...) 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...

... 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 at even the brightest moment of history, we are unprepared to recognize...

...). banwang@stanford.edu 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 are those that fail most comprehensively...

... 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...

..., the traditional ecological bonds of humans and nature are collapsing. 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...

...; 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. 41 Ibid., 2:345–46; English translation in Yang and Yang, Old Tales Retold , 6...

..., 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 to old dreams, ancient cosmology, and ecological traditions. His use of myth...

..., embodiment, belongingness, identity, and dystopia in a divided Asia. Even if we accept the more empirical, commonsense definition of the Cold War as a time frame rather than a contemporary problematic, we must still ask: is the Cold War really over from the point of view of Asia, which is still divided...

... 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...