Utopian Horizons

The Philip K Dick series continues with The Man in the High Castle. I talk about the novel's affirmation of the utopian ... Read more

Aaron Bastani joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto. We touch on auto... Read more

Cartoonist Stuart McMillen joins the podcast to talk about "the Leonardo Da Vinci of the twentieth century", the fascina... Read more

Darran Anderson, author of the book Imaginary Cities, joins the podcast to talk about cities, architecture, and utopiani... Read more

William Gibson's genre defining cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer, is the subject of this episode. Joining me to talk cybersp... Read more

Continuing my solo run through every Philip K Dick novel, I discuss The Simulacra. I talk about celebrity politicians, C... Read more

Marijam Didžgalvytė joins the podcast to talk about the floating utopian/dystopian city of Columbia, the setting of the ... Read more

Rosie from the Shadow Trap and Diane podcasts joins me to talk about From Software's PS4 game Bloodborne. We talk about ... Read more

Economic Science Fictions is a collection of essays merging the worlds of economics and science fiction to ask "how we m... Read more

Marianne Kac-Vergne joins the podcast to talk about two visions of the future from the early 90s in Demolition Man and P... Read more

Jon Bailes, author of the book Ideology and the Virtual City, joins the podcast to talk about the pop-cultural phenomeno... Read more

A host of guests join me to talk about a chosen song or artist in relation to utopia: sci-fi author and academic Adam Ro... Read more

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

Anna McFarlane returns to the podcast to talk about 1995 film Strange Days. We talk about the Rodney King incident, repr... Read more

Trevor Strunk from No Cartridge joins the podcast to talk about Hideo Kojima's cyberpunk detective game, Snatcher. We di... Read more

Joshua Bloom, co-author of the book Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, joins the... Read more

Journalist Abi Wilkinson joins the podcast to talk about the possible utopian dimensions of Corbynism and whether Jeremy... Read more

HG Wells' novel A Modern Utopia is the subject of this episode. Science fiction writer and academic Adam Roberts joins m... Read more

Sarah Lohmann returns for part 2 of our conversation on Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed, where we continue to delve in... Read more

Christopher Bolton joins the podcast to talk about Ghost in the Shell (the 1995 anime one). We talk about artificial bod... Read more