What kind of film is this: a dystopian fantasy, a war movie, a road movie?
Why the focus on the media? Does the film celebrate or satirise journalists?
Does Garland’s dystopia tell us anything about the landscape of US politics today?
Why is political polarisation between liberals and populists seen in terms of civil war?
What would a civil war look like in geopolitical terms, along the lines Garland suggests?
What side would you choose?
/416/ Aufhebonus Bonus (sample)
/415/ Left-Populism That Works? (II) ft. Juan David Rojas
/414/ Zone of Banality or the Authority of Evil?
/413/ Left-Populism That Works? (I) ft. Roger Lancaster
/412/ No Future But Future Music ft. Simon Reynolds
/410/ Reading Club: Deutscher's Stalin
/409/ Palestine, Protest, Repression: The Wider Context
/408/ Was It Raining When You Fled Paris? ft. Peter Gourevitch
/407/ Beyond Bare Life ft. Dustin Guastella
/406/ AufheBonus Bonus (sample)
/405/ Size Queen Nation ft. Christie Offenbacher & Benjamin Fife (sample)
/404/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (IV) ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
/402/ Revolution and Conservatism, e.g. in Mexico ft. Roger Lancaster (sample)
/403/ Reading Club: Habermas on Social Media (sample)
/401/ Modernity is Very Gay ft. Roger Lancaster
/396/ Enough Carnations? Portugal Decides, ft. Catarina Príncipe
/400/ The Political Oppositions of the Next Decade ft. Frost, Gourevitch, Liu, Phillips
/399/ From ADHD to Let Me Be (Emotion Sickness, pt III) [sample]
/398/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (II) ft. Ashley Frawley (sample)
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