{"product_id":"analysing-darkness-and-light-dystopias-and-beyond-9789004515543","title":"Analysing Darkness and Light: Dystopias and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book situates itself in the fields of philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theories of art, linking its discussions of fictional dystopias to debates on ongoing crises. It asks: Are dystopias a useful tool for imagining ways out of sombre situations or do they prevent us from engaging in transformative action? The book consists of a thorough introduction and three major sections: 1. Dystopias of Meaninglessness, 2. Techno-Euphoria vs. Terror of Technology, and 3. Dystopias Come True?  The individual chapters discuss, among other things, liberalism and conservatism, “luxury communism”, pandemics, technology-induced anxiety, empty speech, ethics, film, literature, architecture and music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures  Notes on Contributors    Introduction: Dystopias and Beyond   Martta Heikkilä, Irina Poleschuk and Erika Ruonakoski    PART 1: Dystopias of Meaninglessness    1 Waiting for Catastrophe in the Dark: Public Obscurity and Viktor Pelevin’s Homo Zapiens   Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen    2 Work and Play: the Dystopic Environments in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil   Martta Heikkilä    3 A Brave New World in the Making: Fully Automated Luxury Communism as a Political Dystopia   Joonas Martikainen    PART 2: Techno-Euphoria vs. Terror of Technology    4 Thematising Technological Dystopias and Anxiety through Hans Blumenberg   Michał Wieczorek    5 The Limits of Control: Industrial Dystopias and Techno Utopias in Mika Vainio’s Music   Janne Vanhanen    6 Can the Future Be Cancelled? On the Technological Dystopia in Melanie Gilligan’s The Common Sense   Saara Hacklin    PART 3: Dystopias Come True?    7 The Liberal Dystopia: Joseph de Maistre’s Grim Visions on the Enlightenment and Democracy   Marianne Sandelin    8 Ethical Temporality, Justice, and Dystopia of Being-for-the-Other: Between Ethics and Politics   Irina Poleshchuk    9 Experiential Shifts in the covid-19 Pandemic: from the Epochē to Interspace and “Normality”   Erika Ruonakoski    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210844234071,"sku":"9789004515543","price":128.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/analysing-darkness-and-light-dystopias-and-beyond-9789004515543","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}