{"title":"The Future of Dystopia","authors":"Mario Vrbančić","doi":"10.20901/pm.59.4.02","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Dystopia, just as utopia, has always been immersed in political visions: utopia as an ideal society and dystopia as its opposite: ‘bad place’ – a futuristic, usually very near future, an imagined universe in which oppressive social control rules. However, utopia and dystopia cannot be absolutely separated, there is a constant threat of replacing good place by bad place, very often leading to the conclusion that every utopia either leads to dystopia or already is dystopia. Today, it often seems that the dystopian future has already arrived, the reality itself evokes dystopian imagination: the global warming and the catastrophes, the monstrous underside of various technologies that would ultimately over-power us – humans. Furthermore, both utopia and dystopia are narratives about how to govern the commons. Whereas in the past the commons appeared in different utopian visions of good governing, today most often the commons fleshes out in disfigured forms of dystopian narratives. In this essay I analyze dystopian imagination as a traumatic symptom of the commons, expressed indifferent narratives of the crisis of capitalism (the Anthropocene, the global monsters, the uncanny weather, metaverse, neo- or techno-feudalism).","PeriodicalId":43401,"journal":{"name":"Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.59.4.02","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dystopia, just as utopia, has always been immersed in political visions: utopia as an ideal society and dystopia as its opposite: ‘bad place’ – a futuristic, usually very near future, an imagined universe in which oppressive social control rules. However, utopia and dystopia cannot be absolutely separated, there is a constant threat of replacing good place by bad place, very often leading to the conclusion that every utopia either leads to dystopia or already is dystopia. Today, it often seems that the dystopian future has already arrived, the reality itself evokes dystopian imagination: the global warming and the catastrophes, the monstrous underside of various technologies that would ultimately over-power us – humans. Furthermore, both utopia and dystopia are narratives about how to govern the commons. Whereas in the past the commons appeared in different utopian visions of good governing, today most often the commons fleshes out in disfigured forms of dystopian narratives. In this essay I analyze dystopian imagination as a traumatic symptom of the commons, expressed indifferent narratives of the crisis of capitalism (the Anthropocene, the global monsters, the uncanny weather, metaverse, neo- or techno-feudalism).
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“Politička misao” je akademski časopis za politologiju i srodne discipline, koji od 1964. godine izdaje Fakultet političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Časopis je u pola stoljeća izlaženja stekao reputaciju središnjeg akademskog politološkog časopisa u Hrvatskoj i šire, naročito u nekadašnjoj Jugoslaviji, te u regiji koju čine post-jugoslavenske zemlje. “Politička misao” objavljuje priloge iz područja političkih znanosti i političkih studija općenito, odnosno iz svih poddisciplina politologije: političke teorije, međunarodnih odnosa, komparativne politike, hrvatske politike, javne politike, područnih studija, političke komunikacije, obrambenih i sigurnosnih studija i dr. Također, objavljujemo i članke iz područja koje nije moguće jednoznačno klasificirati po njihovoj pripadnosti samo jednoj disciplini nego se nalaze na „granici“ između dviju ili više disciplina: političke povijesti, ekonomske politike, političke filozofije, političke sociologije, političke psihologije, medijskih i kulturalnih studija i sl. Kao izdanje Fakulteta političkih znanosti u Zagrebu, objavljujemo i članke koji su neposredno vezani uz studijske programe na tom fakultetu. “Politička misao” je posebno zainteresirana za radove o hrvatskoj politici i društvu, za radove koji analiziraju Hrvatsku u globalnom kontekstu, kao i za radove koji istražuju politiku i društvo na Balkanu i u Jugoistočnoj Europi, u Europskoj uniji, u susjedstvu Europske unije, te na Mediteranu – regijama s kojima Hrvatska ima neposredni dodir.