On depicting dystopia.
Acclaimed cartoonists, writers and artists Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson join us for something a little different: to talk about their new comic book, Justice Warriors. Set in a grotesquely unequal world, a police procedural (of sorts) encounters an astrology-based social movement seeking justice.
We talk about how dystopian fiction often serves to manufacture consent and about how fiction can confront us with images of social decline. We also debate free will and determinism in a world that presents few opportunities, social justice warriors and politics that perpetuate the present, and why there is no 'pure' people set against the elite.
Links:
Excerpt: /245/ Reading Club: Emergency Politics II - Agamben
/244/ Bunga NYC: Live Debate ft. Adam Tooze
/236/ Green Nazi Paedos ft. Lily Lynch (UNLOCKED)
/242/ Bureaucracy Rules OK ft. Michael Lind
Excerpt: /241/ Three Articles: Peace & Social War in North America
/240/ Populist Interventions: Örebro Party ft. Malcolm Kyeyune
/239/ Against Justice ft. Ross Wolfe
/238/ Reading Club: Emergency Politics I (Extended Excerpt)
Excerpt: /237/ Three Articles: Italy, Ukraine, Matrix
Excerpt: /236/ Green Nazi Paedos ft. Lily Lynch
/235/ Political Ritalin ft. Anton Jäger
Grand Reset
Excerpt: /234/ Three Articles: Restoration?
Excerpt: /233/ Aufhebonus Bonus
Excerpt: /232/ Reading Club: Cold, Hard / Warm, Soft
/231/ New Class Analysis ft. Catherine Liu
Excerpt: /230/ Repetition Compulsion ft. Doug Lain, pt. 2
/229/ Repetition Compulsion ft. Doug Lain, pt. 1
/228/ Three Articles: Popular Backlash in Chile, India, Europe
Excerpt: /227/ Reading Club: All That Is Solid
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