Episode 20 - Are There Alternatives to Tech Dystopias?

Welcome back to a new episode of Becoming the product. Today, I'll share some of my thoughts on the genre of Tech Dystopia and its use in nowadays culture. We'll dive a little bit too into its lacking opposite, the one Digital Utopias. You can support my projects! By buying a digital version of my books: payhip.com/Becomingtheproduct Thanks for listening Instagram : @billuartmc @_thexry_ Substack for writing and news: becomingtheproduct.substack.com/ References Aeon. ‘How Dystopian Narratives Can Incite Real-World Radicalism | Aeon Ideas’. Accessed 30 April 2024. https://aeon.co/ideas/how-dystopian-narratives-can-incite-real-world-radicalism. Big Think. ‘5 Sci-Fi Utopias That Will Seduce You (and Likely Freak You Out)’, 6 March 2023. https://bigthink.com/high-culture/5-science-fiction-utopias/. Boye, Karin. Kallocain. New York: Bonnier, 2010. Books, Five. ‘Tech Utopias and Dystopias’. Five Books. Accessed 30 April 2024. https://fivebooks.com/best-books/tech-utopias-and-dystopias-mahlet-zimeta/. ‘Digital Dystopia’. In Wikipedia, 21 April 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_dystopia&oldid=1220117396. Jessinac. Why Is UTOPIAN FICTION so RARE?, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkcI1RABwpQ. Quora. ‘Why Have Most Sci-Fi Movies Stopped Imagining the Future?’ Accessed 30 April 2024. https://www.quora.com/Why-have-most-sci-fi-movies-stopped-imagining-the-future. Rushkoff, Douglas. When Everything Happens Now: Making Sense of an Always On, Always Connected World. New York: Berkley Books, 2013. ‘The Five Types of Dystopian Narrative | Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey’, 22 March 2024. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/news/five-types-dystopian-narrative. The 6th Day. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Columbia Pictures, 2000. Film. What’s Left of Philosophy: 30 | What Is Utopia? Part I. Thomas More: Critical Realism in a Time of Enclosure on Apple Podcasts’. Accessed 30 April 2024. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/30-what-is-utopia-part-i-thomas-more-critical-realism/id1544487624?i=1000548808251. Wilk, Elvia. Oval. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2019.