UTOPIA DYSTOPIA Lisa Gehler Marieke Lange General Information

UTOPIA & DYSTOPIA Lisa Gehler & Marieke Lange

General Information about Utopia • “not“ and “place“ • Ideal community or society • Invented by Sir Thomas Morus • Attempt to create an ideal society • World which realizes imaginations • Describes the future

Utopia - History § Beginn: time of the Greeks § Legends and paradises § Platon § 16 th century -> Thomas Morus § Tommaso Campanella § 17 th / 18 th century -> highly deployment § 19 th century -> pressed by Goethe and Saint-Simon § 20 th century -> changing of the society

Utopia - Society § Fair allocation of goods § Allocation of economy gainful employment § Art and sience

Utopia - Technical § § § Technical porceedings Human engineering Victory of technical instruments Promise of important theories Examples: - space flight - internet

Thomas Morus § § § § * 7 th of feburary 1478 in London † 6 th of july 1535 English statesman and author Book: “Utopia“ Island Ideal society Distance world “new“ Utopia

Utopia – Literature and Films § Literature § Utopia ( 1516, Thomas More) The City of the Sun (1623, Tommaso Campanella) Woman on the Edge of Time (1976, Marge Piercy) Uglies (2005, Scott Westerfield) § Films § § § Logan´s Run (Michael Anderson) Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)

Dystopia - Society § Authoritarian or totalitarian form of goverment § Show repressive social control systems § Prove the concept of technology

General information about Dystopia § Modified form of „Utopia“ § In literature: futuristic / fictional society § Dystopian stories have the intention to warn

Dystopia - History § First use by John Stuat Mill in 1868 § Beginn: industrial revolution (1900)

Dystopia – Literature and Films § Literature § Die Zeitmaschine (1895, H. G. Wells) Brave New World (1932, Aldous Huxley) Planet der Affen (1957, Pierre Boulle) Sin City (1991, Frank Miller) § Films § § § § Waterworld (1995, Kevin Costner) Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg) The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich) Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)

Science-Fiction § § § Genre: fiction Science and technology (future) Present / past Plot: space, imaginary world, different universe or dimension H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)

Delimitation: Utopia – Science Fiction § § Science Fiction: technological developments Utopia: ideal society

Science-Fiction - Films § § § Star Wars (Georg Lucas) E. T. (Steven Spielberg) Star Trek ( Gene Roddenberry)

Bibliography § § § http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Dystopia http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Utopia http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Science_fiction http: //www. dystopiainfo. com/article. aspx? detail s=1 http: //www. sparknotes. com/philosophy/utopia/s ection 7. rhtml http: //external. oneonta. edu/cooper/writings/uto pia. html