Dystopian narratives permeate our cultural and media landscape while utopian narratives get lost in the brush.
Everyone knows Dante's Inferno, but who's come in contact with Dante's Paradiso? We've all read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, yet what about his much more optimistic book Island? Have you watched any happy sci-fi movies lately?
That we absorb much, much more dystopian media than we do utopian is not a big deal until we realize that the images we consume have an impact on our overall reality.
In this episode, Jarad McHugh offers a map to guide us from what he sees as a fixation on dystopianism toward a more utopian influenced art practice and life.
