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Hosted by Clare Coombe · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 44 episodes
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A podcast in association with BeingSociety.com, in which Clare Coombe and Masha Yakovleva explore the politics, ethics, and societal visions of dystopian tv, film, and literature.
Clare Coombe hosts Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, a tv show with 44 episodes published.
In episode 44 of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Clare and Masha are delving into the recent Yorgos Lanthimos film, Bugonia. In this more than usually complex and surprising dystopian narrative, we c
In Episode 43 (and not 42 as Clare so confidently announces in the first minute!) of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, we're discussing 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle After Another . As wel
In episode 42 of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Clare and Masha go back to an animated classic, the 2008 Disney Pixar film Wall-E. As well as exploring how the central ecological message of the film
It's 2026 and the world is as dystopian as ever, so we're back from our brief hibernation with a brand new episode looking at recent film from director Katherine Bigelow and writer Noah Oppenheim, A House of Dynamite . I
In this milestone 40th episode, Clare and Masha are discussing the visually-stunning Oscar-winner of 2024, Flow . Despite this animation having no dialogue and minimal explicit narrative, we follow the travels of the Cat
In Episode 39 of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Clare and Masha delve into the supposedly-fair society of Arcadia , the Dutch-Belgian series from Walter Presents. Our discussion looks at the flaws w
This episode we are exploring the world of The Pod Generation , a 2023 film about artificial wombs. CW: this episode includes discussion of death-in-pregnancy and suicide. Inspired by the discussion surrounding the ultim
In episode 37 of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Clare and Masha are delving into the 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. We start looking at censorship and book-banning, including the worryin
Episode 36 takes us to the desert planet of Arrakis for our discussion of Dune, with particular reference to the 2021/2024 films as well as Frank Herbert's books . Our themes centre on the depiction of colonial power and
Episode 35 centres on the 2013 film Snowpiercer , another Bong Joon Ho film to follow Mickey 17, with some reference to the 2020 4-season show . We discuss the context of hubristic attempts to maintain global capitalism
In episode 34 of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Clare and Masha discuss the 2024 Bong Joon Ho film, Mickey 17 . Building on our conversation about Pantheon in episode 33 , we discuss the science and
This episode of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs is discussing the Netflix animated sci-fi series Pantheon . This fantastic and somewhat neglected show is well worth a watch, with its fascinating explo
In this fortnight's episode of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Clare and Masha are discussing the 2002 film Minority Report, with reference to the Philip K Dick short story on which it was based. We
In our 31st episode of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs we return to the 2006 classic dystopian film, V for Vendetta, directed by the Wachowskis and based on Alan Moore's graphic novel. We explore the
In Episode 30, Masha and Clare are talking about the mysterious and important show that is Severance. While not providing any answers to the many questions posed by the show's complex narrative, we do our best to unpick
In Episode 29 of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Masha and Clare are discussing the 2011 film In Time, and its concept of 'Darwinian Capitalism'. We look at the metaphor of 'time is money' as made li
Masha and Clare are back with Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, and our new season kicks off with an episode on Wicked, specifically the 2024 film, with reference to the current political situation in
In Episode 27 of Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs, Masha and Clare discuss the 1976 film Logan's Run, and its themes of aging, societal control, hedonism, AI, and the nature of freedom. We draw contras
In this post-US election episode, Clare Coombe and Masha Yakovleva are talking about the 2006 Mike Judge comedy film, Idiocracy, called by some 'a documentary' and others (ie. Masha) 'the worst film I've ever seen'. This
In our Halloween special, and 25th episode, Clare and Masha are discussing the 2000 film American Psycho and the 1991 novel by Brett Easton Ellis on which it was based. In our analysis, we approach American Psycho as a d
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