Set in the near future, this dystopian science fiction movie depicts the life in the collapsed society of England. Devastated by the virus that managed to destroy the means of human reproduction, this movie follows the adventure of several protagonists who were tasked to protect the only surviving...
dystopian and post-apocalyptic books offer us a way to escape the constant cultural need to deny the underlying problems of our society. (Quick aside — I’ve been learning to speak out
laptop on my lap, and type. Sometimes I brainstorm ideas with a pencil and paper since a computer screen doesn’t seem to be helpful when I’m trying to solve a plot problem. My perfect scenario would be sitting in my well-appointed study on my country estate...
Tensions escalate as Nicholas infiltrates a higher society he doesn’t understand, and starts to fall for the very person he needs to manipulate to be successful. And between run-ins with a talking animal and genetically modified humans, the world around him just keeps getting stranger. Can Nic...
which is why it’s so often forbidden from happening in a dystopian world. love makes people unpredictable and stupid, and there’s no room for that stuff in rigid society. still, some films make allowances—like, sexy allowances—that let citizens get it on without attaching emotion. how...
My artefact explores the use of androgyny to eliminate the power of sexual politics and the force of gender inequality, but ultimately reveals itself to be an all-powerful matriarchal society that exploits the male species for labour and sex. Throug...
Firstly, dystopian novels usually revolve around ideas of inequality, in some way. Inequality is almost always at the heart of any dystopian society—and often the premise of an idea for such a manuscript can be summed up in ‘what-if’ questions: What if some people aren’t treated fairly...
We enter this story about ten years in the future. Day (Daniel) and his brother Eden are living in Ross City in Antarctica. The most advanced new country in the world – a society based on Virtual Reality, a Level system to keep you in classes, and as a result, a society that’s ...
Or to put it in academic historian’s terms, I think that the researcher’s job is to peel back layers of discourses to see what they’re made of and what lies beneath them – to excavate ideas from the cruft of discourses that have piled up on top of them. Civ 5 is often quite ...
Set in 2021, James’s 1992 novel speaks of another society broken by infertility. As the last people to be born on Earth get killed in a pub fight and the world falls into disorder with no future for humanity, historian Theo Faron finds himself caught in a political fight with his dictat...