/329/ Justice Warriors ft. Matt Bors & Ben Clarkson
Added 2023-03-28 07:00:05 +0000 UTCOn depicting dystopia.
Acclaimed cartoonists, writers and artists Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson join us for something a little different: to talk about their new comic book, Justice Warriors. Set in a grotesquely unequal world, a police procedural (of sorts) encounters an astrology-based social movement seeking justice.
We talk about how dystopian fiction often serves to manufacture consent and about how fiction can confront us with images of social decline. We also debate free will and determinism in a world that presents few opportunities, social justice warriors and politics that perpetuate the present, and why there is no 'pure' people set against the elite.
Links:
- Justice Warriors, Matt Bors, Ben Clarkson, Felipe Sobreiro, Simon & Schuster
- The Nib - political satire & cartoons
Comments
(how they responded to the question about the death of satire)
Richard R
2023-03-28 22:58:27 +0000 UTCGreat stuff. It always makes me laugh when some critic or intellectual or what-have-you asks an artist some sophisticated theory question, and the artist responds with something like, "I dunno, I just thought it would be really cool."
Richard R
2023-03-28 22:53:32 +0000 UTCLoved this episode, somehow there was more intellectual clarity in this discussion about talking shit-people than in a lot of the book episodes.
Blake
2023-03-28 14:31:51 +0000 UTC
