Tag: dystopian narratives

• The Obliging Apocalypse of “Pluribus” | The New Yorker

  December 17, 2025

  Inkoo Kang reviews the new Apple TV sci-fi drama from Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad,” which posits an end-of-humanity scenario that everyone other than its protagonist (Rhea Seehorn)… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech – and people

  July 2, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/exWKAJc "Black Mirror" creator Charlie Brooker knows that everyone thinks his show is about tech-fueled dystopias. But he says it's really about humans,  not their tools. I loved this… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Fictions Bonus: Submission

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/HmRbYE9 In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our summer fictions season David discusses Michel Houellebecq’s explosive political and intellectual satire Submission (2015). Published seven years before the French Presidential election of 2022 it… more ›