The Future of Dystopia

IF 0.1 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Mario Vrbančić
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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).‎
反乌托邦的未来
反乌托邦,就像乌托邦一样,总是沉浸在政治愿景中:乌托邦是一个理想的社会,而反乌托邦是它的对立面:“坏地方”——一个未来的,通常是“非常近的未来”,一个想象中的宇宙,在这个宇宙中压迫性的社会控制统治着。然而,乌托邦和反乌托邦不能绝对分开,总是存在着用坏地方取代好地方的威胁,这常常导致这样的结论:每个乌托邦要么导致反乌托邦,要么已经是反乌托邦。今天,反乌托邦的未来似乎已经到来,现实本身唤起了反乌托邦的想象:全球变暖和灾难,各种技术的可怕的阴暗面最终会压倒我们人类。此外,乌托邦和反乌托邦都是关于如何治理公地的叙述。在过去,公地出现在“不同的乌托邦式的良好治理愿景”中,而今天,公地往往以反乌托邦叙事的变形形式充实起来。在这篇文章中,我分析了反乌托邦想象作为公地的创伤症状,在资本主义危机的不同叙述中表现出来(人类世、全球怪物、不可思议的天气、虚拟世界、新封建主义或技术封建主义)
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来源期刊
CiteScore
0.40
自引率
33.30%
发文量
11
审稿时长
3 weeks
期刊介绍: “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.
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