Types of Dystopia - Flashcards

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Totalitarian Dystopia
Totalitarian dystopias utilize total control over and demands total commitment from the citizens, usually hiding behind a political ideology.
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Bureaucratic Dystopia
Strives to achieve complete control, B_______ regimes only strive to achieve absolute power
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Cyberpunk Dystopia
Essentially a drastically exaggerated version of our own. ________ is a heterogeneous genre, but most dystopias have the following settings: technological evolution has accelerated, environmental collapse is imminent etc.
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Crime Dystopia
May have different settings. These societies have been infested with grave criminality and the authorities are about to or already have lost control. This criminality may span from street crime to organized crime.
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Overpopulation Dystopia
The population of the world has grown dramatically and the limited resources of the planet are exhausted. Mankind is living in despair and society is in imminent danger of becoming or has already become social-darwinistic.
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Leisure Dystopia
Probably best described as utopias gone wretched or failed paradise-engineering projects. In these societies, all problems have been solved, at least officially, and all citizens are living in wealth and happiness.
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Feminist Dystopia
To do with the oppression of women. The f_______ dystopia is built on patriarchal structures and the role of women has been diminished. The society is often totalitarian
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Strives to achieve complete control, B_______ regimes only strive to achieve absolute power

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Bureaucratic Dystopia

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Essentially a drastically exaggerated version of our own. ________ is a heterogeneous genre, but most dystopias have the following settings: technological evolution has accelerated, environmental collapse is imminent etc.

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May have different settings. These societies have been infested with grave criminality and the authorities are about to or already have lost control. This criminality may span from street crime to organized crime.

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The population of the world has grown dramatically and the limited resources of the planet are exhausted. Mankind is living in despair and society is in imminent danger of becoming or has already become social-darwinistic.

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