Cancelling the Apocalypse

About Cancelling the Apocalypse

Dom and Raph learn how to cancel the apocalypse by discussing their favourite utopian books, films, TV shows, and more.

Publisher

Cancelling the Apocalypse

Category

arts · education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

18 Apr 2021

Latest episode

16 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Mar 2026

   Episode 12: “A Very Hench Baby”

   A Half-Built Garden (Ruthanna Emrys) and Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo del Toro)

2. 

   18 Apr 2021

   Episode 11: “You Should Read Homestuck”

   A special episode featuring Dom and Raph playing a game called You Should Read Homestuck.

3. 

   18 Apr 2021

   Episode 10: “Alone In the Alaskan Wilderness With Your Football Railgun”

   Utopia and the Pastoral, Part 2 (17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future)

4. 

   18 Apr 2021

   Episode 9: “And I Sigh And I Think ‘I Wish I Was Beautiful and Useful'”

   Utopia and the Pastoral, Part 1 (Li Ziqi)

5. 

   18 Apr 2021

   Episode 8: “I Can’t Fault Will Gibson for Writing His Own Id Into a Novel, I Guess”

   The Female Man (Joanna Russ) and Woman on the Edge of Time (Marge Piercy)

6. 

   18 Apr 2021

   Episode 7: “Do You Want To Play ✧･:* video games *:･✧”

   Kentucky Route Zero (2013-2020) and Disco Elysium (2019)

7. 

   18 Apr 2021

   Episode 6: “John Boyega Week feat. The Guy Debord Ouija Board”

   Attack the Block, Pacific Rim: Uprising, and intentional communities

8. 

   18 Apr 2021

   Episode 5: “I Don’t Know Enough About Tachyons To Say That’s Bullshit But That Seems Like Bullshit”

   Tomorrowland (2015), Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk

9. 

   18 Apr 2021

   Episode 4: “No-one has Literally Died in the Production of Years of Rice and Salt”

   The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson) and the art of Professional Wrestling.

10. 

    18 Apr 2021

    Episode 3: “I’m Going to Sit At Home With My Depth Charges”

    The Hainish Cycle (Ursula K. Le Guin) and Curse of Oak Island (reality TV show on the History Channel).

11. 

    18 Apr 2021

    Episode 2: “Brads Are On Notice”

    The film Hackers (1995) and the novel Walkaway (Cory Doctorow, 2017).

12. 

    18 Apr 2021

    Episode 1: “Star Trek was the First Thing for a Lot of Things”

    Definitions of utopia, Peppa Pig, and Star Trek (mostly the Original Series).

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