Episode 2: “Brads Are On Notice”

Cancelling the Apocalypse

Episode 2: "Brads Are On Notice"

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Dom and Raph continue their exploration of utopian and maybe-not-so-utopian stories with the 1995 film Hackers and the novel Walkaway by Cory Doctorow. Are all kinds of nostalgia anti-utopian? Can migrancy be positive? What does Dom have against Angelina Jolie? Why, Dom?

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Walkaway (Cory Doctorow, 2017) – Wikipedia

Hackers (1995) – Wikipedia

Cory Doctorow: ‘Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies’, in Locus Magazine

And, as promised:

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