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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoRebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco2024-02-02T03:46:27+00:00
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
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https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html
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https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/12/10/voice-user-interfaces-on-computers-just-got-smarter-and-this-should-worry-us.html
robertogreconavneetalang 2022 ai artificialintelligence openai chat dystopia californianideology technosolutionism bias biases ghatgpt socalmedia algorythms injustice socialjustice inequality robots society hunger siliconvalley behavior capitalism discourse twitter oversight prejudice misinformation information efficiency humanism synthesis elonmusk samaltmanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1069df9c3c5/Utopia Was Never the Point: Some Thoughts About Mike Davis and Dread « Post452022-10-30T18:30:37+00:00
https://post45.org/2022/08/utopia-was-never-the-point-some-thoughts-about-mike-davis-and-dread/
robertogrecoScattered amid the broken bumper cars and ferris wheel seats are nostalgic bits and pieces of Southern California's famous extinct amusement parks (in the pre-Disney days when admission was free or $1): the Pike, Belmont Shores, Pacific Ocean Park, and so on. Suddenly rearing up from the back of a flatbed trailer are the fabled stone elephants and pouncing lions that once stood at the gates of Selig Zoo in Eastlake (Lincoln) Park, where they have enthralled generations of Eastside kids . . . The past generations are like so much debris to be swept away by the developers' bulldozers. In which case it is only appropriate that they should end up here, in Fontana — the junkyard of dreams.9
In whatever ways utopian, moments like this in Davis's writing are always, far more resolutely, about historical experience.
Davis's critique of postmodern utopianism came at the peak of the "dystopian turn" that started in the late 1980s, what Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini demarcate as a set of political mutations in the genre, breaking from the critical utopias of the long sixties, but also from the anti-utopianism of the post-sixties. It was in this time that utopia became, for the most part, "confined to the function of critique rather than transformation," as Ruth Levitas would later reflect.10 Dystopia, however, steadily took on utopia's project of social transformation: "In the emerging historical conjuncture of the 1990s," write Moylan and Baccolini, dystopias began to "refresh the links between imagination and utopia and utopia and awareness in decidedly pessimistic times," resisting "both hegemonic and oppositional orthodoxies even as they inscribe a space for a new form of political opposition."11 These tensions animate much of City of Quartz's historical and psychogeographical account of Los Angeles and its futures — refusing to disentangle the utopian and the dystopian, Davis put these ideas into perpetual crisis, consistently drawing out new problems of the imagination.
What Davis observed as the utopian contradictions of his contemporaries in 1990 would eventually characterize the dystopian contradictions in his own thinking, which he has grappled with most powerfully over the last several years. Returning to Los Angeles in 2021's Set the Night on Fire, which he co-authored with Jon Wiener, Davis writes from a different vantage on the city — from a new end of the 1960s, perhaps always at the core of his thinking on utopia: "the Sixties in Los Angeles are best conceived of as a sowing, whose seeds grew into living traditions of resistance," they explain, against the counter-revolutionary perspective "that all the dreaming, passion, and sacrifice of that era had been for naught."12 Yet they veer away from what Jameson long ago delineated as competing modes of periodizing the '60s, the "nostalgic commemoration of the glories of the 60s or abject public confession of the decade's many failures and missed opportunities."13 Instead of idealizing themselves and centering their own activist histories, they turn to the "young people of color who are Los Angeles's future" whose experiences "ensure that they will be genuine successors to grandmothers and grandfathers who so long ago raised their clenched fists and demanded power to the people."14
"No generation has ever lived through such a supernova of change," Davis noted in a 2015 speech, thinking toward his own children's future.15 The politics of utopia for this historical moment will have little to do with optimism, he suggests, but establishing the "minimal conditions for the preservation of human solidarity in the face of convergent planetary crisis."16 Whether or not we are to understand this in utopian terms, Davis locates a crucial rupture in the political imagination — "a new willingness to advocate the necessary, rather than the merely practical." If anything, it is this shift from the practical to the necessary that might enable us to take up the tasks Davis lays out for our future, "to envision alternative configurations of agents, practices, and social relations . . . [and] suspend the political-economic assumptions that chain us to the present."
To the question of Davis's dystopianism, then, let it be remembered more precisely as a struggle against anti-utopianism. Utopia was never the point, especially as a transcendent ideal. "This seems an age of catastrophe," he remarked in April 2020, "but it's also an age equipped, in an abstract sense, with all the tools it needs."17 Whatever hope we might muster, in evermore apocalyptic circumstances, will have to be for revolution's sake."]]>mikedavis 2022 utopia madelinelane-mckinley california losangeles fires fire dystopia dystopianism catastrophe cityofquartz ecologyoffear socalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:523c327d43ed/Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs - YouTube2022-01-28T20:29:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
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https://www.gawker.com/culture/hbos-station-eleven-surpasses-the-book
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https://www.vox.com/culture/2022/1/10/22872347/station-eleven-hbo-max-color-green-apocalypse
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/in-station-eleven-all-art-is-adaptation
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https://slate.com/culture/2022/01/station-eleven-anti-puzzle-tv-ending.html
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abd3j/the-funko-pop-is-the-mascot-of-nerd-imperialism-that-will-outlive-us-all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16xz_tXWC4
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https://placesjournal.org/article/black-homelessness-in-oakland/
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https://vimeo.com/9010456
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/against-kids-sports
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https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/49437/
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https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-apocalypse-myths/
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https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
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http://hackeducation.com/2019/11/28/ed-tech-agitprop
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/climate-change-and-technology-make-rural-areas-vital/574447/
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http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/decolonize/white-allies-lets-be-honest-about-decolonization-20180403
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https://www.whatiftheworld.com/artist/athi-patra-ruga/
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https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads#t-427005
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https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/25/15998002/capitalism-socialism-peter-thiel-wall-street-eric-weinstein
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/is-the-earth-really-that-doomed/533112/
robertogrecoResearchers like Marshall Burke and Solomon Hsiang have managed to quantify some of the non-obvious relationships between temperature and violence: For every half-degree of warming, they say, societies will see between a 10 and 20 percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict. In climate science, nothing is simple, but the arithmetic is harrowing: A planet five degrees warmer would have at least half again as many wars as we do today. Overall, social conflict could more than double this century.
That final sentence is simplistic; we cannot wield careful social science conclusions like an abacus. It is also too certain: While Burke and Hsiang have found links between conflict and climate change, another group of researchers from Oslo have found far weaker connections. They observe a link between natural disaster and war only when a country is divided by ethnicity.
Yet this is worrisome by itself. Consider the world that climate scientists say is more realistic: a place where sea levels cause mass migration within and without the developed world; where the economy is never great but isn’t in shambles either; where voters fear for their livelihoods and superpowers poke at each others’ weaknesses.
Does that world sound like a safe and secure place to live? Does it sound like a workable status quo? And how many small wars need to start in that world before they all fuse together? Who needs planet-killing methane burps when nine different countries have 15,000 nuclear weapons between them? In short, there are plenty of doomsday scenarios to worry about. They don’t need to be catastrophic on their face to induce catastrophe."]]>climate environment future climatechange sustainability inequality robinsonmeyer davidwallace-wells science communication journlism dystopia doom 2017 accuracy reporting doomsdayism exaggerationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fcc70b40980d/Apocalypse, Now - On The Media - WNYC2017-07-07T18:22:14+00:00
https://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-07-07/
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https://www.modernghana.com/news/756213/parable-of-the-sower-not-1984-is-the-dystopia-for-our-a.html
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http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-c-v-r.html
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http://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm
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http://www.uctv.tv/shows/UCSD-Guestbook-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-5001
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http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/139786385254/counter-constraint-1-non-progress-dogma
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http://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/all-our-imagined-futures/
robertogrecoSuch cuts can be made more or less fairly, and the richest really ought to pay the most, but the crucial thing is that they are made. Because, above all, stopping climate change means giving up on growth.
That will be hard. Not only will our standards of living almost certainly drop, but it’s likely that the very quality of our society—equality, safety, and trust—will decline, too. That’s not something to be giddy about, but it’s still a price that those of us living in affluent countries should prepare to pay. Because however difficult it is to slow down, flooding Bangladesh cannot be an option. In other words, we can and should act. It’s just going to hurt.
There’s the rub: those of us living in affluent countries must pay. Porter presumes that technology can get us out of climate change without that payment—that nuclear energy, renewables, carbon capture, and electric cars will let us continue to consume at current levels as if nothing had changed. (As an aside: you can follow the American love of cars all the way to Immortan Joe’s citadel.) But I don’t think it’s likely we’re going to get off that easy. Carbon capture is still a pipe dream, nuclear energy will take too long to ramp up even absent strong local objections, electric cars are hardly a panacea, and renewables such as solar and wind, while certainly promising, won’t help much if we continue to pull coal and oil out of the ground at the rates we are now.
As it happens, though, I think Porter’s instinct to reach for science fiction to understand the future is a useful one. In Submergence, J.M. Ledgard’s novel of planetary depths, Danny remarks: “If this was happening in a science-fiction world we would see it clearly for what it is, but we don’t because it’s happening here and now.” Fiction, and science fiction in particular, can help us imagine many futures, and in particular can help us to direct our imaginations towards the futures we want. Imagining a particular kind of future isn’t just day dreaming: it’s an important and active framing that makes it possible for us to construct a future that approaches that imagined vision. In other words, imagining the future is one way of making that future happen. Writing in Essence in 2000, Octavia Butler asked,
So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible? Because making predictions is one way to give warning when we see ourselves drifting in dangerous directions. Because prediction is a useful way of pointing out safer, wiser courses. Because, most of all, our tomorrow is the child of our today. Through thought and deed, we exert a great deal of influence over this child, even though we can’t control it absolutely. Best to think about it, though. Best to try to shape it into something good. Best to do that for any child.
Butler’s Parable of the Sower is, like Mad Max, a tale of the road. And, like Mad Max, it’s a difficult but hopeful one. Maybe Porter should read it."]]>mandybrown 2016 octaviabutler mikeculfield eduardoporter zizek peterwirzbicki submergence hungergames dystopia optimism hope scifi sciencefiction danielimmerwahl jmledgard fiction imagination future futurism capitalism growth zerosum change economics climatechange globalwarminghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5db432331289/‘This is the dirty, magical realism future of Los Angeles’ | Buildings | Architectural Review2015-12-21T05:45:16+00:00
http://www.architectural-review.com/today/this-is-the-dirty-magical-realism-future-of-los-angeles/8686180.fullarticle
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https://storify.com/bnwlfsn/maciej-on-the-next-economy-conference
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/the-food-delivery-start-up-you-havent-heard-of/414540/
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http://nextconf.eu/2015/10/keynote-how-will-we-live/
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https://tinyletter.com/realfuture/letters/it-doesn-t-know-what-you-want-until-you-teach-it
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http://fwfife.com/2015/09/02/solarpunk-we-are-golden-and-our-future-is-bright/
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http://solarpunks.tumblr.com/post/121287996923/youre-doing-solarpunk-all-wrong
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http://madelineashby.com/?p=1809
robertogrecoWhat we need, then, is more uncommon futurism. A futurism that cares not a whit about what’s hot right now, who remain stoically unimpressed by drones and wearable IT, and who instead take it as their job to shock and awe CEOs with visions as radical as those of the futurists of yore. We need futurism that is less interested in agreeing with contemporary futurists and their ongoing circle-jerk, and who takes pride in offending and disgusting those futurists who would like to protect the status quo.
The truth is that the horrible dystopia you’re reading about is already happening to someone else, somewhere else. What makes people nervous is the idea that it could happen to them. That’s why I have to keep sharing it.
3) The most harmful idea in this world is that change is impossible.
Octavia E. Butler said it best: “The only lasting truth / is Change.” And yet, we act like change is impossible. Whether we’re frustrated by policy gridlock, or rolling our eyes at Hollywood reboots, or taking our spouses on the same goddamn date we have for for twenty years, we act as though everything will remain the same, forever and ever, amen. But look around you. Twenty years ago, thinks were very different. Even five years ago, they were different. Look at social progress like gay marriage. Look at the rise of solar power. Look at the shrinking of the ice caps. Things do change, they are changing, and they will change. And not all of those changes will be positive. Not all of them will be negative, either. But change does occur. Rather than thinking of change as a positive or a negative, as utopian or dystopian, just recognize that it’s going to happen and prepare yourself. Futurists don’t predict the future. We see multiple outcomes and help you prepare for them.
In the end, the lacklustre performance of Tomorrowland at the box office has nothing to do with whether optimism is alive or dead. It has to do with changing demographics among moviegoers who know how to spot an Ayn Rand bedtime story when they see one. There are whole generations of moviegoers for whom jetpacks don’t mean shit, whose first memories of NASA are the Challenger disaster. And you know what? Those same generations believe in driverless cars, solar energy, smart cities, AR contacts, and vat-grown meat. They saw the election of America’s first black president, and they witnessed a wave of violence against young black men. They don’t want the depiction of an “optimistic” future. They want a future where their concerns are taken seriously and humanely, with compassion and intelligence and validation. And that’s way harder than optimism."]]>culture future futurism discourse madelineashby 2015 tomorrowland alfrehn dystopia octaviabutler optimism pessimism realism demographics aynrand race establishment privilege drones wearables power innovation jetpacks telepresence transit transportation work labor scifi sciencefiction systemsthinking data retrofuturism climatechange space food science technology change truth socialprogress progress solar solarpower validation compassion canon work-lifebalancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e80c767d370b/When It Comes to Tech Dystopia, Portlandia Is Better Than Black Mirror2015-03-20T23:46:00+00:00
http://gizmodo.com/when-it-comes-to-tech-dystopia-portlandia-is-better-th-1692637338
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http://boingboing.net/2014/03/06/why-does-hollywood-like-dystop.html
robertogrecoNorthern California-as-utopia, on the other hand, is strongly linked to the countercultural movement of the sixties, with its guides for technologically advanced back-to-the-land living. One can read Ernest Callenbach’s influential novel Ecotopia (1975) as the possible future seeded by Whole Earth Catalog. Ecotopia is a fictional “field study” of a future Pacific Northwest society that has split from an apocalyptic United States and is governed according to ecological principles. While much technology has been abandoned, the Ecotopians have selectively retained public transit, electric cars, networked computers, and improved recycling (Callenbach was a longtime resident of Berkeley). Ecotopia‘s themes were later picked up and elaborated in the eco-feminist tales of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home (1985), a cultural anthropology of latter-day Napa Valley-ites who have returned to indigenous ways; Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) about a pagan, nonviolent San Francisco threatened by southern biological warfare; and Octavia Butler’s Parable books (1993, 1998) where refugees from the LA wasteland grow a new eco-religion, Earthseed, in the forests of Mendocino."
[See also: http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2014/02/postcards-from-the-future/ ]]]>hollywood mikedavis california dystopia utopia sciencefiction scifi sanfrancisco losangeles 2015 kristinmiller ecotopia ursulaleguin cascasia pacificnorthwest wholeearthcatalog counterculture erneestcallenbach starhawk octaviabutler earthseed georgerstewarthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aed6c0cbfee9/Fontspots: Eurostile | Typeset In The Future2015-01-06T00:01:31+00:00
http://typesetinthefuture.com/fontspots-eurostile/
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https://medium.com/@hansdezwart/ai-weiwei-is-living-in-our-future-474e5dd15e4f
robertogreco“Freedom is a pretty strange thing. Once you’ve experienced it, it remains in your heart, and no one can take it away. Then, as an individual, you can be more powerful than a whole country.”"]]>aiweiwei surveillance privacy china hansdezwart 2014 google maps mapping freedom quantification tracking technology disney disneyland bigdog police lawenforcement magicbands pets monitoring pettracker parenting teens youth mobile phones cellphones amberalert canaryproject autonomy ignorenomore craiglist productivity pavlok pavlov garyshteyngart grindr inder bangwithfriends daveeggers transparency thecircle literature books dystopia lifelogging blink narrative flone drones quadcopters cameras kevinkelly davidbrin googleglass sarahslocum aclu ferguson michaelbrown bodycams cctv captcha recaptcha labor sousveillance robots humans capitalism natashadowschüll design facebook amazon addiction nassimtaleb repression safety society howwelearn learning imperfection humanism disorder control power efficiency inefficiency gambling lasvegas doom quantifiedself measurement canon childrenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c30349c2ba50/Junot Diaz - Art, Race and Capitalism - YouTube2014-11-29T06:41:24+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQH-nVX8hT4
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http://designculturelab.org/2014/10/23/three-uncertain-thoughts-or-everything-i-know-i-learned-from-ursula-le-guin/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjgXwp7gQRA
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https://medium.com/futures-exchange/the-future-of-ed-tech-is-here-its-just-not-evenly-distributed-210778a423d7
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https://static.pinboard.in/webstock_2014.htm
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-cm-her-architecture-notebook,0,2927726,full.story
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
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http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/book-of-lamentations/
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blackbar/id672002602?mt=8
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http://hyperbolicguitars.blogspot.com/2013/02/on-my-mind.html
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http://archive.dconstruct.org/2012/admiralshovel
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http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/dark-materials-reflecting-on-dystopian-themes-in-young-adult-literature/
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http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/5667398073/stallmans-dystopia
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http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/12/26/the-dark-side-of-young-adult-fiction
robertogreco
Whether it's Suzanne Collins's "The Hunger Games" trilogy or James Paterson's "Maximum Ride" series, the popularity of post-apocalyptic fiction doesn't seem to be abating.
Why do bestselling young adult novels seem darker in theme now than in past years? What's behind this dystopian trend, and why is there so much demand for it?"]]>teaching books fiction nytimes dystopia pessimism scottwesterfeld paolobacigalupi jayparini andrewclements lisarowefraustino michelleannabate yaliterature trends post-apocalyptichttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1365dbf1a0e8/Welcome To The Soft Apocalypse - Books - io92010-02-01T06:54:56+00:00
http://io9.com/5459999/
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http://www.slate.com/id/2223285/sidebar/2223286/
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http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html
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http://rossignol.cream.org/?p=798
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2b815a94-0863-11de-8a33-0000779fd2ac.html
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/17/how-are-you-coping-w.html
robertogreco2009 economics collapse crisis dystopia banking finance corydoctorow discussion boingboing fear anxiety society optimism pessimismhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:615b2e21bd9c/Earthrise Now Accepting Beta Applicants | Game | Life from Wired.com2009-01-07T05:01:26+00:00
http://blog.wired.com/games/2009/01/earthrise-now-a.html
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/14/tnh-ftw-a-final-post.html#comments
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_4_56/ai_110458726
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http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/11/the_missing_nea.php
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http://io9.com/5067476/post+apocalyptic-housing-that-doesnt-look-like-bunkers
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