Emergence of the sub-genres of critical utopia and critical dystopia: matters of individualization and solidarity
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2017
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University of Gdansk
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In Liquid Modernity, Bauman proposes that neither dystopias nor utopias are written any longer, because,in the individualized fluid modern world, people no longer worry about or count on a Big/Elder Brother(2000, p.61-62). This paper presents a theoretical discussion over that statement in line with the changes within utopian literature and the emergence of the sub-genres of critical utopia and critical dystopia, argue that, like modernity itself, utopian literature has gone through a change and took a more uncertainform in comparison to its former blueprint structure. That makes Bauman’s statement partially true, because what we have conventionally perceived as utopian or dystopian ceases to exist. With the introduction of the sub-genres of critical utopia and critical dystopia, formerly accepted limits of utopia and dystopia are challenged and blurred. Blurring of these limits allows a more critical approach to the concepts of hope and pessimism, which have been associatedwitheitherutopia or dystopia and excluded from the other. The blueprint utopia is replaced by this process oriented,ambiguous and partially pessimistic newform. Likewise, critical dystopias no longer exclude hope, and sparing more space to hope, they approach hope more critically. Scrutinizing these new forms, and their relation with the individualized world that we live in, this paper focuses on the difference between individual and collective hope together with their functions in utopian literature. Lastly, it discusses how enforced individualism and solidarity might become a core subject of critical dystopia in contrast with the conventional dystopia, which was mostly based on dangers of collectivism and the inevitable oppression it was expected to bring.
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18th Utopian Studies Society Conference: Solidarity and Utopia
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Alkan-Üstün, C. (2017). Emergence of the sub-genres of critical utopia and critical dystopia: matters of individualization and solidarity. 18th Utopian Studies Society Conference: Solidarity and Utopia Book of Abstracts içinde (ss. 40-41).Gdansk,Polonya.
