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In my opinion, however, while the film should be located within the utopian spectrum, is to be understood not as a dystopia but as an anti-utopian text – a subgenre of the utopian that refutes the possibility of utopian change and that, as Fredric Jameson notes, ‘is informed by the central passion to denounce and to warn against Utopian programs in the political realm’. (English)
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The terminological and genealogical jungle surrounding the key concepts of utopian studies involving the central trinity of utopia–dystopia–anti-utopia is often accompanied by a multitude of derivative classificatory labels such as critical dystopia; satirical dystopia; counter-utopia; reverse utopia; negative utopia; cacotopia; etc. (English)
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And yet, as Caroline Edwards and Fredric Jameson have argued, a seemingly prevalent scepticism towards utopianism is increasingly being challenged by a prevalent “anti-anti-utopianism” (English)
16 March 2023
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authors such as Moylan (2000) choose not to categorise Nineteen Eighty-Four as an anti-utopia, drawing a line between anti-utopian and ‘dystopian’ fiction. Dystopia is here used as a category marker, recognising a particular type of dystopian fiction. […] Dystopia or negative utopia—a non-existent society described inconsiderable detail and normally located in time and space that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as considerably worse than the society in which that reader lived. Anti-utopia—a non-existent society described in considerable detail andnormally located in time and space that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as a criticism of utopianism or of some particular eutopia. (English)
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To support the thesis, the article follows up with a series of etymological, philological, philosophical, and logical arguments in favour of using a term “dystopia” to denote any kind of narrative or world that deconstructs eutopian idealism, and reserving the predicate “anti-utopian” for a sociological critique of failed transformative efforts in society and philosophy. (English)
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