Dystopic Tendencies: Distortions in Rate of Movement and Stillness

Abstract

Especially After the World War II, a world of culture, art and thought emerges that is open to thinking through dystopias, not utopias. Philosophy, literary, painting and cinema works try to explain dystopian disintegration and deterioration. Although the war years made this disorganization and bankruptcy visible, the dystopian inclination has always made its presence known. Dystopias allow thinking from an awareness of the limited nature of the earth. Dystopian narratives remind us that despite the utopian quests of human actions, the earth that is on the ground and application area of ​​the utopian will is incomparably limited. At least a post-calamity painting is depicted, and the consequences of the Baroque ideal of eternity that preceded modernity find expression. Dystopias describe the causes and consequences of the current lifestyle and understanding of being as a symptom, without offering a meta-narrative. However, those who think in utopias offer different suggestions for recolonizing the earth. But in the midst of deep ecological problems, dystopias must also be portrayed as signs of disaster, in order to remain aware of the possible consequences of this effort, with utopian proposals to collect this mess on earth.