Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.
Pete & Karlo from Podside Picnic join me to talk about Frederik Pohl's 1977 science fiction novel Gateway. We discuss "full medical" as it relates to the disaster that is American healthcare, company towns, gold rushes, risk, and gateway as a metaphor for the market.
Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons
Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.
3 Nov 2021
The Long 90s w/ Jeremy Gilbert
Academic and #ACFM co-host Jeremy Gilbert joins the podcast to talk us through the concept of "the long 90s". We discuss why cultural innovation has stagnated, the relationship of culture to politics and how anti-utopianism may be falling out of fashion.
Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons
Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.
30 Jul 2021
Fear In Fiction, Resident Evil & The Apocalypse w/ Trevor Strunk
Trevor Strunk from No Cartridge joins us to talk about his new book Story Mode. We discuss how horror videogames help chart our fears, which events caused the genre to radically shift direction, Resident Evil, the apocalypse and neoliberalism.
You can find Trevor's book here: https://bookshop.org/books/story-mode-video-games-and-the-interplay-between-consoles-and-culture/9781633886803
Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons
Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.
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