zaterdag 21 juni 2014

Who's in charge?...

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Maybe there are people who read dystopian tales for self-improvement the way people used to read sermons, or for amusement—people who can edit out the very details that have most preoccupied the person who made them up, and read for the story alone. The stories, boiled down, are usually at bottom just the good old stories. Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, set in London, is basically the same story as Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, set in the dystopian world of a mental institution; both Alex and McMurphy are forced into conformity and docility by institutional powers.

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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jun/05/chang-rae-lee-dystopia/

Parce qu'un internaute m'y a fait revenir...

Quelle est la part de responsabilité du marché, des pouvoirs publics, de la science et de la Technique et des membres de la société, les utilisateurs-usagers?

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