Utopian Horizons

Duncan Bell joins the podcast to talk about The Angel of the Revolution, a novel about a socialist revolution brought about by the invention of a flying ship. We discuss the end of war, racial utopias, the slipperiness of the term "anglo-saxon", invasion fiction and more.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Anna McFarlane returns to the podcast to talk about 1995 film Strange Days. We talk about the Rodney King incident, representations of race, history vs nostalgia, the film's innovative use of first-person perspective, the commodification of memory, and more.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Writer Mark O'Connell joins the podcast to talk about how Silicon Valley billionaires are preparing for the apocalypse in New Zealand and their attempts to become immortal.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

I pull out an emergency podcast on Robocop. I talk about privatisation, the film's contradictory representations of the cyborg, gentrification and more.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Sean McTiernan returns to the podcast to talk about a low-budget cyberpunk b-movie called Nemesis. We discuss how to engage with genre cinema, the technological dystopia of the perfect worker, Silicon Valley conspiracy theorists, and more.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Continuing the Philip K. Dick series, I look at Martian Time-Slip. I talk about space colonisation, Elon Musk, institutionsas systems, labelling as an exercise of power, mental health and anti-psychiatry.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Christopher Bolton joins the podcast to talk about Ghost in the Shell (the 1995 anime one). We talk about artificial bodies, Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, Japanese puppet theatre, networked cities and much more.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Marijam Didžgalvytė joins the podcast to talk about the floating utopian/dystopian city of Columbia, the setting of the videogame Bioshock Infinite. We talk about racism, horseshoe theory, real Bioshock villains, and more.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

The Philip K Dick series continues with The Man in the High Castle. I talk about the novel's affirmation of the utopian drive, colonial power dynamics, and more.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Professor Will Brooker joins the podcast to talk about one of the most influential films of all time: Blade Runner. We talk about memory, technology, posthumanism, the city, and lots more.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. 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.

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.