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Tag Archives: Dystopianism
The Possibility of an Island
If I have a job in the Fall, I’ll probably teach this dystopian novel by Michel Houellebecq:
Houellebecq is an interesting writer with a certain degree of notoriety. To me he also looks a lot like Antonin Artaud after years of drug abuse and electro-convulsive therapy:
Contemporary Film (HUM415)
Many of these films already appear in the filmography on the course information page. I thought I’d draw them to the attention of those who are choosing to pursue “example 3” for their papers. Most of them explicitly address issues of economy and/or capitalism. Titles with an asterix (*) are also dystopian films.
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