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The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalyse network are hosting an event on ‘Dystopia Today’ with Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London).
What does it mean to say, as so many now do, that we live in “dystopian” times? With widespread anxiety introduced by Brexit, the Trump presidency, and comparisons with Hitler, and the 1930s, and environmental catastrophe looming, are we on the cusp of a new dystopia? Gregory Claeys considers what dystopia means to us, how the literary tradition helps us to engage with it, and what to do about it.
Greg Claeys is the author of the recently published Dystopia: A Natural History.
