Monday, 2 November 2015

Session 5 (Week 14)


02/11/2015

Utopia

Ideal society. From ancient Greek meaning 'Good place'. Visionary reform that tends to be impossibly idealistic.

Plato's Republic (c.380BC)

Thomas Moore (1516) Utopia

Jeremy Bentham, An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (1780)

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

The Utopian Ideal: Levittown (1948)

Sim-Utopias
The Sims
Second Life


Dystopia

The complete opposite of Utopia

David Lynch: Blue Velvet

Aldous Huxley - Island

The Road

What makes an interesting Utopia and Dystopia?

http://www.techspot.com/article/629-do-video-games-make-you-violent/







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