Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs
@dystopianfictionhasbeenmovedtocurrentaffairs.com
A fortnightly podcast exploring dystopian film, TV, and literature through the lens of world politics and social justice issues. Hosted by Clare Coombe and Masha Yakovleva.
Our 40th Episode dropped today and we're talking about the most magnificent film of recent times: the utterly beautiful Flow!
Themes include: survival and the climate crisis; found-family and allyship; representing ethics and spirituality through animals; resourcefulness and finding your courage.
Themes include: survival and the climate crisis; found-family and allyship; representing ethics and spirituality through animals; resourcefulness and finding your courage.
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Our 40th Episode dropped today and we're talking about the most magnificent film of recent times: the utterly beautiful Flow!
Themes include: survival and the climate crisis; found-family and allyship; representing ethics and spirituality through animals; resourcefulness and finding your courage.
Themes include: survival and the climate crisis; found-family and allyship; representing ethics and spirituality through animals; resourcefulness and finding your courage.
New episode out today exploring Arcadia, set in a meritocratic state where all citizens are given a score based on their value to society.
Our themes include the unfairness of meritocracy and how it displaces empathy and the common good.
Our themes include the unfairness of meritocracy and how it displaces empathy and the common good.
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New episode out today exploring Arcadia, set in a meritocratic state where all citizens are given a score based on their value to society.
Our themes include the unfairness of meritocracy and how it displaces empathy and the common good.
Our themes include the unfairness of meritocracy and how it displaces empathy and the common good.
Our latest episode dropped today and we're discussing 2023 film The Pod Generation.
Themes include artificial wombs, profit-focus in the health and wellness industry, what is 'natural', and AI therapists.
Link in bio or search wherever you get your podcasts.
#sciencefiction #podcast #dystopia
Themes include artificial wombs, profit-focus in the health and wellness industry, what is 'natural', and AI therapists.
Link in bio or search wherever you get your podcasts.
#sciencefiction #podcast #dystopia
September 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Our latest episode dropped today and we're discussing 2023 film The Pod Generation.
Themes include artificial wombs, profit-focus in the health and wellness industry, what is 'natural', and AI therapists.
Link in bio or search wherever you get your podcasts.
#sciencefiction #podcast #dystopia
Themes include artificial wombs, profit-focus in the health and wellness industry, what is 'natural', and AI therapists.
Link in bio or search wherever you get your podcasts.
#sciencefiction #podcast #dystopia
Our latest episode dropped today, and we're diving into a classic: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. We talk about censorship and book-banning; the depth and texture of media; the power of free-thinking; and the importance of relationship and conversation.
Find it wherever you get your #podcasts!
Find it wherever you get your #podcasts!
September 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our latest episode dropped today, and we're diving into a classic: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. We talk about censorship and book-banning; the depth and texture of media; the power of free-thinking; and the importance of relationship and conversation.
Find it wherever you get your #podcasts!
Find it wherever you get your #podcasts!
Our latest episode dropped today. We're talking about #Dune, the films and books, particularly themes of colonialism, messiahs, religious evangelism, ecology, and really big worms.
Image 6: original art by Apocodeco
Link in bio or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
Image 6: original art by Apocodeco
Link in bio or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
August 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Our latest episode dropped today. We're talking about #Dune, the films and books, particularly themes of colonialism, messiahs, religious evangelism, ecology, and really big worms.
Image 6: original art by Apocodeco
Link in bio or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
Image 6: original art by Apocodeco
Link in bio or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
Episode 35 dropped today on the 2013 film #Snowpiercer.
We discuss the climate crisis and capitalism; class and inequality; revolution against authoritarian rule; the idle rich and the (un)deserving poor; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; polar bears!
Find us wherever you get your #podcasts!
We discuss the climate crisis and capitalism; class and inequality; revolution against authoritarian rule; the idle rich and the (un)deserving poor; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; polar bears!
Find us wherever you get your #podcasts!
August 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Episode 35 dropped today on the 2013 film #Snowpiercer.
We discuss the climate crisis and capitalism; class and inequality; revolution against authoritarian rule; the idle rich and the (un)deserving poor; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; polar bears!
Find us wherever you get your #podcasts!
We discuss the climate crisis and capitalism; class and inequality; revolution against authoritarian rule; the idle rich and the (un)deserving poor; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; polar bears!
Find us wherever you get your #podcasts!
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The definitive climate fiction reading list.
These 20 wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future — and humanity’s place in it.
grist.org/fix/climate-...
#BookSky #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Fiction #Books #GreenSky
These 20 wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future — and humanity’s place in it.
grist.org/fix/climate-...
#BookSky #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Fiction #Books #GreenSky
The definitive climate fiction reading list
These wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future.
grist.org
July 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The definitive climate fiction reading list.
These 20 wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future — and humanity’s place in it.
grist.org/fix/climate-...
#BookSky #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Fiction #Books #GreenSky
These 20 wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future — and humanity’s place in it.
grist.org/fix/climate-...
#BookSky #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Fiction #Books #GreenSky
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Beware the blizzard of lies. US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics
Pro-democracy campaigners suggest ‘pre-buttal’ is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Beware the blizzard of lies. US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.’
Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow · Let custards quake: Satire without the Jokes
To think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
‘Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.’
Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Nigel Farage wants to be taken seriously, but can’t stop playing dangerous games
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage wants to be taken seriously, but can’t stop ...
Reform UK sells itself as more than a one-trick party. But its leader can’t quit fearmongering about immigration
observer.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Nigel Farage wants to be taken seriously, but can’t stop playing dangerous games
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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After years of telling Britain to beware Europeans and their supposed lack of good ideas, Reform’s leader has now stolen one from Denmark.
✏️ @jontybloom.bsky.social
✏️ @jontybloom.bsky.social
Nigel Farage, judge dreadful
Nigel Farage’s Trumpian ‘crackdown on crime’ is farcical, unworkable… and deeply, deeply dangerous
www.thenewworld.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
After years of telling Britain to beware Europeans and their supposed lack of good ideas, Reform’s leader has now stolen one from Denmark.
✏️ @jontybloom.bsky.social
✏️ @jontybloom.bsky.social
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Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan
Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan
Books – on LGBT themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work, says journalist Anna Aslanyan
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan
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Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past
Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past
We need to reckon honestly with science’s past and present to avoid a grim future
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past
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New post just out:
"Britain isn't broken"
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.
I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
"Britain isn't broken"
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.
I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Britain isn't broken
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand
open.substack.com
July 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
New post just out:
"Britain isn't broken"
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.
I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
"Britain isn't broken"
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand.
I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Announcing episode 34, which drops today, in which we’re discussing the 2024 Bong Joon Ho film, #Mickey17.
Building on our conversation about Pantheon in episode 33, we discuss the science and ethics of cloning, and the nature of personhood and consciousness. ⬇️
Img5: Jeepers Creepers by Apocodeco
Building on our conversation about Pantheon in episode 33, we discuss the science and ethics of cloning, and the nature of personhood and consciousness. ⬇️
Img5: Jeepers Creepers by Apocodeco
July 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Announcing episode 34, which drops today, in which we’re discussing the 2024 Bong Joon Ho film, #Mickey17.
Building on our conversation about Pantheon in episode 33, we discuss the science and ethics of cloning, and the nature of personhood and consciousness. ⬇️
Img5: Jeepers Creepers by Apocodeco
Building on our conversation about Pantheon in episode 33, we discuss the science and ethics of cloning, and the nature of personhood and consciousness. ⬇️
Img5: Jeepers Creepers by Apocodeco
We finally have a new post out on Substack today! Click to read:
• reflections on the authoritarian implications of attacking trans people
• further ideas around the place and power of story
• reviews of the latest Hunger Games novel and new season of Black Mirror
bit.ly/42zjlgF
• reflections on the authoritarian implications of attacking trans people
• further ideas around the place and power of story
• reviews of the latest Hunger Games novel and new season of Black Mirror
bit.ly/42zjlgF
18: Trans Lives Matter
A round-up of our recent thoughts on current affairs and dystopian fiction, reviews, recommendations, and what's coming up on the podcast Dystopian Fiction Has Been Moved to Current Affairs.
open.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We finally have a new post out on Substack today! Click to read:
• reflections on the authoritarian implications of attacking trans people
• further ideas around the place and power of story
• reviews of the latest Hunger Games novel and new season of Black Mirror
bit.ly/42zjlgF
• reflections on the authoritarian implications of attacking trans people
• further ideas around the place and power of story
• reviews of the latest Hunger Games novel and new season of Black Mirror
bit.ly/42zjlgF
We deplore today's Supreme Court ruling, its inherent misogyny, and the door it opens to further persecution of a vulnerable minority.
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Intersex people are valid. Non-binary and gender-fluid people are valid.
Fuck this dystopian politics.
#TransLivesMatter
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Intersex people are valid. Non-binary and gender-fluid people are valid.
Fuck this dystopian politics.
#TransLivesMatter
April 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We deplore today's Supreme Court ruling, its inherent misogyny, and the door it opens to further persecution of a vulnerable minority.
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Intersex people are valid. Non-binary and gender-fluid people are valid.
Fuck this dystopian politics.
#TransLivesMatter
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Intersex people are valid. Non-binary and gender-fluid people are valid.
Fuck this dystopian politics.
#TransLivesMatter
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Fascism is when a leader uses the power of the state to control or coerce private institutions—like Trump has tried to do with universities and private companies such as Apple. His attempts to dictate what schools can teach or how businesses should operate are textbook authoritarianism. Harvard
April 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Fascism is when a leader uses the power of the state to control or coerce private institutions—like Trump has tried to do with universities and private companies such as Apple. His attempts to dictate what schools can teach or how businesses should operate are textbook authoritarianism. Harvard
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It is mind blowing to me that Donald Trump is kidnapping people and sending them to torture gulags and Very Serious People are saying that me asking for my marriage and gender identity to be respected is what's authoritarian.
April 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It is mind blowing to me that Donald Trump is kidnapping people and sending them to torture gulags and Very Serious People are saying that me asking for my marriage and gender identity to be respected is what's authoritarian.
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What do climate protests actually achieve? More than you think.
The evidence is in: Protests can persuade people, and maybe even change how they vote.
grist.org/protest/clim...
#Protest #Climate #GreenSky #Environment #Trump
The evidence is in: Protests can persuade people, and maybe even change how they vote.
grist.org/protest/clim...
#Protest #Climate #GreenSky #Environment #Trump
What do climate protests actually achieve? More than you think.
The evidence is in: Protests can persuade people, and maybe even change how they vote, according to recent studies.
grist.org
April 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What do climate protests actually achieve? More than you think.
The evidence is in: Protests can persuade people, and maybe even change how they vote.
grist.org/protest/clim...
#Protest #Climate #GreenSky #Environment #Trump
The evidence is in: Protests can persuade people, and maybe even change how they vote.
grist.org/protest/clim...
#Protest #Climate #GreenSky #Environment #Trump
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If you want a better world, you must behave as if you live in one.
April 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you want a better world, you must behave as if you live in one.
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Photos from CECOT where Trump is forcibly and illegally sending people with no criminal record or due process after abducting them from the street, many have died from strangulation and are buried in unmarked graves.
It’s essentially a death camp.
An American Auschwitz.
It’s essentially a death camp.
An American Auschwitz.
April 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Photos from CECOT where Trump is forcibly and illegally sending people with no criminal record or due process after abducting them from the street, many have died from strangulation and are buried in unmarked graves.
It’s essentially a death camp.
An American Auschwitz.
It’s essentially a death camp.
An American Auschwitz.
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In Berlin today and went to the Topography of Terror which meticulously explains the rise of the Nazis, how they took power and what they did to consolidate it. Ringing any bells? I spent much of it thinking about Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. It’s a cult. So was Hitler.
April 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In Berlin today and went to the Topography of Terror which meticulously explains the rise of the Nazis, how they took power and what they did to consolidate it. Ringing any bells? I spent much of it thinking about Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. It’s a cult. So was Hitler.
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It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer.
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer.
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Today's GB News TV advertisers also include *Ojo Bingo *Channel Recliners *Madison and Mayfair *Macinnes Whisky *Pink Sand Group *Faster Property Solutions *5 Star Windows *Arden Parks
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GB News is an 'anti-Muslim hate channel', two-year study into output concludes
GB News “accounted for almost 50 per cent of all mentions of Muslims or Islam on UK news channels” in a two-year period, a study has found ...
thenational.scot
April 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Today's GB News TV advertisers also include *Ojo Bingo *Channel Recliners *Madison and Mayfair *Macinnes Whisky *Pink Sand Group *Faster Property Solutions *5 Star Windows *Arden Parks
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thenational.scot/news/24784172.gb-news-anti-muslim-hate-channel-two-year-study-concludes/