Abstract Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf ( Le temps du loup , 2003) depicts a grim vision world in aftermath an unnamed catastrophe. Haneke turns genre dystopia into experimental terrain where he can test limits cinematic medium sense “negating cinema order to let reality speak for itself” (Nagib 2016, 147). An existential parable, envisions sombre post-millenium age. It is sharp analysis wha...

As an instance of the critical dystopia, The Last of Us lets the player enact a postapocalyptic story in which human society has been severely decimated by the Cordyceps infection and where nature has made an astonishing return. This paper examines the ecological rhetoric of The Last of Us by laying emphasis on the empirical player’s emancipated involvement in the gameworld (virtualized storywo...

Introduction Around New Year 2004, a quiet year after the official launch, The Sims Online hit the global headlines. Disappointingly, the topic was not a celebration of how this " new virtual frontier, " this " daring collective social experiment, " had succeeded in bringing " our divided nation " together, as Time magazine had blithely prophesied [1]. Instead, the media reported that the onlin...

In this article we will analyze how work is described by some of the most classic utopias, including utopian socialism. We believe that authors such as More, Campanella, Bacon, Andrae, Saint-Simon, Owen, and Fourier, inter alia, when building their utopias must have necessarily referred to in those non-existent worlds. Accordingly, dreams can help illustrate scope perspectives current labor law...