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Title: | Utopia and dystopia in the age of the Anthropocene | Authors: | Vieira, Patrícia | Keywords: | Utopia; Dystopia; Anthropocene | Issue Date: | 2021 | Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | Project: | FCT - Project IF/00606/2015 | Serial title, monograph or event: | Esbocos | Volume: | 27 | Issue: | 46 | Abstract: | A product of Modernity, utopian and dystopian thought has always hinged upon an assessment as to whether humanity would be able to fulfil the promise of socio-economic, political and techno-scientific progress. In this paper, I argue that the predominantly dystopian outlook of the past century or so marked a move away from former views on human progress. Rather than commenting on humanity’s inability to build a better society, current dystopianism betrays the view that the human species as such is an impediment to harmonious life on Earth. I discuss the shift from utopia to dystopia (and back) as a result of regarding humans as a force that does more harm than good, and I consider the possibility of human extinction within the framework of dystopian and utopian visions. The final section of the chapter turns to Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy as a fictional example that plays out the prospect of a world in which humans have all but become extinct. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/106028 | ISSN: | 2175-7976 1414-722X |
DOI: | 10.5007/2175-7976.2020.e72386 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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