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✧✦Catherine✦✧

STOP WRITING SCI-FI

DYSTOPIAS WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE GIVEN NAMES

LOOK AT WHAT CAPITALISTS HAVE DONE WITH THE WORKS WE HAVE GIVEN THEM

( LOTR ) ( Minority Report ) ( Asimov's collected works )

WANTED TO READ ABOUT SOMETHING MIND-WRETCHINGLY AWFUL FOR A WHILE? WE ALREADY HAD A TOOL FOR THAT: THE NEWSPAPER

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Woodchaz

@whitequark
Kind of telling that you conflate science fiction with dystopias. It doesn't have to be dystopia. That's just what it's been lately.

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mounderfod

@Woodchaz @whitequark I mean, it is by far the most common and most popular form

Woodchaz

@mounderfod @whitequark
I think it says more about society than it does sci fi. I haven't read it yet, but co-wrote a book proposing that the proliferation of zombie movies is a manifestation of a loss of meaning a lot of us feel today. That makes sense to me.
openbookpublishers.com/books/1

www.openbookpublishers.comZombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century CrisisWhy has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture.
Jul 08, 2023, 05:12 PM·Public·Web
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