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Utopia / Dystopia

Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society, which is taken from Of the Best State of Republic, and the New Island Utopia, a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system.

A dystopia is a vision of an often futuristic society, which has developed into a negative version of utopia.  A dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features different kind of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions and a state of constant warfare or violence.

  • Utopia, Thomas More (1516)
  • Walden, Henry Thoreau (1845)
  • News From Nowhere, William Morris (1891)
  • Garden Cities of To-morrow, Ebenezer Howard (1898)
  • Walden Two, B.F. Skinner (1945)
  • Island, Aidous Huxley (1962)
  • Ectopia, Earnest Collenback (1975)


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