About this episode

The episode explores various portrayals of fascism in science fiction through retrospective, contemporary, and speculative lenses.

Concurrent news: Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis : https://x.com/mariashriver/status/2016618469740204114?s=61 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: With a framework of Retrospective, Contemporary, and Speculative, we can identify examples of works that portray fascism. Retrospective is science fiction that looks back at past fascist events, generally WW2. Contemporary is science fiction that was written to look at what’s happening in […]

People in this episode

Host: Lancer Kind

Topics covered

• fascism
• science fiction
• retrospective
• contemporary
• speculative

Keywords

• fascism
• science fiction
• Bruce Springsteen
• WW2
• anti-ICE protest

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NBC News

Books & works: Streets of Minneapolis, WW2

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