Matt Cole

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Our newest book "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" by Matthew Benjamin Cole looks at how stories of our world gone wrong haunt political thought. You can start reading this #OpenAccess book at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

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Why can’t we stop imagining dystopian futures? My new book explains how dystopias escaped the fiction section and took over political thought - from the totalitarian century to our technological age. It’s out now from @uofmpress.bsky.social. Check it out: press.umich.edu/Books/F/Fear...

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On Dystopia, Fearing the Future and Political Imagination A Conversation with Matthew Cole

Had a great time on the Anti Dystopians talking to Matthew Cole about his new book on dystopianism and fearing the future!

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Fear the Future After centuries of contemplating utopias, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers began to warn of dystopian futures. Yet these fears extended beyond the canonical texts of dystopian fict...

I should probably wait for the cover to be added to the web page, but I’m too excited to share the news about Matthew Cole’s “Fear the Future,” which will be the first of my UMP acquisitions to publish. Coming August 2025. press.umich.edu/Books/F/Fear...

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To conclude, we'll drop the roleplay and do some synthesis - what are we really arguing about when we argue about fascism? Since it's a new lesson, I'm genunely curious how it will go! Of course, this week's student discussion leaders claimed the first two teams and left me to lead Trump's defense 🙃

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Today, we’ll argue! They'll be equipped with a few additional pieces to develop their definition and criteria with (Mussolini's "Doctrine of Fascism," Eco's "Ur-Fascism," Paxton's "Anatomy of Fascism"), but they'll have to bring their own evidence to charge or exonerate Trump with.

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For Tuesday, they read Dylan Matthew's Vox piece and the intros from these volumes by Gavriel Rosenfeld & Janet Ward and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins. We also looked at recent interviews with John F Kelly and Robert Paxton. During class, each team constructed and presented their preliminary cases.

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