Utopian / Dystopian Ideas

Dystopian

Control vs. chaos

Relationship to the state or lack of.

Loss of personal identity

Personal identity = freedom, post enlightenment thinking.

Uniformity – clothes, buildings - architecture

Surveillance – panoptical

Crime and punishment

Patriarchy and conservatism.

Eyes symbolism

Collapse of public and private

Colour symbolism

Doubling character, interiors vs. exteriors, doubling of identity.

Very polarised dichotomy

Technology

Everything becomes quantifiable

Scarcity

Exhaustion

Manipulation

Fragmentation

Lack artistic freedom

Limiting pleasure, food sex love

Racist, sexist, imperialist, classist,

Striping direct context

Lack transparency – authenticity

Reworking historical events

Per formative

Prophetic

--immaterial labour your algorithm is worth more than you, produces more value in your lifetime. 24/7 labour

UTOPIAN

-immortality -fear of heights desire to prove you are immortal

hedonist freedom

pleasure world

release mortal coil

abundance

transparency

inclusive

privilege

free choice

apathy the most dystopian thing

8 NOV – STEVE RUSHTON

Thomas Moore wrote book UTPOIA.

NO PLACE

Egyptian Hessiad.

PLATO’S REPUBBLIC UTOPIA – First realisable utopia. Not an ideal.- Authoritarian.

Human society’s tends to attempt to produce utopia. Most are attempts at producing optimum conditions ruling class.

Utopia being against death – Gulliver’s travels

John Ruskin

Authoritarian utopia – top down

Egalitarian utopia

Utopia / dystopia is subjective.

Karl Marx was a utopian.

H.G. Wells a world sustained, cant have a utopia with Africa starving.

Darwinism changed the theory of utopianism. Human nature is genetic and psychological. Genetic engineering will potentially create.

MODERNIST UTOPIAS

Edward bellamy – looking backward – from each to each – credit card entitled amount of money.

Mas society was an offshoot of industrialism

Masses large numbers of people began to be thought lots of indivuals stuck together 1895-‘s gustaf lebon. – ‘On the crowds’

Theory of technology has getting inside human beings. Engineering people not just society.

Behaviour indivuals tailored suit the individual.

Feminist late 1900’s early 2000- idea - No place – not yet - provisional future reality

Androgynous utopia.

Removing ugliness is a utopia theory.

Life is defined as the ultimate value.

Woman as race regenerators.

Humanism is problematic--

Mass culture is at its most perfected – masses needed to be controlled.