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This chapter explores the dystopian cultural construction of science and technology across the discourses of social science, science fiction and popular film. This powerful language of disenchantment borrows heavily from Romantic critiques of modern society, and articulates wider cultural sensibilities about the dissolution of social order and stability in the modern world, alongside fears about the effects of technology as a force for dehumanisation and domination.
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© 2014 Majid Yar
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Yar, M. (2014). The Dystopian Worlds of Techno-Science. In: The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet: Virtual Utopias and Dystopias. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137436696_4
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