What Hollywood Is Missing About A.I.
#Dystopias
“Stories such as these were dismissed—unless legend took seed and sprouted religion.”
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Yep.
I'd say about the first half of these #SciFi #Dystopias with a bit of #Westworld:
A year ago I wrote a piece about #Canada playing the role of place of refuge and a bastion of #freedom in #dystopias about the #US. As the US continues its rapid descent into #authoritarianism and #CanadaDay looms, it seems a good time to post it again ... doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/06/what...
Introducing computers to the workplace isn't so great now that most corporations are in the quagmire of entrenchment with Microsoft.
It's just replacing one style of zealous entrenchment with another style of zealous entrenchment.
We might as well go back to the heyday of bureaucratic paper empires!
Every day I ask a WTF Microsoft question and it's regularly the same question.
"Severance: Does Mr. Milchick Know He is Black?" By Alex Beightol
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<<I've been entrusted with making the Tokens stretch.
I know we must be thankful for our Daily Bread location, but all I can find are dried-up rolls + wizened doughnuts.
Under His Eye,
VoiceRecorded by a Martha from one of Gilead's finer families>>
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#dystopias
It's like we're through the looking glass on mass surveillance, and this is the other side. The apparatus of war is inverted enough to equally punch down on anything civilian that dares to make a noise. Mice of men!
In all the fictional representations I've seen of #dystopias, absolutely none of them included public health experts trying to raise the alarm about a looming #pandemic by filming themselves delivering academic citations while wearing lingerie at a swimming pool.
So very true:
"The #NegativeUtopias/ #Dystopias that I think are becoming, or already have become in some countries, a reality are:..."
Quoted The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
As a 50 year old with a 13 year old daughter living in Octavia Butler’s neighborhood of Altadena, CA, it was eerie when I re-read The Parable of the Sower last summer. Today following the devastating Eaton Fire, the opening of chapter four just doubles down on the dystopia in which we’re living.Saturday, February 1, 2025
WE HAD A FIRE TODAY.
People go on "1984! 1984!" and rightly so but Brave New World is coming up behind us on the social angle and fewer people are familiar with that one, (I'll confess I've read the wikipedia and the 1979 Canadian film of it but not actually read the thing)
#Dystopias #1984 #BraveNewWorld
#CfP for the "2025 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference: Imaginary Futures: #Utopias, #Dystopias & #Protopias of Cultural Studies", which will take place at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia) on May 29 - 31, 2025.
🗓️Deadline for abstracts: February 23, 2025
📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/2025-cultural-studies-association-csa-annual-conference-imaginary-futures-utopias-dystopias-p/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteratureCulture
@sorenfox @pluralistic "Radicalized" is a dark, dark story, and I say that as a regular consumer of #dystopias. Such a convincing rhythm to the narrative, and such a diagnostic of contemporary ills. I'm glad I took the time for it; thanks for sharing!
The Dispossessed
"Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novel about Utopian Anarchists Is as Relevant as Ever"
🥥 The modern Cassandras: Brilliant women of color who started warning about the dangers of generative AI years before anyone else seemed to notice. Unfortunately, hardly anyone was listening, and nothing speaks louder than money in a winner-takes-all economy run by dead-inside tech bros and marketing monsters.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/
🥥
#GenerativeAI #TechBros #Dystopias #Cassandras #RollingStone #TuckersBalls
#1984 #Dystopias #FanFiction: "Orwell's readers experience all of 1984 through Winston's eyes and are encouraged to trust his assessment of his situation. But Newman brings in a second point of view, that of Julia, who is indeed far more worldly than Winston. But that's not because she's younger than him – it's because she's more provincial. Julia, we learn, grew up outside of the Home Counties, where the revolution was incomplete and where dissidents – like her parents – were sent into exile. Julia has experienced the periphery of the Party's power, the places where it is frayed and incomplete. For Julia, the Party may be ruthless and powerful, but it's hardly omnicompetent. Indeed, it's rather fumbling.
Which makes sense. After all, if we take Winston at his word and assume that every disloyal citizen of Oceania is arrested, tortured and murdered, where would that leave Oceania? Even Kim Jong Un can't murder everyone who hates him, or he'd get awfully lonely, and then awfully hungry.
Through Julia's eyes, we experience Oceania as a paranoid autocracy, corrupt and twitchy. We witness the obvious corollary of a culture of denunciation and arrest: the ruling Party of such an institution must be riddled with internecine struggle and backstabbing, to the point of paralyzed dysfunction."
Sci-fi has been getting darker and more pessimistic through the decades.
A fascinating website that shows this, with data:
Who killed the world? https://pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi
#SciFi #dystopia #dystopian #dystopias #PostApocalyptic #fiction #ScienceFiction #future #pessimistic #pessimism
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