<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB">The academic character of the article is connected with attempt to answer question asked in title: Utopia without law – it possible? The theoretical arguments provided by author lead an affirmative this and allow for formulating following thesis: there no utopia law. not only present utopias, both positive negative ones (anti-utopias dystopias)...

The article discusses selected poetry by Darko Suvin against the background of his theoretical writings about science fiction, utopia and poetry. It argues that Suvin’s estranges ideological view present history as an inevitable reproduction injustice alienation. focus is on several poems included in collections Long March: Notes Way 1981–1984 (1987) Defined a Hollow: Essays Utopia, Science Fic...

The greatest charm of science fiction is not the artistic imagination, but the scientific imagination.Liu Cixin’s the Three-body Problem as a Chinese science fiction novel, reflected Chinese writer how to think science and technology and its possible future of mankind’s imagination. This novel contained “Deconstruction” Utopia, “Transcendence” dystopia and “Composited” Heterotopias, Which fully...

618 JEFFERY P. DENNIS received a master’s degree from Indiana University and taught English and comparative literature in California and Tennessee prior to returning to graduate school. He is currently completing a doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York–Stony Brook, writing his dissertation on communities of desire in the postmodern city. “What is required is a new framework...

Keynote Address Dystopia as a Service Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix Summarized by Rik Farrow ([email protected]) Adrian stated that they are engineers trying to solve hard problems and to fix things when they break. We all want perfect code on perfect hardware. But perfection takes too long, utopia is slightly out of reach. So they compromise, focusing on time-tomarket instead of quality. At Netflix, ...

We describe the semantic domains for Compass Modelling Language (CML), using Hoare & He’s Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP). CML has been designed to specify, design, compose, simulate, verify, test, and validate industrial systems of systems. CML is a semantically heterogeneous language, with state-rich imperative constructs based on VDM, communication and concurrency based on CSP, object...

We normally take it for granted that each government has a particular territory and that each territory belongs to a particular government. Yet this identification of government with territory need not be the case. In important instances, it does not hold. Multiple Governments Associated with the Same Territory. In the classic case, several governments claim the same territory. Sometimes the bo...

24 Computer Artificial Consciousness: Utopia or Real Possibility? S ince the beginnings of computer technology, researchers have speculated about the possibility of building smart machines that could compete with human intelligence. Given the current pace of advances in artificial intelligence and neural computing, such an evolution seems to be a more concrete possibility. Many people now belie...

Societal conflicts with regard to risk management are common. The public has different beliefs than many experts and administrators with regard to such issues as the citing of a repository for spent nuclear fuel or whether genetically modified organisms should be allowed to enter the human food chain. As a result, political tensions arise and there may be a skew allocation of resources for risk...

In the commercial production of roses, introducing a method to reduce the time of propagation with maximum success is crucial. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of different concentrations (0, 1500, 3000, 4500 mg/L) of Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) on propagation of three cultivars of Rosa hybrid L. ('Dolce Vita', 'Samurai' and 'Utopia') by stenting (simultaneous cutting and graf...