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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.

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Utopia & DYstopia

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  1. Utopia & DYstopia Lisa Gehler & Marieke Lange

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Utopia - Society • Fair allocation of goods • Allocation of economy gainful employment • Art and sience

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

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

  7. 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)

  8. Dystopia - Society • Authoritarian or totalitarian form of goverment • Show repressive social control systems • Prove the concept of technology

  9. General information about Dystopia • Modified form of „Utopia“ • In literature: futuristic / fictional society • Dystopian stories have the intention to warn

  10. Dystopia - History • First use by John Stuat Mill in 1868 • Beginn: industrial revolution (1900)

  11. 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)

  12. Science-Fiction • Genre: fiction • Science andtechnology (future) • Present / past • Plot: space, imaginaryworld, different universeordimension • H. G. Wells (The War oftheWorlds, 1898)

  13. Delimitation: Utopia – Science Fiction • Science Fiction: technologicaldevelopments • Utopia: ideal society

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

  15. 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/utopia.html

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