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Peter W. Singer
peterwsinger
Thoughtful Response by @intelwire to our essay on the positive side of dystopian fictionhttps://slate.com/technology/2020/07/dystopian-fiction-coronavirus-pandemic.htmlThink our primary divergence would be 1) categorization (what is in it o
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Thomas
Turtrain
3. For English, we had to read English literature. A big genre within English literature were dystopian novels. A dystopia is basically a government controlled society where you just get
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Curwen Ares Rolinson
huntersrolinson
Why is New Zealand's pandemic response (as of a few months ago, might I add) being blasted across Fox News in the US and presented as some sort of dystopian
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Sarah Kendzior
sarahkendzior
"The US hasn't had, as a nation, a collective mourning for the victims of this pandemic. We haven't had a lowering of the flag. We've had none of the symbolic
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Peter Gabriel Benevides
peter_benevides
Here is a PSA, we are not living in an autocratic regime! For those who believe the current public health measures are similar to the dystopian 1984, I have a
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Eduard Habsburg
EduardHabsburg
THREAD: on reading A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ for the first time. This is a classic dystopian future novel from 1959 - with a Catholic twist. Best of you don't know
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ramyaagobi
A thread of good books to read in quarantine! -Call Me by Your Name An Oscar nominated film as well. Personally one of my favourite books. If you like great
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N. K. Jemisin
nkjemisin
Minor drug-fueled rant incoming.But can we stop with the wholesale dismissal of dystopian fiction? I'm seeing this most often, quite frankly, from reviewers & fans of significant privilege -- white,
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Elizabeth Hackett
LizHackett
None of the 20somethings wandering the grocery store wear masks and I'm like, aren't you the dicks who made dystopian books bestsellers? You can make a mask from a T-shirt.
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jack monroe
BootstrapCook
It's a dystopian kind of weirdness walking down an empty high street with a large fake bamboo plant hoping to god the police are patrolling the other end of it
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Ted Cruz
tedcruz
Bravo. Federal district court today: βOn Holy Thursday, an American mayor criminalized the communal celebration of Easter. That sentence is one that this Court never expected to see outside the
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itsjacksonbbz
Obviously it's got positive intent but starting to find our 8pm Communal Clapping Ritual lowkey dystopian. A nearby church rang its bells today and it felt apocalyptic like The Purge
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View From The Desert
VFTDLV
I keep seeing Bernie Sanders and his followers saying Joe Biden must do this or must do that if he is to get their support in the election in November.
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Tore_says
Our @realDonaldTrump really needs a good strategy team by his side to decide how to move forward. I would like to be bold enough to recommend an ATG strategy. #Thread
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AvyLynne
Anyone else ever read that short story in school about the dystopian society where people wear like handicap bracelets or something to suppress thier "talents" and at the end the
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intelwire
Is dystopian fiction good for society? Time for a THREAD! The proximate cause of this thread is the following article by @peterwsinger @august_cole whose #burninbook you should check out, if
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