
Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
Samuel Butler and Utopian Technologies
Educational · 3 Feb 2017 · 31 min Prime Video
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S1, E5: Shift your attention from rural American utopias to explore from a different perspective: Victorian anxieties about technology and the vanishing frontier. Analyze these fears in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, which utilizes utopian conventions and heavy doses of satire to critique religion, health, education, and humanity's increasingly complex relationship to machines.
Educational · 3 Feb 2017 · 31 min