How can a better social order be established? What are the possibilities, ways and methods to achieve this? Do happy days come with radical changes, or can daily efforts, ordinary gestures, and small realizations be enough? These questions have occupied many thinkers, authors and artists from the past to the present, from philosophy to politics, from literature to cinema, and have enabled them to dream in this direction, to design alternative ways of life and possible worlds that are different from the current order. Utopias started from this political desire to think about ways to live in a better, just and satisfying place, as a "social imagination" activity, and have continued to be effective until today. The island utopias of Plato, Thomas More, and Francis Bacon have opened up to different places, times, and other voices over time.

Addressing the painful consequences of the practices of the current system in the future is also a social thinking activity. Thus, utopias have also been used as an effective tool to criticize the status quo. This system of thinking found its direct critical voice and its ability to warn about goings-on in dystopias that started to rise in the darkness of the 20th century. Therefore, it is possible to evaluate dystopias, which are a relatively new genre, not as the opposite of utopia but as a sub-genre and strong critical voice of the social imagination. Dystopias of different shades have been produced until today, from the classic dark forms written in the aftermath of the world wars to the lighter tones of the pessimism spectrum that open the door to hope. These works have taken their inspiration from various overt and secret oppression policies, forms of domination or social concerns and fears experienced in history and today.

In addition to burning problems such as poverty, wars, discrimination, forced migration, ecological disasters, inequalities in access to healthy food and clean water, virtual universes that blur the boundaries between the real and the simulated, and the issue of increasing shift of social interaction from the real world to the digital world make it meaningful and important to think about time, space and the possibilities of another kind of life through utopias and dystopias.

We are waiting for your articles on utopias and/or dystopias until March 1, 2025 within the framework of but not limited to the following titles to be published in the 21st issue of ViraVerita E-Journal.

• Utopia/dystopia studies from past to present

• Theory and genre discussions: utopian thinking, antiutopias, eutopias, speculative fiction, etc.

• Utopia/dystopia in Anthropocene and ecology studies

• The place of post-apocalyptic narratives in the utopia/dystopia tradition

• Utopia/dystopia in literature, cinema and art

• Utopia/dystopia in philosophy, political science and law

• Utopia/dystopia as a subject of sociology

• Alternative communities established in history or today (intentional communities)

• Urban utopias and urban dystopias/representations of space

• Gender and utopia/dystopia

• Body utopias/dystopias

• Critical dystopia and recent feminist utopias

• Queer utopia/dystopia/heterotopia

• Liberal utopias/ totalitarian and neoliberal dystopias

• Post-utopia and capitalist realism

• Utopia and dystopia between longtermism and presentism

• Utopias and dystopias produced in Turkey

• Dystopian representations in popular culture and digital platforms

• Dystopian designs in computer games and virtual worlds

• Techno-dystopias, demo-dystopias, cyberpunk, etc.

You can send your articles via https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/viraverita address and you can find detailed information about the journal here.