May 4, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale Evokes a Longing for Peace and Justice
To many, the world of The Handmaid’s Tale looks eerily similar to our contemporary moment.
Feb 24, 2017
Dave Eggers’s The Circle : A Social Media Dystopia
In The Circle, no one is ever known, because knowledge about others is mistaken for actually knowing others.
Dec 12, 2016
Blockbuster Revelations: Disaster, Apocalypse, and Other Ways Film Tries to Fix Our World
What need within us is served by watching our society crumble beneath our protagonists’ feet, if not one that is cruel, even sadistic, in nature?
Dec 5, 2016
Dystopian Protagonists and the Pursuit of Greatness
All this focus on personal greatness has its drawbacks.
Oct 18, 2016
CAPC Magazine, October 2016: Dystopian Disillusionment
Stories are a powerful therapy for the human heart struggling with the heaviness of the world.
Feb 25, 2016
LOL Interwebz: I Just Found out That “Ransomware” Is a Thing, and That Seems Like a Good Excuse to Write Some Dystopian Sci-Fi
“Ransomware” started small, back in the mid-’10s. How could we have known technology wasn’t automatically good?
Oct 1, 2014
SNOWPIERCER’s Liturgy of the Machine
If there’s such a thing as an uncanny valley of spirituality, then not only has South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho discovered it, but his recent film Snowpiercer sets up camp squarely in the center of it.