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	rogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The dystopic vision rejects utopianism's ideals as being "naive" and "unrealistic," and is focused on the harsh realities of life: people are going to be greedy, malevolent, petty, and harsh no matter how much education or money they have.
		The dystopic vision is disillusioned about a lot of things, and while that can promote a realism that utopianism lacks, the dystopic vision can (and often does) lose the hope that permeates the utopian.
		(Dystopics and utoics alike both seek for the truth, of course.) So, the Trek universe is made more dystopic and therefore becomes more full and real and true to the dystopics, while at the same time confusing and in some cases offending the utopics, particularly in a show that has had a utopic tradition.
	www.atlantera.de /rogue.htm (966 words)

	Jamison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In dystopic discourse, the cyborg is a symbol of coming to terms with postmodern life: chaos and uncertainty mark the end of reason, and what is left of human reason (often confused with life itself) can only be continued through the unfortunate symbiosis of a necessary human and machine relationship, the cyborg.
		However, in the dystopic postmodern analysis, the human-machine dyad is situated in integrated, dynamic, open, social relations that are constantly changing.
		Therefore, the dystopic is itself utopic, and the utopic is dystopic.
	www.kovacs.com /EJVC/Jamison.htm (2958 words)

	MedFriendly.com: Dystopic
		Dystopic means relating to or characterized by dystopia, which means the same thing as malposition.
		Malposition is a faulty, wrong, or abnormal position or placement of a body part or organ.
		Dystopic comes from the Greek word "dys" meaning "bad," the Greek word "topos" meaning "place," and the Greek word "ikos" meaning "pertaining to." Put the words together and you have "pertaining to bad place."
	www.medfriendly.com /dystopic.html (123 words)

	Gattaca_essay
		The science fiction movie Gattaca is a piece of modern dystopic writing, speculating on a future in which humankind has used a new-found mastery over the human genome to create better, faster, stronger, more-long-lived humans.
		However, he is not free to pursue this dream, because no matter how hard he studies, how good he becomes, he will never get the chance to follow his dreams because his genes are not “valid.” As one character says in the movie, “No one exceeds his potential,” meaning their genetic potential.
		This is a very dystopic concept to many Americans, who are traditionally raised to believe that hard work and persistence are what it takes to achieve their dreams, not that their very destiny is entwined in their genome.
	www.dpo.uab.edu /~elbetho/Gattaca_essay.html (1119 words)

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		Analog dystopic AI stories first appear in the late 19th century and they are characterized by anxieties about the dangerous nature of analog machine intelligences (built of gears and cogs instead of transistors).
		An example of this is Ambrose Bierce's "Moxon's Master" (1894) which had a dystopic ending that involved the mechanical chess player killing its creator after being checkmated.
		After World War II, SF authors wrote digital dystopic AI stories to explore questions concerning the ethics of a science and technology that produced the nuclear bomb (and the first digital computers).
	sciencefictionlab.lcc.gatech.edu /subTopicAI.html (736 words)

	North American Fiction and Film-Chapter 11: Margaret Atwood
		We intend to read it as a dystopic cautionary tale which operates on a number of levels, the main one being to draw attention to the plight of woman in a fundamentalist and fascistic state in the not too distant future.
		In contrast, the term "dystopia" means "bad place," and dystopic novels usually present a very unpleasant imaginary place where the ominous tendencies of our own world, be they social, political or technological, are projected into some near future world (the most famous examples being George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World).
		The point of the dystopic novel is to provide us with a cautionary tale (that is, a story with a warning) about the effects of excessive adherence to "norms" already existing in our world.
	www.cqu.edu.au /arts/humanities/litstud/naff/naffch11atwood.html (6531 words)

	rastplats :: dege :: book review :: anthony burgess - a clockwork orange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The setting of this book is a not too distant dystopic future where the narrator of the book, young Alex, rampage with his gang in search of thrills for the night.
		To illustrate this, he use the main character of the book as an example that even choosing to be extremely bad is better than having to be good against your own free will.
		The language in the book is something of the most entertaining I've ever seen in a dystopic novel, the narrator and his friends are talking in a beautiful slang in which language flow is of central importance.
	www.rastplats.se /review/clockwork_orange.html (252 words)

	Dystopic Hillbillies [Archive] - RPGnet Forums
		So I'd guess the hillbillies would either be all dead, which is boring, or freakish mutants riddled with tumors who, like the supervoles of chernobyl, are evolving at a increased speed as those few mutations that survive spread their hard-to-kill genes.
		So I'd guess the hillbillies would either be all dead, which is boring, or freaksih mutants riddled with tumors who, like the supervoles of chernobyl, are evolving at a increased speed as those few mutations that survive spread their hard-to-kill genes.
		Hillbilly towns in a dystopic future would probably be the same as they were in the days of frontier mining towns, only more so.
	forum.rpg.net /archive/index.php/t-155291.html (3790 words)

	Dystopic Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	Wordwizard Clubhouse - dystopic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It didn't recognize "dystopic" as a word but listed dystopia: an imaginary place where people lead dehimanized and often fearful lives.
		But, in exactly the same way that we talk of a Utopian society, I can personally see no reason whatsoever not to speak of a Dystopic society if the piece you quote is referring to such a nightmare.
		It doesn't sound wrong to me, but the dictionaries seem to prefer dystopian rather than dystopic, though anyone who knew what a dystopia was would understand what was meant by dystopic.
	www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17877 (550 words)

	Examine the dystopic features of the novels "1984" and "The Handmaid's Tale".
		Winston's knowledge of this is incredibly frustrating to him as he sees everyone around him believing the party and he knows that there is nothing that he can do or say.
		However, the true extent of the dystopic future is shown at the end of the novel when Winston is brainwashed by the party.
		Winston does not hate his job of translating; indeed he finds it "satisfying" but what he does despair of is the way in which the English language is being destroyed.
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	COMICON.com: WIZ CHI '04 MARVEL UNIVERSE - Cho Exc. Cap & IM new #1 & More
		If you think Ellis' work is dystopic, then you've completely missed the point of his writing.
		Bill Jemas used to say that we could announce free milk and cookies with every Marvel comic and someone would complain that we were trying to kill them because they were lactose intolerant.
		Ellis himself bristles at the suggestion that his work is dystopic and bleak.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=002651 (3117 words)

	Social Research: Judith Shklar's dystopic liberalism.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Judith Shklar's notion of liberalism was dystopic in its belief that the diversity of opinion inherent in a liberal society would prevent the consensus needed to eliminate injustice.
		Shklar believed that liberalism was not part of any natural law, but was the political autonomy granted individuals.
		This would make any general consensus impossible and would perpetuate some of the misfortunes she believed to be injustices.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:15764935&refid=ink_tptd_mag (176 words)

	Staffer Selected for Prestigious Local Art Exhibit \| Saint Louis University
		Daniel E.C. Nunez-Shown, administrative secretary in the philosophy department, has been selected to participate in “Critical Mass for the Visual Arts,” the summer exhibition hosted by the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.
		As part of the “Dystopic Visions” show, Nunez-Shown and other artists will explore issues dealing with commodities and commodification.
		A SLU staff member as well as a studio art and American studies student, Nunez-Shown said that he is excited to present his work in “Dystopic Visions” alongside art by top local artists, including Amy Harmon, Tim Waldrop and Jason Wallace Triefenbach.
	www.slu.edu /readstory/homepage/4417 (414 words)

	computer viruses : Savings and Deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		3 (DVD) VIRUS, Masami Obari`s 13 episode dystopic science fiction series was a wildly popular hit when it aired on Japanese television in 1997.
		Set in the year 2097 in Neo Hong Kong, the series finds the world inhabited by human/computer hybrids and genetica...
		VIRUS, Masami Obari`s 13 episode dystopic science fiction series was a wildly popular hit when it aired on Japanese television in 1997.
	www.hitechdeterg.co.nz /widgets/computer+viruses (1311 words)

	peterme.com: Enforced Contraception is Not a Good Thing
		Brave New World is a dystopic novel by Aldous Huxley, and not really something you want to set out as a goal, or a marker of a desirable future.
		One of the worst offenders of the Glorious use of "Brave New World" is, not surprisingly, Wired.
		We didn't talk about it in the presentation Peter saw, but we did discuss the "Brave New World" scenario and generally dystopic.
	www.peterme.com /archives/000509.html (463 words)

	A Joshua Tree In Every Pot: LA is dystopic on days that end in "y" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Joshua Tree In Every Pot: LA is dystopic on days that end in "y"
		LA is dystopic on days that end in "y"
		Three days out of the week I've been taking the train (Metrolink + Red Line + Gold Line to be pedantic) to work.
	www.quartzcity.net /blog/archives/2005/05/11/la_is_dystopic_on_days_that_end_in_y.html (199 words)

	Neff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The utopian "new geography" (Kotkin 2000) and the "geography of talent" (Florida 2002) hold that desirable places to live will be able to attract and retain high-tech economic development.
		More dystopic views see a growing technology gap within (Servon and Nelson 2001, Solnit 2001) and between cities (Zook 2001, Graham 2001) emerging from the confluence of preexisting socio-technical networks with new information technologies.
		Focusing on New York City's technology districts, this paper attempts to bring an "analysis of the material practice of the social (and the economic and the cultural)" (Pratt 2000) to the study of the places of commercial Internet construction.
	www.aoir.org /2002/program/neff.html (256 words)

	Margaret Atwood(Bold Type Magazine)
		He explores the answers to these questions in the double journey—into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
		This is Atwood's dystopic future: genetically altered animals (pigoons and wolvogs); the elimination of the middle class; ecological disaster; a video game named Extinctathon (SIMs gone wildly amuck); the commodification of just about everything; and, humanity's extinction.
		Not only can Oryx and Crake be added to the shortlist of classic dystopic novels like Brave New World and 1984, it is doubtless the most inventive and unnerving novel written in some time.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0503/atwood/index.html (243 words)

	Walta Information Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Just as in Orwells dystopic futuristic novel, the REAL world of today is also run by the prime logic of ensuring the RIGHTS of the ELITE FEW at the cost of SQUALOR and SUFFERING for the MANY.
		Like the Orwellian nightmarish vision, the dystopic New World Order, is a world system enacted to maintain the interests and well being of the WEST at the expense of the REST.
		In the dystopic New World Order, the profit motives, interests and strategies of the transnational corporations - such as the powerful MAI (memorandum of agreement on investment) - constitute the Law of the Land, whether you like it or understand, with or without the WTO.
	www.telecom.net.et /~walta/conflict/articles/article1164.html (587 words)

	Recycling Bin 41 - Too Many Dystopic Futures (Apr 2001)
		If you want to make a comics fan suffer, particularly a Marvel comics fan, and more particularly an X-books fan, you might consider inflicting upon him another tale set in an alternate future gone wrong.
		This work begins with the Avengers of a dystopic future engaging in casual genocide against those worlds that refuse to acknowledge their rule.
		Without trying hard to achieve such a result, I would consider four hits within such a small window rather suggestive of a persistent and pervasive cliche, an overused concept that not only does not go away, but which seems to enjoy such replication throughout superhero comics that it can come and seek the reader.
	www.quarterbin.net /recycleb/rb41.html (1754 words)

	satire dystopic fiction: essayandtermpapers.com- tons of essays, tons of term papers, tons of book reports
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	Dystopic Reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		People wonder how the passage of time and the entrance into adulthood can lead one from blind faith to complete revulsion in ideas that once seemed so perfect and obvious.
		In the mean time, those of us who just don't care for religious wars get the dubious honor of being trapped in the middle.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	dystopicreality.blogspot.com (1274 words)

	Giver WebQuest1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While Number the Stars would be considered historical fiction, The Giver is a dystopic novel set in a futuristic world where sameness is emphasized over all else and pain and suffering has been eliminated.
		Read another dystopic novel or watch a dystopic movie (you may find that many of your favorite movies are dystopic) and compare the themes present in The Giver to the themes present in the book or movie of your choice
		That means do not start work on the project until your teacher tells your that your other dystopic book or movie is acceptable and appropriate.
	www.lmu.edu /education/webquests/fall03/628/giver/Giver_WebQuest2.html (858 words)

	Queer Dystopias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Within this section of QueerHorror are books and movies that potray dystopic visions that may be queer-specific, or universal but including GLBT folks.
		So we encourage people to use the ratings as a guide, but to add their own rating if they disagree with those given.
		For those of you who are burning to talk about their favorite dystopias or any not given, the Queer Dystopic Forum is a bulletin board system to read and send messages to others with similar interests.
	www.queerhorror.com /dystopia/index.html (477 words)

	Re: [Leica] ELEKTRONIX
		The nearest I >can find to an alternative to Frank's dystopic vision is actually O Winston >Link, or perhaps Robert Adams, or even straying from photography Hopper is >the real answer.
		Personally I have recognised more Hopper in everyday >America than almost any other artist's vision, dystopic or utopic or >whatever.
		Henry btw: dystopic is not in my dictionary.
	www.leica-users.org /v20/msg10947.html (492 words)

	Quick Term Papers, Term papers, 051023
		Utopian and Dystopic Societies in Science Fiction, 2002.
		This paper explains the use of dystopic societies in science fiction literature as a vehicle for the authors thoughts on society.
		"One of the most important devices that science fiction writers use in examining what is essentially and fundamentally human and what is incidental to our nature (an artifact of the particular time and place in which we live) is to place their characters in either utopian or dystopic societies.
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