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Pete & Karlo from Podside Picnic join me to talk about Frederik Pohl's 1977 science fiction novel Gateway. We discuss "full medical" as it relates to the disaster that is American healthcare, company towns, gold rushes, risk, and gateway as a metaphor for the market.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Academic and #ACFM co-host Jeremy Gilbert joins the podcast to talk us through the concept of "the long 90s". We discuss why cultural innovation has stagnated, the relationship of culture to politics and how anti-utopianism may be falling out of fashion.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Trevor Strunk from No Cartridge joins us to talk about his new book Story Mode. We discuss how horror videogames help chart our fears, which events caused the genre to radically shift direction, Resident Evil, the apocalypse and neoliberalism.

You can find Trevor's book here: https://bookshop.org/books/story-mode-video-games-and-the-interplay-between-consoles-and-culture/9781633886803

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The F****d Up Beat.

Katie Stone joins me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's horny Dracula adaptation, the original Bram Stoker novel and how the figure of the vampire can be rethought to connect to utopian ideas around work, idleness, care and more.

You can find the talk Katie mentions in the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiPseSrT0p0

And my Kickstarter project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/objectoriented/object-oriented

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Stefan Riekeles, author of the book Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities, joins me to talk about the dystopian worlds imagined by artists and directors that provide the background to some of the genre's most famous movies.

You can find the Kickstarter project I mention in the episode here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/objectoriented/object-oriented

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The Fucked Up Beat.

Ranged Touch's Cameron Kunzelman returns to the show to talk about the fascinating detective RPG that is Disco Elysium. We talk about how the game represents contemporary capitalism, the strengths and weaknesses of its character portrayals, the spectre of communism and, of course, Cuno.

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/utopianhorizons
email: utopianhorizonspod [at] gmail dot com
Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/utopianhorizons

Music: The Fiction of Utopian Studies/The Road To Oceania by The F****d Up Beat.