10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CACOTOPIAN»
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cacotopian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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... –on the lines of cacophony or cacodemon.It sounds worsethan dystopia.
Needless tosay,none of these termsare tobe foundin Newspeak. Mostvisions
ofthefuture are cacotopian. George Orwell wasan aficionado of cacotopian fiction,
and we ...
In order, however, to retain my charter membership in the gloom and doom club, I
wish to remind you that we have been talking here about aspects of possible
Utopias while, in my judgment, we are living in a Cacotopian society. We are
living ...
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1962
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Cacotopias and utopias: a conversation
In order, however, to retain my charter membership in the gloom and doom club, I
wish to remind you that we have been talking here about aspects of possible
Utopias while, in my judgment, we are living in a Cacotopian society. We are
living ...
Wilbur Hugh Ferry, Michael Harrington, Frank L. Keegan, 1965
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Keystone Folklore: A Publication of the Pennsylvania ...
Burgess' goal in the novel is not the depiction of the English language of the near
future, but of a social system of a type he calls "cacotopian" — having the worst
characteristics of a utopia, especially in terms of social organization.
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City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch
Yet Lynch, in the final years of his life, wrote some remarkable essays about
cacotopian futures. The tenet of these may seem uncharacteristic of him. One
may wonder: Did Kevin Lynch lose his optimism, his unwavering faith in the
possibilities ...
Kevin Lynch, Tridib Banerjee, Michael Southworth, 1995
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Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science: ...
Given the horrors that would mark the Soviet 1930s, one might perhaps even be
justified in using Mill's alternative of “cacotopian.” 23 Conquest, Robert (1986),
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror- famine, New york: ...
7
The Last Angry White Man
The worlds in feminist sci-fi tend to be eutopian, rather than, as with male authors,
cacotopian, in Amis's phrase “new maps of hell.” The possibility of Amazonia is,
to a feminist, not kinky-scary but a millenarian fulfillment. The cessation of sex as
...
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Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and ...
The next significant occurrence of “we” narration appears in Yevgeny Zamyatin's
cacotopian novel, We. Written in 1920–21, it was not allowed to be published in
Russia because of its critique of the excesses of Soviet authoritarianism, ...
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Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the ...
2:86-89] No less than Columbus, Pigafetta's interpretations blended Old
Testament antediluvian conditions, ancient Cacotopian legends, and perhaps
medieval satanic hybrids to generalize the image of Patagonians. I am
concerned, however ...
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But do blondes prefer gentlemen?: homage to Qwert Yuiop, and ...
He wrote two forecasts of the future - both cacotopian - and, just before his death,
a vision of a possible good place in the didactic novel Island. In 1947-48 he
worked on Ape and Essence, a post-nuclear nightmare whose horrors are cooled
by ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CACOTOPIAN»
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cacotopian is used in the context of the following news items.
Romp with style: The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible …
But Kneen cleverly raises the plot out of its potential gutter by making the book more cacotopian than carnal. The silver rings inscribed "True ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 15»
Artificial intelligence shines in 'BioShock Infinite'
Infinite has dragged BioShock out of the cacotopian underwater city of Rapture that dominated the series' first two games and sets it afloat 40 ... «San Antonio Express, Mar 13»
Kurt's Cradle
In 1961 Vonnegut himself wrote a sci-fi short story called “Harrison Bergeron,” which has became a libertarian classic—a cacotopian fantasy ... «The Weekly Standard, Nov 11»
Something Batman This Way Comes: The Many Pleasures Of …
Batman: Arkham City features a cacotopian world that can feel utterly insane and imaginative characters that are wittily melodramatic. «NPR, Oct 11»
