The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

" However, In proposing the thought experiment involving the fictional character, Robinson Crusoe, a captain shipwrecked on a desolate island with no other inhabitant, Wittgenstein shows that language is not in all cases a social phenomenon ( although, they are for most case ); instead the criterion for a language is grounded in a set of interrelated normative activities: teaching, explanations, techniques and criteria of correctness.

" New York Times reviewer Gerald Jonas was even more critical, saying that while Brunner was attempting to write " slice-of-life " fiction about a future society, the result of his arbitrary choices about social details is that " the entire fictional edifice collapses like a house of cards.

He began to experiment with his own identity and allowed his driving license, social security ID, passport and other important documents to lapse so that he could become a fictional character.

The fictional aliens in Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed start out as gender-neutral children and do not develop into men and women until puberty, and gender has no bearing on social roles.

He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of " novel " that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional.

The show is set in the fictional suburban American town of Lawndale and is a satire of high school life, and full of allusions to and criticisms of popular culture and social classes.

It contains more council and social housing than most other areas of Kingston-one of the largest such sites, the New Cambridge Estate, was used as a fictional council estate in TV drama The Bill.

A stock character is a fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype.

In the 20th century, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) was the first major fictional work to anticipate the possible social consequences of reproductive technology.

Most of Dickens ' other critiques in this particular novel concern the social safety net: industry and the treatment and safety of workers ; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury ( as figured in the fictional " Circumlocution Office " 1, Ch.

In these episodes, celebrities and politicians were duped into appearing in fictional campaigns against particular social ills, thus demonstrating the tendency for both such groups towards jumping onto the bandwagon of campaigns against social problems, principally to raise their own profiles.

A spinoff series, entitled Lou Grant ( 1977 – 1982 ), was an hour-long serious dramatic series which frequently engaged in social commentary, featuring the character as city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune.

In the 1989 General Social Survey, U. S. respondents were asked to rate the social status of people of " Wisian " background, a fictional national heritage.

The author ’ s Ecotopian concept does not reject high technology as long as it does not interfere with the social order and serves Ecotopian objectives, but members of his fictional society prefer to demonstrate a conscious selectivity of technology, so that not only human health and sanity might be preserved, but also social and ecological well being.

A virtual checklist of fictional vampires have come out of hiding and gained new social status.

Written as fictional social commentary and intended as a space-filler to allow Marquis to meet the challenge of writing a daily newspaper column six days a week, archy and mehitabel is Marquis ' most famous work.

The diary is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle-aged city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional " Brickfield Terrace " in Upper Holloway, which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind.

Both the historical and fictional characters are, however, taken from a wider variety of occupations and social classes than in the Lymond Chronicles.

In their fictional graphic novel on the Ripper, From Hell, authors Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell extend Hinton's concern over social problems to prostitution in Whitechapel, which became the hunting grounds for the Ripper after his death.

In addition, he shares with Godwin, in particular, the project of combining historical and fictional modes into a distinctive and progressive narrative style designed to stimulate social awareness and action.

* Maquis ( Star Trek ), anti-Cardassian resistance movement in the fictional Star Trek universe

Wodehouse's fictional Black Shorts movement, featured in the television series Jeeves and Wooster.

The film opens in the fictional Indian city of Mayapore and is set during the 1940s against the backdrop of the last days of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement.

The Jedi census phenomenon is a grassroots movement that was initiated in 2001 for residents of a number of English-speaking countries, urging them to record their religion as " Jedi " or " Jedi Knight " ( after the quasi-religious order of Jedi Knights in the fictional Star Wars universe ) on the national census.

" considers it harmful to try to tailor the message of the progressive movement to please the long-awaited but fictional support from the politicians.

While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he " belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend ".

The painting depicts a fictional meeting of the one hundred people who in Henry Luyten's opinion played the most important role in the Flemish movement and Flemish history.

* A fictional resistance movement in the anime series Code Geass

This is a fictional account of the rise of the white supremacist movement, specifically as it contributed to what was originally referred to as the “ race riots ” that took place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898.

Though The Dillards were a tremendous influence on the main core of musicians who started Southern California's country rock movement in the late 1960s ( which further extended from that genre into today's country music ), their biggest claim to fame is playing the fictional bluegrass band " The Darlings " on The Andy Griffith Show, introducing many Americans to bluegrass who had never heard it.

A fictional philosophical movement is a part of the premise of his story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, and the unnamed narrator of his story The Library of Babel could also be called a fictional philosopher.

Lord Gilbert Reginald Falworth is attainted for being King Richard's councilor, who strongly advised him to resist his cousin Henry's movement to seize the throne, and for protecting Sir John Dale, a fictional conspirator against the succeeding King Henry.

In the city of Bukowo, the fictional Minister of Agriculture of communist Poland, Szymon Bukowski, meets with the leader of the farmers, Janko Buk, to discuss the problems of agriculture and the possibility of forming a farmers ' union in Poland ( an analogue for the current Solidarity movement ).

The Diversity Alliance is a fictional movement in the Star Wars universe.

According to Robinson, the fictional town of Gilead ( Gilead means ' hill of testimony ' in the Bible-Genesis 31: 21 ) is based on the real town of Tabor, Iowa, located in the southwest corner of the state and well known for its importance in the abolition movement.

* Horn of Valere a fictional horn in Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time, that calls heroes back from the grave

The criticism has been made, however, that in his and his early followers ' studies ' what calls for elucidation are not the artistic and literary works themselves, but rather the psychopathology and biography of the artist, writer or fictional characters '.

The supervisor calls up Dr. Lentz, a fictional student of Alfred Korzybski, to analyze the situation.

Longing for a relatively normal life, Jett succeeds in getting the production of Silverstone moved to the fictional Wilsted, North Carolina, thus providing jobs to townspeople while affording Jett the chance to live with his father, Sheriff Woodrick " Wood " Jackson, and his great-grandmother, Miz Coretta ( whom Jett calls Nana ).

Ali G, the fictional character created by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who calls it " Da Matthew Arnold Skool ".

* General Order № 47 issued to all EarthForce personnel requiring them to answer distress calls and assist any vessel not currently involved in hostilities against Earth in the Babylon 5 fictional universe.

Dearborn Station is repeatedly mentioned in the 1974 " Adam's Ribs " episode of M * A * S * H, in which Hawkeye Pierce raves about the barbecued ribs at a fictional restaurant located across the street from the station, and calls the stationmaster from South Korea to get the restaurant's phone number.

Borges ' mixing of the fictional and the real, which Jaime Alazraki calls a " Borgesian device ," both imparts a real feeling to the fictional, and an unreal feeling to the real.

Pnin, a refugee in his 50s from both Communist Russia and what he calls the " Hitler war ", is an assistant professor of Russian at fictional Waindell College, possibly modeled on Wellesley College or Cornell University, at both of which Nabokov himself taught.

Ficciones emphasizes and calls attention to its fictional nature.

Lauret sees a connection between Angelou's autobiographies, which Lauret calls " fictions of subjectivity " and " feminist first-person narratives ", and fictional first-person narratives ( such as The Women's Room by Marilyn French and The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing ) written during the same period.

In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark refers to his boss as " four flushing " in his tirade over his corporate Christmas present ; in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York it's used by the mafia boss Johnny in the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls ; and in Uncle Buck, Pooter the Clown calls Buck a four flusher, which results in Buck punching the clown right in the face.

In the show, the fictional Donohue calls Stan and Kyle " whores ," a reference to his description of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi refers to the area as the " Miskatonic region ", after its fictional river and university, while Lovecraft biographer Lin Carter calls it Miskatonic County, though Lovecraft indicates that at least some of his fictional towns were located in the real-life Essex County of Massachusetts.

It was originally known on-air with the fictional " CGEM " calls based after the " C " in Continental and " GEM " in WGEM.