In recent years, commentators have characterized the disruptive social occurrences and technological change as dystopic. As we attempt to address deal with this melee of events their associated emotions reactions, article mines media ecology literature, work renowned Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, other sources propose some answers choices for path forward. More specifically, defines dystopi...

Dystopia while deconstructing utopian ideas generates a special type of identity as consequence deviation from anthropocentric principles, crises national and cultural worldviews, changes in manifestations social shifting the posthumanist world. The article has focused on four symptomatic dystopian texts – George Orwell’s Nineteen Forty-Eight, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Ahmed K. Towfik’s Ut...

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, ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of autogenous maxillary bone for the repair of orbital floor defects secondary to blunt facial trauma. DESIGN Retrospective case series of 41 patients with a mean follow-up of 1.7 years. SETTING Major metropolitan teaching hospital. PATIENTS Forty-one consecutive patients who underwent repair of orbital floor fractures with maxillary antral wall bone grafts. ...

PURPOSE to evaluate risk factors for the development of genital prolapse in the Brazilian population. METHODS case-control study involving 316 patients submitted to prolapse staging, according to the pelvic organ prolapse quantification system. The patients were divided into two groups: in the Case Group there were 107 patients with prolapse at stage III or IV, and in the Control Group, 209 w...

A broader perspective on the role of cities and their relation to their inhabitants and the planet is essential to effectively answer urgent sustainability questions that emerge in and beyond cities. This essay provides a critical reflection on the notion of the sustainable city. The central question discussed is: how can the ideal of a sustainable city be best conceptualised? Through exploring...

In a large part of his literary production, the Egyptian novelist Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī (1945-2015) aimed at rewriting Arabic heritage in order to contest Western novel hegemony and criticising Gamal Abdel Nasser (Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir) Anwar Sadat’s (Anwar al-Sādāt) authoritarianism. this study we will analyse Khiṭaṭ (1981), which author narrates police state free market economy applying spatial orga...