O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar a questão da política do medo e das várias formas de manipulação da realidade encontradas nas narrativa de 1984 (1949), de George Orwell, assim como na narrativa gráfica de V de Vingança tanto na sua versão em quadrinhos, de Alan Moore (1982-88), quanto na sua adaptação cinematográfica, escrita pelos Wachowskis (2005). Em particular, tenta demonstrar similaridades nas técnicas usadas, assim como na análise dos personagens, procurando embasar certos questionamentos com a ajuda de filósofos políticos, estudos de psicologia, culturais, e distópicos. Ao final, este trabalho tenta identificar a importância da influência dos autores estudados, assim como outros autores distópicos, na criação e desenvolvimento de uma nova geração social de mentalidade inconformista / This dissertation aims to analize the question of the politics of fear and the many forms of manipulation of reality found in George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), as well as in Alan Moores graphic novel V for Vendetta (1982-88) and its film adaptation written by the Wachowskis (2005). In particular, it tries to show similarities among the used techniques, as well as in the character analysis, trying to support these findings with the help of political philosophers, as well as psychological, cultural and dystopian studies. In the end, this work tries to identify the importance of these authors, as well as other dystopian authors, and their influence on the creation and development of a new generation of nonconformists

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / A protagonista do presente trabalho, a Utopia, a arte do pensar-contra, foi apresentada e definida, nas sendas da Filosofia da Esperança de Ernst Bloch, como uma consciência antecipadora que não se conforma com o está-aí das coisas, com a realidade fática; e como um logos, linguagem-ação que cria furos no tempo saltando para-adiante, para o topos-outro. Negativa e Esperançosa, ela representa a verdade-de-fora: não é o irreal, pois existe. E a existência do topos de fora, o topos-outro, se justifica pelo fato de que a vida e o mundo não são sistemas fechados, porque seus horizontes estão em aberto: atravessados por possibilidades, ainda-não-são. Contra o que é estático, o que é fatal e fático, se posiciona o sonho utópico, abrindo espaços no fluxo do mesmo. Ao fazê-lo, cria duas frentes reciprocamente reais: o aqui-e-agora de quem sonha e o aqui-e-agora do sonho, o u-topos. Assim, tanto seu caráter de projeção ao porvir quanto, na sua base, o descontentamento com o atual, revelam seu comprometimento com o presente. Negando e afirmando a história, transformou-se em conteúdo e, sobretudo, forma, de Morus a Fourrier, de Marx a Orwell. E é por comprometer-se com o futuro, o presente e o passado, que, nos tempos sombrios do início do século XX, ela subverte a si mesma e faz vir ao mundo sua versão pessimista: a Distopia. Articulando e fazendo dialogarem as obras distópicas de Orwell, Aldous Huxley e Jerome K. Jerome com os pensamentos de Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Hannah Arendt, Karl Kraus e Walter Benjamin, tentamos encaminhar a pergunta originária da nossa pesquisa: é possível uma utopia pessimista? Será este pessimismo, ainda, uma Utopia?

The primary aim of this master’s thesis has been to examine how the dystopian, young adult novel, The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins could entail depictions of violations against the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). The analysis has been conducted based on a theme-based close reading of the novel using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a contextualization device. In addition, the literary analysis has been divided into three sections, namely global, group and the individual perspectives of how incidents in the novel hypothetically violate the Universal Declaration of Human rights. The division was made in order to delineate the social perspective of how literature can amplify the understanding of human rights and societal issues. Furthermore, the secondary aim of this master’s thesis has been to discuss how upper secondary students, when using a critical literacy lens in the English as a Foreign Language classroom, may establish an awareness about other people’s living conditions and fundamental rights that are present in their immediate social vicinity and in this novel.

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O objetivo desta dissertação é a interpretação do romance Perdido Street Station (2000), de China Miéville, sob a perspectiva da teoria literária e da crítica materialista. Considerada inovadora por retratar contradições sociais, políticas e econômicas da realidade pela via do fantástico e, ao mesmo tempo, mesclar convenções e temas derivados de Ficção Científica, Fantasia e Horror, a obra tornou-se a referência principal para o surgimento de um novo subgênero literário, o New Weird. Com o intuito de aprofundar essa definição e compreender os mecanismos e estruturas formais presentes no romance, abordamos em detalhe as discussões de autores e críticos a respeito do New Weird. A partir desse levantamento, foi possível identificar as estratégias de articulação entre os gêneros da literatura fantástica presentes no romance e verificar que ele também apresenta proximidade em relação às estruturas do Romance de Formação Bildungsroman e do romance de Distopia Crítica. Argumentamos que é principalmente por meio dos recursos desses dois gêneros que se desenvolve no romance o conteúdo de crítica social e reflexão acerca da realidade material, discutindo temas como alienação, fragmentação e mecanização do indivíduo sob a vigência do modo de produção capitalista; fetichismo da mercadoria e consumismo; políticas de identidade raciais e étnicas; assim como cultura e hibridismo na pós-modernidade. Concluímos que o romance efetivamente inova na maneira com que articula os gêneros e propicia a reflexão a respeito da realidade contemporânea, utilizando as diversas categorias de estranhamento propiciadas pela literatura fantástica. / The purpose of the present dissertation is to make a reading of China Miévilles novel Perdido Street Station (2000), from the perspective of literary theory and materialist criticism. Considered a pioneer in the way it uses the fantastic to portray the social, political and economic contradictions of reality and at the same time mixing conventions and themes derived from Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, the novel turned out to be the main reference for the emergence of a new literary subgenre, the New Weird. In order to make a profound study of this definition and understand the formal devices and structures present in the novel, we approached in detail the discussions of authors and critics regarding the New Weird. Based on that it was possible to identify the strategies for the articulation of the genres of fantastic literature present in the novel and to verify that it has close affiliation with the structure of the Formation Novel - Bildungsroman - and also to the Critical Dystopia novel. We argued that it is mainly based on the resources provided by these two genres that the novel develops the content of social criticism and meditation on material reality, discussing subjects such as alienation, fragmentation and mechanization of the individual under the scope of the capitalist mode of production; commodity fetishism and consumerism; racial and ethnic identity politics; as well as culture and hybridism in postmodernity. We concluded that the novel effectively innovates both in the way it articulates the genres and how it enables meditations on contemporary reality, making use of the different categories of estrangement provided by the fantastic literature.

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Cette étude de science politique s’inscrit dans le prolongement d’une thèse effectuée en littérature comparée, intitulée « Entre littérature et philosophie : l’Homme est-il un animal politique ? Physique de la misanthropie » (dirigée par M. F. Monneyron, soutenue en nov. 2013, publiée chez L’Harmattan). Dans cette analyse, il s’agissait de tenter une ébauche de conceptualisation philosophique de la haine de l’humanité en partant du théâtre de la misanthropie pour voir ensuite si les quelques résultats obtenus pouvaient s’appliquer à la littérature concentrationnaire et aux dystopies, deux autres genres littéraires qui forment le terreau naturel de doctrines et de pratiques misanthropes.Quelles sont les déterminations culturelles (mythologiques, religieuses, artistiques, médiatiques) de la misanthropie et de la misologie ? Comment apprécier leurs impacts dans le champ politique des paroles et des actes ? La misanthropie n’est-elle pas un composé de misogynie et de misandrie ? Peut-elle être érotique et créer des réseaux ? Comment se concrétise-t-elle dans les domaines du travail, de l’économie, de la technique, de la guerre, dans les problématiques afférentes aux minorités ? Et la démocratie peut-elle générer de la misanthropie ? / This sociological study draws on a comparative literature thesis entitled « Entre littérature et philosophie : l’Homme est-il un animal politique ? Physique de la misanthropie » (Between literature and philosophy: is Man a political animal? Physics of misanthropy) (defended in Nov. 2013, published by L’Harmattan). In this analysis, the aim was to try to sketch a philosophical draft of the hatred of humanity based on misanthropic theatre before trying to apply the results thus obtained to concentration camp literature and to dystopias, two other genres which form the breeding-ground of misanthropic doctrines and practices. This first thought process allowed giving form to some powerfully material aspects of misanthropy: its geography, its therianthropic productions, its infantile manifestations, its exanthropic phenomenology and its dietetics.In the present political science thesis, our aim is to identify the cultural determinations of misanthropy and misology (be it mythological, religious, artistic or in the media) before reflecting on the impact they might have on the political field of speech or of deeds. Isn’t misanthropy a compound of misogyny and misandry? Can misanthropy be erotic? How does it appear in the realms of work, economy, technique, war or in the issues relating to minorities? Eventually we will ask ourselves to which extent democracy creates misanthropy.

This thesis aims to provide a thematic analysis of the leading Hebrew dystopian texts in contemporary Israel and to present a broader context of utopian thought within which these texts are best understood. The research attempts to explore and examine how the various anxieties and fears of Israeli society are reflected upon in contemporary Hebrew dystopian novels and how the Israeli reality is transformed and re-imagined, by means of authors' thought experiments, in the selected narratives. Dystopian fiction is an extremely useful tool for cultural studies inasmuch as it constitutes a direct interaction with the contemporary culture in that it describes an entire society suffering from oppressive and disastrous conditions which grow out of certain real-world social, political, and economic trends. Zionist utopian fiction which sought to imagine a Jewish homeland waned soon after the creation of the State of Israel and the local realities set the narrative on a much darker and more pessimistic course. Today many Israeli authors project a dystopian and (post-) apocalyptic future from the present Israeli reality by examining the current cultural and political situation. The thesis is, then, also an exploration of how these dystopian narratives come to terms with the current Israeli reality and what...

This study researches the relationship between institutional racism and systemic supervision, highlighting the concept of the Other and how it is created as result of social racism. The project’s goal is to produce a dystopian live-action short film. To expose the danger of misusing technological advances to achieve propaganda set to ensure control over the public. And to closely look into the mentalities and perspectives of the public considering institutional racism.   This project represents the powerful impact of society's issues on the future by filming in the dystopian genre. The project goes through all aspects of scene making and filmmaking as a visual communication technique.   The research shows how deeply the established media is connected to social racism and Othering. As governments, institutions, and corporations are constantly in need to create targets for the viewer/public to fear, making the world seem like it is Us vs Them. Ending with a loop of hate and injustice that keeps spiralling downwards.

[pt] Numa conferência, em 1966, Michel Foucault afirmava que, para ele, as utopias teriam nascido do desejo do ser humano de se libertar da prisão do corpo, ou de apagar os corpos. Em seguida, o pensador se considerou equivocado, voltando atrás e concluindo que o que retira do corpo sua possibilidade utópica seria o peso e os contornos que somos ensinados a dar-lhe. Sob uma perspectiva contemporânea, David Le Breton, em Adeus ao Corpo (1999), observa que, com a aceleração dos avanços tecnológicos, cada vez mais as atividades do corpo são atrofiadas, substituídas por serviços e aparelhos, restando a ele o lugar de limitação ou doença. A presente pesquisa investiga como criações do cinema, das artes visuais e da literatura, principalmente das primeiras décadas do século XXI, dialogam com esses pensamentos, discutindo três imaginários acerca do corpo: como barreira a ser ultrapassada pelo ser humano por meio da tecnologia; como reflexo do antropocentrismo e de concepções de temporalidade, em diálogo com as noções de progresso, devir e performance; e como lugar de registro de memória, tanto pelas inscrições ou mutilações na carne quanto por sua ausência, transformada em falta espectral. Foram selecionadas narrativas em que o corpo é deformado, reformado, ou que visam superar o corpo, para compreender aspectos da contemporaneidade a partir dessas representações que tratam da unidade material mais elementar do ser humano. / [en] In a conference in 1996, Michel Foucault stated that, for him, utopias were born from the human desire to escape from the prison of the body, or to erase bodies altogether. Shortly after, upon reflection, the philosopher felt he was mistaken, concluding instead that what deprives the body of its utopian possibility would be the weight and the limits we are taught to give it. From a contemporary perspective, David Le Breton, in L Adieu au corps (1999), notes that, with the acceleration of technological advances, the body s activities have been increasingly atrophied, replaced by services and devices, forcing the body into a position of limitation or disease. The present research investigates how works from cinema, the visual arts and literature, mainly produced in the first decades of the 21st century, interact with those approaches, discussing three imaginaries concerning the body: as a barrier to be surpassed by the human being through technology; as a reflection of anthropocentrism and of temporality conceptions, in dialogue with the notions of progress, devenir, and performance; and as a place of memory record, through inscriptions or mutilations on the flesh, or through the lack of flesh entirely, turned into a spectral absence. Narratives in which the body is deformed, reformed, or that aim to overcome the body, were selected in order to understand certain aspects of contemporaneity from these representations that deal with the most elementary material unit of the human being.