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On Antiutopianism in Pragmatics and Narrative
- Utopian Studies
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 34, Number 2, 2023
- pp. 292-311
- Article
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Abstract
abstract:
This article refurbishes the view of antiutopianism as the ruling orthodoxy of late-capitalist common sense (pragmatics) and writings plus media (narrative). After a half-century descent into a contemporary neofeudalism (Fascism 2.0), the operation of totalized antiutopianism on utopian narrative genres is powerfully evident in the TV series Game of Thrones, a rigidly Social Darwinist fantasy world, reveling in mass slaughters and presupposing neofeudalism: a black fable for lesioned personalities.
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