In my speculative fiction course this fall, my students identified a place and time we referred to as Dystopia TM, a sort of abstracted postapocalyptic landscape that has become as familiar a backdrop ...

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Zach Blas' Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 (2018) audaciously re-imagines scenes from Derek Jarman's 1978 queer punk masterpiece Jubilee, replacing Jarman's vision of a deliriously devastated Britain ...

Imagine a city where a group of people have managed against all odds to carve out prosperity for themselves, at least for a little while. These people used to be owned by other people. Now, they are ...

Mr. Earle is a British journalist who writes on politics and culture. When “The Matrix” was released in 1999, hype about the internet had reached a frenzy. Time magazine had named a young Jeff Bezos ...

If you only read one manifesto this week, you owe it to yourself to read Maureen Johnson’s amazing rantifesto about people who try to turn themselves into Brands on the Internet. It’s the funniest, ...

How to survive the internet in 2020. (It’s not going to be easy.) By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist The new year is here, and online, the forecast calls for several seasons of hell. Tech giants and ...

Watching movies, you’d think that the end of the world is the coolest thing that could happen to planet Earth. And we won’t lie: we’d love to wear leather dusters and fight evil computer programs.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov warned about the internet turning from a ‘free exchange of information’ into an ‘ultimate tool of control’. The billionaire, who has had his run-in with French agencies for ...

While sci-fi in general is a wildly popular genre when it comes to movies, there’s a subgenre that is almost as popular — and equally as thought provoking. We’re talking about dystopian sci-fi, ...