{"product_id":"programming-the-future-9780231198301","title":"Programming the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProgramming the Future\u003c\/i\u003e examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including \u003ci\u003eBattlestar Galactica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWatchmen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColony\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the High Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Expanse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMr. Robot\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the post-9\/11 \u003ci\u003eBattlestar Galactica\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMr. Robot\u003c\/i\u003e, from questions of neoliberalization and political polarization to surveillance society and the war on terror, Vint and Alexander's \u003ci\u003eProgramming the Future \u003c\/i\u003eis an exemplary study of twenty-first-century science fiction television as seen through the crisis of U.S. democracy. -- Gerry Canavan, Marquette University\u003cbr\u003eBy way of a vigorous engagement with the problematics and the politics of form, Vint and Alexander mobilize the generic operations of the utopian and dystopian imaginaries in order to decisively explicate the ways in which a selection of recent science fictional television series challenge the operations of the neoliberal order even as they refuse nihilistic resignation by way of figuring radical utopian alternatives. In doing so, they provide readers and viewers with a deep interpretive interrogation of our contemporary social order that generates a standpoint and politics of hope emerging from our dark times. -- Tom Moylan, author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Utopian: The Politics and Culture of Radical Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television\u003cbr\u003e2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative\u003cbr\u003e3. 9\/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion\u003cbr\u003e4. American Civil Wars\u003cbr\u003e5. Desiring a Different Future: \u003ci\u003eThe 100\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Expanse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Rebooting Democracy and \u003ci\u003eMr. Robot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Democracy in Crisis\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eFilmography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524655882583,"sku":"9780231198301","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231198301.jpg?v=1731857633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/programming-the-future-9780231198301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}