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Dystopian thinking

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The Uneasy World of Una

Kadex Novella, they is going to be our starting point for this. I thought we could use it to say something about what dystopia is and then perhaps attempt to kind of taxonomy of dystopia. So the world of they, can we explore it, Una, what's happening in it? It's quite an intimate novel in a way. We're very close to a character in her immediate, their immediate circle. And we gradually get this sense of unease. People are making, testing themselves that they can remember bits of poetry or bits of, plays. There's a movement that goes around not just destroying culture, cultural artifacts, but harming people who produce

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