| The dystopian political program of this utterly marginal, extremist sect has absolutely no traction with anyone of significance. |
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| In its dystopian vision, the first mega city around New York began construction in 2030, intended to house three to four million people. |
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| Blackly funny and chillingly dystopian, Battle Royale has been having quite a resurgence recently. |
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| This dystopian world is controlled by a mythical supreme ruler, called Big Brother. |
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| While this may sound like dystopian fantasy, the passages on gold farming come pretty close to reportage. |
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| The novel conjures up a lawless dystopian world of youth violence and institutional mind-manipulation. |
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| In Lee's dystopian vision of the world of entertainment, television is all-powerful and all-corrupting. |
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| Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future. |
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| Both McLuhan's and Marcuse's dissection of modern technology is neither dystopian nor pessimistic. |
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| Not all of his admirers were fully aware of the satirical or dystopian aspects of his work, however. |
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| British dystopian Watkins prophesizes in his film that protestors and lefties are arrested, tried, and surreptitiously executed in the desert. |
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| Neither do I agree with the even more dystopian picture of entire nation states now under threat from the new terrorist activities. |
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| What's off the mark about his dystopian predictions is that his narrator is saying these things, as opposed to merely thinking them. |
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| Now seems an apt time to stage George Orwell's dystopian novel about the corruption of language. |
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| But vitally, it as an unmistakably modern effort, possessed of a distinctive dystopian angst. |
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| But the stark, dystopian science-fiction tale has become a cult oddity if not a classic. |
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| The preposterously high ceilings and dystopian CRT monitors peeking out from the walls with titillating images amplify the expensive atmosphere. |
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| With production haled, Trumbull started working on special effects for another dystopian sci-fi film, The Andromeda Strain. |
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| Amanita Bloom are a passionate marriage of melancholy and optimism, dipped in a dystopian love-story. |
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| The cop cars of tomorrow will shoot drones, transform from four-wheelers into quadrocopters and fly high above the dystopian hellscape formerly known as the LA Basin. |
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| Meryl Streep plays the Chief Elder, who presides over the dystopian community. |
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| While some will see the dystopian side, others will be galvanized by the opportunities. |
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| I am not a dystopian who thinks that making some efforts to make tools for slaughtering large numbers of people inaccessible to maniacs will transform America into Amerika. |
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| My favorites were medieval poems and plays, as well as futuristic dystopian novels. |
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| I'm not an Internet utopian, but I'm not an Internet dystopian either. |
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| The current most visible works are, moreover, very generally dystopian, by presenting a dark and difficult future. |
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| Like reading a dystopian novel, this book will capture your imagination and keep you awake into the wee hours. |
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| Bernatchez's skillfully elaborate and complex compositions source from a coalescence of dystopian symbols and codes culled from popular culture. |
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| With songs about dystopian futures and darker times, the music is disturbing and makes the skin twitch when watching their live performances. |
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| The city is viewed as a big screen of electronic circuit boards leading towards a standardized and dystopian horizon. |
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| In recent years, we have witnessed intrusions on privacy that would have been dismissed as dystopian only a few decades ago. |
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| In dystopian films, the hero usually starts out as a rube who wants no part of the rebellion, but is finally persuaded to enter the lists. |
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| This volume seeks to explore the saturation of visual technologies in our everyday lives, widely seen by theorists as the path to cultural destruction and a dystopian future. |
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| His debut novel, Echo of the Boom, is a dystopian romp with Pynchonesque ambitions. |
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| The panopticon By Jenni Fagan A teenage heroine is sent to a reformatory in this dystopian novel. |
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| The Bees Laline Paull This arresting debut novel is a daring dystopian story set in a beehive. |
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| I never as a reader have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. |
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| The story revolves around Harrison Ford's policeman, Rick Deckard, and his hunt for four cloned humanoids, known as replicants, in a dystopian version of Los Angeles. |
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| Certainly now when here are, in the aftermath of The Giver, a number of dystopian novels, which involve a great deal of violence. |
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| One day I want to write a dystopian political novel set in the not-too-distant future. |
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| There have been quite a few popular post-apocalyptic or dystopian novels in recent years by prominent literary novelists. |
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| And one finds both sorts of dystopian authors represented in the annals of Chinese sci-fi. |
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| Dave Eggers takes on the dystopian world of Facebook and Google in his new novel The Circle. |
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| That unpredictability is what makes this stand out from the pack of paranormal and dystopian teen novels. |
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| Yet are these sorts of descriptions guilty of relegating Mumbai to a dystopian world of congestion, informality and lack of development? |
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| These are songs for a deoxygenating little dive bar in a dystopian metropolis, its candles slowly sputtering out. |
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| In the dystopian society they envisage, machines have taken over most jobs and humans are left idle – except for those who know how to code. |
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| His London is a dystopian hellscape riddled by sickness, injustice, cold, and want. |
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| The American Lawn examines the lawn within its historical, artistic, literary, and political contexts, situating it on the boundary between utopian ideal and dystopian nightmare. |
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| Utopia gave rise to a literary genre, Utopian and dystopian fiction, which features ideal societies or perfect cities, or their opposite. |
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| When major shifts in technology use occur, utopian and dystopian views of their impact on society often abound, reflecting their disruptiveness and people's concerns. |
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| In a dystopian society in the future, a group of wealthy, epicene overlords — authoritarians with violet hair and the vicious manners of French courtiers — threaten and control an impoverished population. |
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| The Johannesburg-set dystopian tale, from District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp, knocked Will Smith heist caper Focus off the top spot despite mostly negative reviews. |
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| The politicians cannot, it seems, resist laying claim to the mantle of youth, the unfurrowed brow, the fresh-faced optimism of utopian visions in dystopian times. |
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| Miserablism is the opposite of utopianism, a dystopian mindset that believes we are all doomed. |
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| That late capitalism has turned savage and dystopian? |
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| Now Sarah Palin has found a new role, that of film critic, with a rousing review of new movie The Giver in which she repositions the dystopian tale as an anti-Obama polemic. |
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| From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Blade Runner and RoboCop to The Matrix, how humans deal with the artifical intelligence they have created has proved a fertile dystopian territory for film-makers. |
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| As for the non-zombie dystopian possible future: I can imagine an armed resistance against tyranny, I like to think I would want to be a part of it. |
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| George Orwell in his classic dystopian novel 1984 paints a grim picture of a society whose citizens had every reason to expect that their every movement was subject to electronic video surveillance. |
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| Conceptu¬ally rooted in a reflection on the decline of contemporary society and environmental degradation, it is dominated by dramatic im¬ages of bodies in free fall and dark dystopian landscapes of clandestine waste. |
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| Artists concern themselves critically with the state of the world, and in their practice want to use their resources and methods to charge new realities with utopian or often even dystopian energy. |
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| Students will study the utopian and dystopian ideas in the works of Plato, More, Shakespeare, Swift, Shelley, Stevenson, Wells, Huxley, Burgess and Atwood. |
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| This is an interactive installation based on a dystopian view of contemporary global society as well as on the technical specifications of a circuit: a technological nomenclature. |
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| In George Orwell's dystopian account of the future, history can be eradicated by a state-orchestrated program of mandatory forgetting, because history is intangible and unable to defend itself. |
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| In August 2009, Scott planned to direct an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World set in a dystopian London with Leonardo DiCaprio. |
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| Matthew Dear This experimental microhouse D.J. and producer channels Detroit techno in his reedy, subtly dystopian brushes of beats. |
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| Moore wrote the story Big Nemo, a dystopian sequel to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo. |
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| Yet there are glimpses of surpassingly eerie dystopian beauty. |
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| This dystopian future feels like a place we've visited many times before, and the prospect of Earth being repopulated by stroppy American teens is a pretty terrifying one. |
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| In Delirium, Oliver sets up the dystopian world where love is a disease called amor deliria nervosa and everyone must receive treatment to be cured of the illness. |
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| First, we discuss Krog's version of hospitality as an implicit response to the dynamics of moral myopia captured so vividly in Schoeman's dystopian portrait of Afrikanerdom. |
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| In Brave New World, set in a dystopian London, Huxley portrays a society operating on the principles of mass production and Pavlovian conditioning. |
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| A quick browse through the major cinematic blockbusters of the last few years suggests that mankind is more obsessed than ever with fetishizing a dystopian future. |
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| Brave New World was Huxley's fifth novel and first dystopian work. |
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