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Dystopian thinking

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The Different Types of Dystopias

Eun has gone for a sort of temporal taxonomy. You can have dystopias in the past, but you could also taxonomy based on the kind of the thing that the novels worried about or the films worried about. So technology, one of them, gender and race would be there. Capitalism versus socialism. Authoritarianism versus freedom. And then if Hitler won. Yes. It's probably so. Eun: "I think now in the contemporary also as well"

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