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The world itself is text; a reference to a pure meaning prior to language cannot be expressed in it. [38] As he stressed, "the subject is not some meta-linguistic substance or identity, some pure cogito of self-presence; it is always inscribed in language". [39] Michel Foucault challenged the foundational aspects of Enlightenment humanism. [40]
The entire substantial sub-genre of alternative history works depicting a world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War can be considered as dystopias. So can other works of Alternative History, in which a historical turning point led to a manifestly repressive world. For example, the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A.:
The resulting carnage, involving poisonous electric gas, "humanite" (atomic) bombs, and the unfeeling march of the Flesh Guard, reduces whole cities and towns in Europe to smoking rubble. Film 1939 War Peace on Earth: Hugh Harman: A cartoon short where animals rebuild a post-apocalyptic world after humanity has fought war to the point of extinction
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
List of cities in the Netherlands Antilles - Netherlands Antilles (Self-governing country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) List of cities in New Caledonia - Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies (French community sui generis) List of cities in New Zealand - New Zealand; List of cities in Nicaragua - Republic of Nicaragua
An example given by the first-century philosopher Dio Chrysostom is that humans move to cities to defend themselves against outsiders but this process thwarts their initial goal by leading to even more violence due to high crime rates within the city. Diogenes is a well-known cynic misanthrope. He saw other people as hypocritical and superficial.