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Boyko, M. E.
Classification of Anti-Utopian Societies
and Art Futurology
// Culture and Art.
2013. № 5.
P. 509-515.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=63379
Boyko, M. E. Classification of Anti-Utopian Societies
and Art Futurology
Abstract:
It has become quite a common thing to underline that Utopias are based on real life experience because
only the reality can create basis for our imagination. At the same time, it is often forgotten that facts do not
always reveal the historical reality because, as a rule, first they are adjusted to ideological cliché and only then
they are analyzed. As a result, artistic fiction sometimes happens to be credible than the most precise scientific
research. One can easily notice that Orwell’s formula can be easily reversed and sound like ‘«He who controls the
future, controls the past. He who controls the present, controls the future». For us the image of future is more important
than the image of the past and this is why today there are numerous appeals to the future as the basis for
legitimacy of the present. The author of the article analyzes images of the future outlined in the five anti-Utopian
novels written in the XX century. The author offers to classify anti-Utopian societies as divergent and convergent.
Michel Houellebecq’s project of post-human future is viewed as an antimonic synthesis of polarities.
Keywords:
cultural research, philosophy of history, anti-utopian, futurology, convergent society, divergent society, Michel Houellebecq, Francis Fukuyama, George Orwell, post-human future.
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