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4 days ago · Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech ", [1] featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. [2]
- Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian...
- Neuromancer
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by...
- Johnny Mnemonic
Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk action film directed by...
- Solarpunk
Solarpunk may take practical inspiration from Earthships,...
- Postcyberpunk
Since the advent of the cyberpunk genre, a number of...
- New Rose Hotel
New Rose Hotel is a 1998 American erotic science fiction...
- Cyberpunk
4 days ago · A nuclear war occurs at the end of Bradbury's dystopian futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), with the outcasts, who had fled an unidentified American city to escape a despotic government which burned books in order to control the public by limiting knowledge, left alive to re-establish society.
2 days ago · Utopia gave rise to a literary genre, Utopian and dystopian fiction, which features ideal societies or perfect cities, or their opposite. Works influenced by Utopia included New Atlantis by Francis Bacon, Erewhon by Samuel Butler, and Candide by Voltaire.
4 days ago · Teaching Utopian and Dystopian Literature (Spring 2024 Webinars) On March 20 and 27, 2024, Humanities Texas held two 75-minute webinars for English language arts teachers on teaching works of utopian and dystopian literature at the secondary level.
3 days ago · This was also a time in which women’s writing moved in new ways, imagining speculative utopian worlds to accompany their radical gender politics. This article examines two literary feminist utopias from the early twentieth century: Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood (1902–3) and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream (1905).
2 days ago · The origins of our digital dystopia. Congress’ decision to force a sale of TikTok is a radical break from business as usual with the world’s tech giants, a targeted crackdown on one company ...
4 days ago · In Plato ’s Republic, Plato transcribes a dialogue between the infamous Socrates and several of his followers. In the dialogue, Socrates is given the task of creating the perfect city. Although most of what is written is actually Plato’s views of a utopian society, the speaker is represented as Socrates, a renowned philosopher in Greek society.
