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...Ban Wang Abstract Crossing the binary of utopia and dystopia, this article reads Hao Jingfang's (1984–) novel Vagabonds as a critical ecotopia. I explore configurations of social worlds and eschew the politics of purity by highlighting the complexities of building a utopia while navigating...

...) Under the accelerated progress of technology like AI and genetic engineering, such millennial foundations are being eroded and human society is degenerating into a posthuman, amoral dystopia: But modern technology has damaged the foundation. Technology addicts indulging in overdoses of dopamine have...

... wenxue de fangfa,” 86 ; Liu and Li, “Lun Liu Cixin Santi ji dui AC Clarke de jeshou,” 140. 6 Cao, “Multiple Bodies of The Three-Body Problem ,” 184 . 7 Damrosch, “What Is World Literature?,” 9 . 8 In popular conversation, this text is often characterized simply as a dystopia...

... in our time as ever. With the anomalous and polymorphous mediation of fiction, we find ourselves imagining dystopia and heterotopia in the hope of a future in which such an imagination would scarcely be needed. And yet at any fold of time we may come to realize that, without the imagination of darkness...

..., and the balance between society and nature. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 ecotopia dystopia Cold War self-realization freedom Utopia can serve the negative purpose of making us aware of our mental and ideological imprisonment . . . the best Utopias...

... leadership by a few major countries are necessary in any concerted effort to combat planetary catastrophes. Melissa A. Hosek examines Liu Cixin's 劉慈欣 (1963–) Santi 三體 (The Three-Body Problem) in terms of environmental and political dystopia. The novel weaves a connection between natural ecology...

... break, communication, or social life. Living in a dormitory resembling a labor camp, roommates do not get to see each other during the twenty-four-hour shifts. Vibrating with jarring electronic sounds, the whole factory seems to be a huge device swallowing up workers, body and soul. This dystopia...

... of names). By reading these three texts, along with Liang's Xin Zhongguo weilai ji , in conversation with one another, Andolfatto demonstrates the mutability of utopia and dystopia as two sides of the same coin, depending on one's perspective as colonizer or colonized. Chapters 4 and 5 further...

... , 19. See also Book of the Great Community . Debord, Guy, 119, 127 deep ecology, 3, 26, 76 Dickens, Peter, 3, 7 Dispossessed, The (Le Guin), 165 Dong Zhongshu, 18 dystopia, 37, 107, 113, 135, 147, 149–50, 165, 167–68, 179, 185 Eagleton, Terry, 1, 29, 57, 83, 87...

... with nature for building a livable home, technological hegemony and dystopia seem to have obliterated that possibility. Yet it is precisely because of this frustration over the shrunken horizon that we should receive a wakeup call and find these unfilled aspirations newly relevant. Speaking about artworks...

... Award, for his Three-Body Problem in 2015, and gain international recognition. 5 Hua, “Dual Alienation in Waste Tide ,” 671 . 6 Bhatia and Chen, “‘With Every Future We Wish to Create.’” 7 Wang, “Toxic Colonialism, Alienation, and Posthuman Dystopia,” 140 . 8 Chen...

... jingyingwenhua de shiluo” ; McGrath, Postsocialist Modernity ; Rojas, “Authorial Afterlives and Apocrypha.” 3 For more on the emergence of “new historical novels” in 1990s China, see Kinkley, Visions of Dystopia . 4 Hockx, Internet Literature in China , 21 . 5 Ibid., 72. 6...

... of technological dystopia where humans and cyborgs coexist but in distinctive, unequal, hierarchical systems. While we continue to celebrate biotechnological advancement in the early twenty-first-century present, Chen's speculative tales warn us of possible consequences in the near future, if we continued to push...

.... Contemporary science fiction sounds the alarm by depicting dystopias of posthuman conditions. Sci-fi works proffer penetrating commentaries on technologically induced social and environmental catastrophes amid the triumphant crazes of endless growth, prosperity, and power. Chapter 7 examines Han Song's 韓松...

... a human stream into a bed of trenches; instead of dropping seeds from airplanes, it drops incendiary bombs over cities; and through gas warfare the aura is abolished in a new way.” 5 The technoscientific utopia turned overnight into the ruins of dystopia. To counter this new myth, Benjamin resorted...

..., society directs a human stream into a bed of trenches; instead of dropping seeds from airplanes, it drops incendiary bombs over cities; and through gas warfare the aura is abolished in a new way.” 8 The technoscientific utopia turned overnight into the ruins of dystopia. To counter this new myth...

... formations, we open ourselves to a much broader range of interpretative possibilities and analytic tools, which allow us to ask more nuanced questions about affect, embodiment, belongingness, identity, and dystopia in a divided Asia. Even if we accept the more empirical, commonsense definition...

... will immediately turn the promised utopian land of a modernized country into a hallucinatory vision, and his brave new world into a dystopia of wanton sex and consumption. Is Wu Sunfu's dream of a modern nation as illusory as his wife's romantic reverie of love? Would it turn into a nightmare as horrifying as his...