Episode 12: "A Very Hench Baby"
Mar 16, 202656mEp. 120
A Half-Built Garden (Ruthanna Emrys) and Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 12 episodes
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Dom and Raph learn how to cancel the apocalypse by discussing their favourite utopian books, films, TV shows, and more.
Unknown Host hosts Cancelling the Apocalypse, a arts show with 12 episodes published.
A Half-Built Garden (Ruthanna Emrys) and Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
A special episode featuring Dom and Raph playing a game called You Should Read Homestuck.
Utopia and the Pastoral, Part 2 (17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future)
Utopia and the Pastoral, Part 1 (Li Ziqi)
The Female Man (Joanna Russ) and Woman on the Edge of Time (Marge Piercy)
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).
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 the
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 spectac
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 second wa
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 are
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, intent
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 ‘gardens
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. Media The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson
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 exactly t
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