Word: dystopia
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...Some of the letters' authors are as young as nine. Several have been locked up for three years or more, and their writings depict an arid dystopia of razor wire, beatings, attempted suicides and surveillance cameras?hopelessly remote from the great Australian dream of a swimming pool and backyard barbecue for all. A letter from an Iraqi embodies the pathos: "I am half dead... I am ashamed to tell you I really need some warm clothes and shoes if you please. They never give me anything in this three year [sic]." A 14-year-old Syrian wrote, "I am maybe...
...about his fans--or as he called them, "my deplorable cultus." He wondered what Americans saw in his long, deeply Anglophilic and, let's be frank, overwritten epic. But the Rings had struck a chord. The burgeoning environmental movement saw in his wasteland of Mordor a strip-mined industrial dystopia. On a deeper level, a country drowning in the moral quicksand of Vietnam and Watergate found comfort in the moral clarity of Tolkien's epic story of a just, clear war. Good and evil are fixed stars in the skies of Middle-earth even as they're starting to look...
...Since I Left You is the definitive Endtroducing… of dance music. Like DJ Sjadow’s bleak hip-hop masterpiece, it is a postmodern collage in which something wonderful is invented from scraps of nothing. But far from being a threatening cut-n-paste dystopia, this music wraps itself lovingly around your ears, the warm crackle of vinyl always audible in the mesh...
...Together David and Joe travel through garish landscapes that, as imagined by artist Chris Baker (who was on the project in the early years) and production designer Rick Carter, handsomely evoke every sci-fi dystopia from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to Blade Runner and this year's Monkeybone. Come to the Flesh Fair--a sort of Thunderdome demolition derby where vengeful humans, led by the demagogic Lord Johnson-Johnson (Ireland's Brendan Gleeson), set hapless automatons aflame--and try to get out fast. Spend the night in Rouge City, a city of sensual schlock that is filled with Kubrick...
...Ascertaining Babitsky's fate may require a dark journey through the scary wilds of Russia's post-communist dystopia, but even Moscow's official version is alarming. "It's impossible right now to determine what has happened to Babitsky, but if you take the Russian government at its word, they handed over a Russian journalist to a group of hooded men Moscow regards as terrorists," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That means that neither his profession as a journalist nor his Russian citizenship meant anything to the Russian state. There's no question that the intended message...