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MIT 3441F/G   Special Topics in MIT: Dystopia: Dragons, Zombies, Killer Robots and the Thought Police

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The corruption and breakdown of society into a dystopia is regular theme in science fiction, horror, and fantasy narratives. This course will examine a number of dystopian narratives in literature, film, TV, and comics to answer two questions:  what are the social, political and economic causes of the descent into dystopia, and to what extent does the technoculture seen in the story accentuate this descent?

This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.



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