Dystopia as a Service

Addressing a Future with Data Visualization on Science Fiction Movies: Dystopia or Utopia

While the far-fetched ideas brought up with imagination are shedding lights on Science Fiction Movies, occasionally ever-growing technology has been fuelled by these creative inspirations and imaginations. This article reflects on the findings of the data visualization project Dystopia-Utopia (www.dystopia-utopia.com) and investigates the existence of a common discourse that would stand out in ...

Surgical correction in orbitotemporal neurofibromatosis with dystopia

BACKGROUND Orbitotemporal neurofibromatosis is a challenging disease for orbital surgeons. Ptosis correction may be needed following correction of orbital dystopia. CASE PRESENTATION A 34-year-old man, who underwent excision of a neurofibroma on the right eyelid in our clinic, returned to our clinic four years later complaining of dystopia and bulkiness of the protruding mass in the right eye...

BETWEEN UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA: THE LABILITIES OF NATIONALISIvI IN EASTERN EUROPE

The Journey to Nature: The Last of Us as Critical Dystopia

As an instance of the critical dystopia, The Last of Us lets the player enact a postapocalyptic story in which human society has been severely decimated by the Cordyceps infection and where nature has made an astonishing return. This paper examines the ecological rhetoric of The Last of Us by laying emphasis on the empirical player’s emancipated involvement in the gameworld (virtualized storywo...

The Locative Dystopia

2004 opened with the cancellation of a number of commercial airline flights at the bequest of the US administration. This serves as a reminder of the mundane and arbitrary operation of power ("Its got to the point where if there's anybody called Mohammed aboard, your flight's got a problem" senior airline source, quoted Guardian, 3 January 2004), and also of the renewed focus on surveillance an...