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Rever Antígona em 2084
Get PDFAntigone 2084 is a production by Brazilian playwright and director Rubens Siqueira, written and performed in 2013. It is based on a strange harmony between the Sophoclean model and what could be called science fiction in 2084. From this it can be inferred that anachronism is an essential strategy in supporting the plot. Of the different motifs present in Sophocles\u27 Antigone, the Brazilian version favours the political one. Creon, as the paradigm of the dictator, is therefore highly visible. In addition to his tyrannical traits, one is added due to the play’s anachronistic setting: the \u27representative of the nation\u27 is a robot, who works with cables and bionic organs, lacking the humanity that technology irremediably threatens.Antígona 2084 é uma produção do brasileiro Rubens Siqueira, escrita e levada à cena em 2013. Assenta numa estranha harmonia entre o modelo sofocliano e o que poderíamos chamar ficção científica situada em 2084. De onde se infere que o anacronismo é uma estratégia essencial no suporte da intriga. Dos diferentes motivos que alimentaram a Antígona de Sófocles, a tónica preferencial na versão brasileira é de natureza política. Creonte, como paradigma do ditador, ganha por isso uma grande visibilidade. Além de todas as suas pechas de tirano, uma se acrescenta em função do próprio suporte anacrónico da peça: o ‘mandatário da nação’ é um robot, que funciona por cabos e órgãos biónicos, carentes daquela humanidade que a técnica ameaça irremediavelmente
2084 Quartet, Book 2
No full textGreetings and the Big Picture
Welcome to the world of 2084 Quartet. Please know that it can be a violent, deceptive, and at times uncanny place. It might also be someplace where we’re all headed—if we’re not already halfway there.
2084 Quartet is a work of science fiction in the vein of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale or, more recently, The MaddAddam Trilogy and The Testaments. Like those works, my novels are dystopian speculative fiction and dark social satire envisioning an apocalyptic near-future. The broad action of these novels is the conflict and eventual warfare between a North American corporate state called TexArc versus a European commonwealth called EVe. As such, 2084 Quartet delivers a provocative warning: our current social-economic-political organization is horribly flawed; we must change course now or catastrophe is guaranteed.
Put more plainly: Duh.
2084 Quartet is a tetralogy—a series of four novels. They are:
Book 1: Signifier/
Book 2: /Signified
Book 3: The Cure of All
Book 4: White Nights and Yellow Laughter
2084 Quartet is a work-in-progress. Book 1 and Book 2 are complete, ready for publication, and coming your way. Book 3 is well into draft stage. Book 4 is in planning stage.
CONTENTS
You Can Trust Your Car to the Man Who Wears the Star
Chapter 1: The Simulacrum
Chapter 2: It’s the Water
Chapter 3: Oak, Pharaoh
Chapter 4: Lord of Misrule
Chapter 5: Great Salt Lake Desert Storm
Chapter 6: Optimism of the Will
Chapter 7: Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
Chapter 8: This is the En
2084 Quartet, Book 1
No full text2084 Quartet is a work of science fiction in the vein of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale or, more recently, The MaddAddam Trilogy and The Testaments. Like those works, my novels are dystopian speculative fiction and dark social satire envisioning an apocalyptic near-future. The broad action of these novels is the conflict and eventual warfare between a North American corporate state called TexArc versus a European commonwealth called EVe. As such, 2084 Quartet delivers a provocative warning: our current social-economic-political organization is horribly flawed; we must change course now or catastrophe is guaranteed.
CONTENTS
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Chapter 1: The Elevator to Outer Space
Chapter 2: Pessimism of the Intellect
Chapter 3: Gnosis
Chapter 4: Praxis
Chapter 5: The Feed
Chapter 6: Jowler dans la Vieille Ville
Chapter 7: Memo
2084: la fin du monde de Boualem Sansal, une dystopie voltairienne
Get PDFRooted in the dystopian tradition, 2084 : la fin du monde [2084: The End of the World] by Algerian author Boualem Sansal stands out for its inclusion of elements reminiscent of the philosophical tale, particularly Voltaire’s Candide ou l’Optimisme [Candide, or Optimism], such as the use of descriptive intertitles in the form of completive propositions, the schematic nature of the characters and the use of irony. It is this second generic affiliation that we will focus on in this article.
Keywords: Boualem Sansal; Voltaire; dystopia; philosophical tale, generic hybridit
Rooms 2084
Get PDFIn September 2017 Room 2084 was installed at London College of Communication (LCC) to display a selection of objects from the personal archives and collections of staff and students in the Design School during the London Design Festival.
The aim of this display was to examine the role such objects play in the research and practice of the school and how these relate to the collection policies of the institution’s archives and special collections. To this end ‘trials’ were held throughout the durations of the show where members of staff would ‘defend’ their objects to a ‘jury’ who would determine if the items were worthy of inclusion the institution’s own archive to become the focus of study in the future.
Our paper offers a reflective evaluation of the value of performing to an audience, within an exhibition setting, an archive selection procedure based on criteria set by Schellenberg and Jenkinson. Our analysis was influenced by a number of interviews, post-event, with archivists and exhibitors that took part in Room 2084. We suggest that this activity moves the theoretical debate, concerning archives, towards an arena of performance and public perception of institutional archives whilst revealing some of the difficulties and friction in archival selection processes currently in use
Woodridge, James & Nancy (SC 2084)
Get PDFFinding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2084. Transcript of an interview conducted by Wilford Fridy, a English Department faculty member at Western Kentucky University, with James and Nancy Woolridge, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The interview revolves around the Woolridge\u27s familial connections to characters in Robert Penn Warren\u27s stories in his book Circus in the Attic
La dystopie musulmane en tant qu’expression du conflit L’exemple de 2084 : La fin du monde de Boualem Sansal
Get PDFThe present paper aims at describing Boualem Sansal’s 2084: La fin du monde (2084:
The End of the World) in terms of dystopia used to address the question of conflict rooted in
the totalitarian ideology. The author focuses on the creation of a dystopian society whose main
characteristics, such as control, propaganda or abuse of power, help to portray the divisions introduced
by the state and impacting upon the oppositions within and outside the system. Hence,
a brief description of the novel’s setting is followed by the outline of three types of conflict:
individual, internal and external. Then, the importance of dystopian poetics in the context of the
West-Middle East opposition is stressed, which allows to proceed to the interpretation of particular
threads of the book. The final part of the reflection compares 2084 with 1984 by George
Orwell in an attempt to decide if any consensus is achievable
العتبات النصية في رواية 2084 حكاية العربي الأخير لواسيني الأعرج
No full textالعتبات النصية في رواية 2084 حكاية العربي الأخير لواسيني الأعر
Rooms 2084
No full textIn September 2017 Room 2084 was installed at London College of Communication (LCC) to display a selection of objects from the personal archives and collections of staff and students in the Design School during the London Design Festival.
I designed this journal article written by Dr Ian Horton and Robert Urquhart.
I also contributed to the 'trials' held throughout the duration of the exhibition where members of staff would 'defend' their objects to a 'jury' who would determine if the items were worthy of inclusion the institution's own archive to become the focus of study in the future
2084. Theodosius, De situ Terrae sanctae
No full text2084. Theodosius, De situ Terrae sanctae. In: Molinier Auguste. Les Sources de l'histoire de France - Des origines aux guerres d'Italie (1494). II. Époque féodale, les Capétiens jusqu'en 1180. Paris : A. Picard et fils, 1902. pp. 269-270
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