: To support the thesis, the article follows up with a series of etymological, philological, philosophical, and logical arguments in favour of using a term “dystopia” to denote any kind of narrative or world that deconstructs eutopian idealism, and reserving the predicate “anti-utopian” for a sociological critique of failed transformative efforts in society and philosophy.
: authors such as Moylan (2000) choose not to categorise Nineteen Eighty-Four as an anti-utopia, drawing a line between anti-utopian and ‘dystopian’ fiction. Dystopia is here used as a category marker, recognising a particular type of dystopian fiction. […] Dystopia or negative utopia—a non-existent society described inconsiderable detail and normally located in time and space that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as considerably worse than the society in which that reader lived. Anti-utopia—a non-existent society described in considerable detail andnormally located in time and space that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as a criticism of utopianism or of some particular eutopia.
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