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Dystopia has always been a glorious part of our culture, in the UK and in Europe more generally. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, through HG Wells, Joseph Conr
by justincormack 12y ago
Dystopia has always been a glorious part of our culture, in the UK and in Europe more generally. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, through HG Wells, Joseph Conrad (the Machine Stops), Orwell, JG Ballard, not to mention Pink Floyd, Chris Morris and When the Wind Blows.
We love it, the discordance between what might have been and the plastic shittiness of what is, and we hate that Hollywood happy ending bollocks where everyone is going to live for even and ever and everything will be quite super.
- cpeterso 12y agoAn antidote to dystopian futures, Kevin Kelly's "A Desirable-Future Haiku: The coming hundred years, in one hundred words". On the chance that desirable futures ARE possible, we need to imagine them. https://medium.com/message/a-desirable-future-haiku-ff01d63c93c6 https://medium.com/message/a-desirable-future-haiku-ff01d63c...
- EdwardCoffin 12y agoRegarding The Machine Stops, I think you mean E. M. Forster: http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
- justincormack 12y agoYes, of course.