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The Banality of Dystopia
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Long version: Utopia's attention to the concept of 'environment' now exceeds human-focused concerns and extends to the "more-than-human" world, to use David Abrams's term which includes animals and living inhabitants of the biosphere, as well as entities such as winds, rivers, climate and soil. Utopian orientations to more-than-human others can be framed through relations of 'care', provisionally described using the concepts of absence, utility, regard, co-existence and provisioning. Orientations of utility or regard for the more-than-human can be found in foundational works of Plato, the classical arcadia, and in More's seminal work. As awareness of ecological harm in the second half of the twentieth century intensifies to awareness of crises in the twenty-first, forms of 'care' have shifted in the utopian imagination towards co-existence and provisioning, traced through a selection of environmental utopian writers including Willi
If there is any civilization remaining on earth in the year 2086, it will be an ecological civilization. An anti-ecological industrial civilization that exceeds the earth’s capacity will likely still exist on a much smaller scale than today, but we will no longer call it “civilization.” People in regions that fail to adapt to the rapidly changing conditions on earth or fail to build an ecological civilization will live lives like scenes from disaster movies, constantly pressed for survival.
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