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Death of a Dystopian
Alt-right conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley. The truth is far stranger. By Alec Wilkinson. [Epilepsy warning: Flashing graphic]
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Fascism Has Already Come To America
For generations of black Americans, the United States between the end of Reconstruction and the civil rights movement was a dystopian state. By Ezekiel Kweku and Jane Coaston.
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The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator
A game of startups, disruption, technology, and dystopia by Francis Tseng.
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The World of Tomorrow (A Tribute)
Bora Barroso
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New Project Uncovers What Americans Knew About the Holocaust
You can help historians learn how newspapers in the U.S. documented the persecution of European Jews. By Erin Blakemore (Apr. 11, 2016)
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How to Resist an Unjust Regime Nonviolently
For decades, political scientist Gene Sharp has promoted nonviolent strategies for countering oppression. By John Horgan.
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Beware a Kinder, Gentler American Fascism
Bear Witness and Behave as If You Are Free. By David L. Ulin.
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A Different ‘Darkness at Noon’
Last July a German doctoral student named Matthias Weßel made a remarkable discovery: a copy of the German manuscript of Arthur Koestler’s masterpiece. The implications are considerable, for Darkness at Noon is that rare specimen, a book known to the world only in translation. By Michael Scammell.
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In Trump’s America, The Handmaid’s Tale matters more than ever
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. By Adi Robertson.
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‘We are all Thomas More’s children’ – 500 years of Utopia
Utopia has inspired generations of thinkers and writers to imagine the good – and evil – humans might be capable of. China Miéville rereads a classic.
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How a Facial Recognition Mismatch Can Ruin Your Life
IT WAS JUST after sundown when a man knocked on Steve Talley’s door in south Denver. The man claimed to have hit Talley’s silver Jeep Cherokee and asked him to assess the damage. So Talley, wearing boxers and a tank top, went outside to take a look. Seconds later, he was knocked to the pavement outside his house. Flash bang grenades detonated, temporarily blinding and deafening him. Three men dressed in black jackets, goggles, and helmets repeatedly hit him with batons and the butts of their guns.
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Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities
The video, used by the Joint Special Operations University, states that megacities will be breeding grounds for “adversaries and hybrid threats,” and that the U.S. Army is unprepared. By Nick Turse.
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Corporations running the world used to be science fiction – Now it's a reality
Imagine a world in which all of the main functions of society are run for-profit by private companies. Schools are run by multinationals. Private security firms have replaced police forces. And most big infrastructure lies in the hands of a tiny plutocratic elite. Justice, such as it is, is meted out by shady corporate tribunals only accessible to the rich, who can easily escape the reach of limited national judicial systems. The poor, on the other hand, have almost no recourse against the mighty will of the remote corporate elite as they are chased off their land and forced into further penury.
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Russia's new education minister wants to mandate Soviet-era farm labor for students
Russian Education and Science Minister Olga Vasilieva called for a return to mandatory farm labor for school children, according to Russian state-operated news agency RIA Novosti via The Moscow Times. Vasilieva said that students should be placed in "agricultural brigades" and forced to clean schools "like we always used to do." It is one of the first signals from Vasilieva, who was appointed by Russian president Vladimir Putin on August 9, on how she aims to govern her post.
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A world without work is coming – it could be utopia or it could be hell
Most of us have wondered what we might do if we didn’t need to work – if we woke up one morning to discover we had won the lottery, say. We entertain ourselves with visions of multiple homes, trips around the world or the players we would sign after buying Arsenal. For many of us, the most tantalising aspect of such visions is the freedom it would bring: to do what one wants, when one wants and how one wants.
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Here's How NASA Thinks Society Will Collapse
Few think Western civilization is on the brink of collapse — but it's also doubtful the Romans and Mesopotamians saw their own demise coming either. If we're to avoid their fate, we'll need policies to reduce economic inequality and preserve natural resources, according to a NASA-funded study that looked at the collapses of previous societies. "Two important features seem to appear across societies that have collapsed," reads the study. "The stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity and the economic stratification of society into Elites and Masses."
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A rational nation ruled by science would be a terrible idea
Neil deGrasse Tyson imagines a country called Rationalia, a society where policy is based on the weight of evidence. That's a bad idea, says Jeffrey Guhin.
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Hudson Mohawke Revamps Theme From 80’s Film Escape from New York
Scottish producer Hudson Mohawke takes on John Carpenter's score from the 1981 dystopian thriller Escape From New York in a rendition he's simply calling, "Escape".
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A 'Hunger Games' Theme Park Signals the Death of the Disney Dream
With the latest effort at 'location-based entertainment,' the movie-inspired theme park has shed all of the heady idealism of the past. By Megan Garber.
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