Jul 19, 2020 · By failing to recognize the dystopia, and dismissing the possibility of a utopia, America has resigned itself to its current, dark narrative.

May 22, 2024 · A new book and two new exhibitions explore the concept of the American Dream – and how it came to represent both a utopia and a dystopia.

Apr 29, 2020 · Our book catalogs three major dystopia types, based on the presence – or absence – of a functioning state and how much power it has. There are, as in Orwell’s “1984,” overly powerful governments...

Jun 24, 2024 · The convergence of economic inequality, technological control, environmental crises, and social alienation paints a picture of a dystopian reality that is unfolding in the United States.

Jun 23, 2020 · Years of toothless and profitable pop culture dystopias have primed consumers to ignore race, helping to obscure the fact that the real dystopia arrived long ago. Comparing America to a...

May 1, 2012 · For those of you hiding out deep in the woods, it's set in a dystopian future North America, a continent divided into downtrodden, fearful districts ruled by a decadent, luxurious oligarchy in...

Oct 22, 2021 · When you zoom out, it’s easy to see that American society is approaching a modern-day dystopia as the once sci-fi-worthy stories of environmental destruction, technological control, and loss...

Oct 15, 2024 · Perhaps the most plausible explanation for the precipitous decline in the 2010s most popular genre isn’t that its young adult readers grew out of their youthful appetite for pessimism, but instead that they found themselves in a …

According to recent media discourse, American contemporary life has finally managed to imitate art, specifically dystopian fiction. Es-pecially in recent years, countless journal articles, TV reports, books, think pieces, and op-eds have claimed again and again that the United. alized.