Cancelling the Apocalypse

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

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

Tomorrowland (2015), Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk

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

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

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

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

<p>In the second part of our bumper 2-part utopianism and the pastoral deep dive, we explore Jon Bois’ internet masterpiece 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future. What does a long-form multimedia piece about...

<p>We got talking about the pastoral and utopia and we had so much to talk about that we’ve had to divide this one into two whole episodes. In this, the first part of our pastoral/utopia deep dive, we talk about the...

<p>In this mammoth episode, Dom and Raph get into two of the big utopian novels of the 1970s - Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time. Featuring all your old favourites including...

<p>Do you remember how Dom and Raph had a podcast about utopia? Man, that sure seems like a while ago now, you might say, and increasingly irrelevant given… *gestures around* this. Well, you would be wrong. Dom and Raph...

<p>We examine the utopian ouvre of our hero John Boyega, in particular Attack the Block: A John Boyega Film and Pacific Rim 2: A John Boyega Film: Uprising, which takes us into council houses, slow and fast violence...

<p>Dom and Raph decide to bite off more than they can chew, because Raph’s hatred for Tomorrowland (2015, dir. Brad Bird) consumes 70% of this episode; 15% of the remainder of which is just Raph forgetting the word...

<p>Dom finally gets an opportunity to deploy her genuinely fearsome knowledge of professional wrestling and we consider the utopianism of a hypothetical lack of Europe.</p> <h3 >Media</h3> <p>The Years of Rice and Salt...

<p>In an unexpected but ultimately not remotely surprising move, Dom and Raph take under an hour to prove that the sprawling, magisterial Hainish cycle by beloved utopian novelist Ursula K. Le Guin is in many ways...