utopia & dystopia

UTOPIA & DYSTOPIA

Lisa Gehler & Marieke Lange

General Information about Utopia

• “not“ and “place“

• Ideal community or society

• Invented by Sir Thomas Morus

• Attempt to create an ideal society

• World which realizes imaginations

• Describes the future

Utopia - History

Beginn: time of the Greeks

Legends and paradises

Platon

16th century -> Thomas Morus

Tommaso Campanella

17th / 18th century -> highly deployment

19th century -> pressed by Goethe and Saint-Simon

20th century -> changing of the society

Utopia - Society

Fair allocation of goods

Allocation of economy gainful employment

Art and sience

Utopia - Technical Technical porceedings Human engineering Victory of technical instruments Promise of important theories Examples: - space flight

- internet

Thomas Morus * 7th of feburary 1478 in London † 6th of july 1535 English statesman and author Book: “Utopia“ Island Ideal society Distance world “new“ Utopia

Utopia – Literature and Films Literature Utopia ( 1516, Thomas More) The City of the Sun (1623, Tommaso Campanella) Woman on the Edge of Time (1976, Marge Piercy) Uglies (2005, Scott Westerfield)

Films Logan´s Run (Michael Anderson) Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)

Dystopia - Society Authoritarian or totalitarian form of goverment

Show repressive social control systems

Prove the concept of technology

General information about Dystopia

Modified form of „Utopia“

In literature: futuristic / fictional society

Dystopian stories have the intention to warn

Dystopia - History First use by John Stuat Mill in 1868

Beginn: industrial revolution (1900)

Dystopia – Literature and Films Literature Die Zeitmaschine (1895, H. G. Wells) Brave New World (1932, Aldous Huxley) Planet der Affen (1957, Pierre Boulle) Sin City (1991, Frank Miller)

Films Waterworld (1995, Kevin Costner) Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg) The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich) Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)

Science-Fiction Genre: fiction Science and technology (future) Present / past Plot: space, imaginary world, different universe

or dimension H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)

Delimitation: Utopia – Science Fiction

Science Fiction: technological developments Utopia: ideal society

Science-Fiction - Films Star Wars (Georg Lucas) E.T. (Steven Spielberg) Star Trek ( Gene Roddenberry)

Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction http://www.dystopiainfo.com/article.aspx?

details=1 http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/utopia/

section7.rhtml http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/

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