celebrity, status and fashion. 'Super Sad True Love Story': Gary Shteyngart's dystopian novel is super, sad and true 2010-07-30T23:27:00Z The charged political climate has sparked renewed interest in dystopias like “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “1984.” These dystopian science fiction stories show us all the ways the world can end 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z “Smartr” is either a parody or a dystopia set five minutes in the future, depending on your perspective. Podcasts About Impeachment, Mr. Rogers and a Purring Cat: What’s New 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z "Metropolis," directed by Fritz Lang, was among the most expensive films at the time of its release and became a landmark of early filmmaking for its special effects and depiction of a futuristic dystopia. ArtsBeat: Rare 'Metropolis' Poster Offered at Auction 2012-12-05T19:15:01Z Politics, race and class divide us Collins’ futuristic dystopia taps into some very real racial and political realities all too familiar in this day and age. Beyond the Blood: What The Hunger Games Can Teach Tweens 2013-11-19T10:45:00Z “There is a certain ‘Blade Runner’-y feeling of embracing our fashionable dystopia that I enjoyed,” one young Australian said in The Guardian of why he had embraced the face mask. The Mask 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z By raising the money to pay his victim's compensation, Lagos's scavengers showed that even in this Darwinian dystopia, the fittest survive by supporting each other. Great Ormond Street; Panorama, Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z The delicate pitch of this scene, the highlight of the trilogy, is light-years away from the preposterous dystopia of “Nursing,” directed by Trip Cullman and set midway through the current century. | 'The Hallway Trilogy': Love Thy Neighbor? Yeah, Right 2011-02-25T03:00:00Z Indeed, one of the subversive triumphs of “Blade Runner” is making techno-fascist dystopia seductive. Am I in Manhattan? Or Another Sequel to ‘Blade Runner’? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z The rappers brought live bands — the largest of which, Deltron 3030, included strings, horns and backup singers for bombastic songs imagining a 31st-century dystopia —and shouted and sweated their way through their sets. Critic’s Notebook: At the Electric Zoo and Rock the Bells Festivals 2012-09-03T22:49:01Z The best dystopias extrapolate issues in our society and make us see them more clearly by literalizing their metaphorical conceits. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The scenic design’s palette is gloomily black, white and gray, a dystopia in which even the moonlit lake where Siegfried discovers Odette is swallowed by buildings and machinery. Review: A Dystopian ‘Swan Lake’ Bridges Ballet and Modern Dance 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z They didn't want us to have the extension even because they are living in this dystopia. "A king's ransom": SAG-AFTRA's Fran Drescher calls out "maniacal" Hollywood CEOs for their "greed" 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z With subjects that range from Parisian adventures to fairground frolics, 1930s dystopias to banking collapses, there's something for everyone on the list. Longlist released for 2013 Guardian children's fiction prize 2013-06-03T08:57:35Z Some of the dystopias currently on offer seem not so much prescient as disturbingly present. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s a difficult, often rewarding collection that plays out something like an electroacoustic opera, using trenchant words and queasy sounds to diagnose the ills of a contemporary racial dystopia, and to outline its historical precedents. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The dystopia conjured by “Idiots and Angels,” Mr. Plympton’s sixth and best animated feature, suggests Toulouse-Lautrec by way of Charles Bukowski. | 'Idiots and Angels': Misanthrope Sprouts Wings and Humanity 2010-10-05T22:32:00Z Her effect was to force a deeper consideration of priorities, sometimes expressed in a variety of dystopias. Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it 2013-04-09T05:00:00Z Now every new helping of his dystopia is event telly, drawing in A-list talent and, with one-offs such as the interactive Bandersnatch, continuing to push at the medium’s limits. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z These outbursts represent a real departure, not only from the anodyne mediocrity of other bots, but also perhaps more significantly from the dystopia we have grown accustomed to dreading. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z To call this a bargain as the world slowly, anonymously slides into dystopia is a manifest absurdity, let alone the subject matter of the painting. Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Over the book's span of 28 years, it seems that society is hurtling closer and closer to dystopia, but Kevin is locked onto one goal: protecting his sister, Ella, from herself. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z So it’s timely and on another level it’s terrible and that’s the irony because as Jews we live in a constant state of dystopia. “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Every generation conjures its own apocalypses and dystopias. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z In Mr. Saine’s futuristic dystopia, the superstars are bounty killers who hunt white-collar criminals while “providing the survivors of the apocalypse with retribution.” Movie Review: ‘Bounty Killer,’ Directed by Henry Saine 2013-09-06T02:29:42Z Fans of all ages are getting excited for his appearance in the British dystopia Black Mirror: White Christmas special, which will air in the U.K. on Tuesday. Jon Hamm Says He Is Happy He Never Played a Superhero 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Or, to put it another way: Who wants to read about a dystopia during the apocalypse? Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z For some the worst abuses of dystopia will be a horrific living reality. The bright side of science fiction 2010-04-01T10:08:00Z It was almost a relief to leave the real-life horrors of “Bad Roads” behind for the immersive dystopia of “Gymnasium,” a “high school opera” written and directed by Bonn Park with music by Ben Roessler. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z 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. ‘Transit’ Review: An Existential Puzzler With Jackboots and Terror 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z An impressive marriage of classic kung fu movie conventions and futuristic sci-fi dystopia, “Samurai Jack” is not just an example of Tartakovsky’s animation at its best, but a masterful work in its own right. Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z But the dystopia of the new “Fahrenheit 451,” airing Saturday on HBO, is generic, its critique muddled and its tone as subtle as a flamethrower. Review: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Has Fire and Fury but Sheds Little Light 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Google Glass, the iPhone, and the NSA’s surveillance network hadn’t even been invented yet, but we were already plunging into nightmares of full-blown dystopia. Reissue of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine Highlights Band’s Influence 2013-11-15T16:52:52Z Burgess was fascinated by dystopia and wrote Nineteen Eighty-Five in response to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Arts centre honours Clockwork Orange author 2011-02-15T11:49:16Z The dystopia, I’m sorry to say, doesn’t seem quite as distant as it did when the play had its premiere in London in 1996. Wallace Shawn's 'The Designated Mourner' gets new relevance in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The success of shows like “Westworld,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Black Mirror” indicate that dystopias, or at least deep discomfort, are resonating with viewers. In ‘The First,’ on Hulu, the Future Is Not That Dark 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Part of the point Davies may be making here is that dystopia doesn't have to resemble insane scenarios like those depicted in “Black Mirror,” “Children of Men” or “Snowpiercer.” The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z The science is mush, of course; the point is to get right to the dystopia, a fertility-based fascism. 'The Lottery' gambles on a global fertility crisis 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The dystopia of the artist’s objects “is a key element that made his work very relevant in the 1980s,” he said, “and even more relevant today.” A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z This is dystopia chic with a twist, namely that it plays with the traditional premise of an alien invasion film. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z In his new play Martin Crimp has created variations – naturalistic, theoretical and surreal – on dystopia. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z Songs reference police brutality, race and identity, dystopia and fascism. The 25 hottest new albums dropping this summer 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Or will it be an eerie dystopia, the stomping ground of Thom Browne? On the Runway Blog: Fashion Week Morning Report: Past, Present and Future 2014-02-10T10:45:42Z A video installation by the German artist takes the viewer into a dystopia where the movements of workers are harvested to create artificial sunshine. Datebook: The art of an influential school, video dystopia, the drawings of a Chicano activist 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In the latest, Persona 5 Tactica, Joker, Morgana and the rest of the Phantom Thieves are summoned to an oppressive dystopia and tasked with leading an “emotional revolution.” What to stream this week: Dolly Parton rocks out, ‘The Crown’ returns, ‘Rustin’ creates a march 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z A less aggressive approach, he argued, would allow China to export its “authoritarian vision all across the world,” creating a “global dystopia.” DeSantis Says He Will ‘Reorient’ U.S. Foreign Policy to Counter China 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z He’s not the first antiabortion fanatic to cite the ostensible drag of women’s reproductive rights on the U.S. workforce as though we should be living in a “Handmaid’s Tale” dystopia. Column: America's retirement system is mediocre. The new House speaker wants to make it downright awful 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Two Irish writers are on the shortlist: Paul Lynch, for post-democratic dystopia “Prophet Song,” and Paul Murray, for tragicomic family saga “The Bee Sting.” Novels from US, UK, Canada and Ireland are finalists for the Booker Prize for fiction 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z “Every dystopia is a history of the future,” she observes. From Barbie to MAGA, Jill Lepore's essays bring the past into the harrowing present 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Just like a character from an Orwellian dystopia, he uses use words to obscure the truth, including irrelevant responses or feigning offense via denial. Our collective malady: Donald Trump's mental health crisis is America's problem 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The utopia he appears to want is actually a misogynist dystopia. Compassionate Christian authoritarianism: The leftist utopia the right thinks will save the church 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z To skeptics, the prospect of a privately owned crypto company’s handling the biometric data from billions of people sounds like a recipe for dystopia, with echoes of the 2002 Tom Cruise film “Minority Report.” Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs. 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z I heard you say on a podcast that marginalized peoples are often better off in imagined dystopias than utopias. Dangerous visions: How the quest for utopia could lead to catastrophe 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z And the darling bluebird of happiness has been replaced by a logo that looks like it belongs on a stormtrooper's helmet in a bad science-fiction dystopia. Elon Musk's absurd Twitter rebrand: Has the far right finally broken his brain? 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Critics argue Chevron is the stuff of Orwellian dystopias, siphoning massive amounts of political power away from Congress and the courts and turning it over to unelected, anonymous bureaucrats. Congress backs fishermen over feds in Supreme Court battle, tells justices to curb bureaucracy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z “Government is synonymous with civilization, as is apparent from what happens in failed states that become lawless dystopias.” Scholars hesitate to say where crumbling faith in institutions will lead 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z A dystopia is an imaginary place in which everything is as bad as possible. Technology minister urges caution on AI 'Terminator' warnings 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z It's not even that they're better off in dystopias than utopias — they literally don't exist in utopias! Dangerous visions: How the quest for utopia could lead to catastrophe 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z The show’s theme is California agriculture, its biblical title framing the Golden State as part fertile and utopian paradise, part huckster marketing dystopia. Review: Flamin' Hot Cheetos art packs a punch in MexiCali Biennial at the Cheech 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Chui conceded that some people see signs of dystopia in a future where workers communicate mostly through robots. ChatFished: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With A.I. 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z To detractors, Chevron is the stuff of Orwellian dystopias, siphoning massive amounts of political power away from Congress and the courts and turning it over to unelected and anonymous bureaucrats. Supreme Court takes up case to review agency deference, potentially overrule Chevron 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z We’re going through a different phase now, fantasy and dystopia, and all kinds of things that are coming from somewhere else. How Judy Blume's 'Margaret' became a movie: Time travel and no streamers, for a start 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z We do not have the luxury to fetishize dystopia, because we, or our ancestors, have already lived through it. Dangerous visions: How the quest for utopia could lead to catastrophe 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z All the distraction and disinformation spewed onto the desiccated landscape of journalism by Fox News has helped lead America into our current dystopia. Here's the real lesson of the Fox News trial: It's time to break up Big Media 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Hess’s dystopia is kinder than Lakshminarayan’s, but he satisfyingly explores the complexity of building your identity in a world of winners and losers. Review | Four new provocative science fiction visions of the future 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Vara’s acclaimed debut is a sweeping father-daughter tale that encompasses science fiction, climate change, dystopia, capitalism and family drama. Moira Macdonald on what new books to read this April 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Their jarring appearance is meant to drive home the notion that Israel, which portrays itself as the Middle East’s lone democracy, could morph into a chilling dystopia where women are stripped of their rights. In Israel, TV’s dystopian ‘Handmaids’ is protest fixture 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z So Christian paradise, as the origin story of western utopianism, already has dystopia and exclusionism embedded within it. Dangerous visions: How the quest for utopia could lead to catastrophe 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z My point is that all the distraction and disinformation spewed onto the desiccated landscape of journalism by Fox News has helped lead us into our current dystopia. Here's the real lesson of the Fox News trial: It's time to break up Big Media 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z This week's moment of tech-enabled dystopia is brought to you by the U.S. Big Brother vs Big Tech: Porn hacks the Fed; will Biden's "cyber-strategy" change anything? 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z His campaign website described Chicago as a near dystopia in which “city leadership has surrendered us all to a criminal element that acts with seeming impunity in treating unsuspecting, innocent people as prey.” A Shifting Mood on Crime Propelled Chicago’s Leading Candidate for Mayor 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “Our policy over the next 10 years will set the stage for the next hundred. We cannot allow the CCP’s tech-powered dystopia to prevail.” Code Pink protesters disrupt inaugural House China committee hearing 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “If we keep writing only dystopias, that’s the road to the abyss.” Do You Have to Be an Optimist to Work Toward a Better World? 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Likewise, doomsday preppers envision a post-apocalyptic dystopia where guns are the only way to fend off angry mobs looking to loot and kill. Opinion | Americans, faced with disaster, do not turn on each other 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z It is, in other words, both a theme park of technological wonders and a potential dystopia incubator. Column: How tech is changing L.A. — and how L.A. is changing tech 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Excuses aside, today’s urban dystopia was unimaginable when I arrived here 15 years ago. Seattle faces a moment of truth to save downtown 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The San Francisco impresario and techno-skeptic delves into the Amazon animus that drove his new novel, ‘The Every,’ a sequel to dystopia ‘The Circle.’ The last satirical novel from a tech-world alum? It's got a bug 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Is there a connection between dystopia and grief? How one novelist built a world without prisons that's even crueler than ours 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z In this new American dystopia the real history of Dr. King and the Black Freedom Struggle may be erased outright. We need Martin Luther King Jr.'s lessons in resistance — that's why the right wants to erase them 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z If they are in trouble, we are on the path not only to an information dystopia, but very possibly to autocracy. New research shows that Donald Trump's fascist attacks on democracy may have backfired 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Today, village attributes — including neighborliness, public schools that teach rather than preach, and vibrant civic cultures — look especially attractive when compared with urban dystopias, from Baltimore to San Francisco. Opinion | In unsettled times, look to Midwestern values 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z To detractors, Chevron is the stuff of Orwellian dystopias, siphoning massive amounts of political power away from Congress and the courts and turning it over to unelected and usually anonymous bureaucrats. Justice Gorsuch’s white whale: Supreme Court has new chance to consider agencies’ power 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z This is one of the few books I’ve seen in which a character brings a child into a dystopia. How one novelist built a world without prisons that's even crueler than ours 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z In the language of our gangster-capitalist dystopia, this is known as the "fear of missing out." Trump and his movement are symptoms of America's profound disorder — but not the cause 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Associated advancements have also been accompanied with concern that they could inch humans closer to a science fiction-like dystopia where robots and technology control the world. Meta’s new AI is skilled at a ruthless, power-seeking game 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z However, our current dystopia may have reached a point where a story about space fascists is more relatable. There were no Jedi, and other reasons 'Andor' was great 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet we were not overwhelmed with left-wing pundits anxiously questioning whether hyperbolic predictions of a coming dystopia risked inspiring assassinations. Opinion | No, conservative commentators aren’t responsible for mass shootings 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Ng did not originally plan to write a dystopia. Why Celeste Ng calls her new novel, 'Our Missing Hearts,' 'scarily real' 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z “We refused to let the state of Florida descend into some type of Fauci-ian dystopia.” A Crowd of Possible Trump Rivals Renews G.O.P. Fears of a Divided Field 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z “That dystopia that came to our doorstep will come to everyone’s.” Climate negotiators in Egypt say they remain far from a deal 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Tracy: I hear you on our current dystopia, but the space fascists from the original trilogy were also based on actual 20th century fascists. There were no Jedi, and other reasons 'Andor' was great 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z We don't yet live in dystopia, but we are afflicted with the fear and insecurity that has raged inside the human heart and mind since we crawled out of the caves. Are we living in dystopia? Not even close — but let's learn from history this time 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “They are creating a dystopia wherein lying and physical violence become part of our politics,” he said. Elon Musk, right-wing figures push misinformation about Pelosi attack 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Complex thought is mistaken for compelling storytelling in the technological dystopia of “The Peripheral,” Prime Video’s sci-fi drama about, well … I’m still trying to figure it out. 'The Peripheral' is more confusing than compelling 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z It also sets the stage for a risky and possibly violent insertion of police or soldiers in a country where armed criminal gangs have made the capital city a lawless dystopia. Opinion | At last, the U.S. edges toward intervening in Haiti 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Compared with the dystopia depicted in her previous novel, “Dinosaurs” takes place in a less dramatic setting, a subdivision in Phoenix. Why Lydia Millet writes about what frightens her most 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z By building "alliances and partnerships, even limited ones," according to Kirby, the president believes we can avoid the worst aspects of the dystopia we all fear. Are we living in dystopia? Not even close — but let's learn from history this time 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Particularly as the pandemic brought a wave of anti-Asian discrimination and violence, “it started to feel a bit as if we were in a dystopia.” ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ author Celeste Ng comes back to Seattle with new novel 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Instead, it amounts to a stark warning: If Republicans take power, they will establish a dystopia that cripples democracy and eviscerates abortion rights and other freedoms. Apocalypse now: Democrats embrace a dark midterm message 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Giddings conjures up a world that feels familiar, despite the increasingly creepy hints of dystopia. Review | 4 witchy books from the world of science fiction and fantasy 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Celeste Ng’s “Our Missing Hearts” explores a dystopia uncomfortably close to reality, Stephen King writes in a review. Your Friday Briefing 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It almost sounds like America is becoming a dystopia. Are we living in dystopia? Not even close — but let's learn from history this time 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z It seemed urgent, she felt, to write this book, but challenging to figure out how to write a dystopia. ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ author Celeste Ng comes back to Seattle with new novel 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z That has created a midterm arena marked by dueling dystopias, as the parties vie to outdo each other in describing the hell scape that lies ahead if the other side wins. Apocalypse now: Democrats embrace a dark midterm message 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Afrofuturist writers explore a language of dreams and dystopias that expresses our greatest hopes while boldly confronting our darkest fears. Octavia E. Butler’s Legacy of Time Travel 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Betsy Johnson is firmly behind the wheel, driving through an urban dystopia of poverty and despair. Column: Is Oregon about to elect an anti-woke, pro-gun independent as governor? Or maybe, gasp, a Republican? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Some believe we are already living in a dystopia, while others believe that would be more like a "Mad Max" movie, or like the half-forgotten 1975 classic "A Boy and His Dog." Are we living in dystopia? Not even close — but let's learn from history this time 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z We can see mainstream media courting the far right to make money, and promoting a "false equivalency" that further stokes the flames that could lead to a Lebanese-style dystopia in the U.S. I've seen America's future if the Trumpers win: It's what Lebanon looks like right now 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z But how do we reconcile this dystopia with the booming cities and skyscrapers of Beijing and Shanghai away in the east? Does China believe its own propaganda on Uyghurs? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z He said the small increases in dementia and psychosis were "more likely to be related to the societal upheaval and dystopia we have been living through, rather than being a direct effect of the virus." Covid: Brain fog more common two years on, study suggests 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z It is superhero life in a drug addled French dystopia but probably no stranger than many of Mike Batt's previous projects. Mike Batt: Womble maestro turns to French dystopia 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z So by those standards 2022 doesn't seem like a dystopia to me. Are we living in dystopia? Not even close — but let's learn from history this time 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Fundamentally, what makes this not the dystopia that it is always described as? Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The only place that grass grew in designer Jonathan Anderson’s fashion dystopia was literally out of shoes, where green blades quivered and flapped surreally as the automatons filed by. Loewe’s presents dystopian future at Paris Fashion Week 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z The company ethics statement declares: “Be mindful of the implications of our work — we won’t build a dystopia.” Drone-maker new to Seattle aims to protect people here and in Ukraine 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z The Purge depicts an American dystopia where every year all crimes including murder are decriminalised for half a day. Champions League Final: Post-match violence shakes up French election race 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Part dystopia, part satire, Laskey’s sophomore novel imagines a world where marriage rates have plummeted and the government’s National Organization for Marriage holds blind date events. 10 noteworthy books for June 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Maybe so, or maybe he really did travel to some not-so-distant future dystopia, from which he has now returned with a prophecy and a warning. Review: Surgery, sex and superfluous human organs converge in David Cronenberg's 'Crimes of the Future' 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z One woman wore a T-shirt with a Texas map that read “Gilead,” a reference to the patriarchal dystopia from “The Handmaid’s Tale.” With fear and fury, thousands across U.S. rally for abortion rights 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z This might sound like a dystopia, but at least one technological juggernaut thinks the vision will sell. Opinion | Lack of a federal privacy law opens the door to dystopia 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z We can, and should, expect more from the future than the dystopia promised in current science fiction. The Verge Partners with Vox Media Studios and 21 Laps on New Netflix Series 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Apparently, we’d rather continue to humanize mobsters and serial killers or examine the horror of a potential dystopia than occasionally reflect the reality of so many women’s lives. Column: Silent majority of Americans who support abortion rights just learned the danger of silence 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Some liberals, in turn, worry that the centi-billionaire’s power grab will transform the platform into a free-speech dystopia, where racism and hatred of all kinds will flow freely. Perspective | The real problem with Twitter under Elon Musk may involve privacy 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z But as controversy and criticism engulfed his show, Carlson began to describe his early life in darker tones, painting the California of his youth as a countercultural dystopia and his mother as abusive and erratic. How Tucker Carlson stoked white fear to conquer cable 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z But, although its surfaces may seem familiar at first, over the course of three meticulously modernized acts, this blighted, unidentified patch of dystopia reveals itself as a far more unforgiving landscape. Review | A thoroughly modern meltdown in Met’s reimagined ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z “All utopias are dystopias,” he said during a conversation this month in the ramshackle office he has inhabited on the Sausalito, Calif., waterfront since the early 1970s. What the Silicon Valley Prophet Sees on the Horizon 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z In other words, if we read the law literally, it would create the kind of gender-less dystopia that conservatives are always claiming liberals want, where any acknowledgment of maleness or femaleness is erased entirely. Lesson in bigotry: Conservatives take over the classroom to pull us closer to a gender-less dystopia 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Both turn out disastrously unworkable; dystopias of the past and the future that together cast a chilling shadow over our present. Review: Allegra Hyde's climate-fiction narrator is the post-cynical heroine we need 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s a much-needed departure from how games and tech startups, through decades of symbiotic exchange, draw from the belief that food is fuel, and even thrive on the assumption that we’re already halfway to dystopia. Cooking at the end of the world in Final Fantasy XIV 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Most of the time, we feel helpless, unable to break out of the machine grinding us toward dystopia. Opinion | Hank the Tank offers a vision of a better life 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z He has turned his triumphal Olympics into a dystopia. Opinion | In their excesses, Putin and Xi might be unwittingly saving the West 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z And those forces reach a fever pitch in the novel’s last book, a medical dystopia called “Zone Eight.” Review | The remarkable worlds of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘To Paradise’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Will the 21st century begin with nostalgia and end in dystopia? Perspective | 20 ways of thinking about nostalgia from a year of backward listening 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z “We cannot allow our communities to become Faucian dystopias in which people’s freedoms are curtailed and their livelihoods destroyed,” the DeSantis campaign wrote. Fox News Host’s Incendiary Fauci Comments Follow a Network Pattern 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z I don't recognize America because I don't recognize dystopia. Looking for America in Thanksgiving week: It must be here somewhere 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “I was hooked,” she said, “and started reading all the dystopia I could get my hands on.” Petra Mayer, NPR books editor who championed fantasy and romance fiction, dies at 46 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z In large capital letters, it proclaimed to the city: “The dystopia is here!” In Travis Scott’s old neighborhood, residents wonder whether he is still a hometown hero 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “It’s a way to try to monetize my constant state of alarm, my constant state of dissatisfaction at the dystopia unfolding all around us.” Disappearing shorts: As stocks soar, skeptics surrender 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “There are times where I am doubtful that humanity can get its act together before it’s too late, and images of dystopia start creeping into my dreams,” Obama said. Obama, playing ‘hype man,’ tries to jolt COP26 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Those people live in a dystopia of their own mind. Looking for America in Thanksgiving week: It must be here somewhere 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “Hitchhiker’s Guide,” in other words, is an extended and very, very funny indictment of economic inequality, a science-fiction tradition that stretches all the way back to the dystopias of H.G. Opinion | Elon Musk Is Building a Sci-Fi World, and the Rest of Us Are Trapped in It 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z And because that isn’t enough dystopia, the whole fake lighting system was inspired by the artificial portholes that Disney devised for its cruise ships. Dear UC Santa Barbara: Don't let a petulant billionaire build a prison dorm on your campus 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Widespread despair is an excellent way to weaken public resolve and grease the downward slope into dystopia. Right-wing media and the pandemic: A toxic feedback loop that nurtured fascism 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z I’m thinking about it originating from Snow Crash and that dystopia that it originates from and the context of that term, does that concern you at all? Mark Zuckerberg on why Facebook is rebranding to Meta 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z I cannot begin to predict the exact manner or type of dystopia that would be enacted. What happens to America's mental health under a second Trump administration? Very bad things 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z “The same technology of freedom could become part of a new technological dystopia.” Bitcoin Preaches Financial Liberty. A Strongman Is Testing That Promise. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z We should at least listen to someone who has a vision of the future that isn't a dystopia plucked from the recesses of Hell — and not dismiss his proposals as politics as usual. Ready for the mega-ugly 2024 rematch? The perennial optimist vs. the perma-troll 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Surreal aquatic head gear, masks and breathing apparatus at the Botter show conjured up a underwater dystopia. Paris ready-to-wear makes a comeback as Dior steals the show 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z On his now defunct personal website, he said his personal goals were "expose corruption, curb abuses of power, and with 'gloves off' ensure the digital age never becomes a digital dystopia". Cryptocurrency expert admits aiding North Korea 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z I want to read climate science fiction that isn’t set in a dystopia. A Plot Twist for Climate Change, the Power of Occam’s Razor, and Other New Books 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z The report raised warnings of a “digital welfare dystopia” in which data-matching could automate decisions about welfare benefits entitlements, loan access or home visits from child-care services — with human rights implications. U.N. official calls for moratorium on artificial intelligence tools that breach human rights 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z They have refused to accept the fact that one person's dystopia is another person's vision of paradise. What year is it in America, anyway? How complacency and naiveté brought us to this crisis 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Down the other path lies the dystopia whose outlines we see clearly in Texas. The new tyranny in Texas will be America's future — unless Democrats act now 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z In the post, Mr. Wack described the photos as portraying an “abrupt descent into an Orwellian dystopia.” Sen. Rick Scott blasts Kodak CEO for apologizing to China 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z But the hard-boiled dystopia is overwrought, with Nick’s narration waxing purple at times. Review | Great cast, neat concept, promising director. But the movie ‘Reminiscence’ is a good-looking mess. 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z For these and many other reasons America — most notably, extreme wealth and income inequality and the global climate crisis — is becoming a dystopia. Josh Hawley's Orwellian "Love America Act" and the fascist campaign to rewrite history 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z My dystopia, like so many others, is really about a narrowing of options and a whittling away of hope, which is our current trajectory. Artificial intelligence wants you (and your job) 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z American political and civic life continues to resemble a spy thriller, a horror movie or a science fiction dystopia that keeps spawning sequels. Why the revelations about Trump and the Kremlin are true (even if the documents are fake) 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Its members do not want to suffer any longer in Mr. Lukashenko’s simulacrum of a Soviet dystopia, but rather aspire to live in a free and open society like those they see elsewhere. Opinion | Biden will not find a clearer case than this to put his muscle behind democracy 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z When Rodriguez arrived in Surfside just hours after the collapse, the mellow beach city just a few miles northeast of Miami had turned into a dystopia of blocked roads, buzzing helicopters and flashing police cruisers. ‘A limbo that’s a living nightmare’: One family's wait for the missing of a collapsed Florida condo 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z She describes the show’s vibe as a “storybook dystopia,” a feeling that was enhanced by filming in New Zealand. Sweet Tooth’s post-apocalyptic world is meant to be a "storybook dystopia" 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s even more vital to stay human as our current reality veers into dystopia. These art collectors are making their own metaverse through games 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z If there ever was a time the word “dystopia” aptly described America, it was last year. Column: Will Biden's 'build back better' take care of the baby bust too? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The engulfing dystopia makes for a dramatic and metaphorical backdrop for the Mitchells to work through their issues. Review: Family and robots in ‘Mitchells vs the Machines’ 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z As he and his colleagues write: “If we continue being unaware of an unprepared for deep fake, we run the risk of entering a ‘fake geography’ dystopia.” Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z For some, one man's utopia is their dystopia. Nevada smart city: A millionaire’s plan to create a local government 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Such a world would be a utopia for them and a dystopia for everyone else. GOP dreams of a return to Jim Crow — and not just through racist voting laws 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The peaceful Qitans are not precisely peaceful, and the utopian future they offer humanity has a lot of dystopia floating around inside it. Review: In the beautiful gross-out sci-fi novel 'Skyward Inn,' we are all aliens 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The engine of our emerging dystopia is income inequality, which is growing. Bandaging the corpse: Biden's big bailout can't pull America out of its death spiral 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Right now, we’re still in the thick of a pandemic, a season of insurrectionist violence rooted in the sickness of white nationalism, the time-loop dystopia of life in lockdown. Farewell to bras, ‘hard pants’ and business casual: How COVID-19 has changed what we wear and how we feel about clothing 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z His composition depicts a futurist utopia, with hints of dystopia. Wayne Thom photographed the power of 1970s architecture. He's finally getting his due 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In American and British sci-fi, Mars often plays the pristine utopia to Earth’s decrepit dystopia, but not so elsewhere, said Tidhar, who was raised on a kibbutz, a collectivist commune in Israel. Mars mission inspires growing fan base back in China 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The urban dystopia recedes, and happier images parade before us: misty mountaintops, waves lapping a pristine coast. The Dark Reality Behind Saudi Arabia’s Utopian Dreams 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But she also saw, in all the dystopias, glimmers of escape. 'Speculative Los Angeles,' otherworldly stories set in a sprawling, haunted place 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z “Is this a civilized nation or one living through a barbaric dystopia?” Brazil Starts Vaccinations Amid Rise in Covid Cases and New Variants 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z The new commodities contract has inspired not a few projections of a “Mad Max” dystopia in which precious resources become the objects of violent tribal battles. Column: Wall Street can now bet on the price of California water. Watch out 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s a ghastly dystopia — even its billboards during the holiday season show it. Opinion | Lebanon was on life support. Now it’s in free fall. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Related How Half-Life: Alyx’s designers built an escapist dystopia with a spot of hope If you haven’t jumped into the game yet — first off, I’m jealous that you get to experience it with fresh eyes. Half-Life: Alyx now has over three hours of developer commentary 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Many Midwestern city streets became denuded dystopias of dead trees. Can an ambitious breeding effort save North America’s ash trees? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z She wrote her senior undergraduate thesis on utopia, dystopia and social planning — motivated, in part, by her childhood — and then went on to an economics doctorate at Harvard University. Lael Brainard’s Steady Rise Could Culminate in Treasury Secretary Post 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z When the pandemic hit in March, Times Square went from a congested, and hellish, hub for tourists to an eerily empty dystopia. How Times Square became an unlikely hub for resistance art 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Isolated in his shrink-wrap, Fox-speak bubble in the debate, he ignored the fact that he has already turned America into a sort of dystopia by bungling and dissimulating on the virus. Opinion | King Kong Trump, Losing His Grip 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The startling scenes on the Vienna State Opera stage include 1960s advocacy of civil rights and sexual freedom, a transgender present and a post-Trump sci-fi future that evolves toward spirituality rather than dystopia. The power of 'Masaot' and Olga Neuwirth, the musical voice of the outsider 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Your books seem preoccupied with two threads of dystopia: patriarchy and climate destruction. Margaret Atwood's guide to turning dark histories into fictional futures 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The popular series and book depict an American dystopia in which a totalitarian society forces fertile women, known as handmaids, into child-bearing slavery. ABC News suggests link between Christian group and 'The Handmaid's Tale' during Amy Coney Barrett report 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z A traditional conservative conjured up the ultraviolent dystopia of “A Clockwork Orange.” Why French Politicians Can’t Stop Talking About Crime 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z It is Harris who notes that the “dilemma” is that social media and related apps simultaneously offer utopia and dystopia. Review: A call to digital arms, 'The Social Dilemma' demands change 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z We can only prevent such a dystopia if no one is allowed to know us better than we know ourselves. Artificial intelligence is a totalitarian’s dream — here’s how to take power back 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Are Americans living in a dystopia or in an America made great again by Trump? AP FACT CHECK: Is US great again or dystopian? GOP says both 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Trump’s incumbency requires a record of sterling achievement; his insurgent populism demands a dystopia to overthrow. Opinion | Trump’s speech was nasty, brutish and interminable 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “The current national depiction of our city as a dark dystopia with nonstop violence is a lie,” he said. GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn’t always match reality 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “The current national depiction of our city as a dark dystopia with nonstop violence is a lie,” he said. GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn’t always match reality 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z To prevent such a dystopia, we must not allow others to know more about ourselves than we do. Artificial intelligence is a totalitarian’s dream — here’s how to take power back 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The tone was far more uplifting than the dark dystopia painted by speakers the previous night, featuring heartwarming friendships between FBI investigators and reformed criminals, police officers and drug addicts. R.N.C. Presents Donald Trump, the American Protector 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The antidote to Trump’s dystopia, he said, would be the illumination of Ella Baker, a civil rights icon: “Give people light and they will find a way.” Opinion | Joe’s Fearsome Weapon Against Trump: Simple Decency 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z "They are obsessed about talking about empathy. They are obsessed with dystopia," he said. Rush Limbaugh slams Michelle Obama's DNC speech as more 'phony' empathy from left 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z We are living in a dystopia that's a cross between "The Hunger Games" and "The Apprentice." Greed wins as labor loses leverage: A lesson from Depression history echoes in D.C. today 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z But the Frames offer a fascinating view of the state of the art in virtual assistants — and perhaps also the state of our dystopia. Review | I’ve worn Alexa-enabled glasses for two weeks. They’re driving me bananas. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z What can we learn from movie utopias – and dystopias? First Thing: Obama's eulogy for John Lewis was powerfully political 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z In fairness, this march toward fascist dystopia didn’t begin in Portland. The march toward a fascist dystopia 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The Trump campaign’s television commercials, meanwhile, have painted a dystopia of rampant criminality in Democratic-controlled metropolises where the police no longer function or exist. Opinion | Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps it stems from this sense of disconnect between the warm and familiar world in which Liverpool rampantly embarked on their title charge, and the cold, distanced dystopia in which they have completed it. Liverpool's planning prevails in Premier League season like no other | Jonathan Liew 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z He paints a picture of the Wild West or a future dystopia where lawlessness abounds, and local authorities sanction criminality. Trump’s stormtroopers crush liberty on the streets of Portland 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Like any dystopia, there is rot here, small cracks that are beginning to grow into fissures and bring about tectonic shifts. Brave New World has nothing to prove 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Donald Trump, the heroic avenger, is all that separates civil society from descending into Stalinist dystopia. Images of power: When will American politics move past spectacle and sensation? 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z But humor and bravado peek through on dreamy bedroom ballads about coping with dystopia, chasing after tornadoes and bonding over antipathy for an Eric Clapton song. Review: Phoebe Bridgers serves up digital Laurel Canyon folk 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Whether this is a utopia, a dystopia or something in between depends on whom you ask — but thanks to the Internet Archive, it’s a reality. Opinion | Free books online? Who could be against that? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z It may not be the apocalypse we anticipated, but even in a dystopia of handwashing, social distancing and coughing into the elbow, there are always books. From sorcerers to samurai: best books to transport you to other worlds 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, Danes — very politely — express concern for what they perceive as a dystopia on the other side of the Atlantic. Opinion | McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z In making sense of this moment, it's very important to highlight how one person's dystopia or apocalypse is another's utopia and dream. Are the super-rich eager for the "end times"? Author Mark O'Connell on pandemic and apocalypse 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Long a repository for tales of world-threatening cataclysms and doomsday dystopias, the comic shop in the coronavirus era now finds itself drawn into a fight for its very survival. Socked by virus, comic book industry tries to draw next page 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z And for a long while in this pandemic dystopia, no one dared budge. The first round of the NFL draft was a fun night ... from a distance 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Many of us are getting a glimpse of dystopia. Opinion | The Ideas That Won’t Survive the Coronavirus 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z “It’s not about a virus, but it is about a dystopia.” Texas organizations launch virtual book club during pandemic 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Here’s our edited conversation about busting genre walls, dystopia as realism under the pandemic and the prospect of pop-culture world domination. Dystopian fiction has always been real for Ray Bradbury prize winner Marlon James 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z A Trumpian dystopia would be a Frankenstein monster constructed of the worst parts of previous administrations with plenty of ugly invective and narcissistic preening thrown in for bad measure. From here to dystopia 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Hollywood’s many blockbuster disaster movies have reflected dystopia from nuclear attack to financial meltdown to the climate emergency. The forgotten French tapestry with lessons for our apocalyptic times 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “I feel like I’m in some post-apocalyptic dystopia where I’m constantly foraging for food,” said Papazian, a health writer who recently ended a bid for Congress. Grocery delivery was supposed to be the ultimate pandemic lifeline. But it’s falling short. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Ideas and images of cruel dystopias and mysterious zones aren’t going to disappear overnight, but there’s also so much more to see and explore. Why Half-Life’s City 17 was pivotal to gaming’s post-Soviet obsession 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z ‘Alyx’ is an extension of ‘Half-Life 2,’ not a new ‘Half-Life’ chapter Alyx is set in the same urban dystopia as Half-Life 2: a washed-out and decaying Eastern European metropolis called City 17. Half-Life: Alyx is a satisfying return to City 17 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Thanks to the coronavirus, dystopia is here, right now — but with a twist. From here to dystopia 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s just dystopia fatigue — we have seen so many dark alternate histories by now — but what is disturbing on the page becomes less so given life on the screen. 'The Plot Against America': When 'eerily familiar' doesn't mean 'great TV' 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z “It will look like a dystopia, but dystopias don’t look like dystopias. They look awfully inviting. But when you examine how it works, it’s actually a bit of a horror show.” 'Westworld' creators explain how they made the Los Angeles of the future 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z This isn't the fiction of living in a cold, empty dystopia. An emerging threat to conservation: fear of nature 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Twenty years on, the Wachowski sisters’ cyberpunk dystopia feels a little dated but their vision of the future is fun to revisit. Never read Middlemarch or listened to Wagner’s Ring cycle? Now’s your chance 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z How we got from here to dystopia isn't normally central to such novels. From here to dystopia 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z In one of Unferth’s omniscient, sweeping surveys of the industry’s technologically souped-up mechanics, its dystopia of automation, she pinpoints the irony of nature enchained: Review: Fighting late capitalism, one chicken at a time 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z 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. What’s a Quibi? A Way to Amuse Yourself Until You’re Dead 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The opening song begins, explaining that this story takes place in a dystopia where any kind of emotion is fatally forbidden. Is it theater? Is it film? 'Cages' doesn't care. Just don't call it a 'musical' 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z “We wanted to find a version of dystopia that we hadn’t seen before.” Westworld’s season 3 trailer pits AI against AI in an intense showdown 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Another lurking fellow, neatly groomed and looking strangely like Walt Disney, cheerfully greets you to enter a domestic dystopia. Review: Hammer Museum's 'Paul McCarthy: Head Space' draws a revelatory picture of L.A. artist 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z In a turn away from her earlier realistic novels, Gish Jen tackles dystopia with her fifth work, “The Resisters,” set in a future world. Cults, climate change, dystopia, and also poetry and community, all this coming week 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z It offers us the horrible choice between dysfunction and dystopia. No, Clearview AI's creepy plan to spy on us is not 'free speech' | Jake Laperruque 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z And the decadent society, unlike the full dystopia, allows those signs of contradictions to exist, which means that it’s always possible to imagine and work toward renewal and renaissance. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z He saw some disturbing parallels between Orwell’s dystopia and what he said was “the hive mind” of Mr. Trump’s G.O.P. Iowa’s Republicans Unite for Trump (Romney Holdouts Aside) 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The prolific rapper’s work is reminiscent of that early aughts period, his syllables tumbling and heaving with allusion over broken, claustrophobic beats that suggest dystopia. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z This week’s biggest and best book events celebrate poetry, pay homage to Los Angeles’ literary scene, and feature novelists who’ve crafted great stories about cults, climate change and class dystopia. Cults, climate change, dystopia, and also poetry and community, all this coming week 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The Twitter response to this truth-telling, so soon after the deaths, was predictably as disgusting as you would expect from the social media dystopia. Opinion | Remembering Kobe Bryant required the hammer of truth 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Even if the dystopia never quite arrives, the longer a period of stagnation continues, the narrower the space for fecundity and piety, memory and invention, creativity and daring. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Waters’s subjects have always been the signifiers and manners of American class, and Mortville is a uniquely American dystopia. Letter of Recommendation: John Waters’s ‘Desperate Living’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Look outside the postcard, though, and there’s a picture of urban dystopia after decades of slapdash sprawl and government neglect. Rio residents try to bring green to a concrete jungle 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z But they weren’t two doors leading to the same dystopia. Opinion | Trump’s mercenary foreign policy confirms what our worst critics say of us 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Barbara Kiser’s pick of the top five science books to read this week includes data judo, the interconnected self and the dystopia in Silicon Valley. Daily briefing: A supercomputer is mining fossil records to uncover unknown extinctions 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Writer Dana Johnson and artist-designer-writer Rosten Woo will investigate “utopia, dystopia, lost and found histories, California communes, and the black trailblazers of the Golden State” during a discussion about their projects on Thursday. Novelist Rachel Kushner and more book events for the week ahead 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z An acute eye on a dystopia in the making. Data judo, the interconnected self, and the dystopia in Silicon Valley: Books in brief 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z This focus on performance also involved a reference to perhaps the most famous icon of dystopia: Neo from The Matrix. Giorgio goes gorpcore: Armani channels The Matrix in Milan 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z As Glaser put it for Slate, some of them are opting out of the Big Tech pipeline and trying, instead, “to use technical skills as an insurance policy against dystopia.” ‘Techlash’ hits college campuses 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z “Just because the world is corrupt inside, doesn’t mean it can’t be smothered over and pretty. We wanted to find a version of dystopia that we hadn’t seen before.” Westworld returns for a third season on March 15th 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Wouldn’t it be nice to be the generation that together saved Seattle from complete collapse into the development dystopia that is strangling our beloved city’s soul? Save Seattle’s legacy businesses 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z |
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