Emergence of the sub-genres of critical utopia and critical dystopia: matters of individualization and solidarity

dc.authorid0000-0003-3175-4166en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T20:55:39Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T20:55:39Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.departmentMaltepe Üniversitesi, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesien_US
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAlkan-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.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage41en_US
dc.identifier.startpage40en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://solidarityandutopia2017.wordpress.com/abstracts-and-biograms/
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/2870
dc.institutionauthorAlkan Üstün, Ceren
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Gdansken_US
dc.relation.ispartof18th Utopian Studies Society Conference: Solidarity and Utopiaen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryUluslararası Konferans Öğesien_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.snmzKY06464
dc.titleEmergence of the sub-genres of critical utopia and critical dystopia: matters of individualization and solidarityen_US
dc.typeConference Object
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