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More A�er More Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia edited by ksenia olkusz michał kłosiński krzysztof m. maj FRONTIERS of NOWHERE More After More More After More Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia edited by Ksenia Olkusz, Michał Kłosiński Krzysztof M. Maj facta ficta research centre • kraków 2016 Some rights reserved by Facta Ficta Research Centre in Kraków The book is licenced under Creative Commons BY 4.0 (Attribution International) in recognition of Open Access Movement and stored in the Center for Open Science repository Reviewed by Prof. Paweł Frelik Proofread by Sven Dwulecki and Karolina Kwaśna Cataloguing: 1. Philosophy 2. Utopian studies 3. Utopia and dystopia I. Frontiers of Nowhere (vol. 1) II. Title III. Ksenia Olkusz, Michał Kłosiński, Krzysztof M. Maj ISBN: 978-83-942923-4-8 Cover photo: Nikos Patsiouris, Syros Island (https://www.flickr.com/photos/patsnik/16936623591) Set in Libre Baskerville and Cinzel open fonts Layout designed by Krzysztof M. Maj Contents List of Figures 10 Preface 12 Introduction: Utopia at 500 14 Gregory Claeys 1. Evantropia and Dysantropia: A Possible New Stage in the History of Utopias 26 Lucas Misseri 2. The Facets of “Universal Religion”: Religion in Nineteenth-Century French Utopian Thought 44 Tomasz Szymański 3. Twenty-first Century Critical Dystopias 56 Peter G. Stillman 4. Deconstructing Utopia 74 Krzysztof M. Maj 5. Micro-dystopias as Socio-political Constructs in Post-apocalyptic Narratives 90 Ksenia Olkusz 6. Boredom and Melancholy in Utopias and Dystopias 104 Mariusz Finkielsztein 7. Creating Utopian or Dystopian Worlds in Digital Games 118 Miłosz Markocki 8. SimCity: Where the City Ends 134 Michał Kłosiński 9. “Building the Future and Keeping the Past Alive Are One and the Same Thing”—A Rhetorical Analysis of the Metal Gear Solid Saga 148 Sven Dwulecki 10. Digging the Trench: Fictional Accounts of Utopian Communities and Utopian Closure 172 Verena Adamik 11. Classical Utopian Model. On the Melancholy Status of Jan Parandowski’s Ancient Discourse 188 Rafał Szczerbakiewicz 12. Parodies of Authority in the Soviet Anti-utopias from 1918-1930 210 Andrzej Dróżdż 13. The Analysis of the Element of Space in Negative Utopias by Antoni Lange, Jan Dobraczyński & Vladímir Páral 224 Aleksandra Paluch 14. Libertarian Utopia and Racist Dystopia: Social Commentary in Robert Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold 238 Piotr Stasiewicz 15. No Light Without Shadow: The Control of Language and Discourse in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction 252 Anna De Vaul 16. Senescence in Young Adult Dystopias 266 Anna Bugajska 17. Modern Wastelands: The Psychogeographical Dystopia of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise 280 Marcin Tereszewski 18. The Use of Multimodal Narrative Techniques in Creating Dystopian Undertones Permeating David Foster Wallace’s Short Fiction 294 Maja Wojdyło 19. A Utopian, a Martyr or a Fool: Fictional Portrayals of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons and Wolf Hall 310 Barbara Klonowska 20. The Pelagian Roots of Utopia—The Problem of Good and Evil in the Novels Pronalazak Athanatika by Vladan Desnica and Koraljna vrata by Pavao Pavličić 322 Anna Boguska 21. The Elementary Particles: Brave New World According to Michel Houellebecq 338 Michał Palmowski 22. The Unusual Dystopia of Never Let Me Go (2010) 352 Eleni Varmazi 23. Transmetropolitan. Dystopia, Hyperbole, and the Superhero 364 Justyna Galant 24. Liberation, Redemption, Autonomy: Contemporary Utopias in Southern Italian Popular Music 376 Marcello Messina 25. Arnold Schoenberg’s Dodecaphonic Method as a Representation of an Artistic Utopia 394 Iwona Sowińska-Fruhtrunk 26. Space Utopia in the 1970s of the Twentieth Century on the Basis of the Kobaïan World 406 Łukasz Stec Contributors 420
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