Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight...
Subposting from another conversation a little... while teaching #Psychology in #ScienceFiction course the students and I once figured out that there are some easy ways to create a #dystopia . The ones I can remember right now:
A reasonable-sounding rule or law is administered in technically consistent but problematic way (often by a bad actor or someone/something with no consideration for kindness, harm, etc.).
Something that cannot or should not be experimentally manipulated... is.
#2 is my fave, because I can do a bad imitation of the Standard Deep Voiced Movie Announcer Guy and say things like
"In the future, where gender is assigned by a computer..."
or
"Imagine a world where sexual orientation, mathematical ability, and food preferences are decided by a government genetic lab..."
This movie (and the year it was released) is now forty years old. That's older than than the gap between when the book was written and the year it was based upon! Are we more of a #Dystopia society now than what Orwell envisioned? I don't know about that, but our current music sure isn't as cold and #SynthPop heavy as heard here. #ElectronicMusic#NewWave
Kiedyś ukończyłam kurs przygotowujący do właściwego zachowania w razie zagrożeń typu wojna, kataklizm, świat pogrążony w chaosie. I co, gdy wysiadło światło na dzielni okazało się, że moje powerbanki są martwe. I po co mi było ten kurs robić?
Caitlin Cronenberg (David's daughter) has her first film Humane (a bloody, violent dystopian satire) hitting theaters next month. It has Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire and Peter Gallagher.
"The former president has pushed a slew of terrifying proposals, both publicly and privately, that he plans to unleash on America should he take down Biden."
Dystopian fiction: promises catastrophe with: flying cars, spaceships, alien encounters, hyper dense cities, advanced medical technology and prosthetics, and/or post-apocalyptic communes
Current reality: promises catastrophe with barely any homes available, no flying cars, no spaceships, countries without healthcare, and with richbois selling useless trinkets
A Firehose of Falsehood breaks down the mechanisms of the attack on democracy into its component parts with fierce clarity and narrative power. A Firehood of Falsehood is so lucidly written and analytically acute, that it will be treasured by readers from young adults to scholars in the field.
―Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy, Yale
The Realism Of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson On How Science Fiction Works
"We’re all science fiction writers...world civilization right now is teetering on the brink: Science fiction is the realism of our time. Utopia and dystopia are both possible, and both staring us in the face."
(Kim Stanley Robinson)
The true story of a fake dystopian town Scarfolk (scarfolk.blogspot.com)
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight...