1. Dystopian: Often referred to as a subgenre of sci-fi. According to Raffaella Baccolini (1992) dystopian literature is exploration of technology, repressive governments and controlled information taken to their limits, renders problematic the lives of citizens set in such societies. Dystopia has usually been used to describe fictional negative societies. Deeply concerned with social issues, the dystopian often display a society on its way to collapsing, immerse in tension and haunted by anything capable to threat its calm façade. Dystopian fictions are set in a world projected from our own reality, where advanced technology plays a very important role. Dystopia is commonly been connected to the predominance of fear, and the destruction of society where dystopia explores a fictional universe in which people are dehumanised, deprived of freedom, oppression and unequal.
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Totalitarianism: According to Hannah Arendt (1949), totalitarianism is the total claim that totalitarian regimes make on their populations. The comprehensiveness of this control and manipulation politicises all facets of social experience whilst simultaneously extracting the organised consent of the populace in accordance with pre-set ideological goals. According to Jeane Kirkpatrick (1990), in defining totalitarianism; the ruling ideology requires that every aspect of an individual's life become subordinated to the state, including education, occupation, income, recreation and religion, often even including family relationships. Personal survival links to the regime's survival, and thus the concepts of “the state" and "the people" become merged. This is also called the carceral state; like a
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Totalitarianism: According to Hannah Arendt (1949), totalitarianism is the total claim that totalitarian regimes make on their populations. The comprehensiveness of this control and manipulation politicises all facets of social experience whilst simultaneously extracting the organised consent of the populace in accordance with pre-set ideological goals. According to Jeane Kirkpatrick (1990), in defining totalitarianism; the ruling ideology requires that every aspect of an individual's life become subordinated to the state, including education, occupation, income, recreation and religion, often even including family relationships. Personal survival links to the regime's survival, and thus the concepts of “the state" and "the people" become merged. This is also called the carceral state; like a