“Navigating the Ustopian vision of a biotechnological future: Through the lenses of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake”

PhD Coursework

Paper 3
Specific Area of research

This presentation was prepared and presented as a part of PhD coursework. This presentation “Navigating the Ustopian vision of a biotechnological future: Through the lenses of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake” is an intriguing exploration of the intersection between utopia and dystopia. Atwood coined the term "Ustopia" to describe the simultaneous coexistence of utopian and dystopian elements within a single vision. This concept is crucial in understanding the biotechnological future as depicted in Oryx and Crake. Throughout this presentation I will try to answer the following questions…

 ■ Should we take this bleak vision of the world as a warning of the risks of not taking ethical issues into account?

■ Does the novel recreate the consequences of unregulated experimentation avoiding long-term responsibility in the not-so-distant future?

■ How does the novel set up alarming warnings against a future possibly which is only decades away or maybe the future is already with us?

■ How the writer is becoming a truth teller; that her writing is not mere self-expression but a view of society and the world at large?

■ On what grounds does the novel work as a moral instrument for socio-political commentary?

■ To what extent designing organisms, animals and crops or human beings are justifiable? And how these new innovations are interfering with the natural process of evolution?

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