Lisa Gehler & Marieke Lange
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“not“ and “place“
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Ideal community or society
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Invented by Sir Thomas Morus
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Attempt to create an ideal society
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World which realizes imaginations
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Describes the future
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Beginn: time of the Greeks
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Legends and paradises
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Platon
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16th century -> Thomas Morus
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Tommaso Campanella
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17th / 18th century -> highly deployment
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19th century -> pressed by Goethe and Saint-Simon
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20th century -> changing of the society
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Fair allocation of goods
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Allocation of economy gainful employment
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Art and sience
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Technical porceedings
Human engineering
Victory of technical instruments
Promise of important theories
Examples:
- space flight
- internet
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* 7th of feburary 1478 in London
† 6th of july 1535
English statesman and author
Book: “Utopia“
Island
Ideal society
Distance world
“new“ Utopia
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Literature
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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)
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Films
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Logan´s Run (Michael Anderson)
Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)
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Authoritarian or totalitarian form of goverment
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Show repressive social control systems
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Prove the concept of technology
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Modified form of „Utopia“
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In literature: futuristic / fictional society
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Dystopian stories have the intention to warn
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First use by John Stuat Mill in 1868
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Beginn: industrial revolution (1900)
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Literature
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Die Zeitmaschine (1895, H. G. Wells)
Brave New World (1932, Aldous Huxley)
Planet der Affen (1957, Pierre Boulle)
Sin City (1991, Frank Miller)
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Films
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Waterworld (1995, Kevin Costner)
Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich)
Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
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Genre: fiction
Science and technology (future)
Present / past
Plot: space, imaginary world, different universe
or dimension
H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)
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Science Fiction: technological developments
Utopia: ideal society
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Star Wars (Georg Lucas)
E.T. (Steven Spielberg)
Star Trek ( Gene Roddenberry)
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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?detail
s=1
http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/utopia/s
ection7.rhtml
http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/uto
pia.html