Matt Cole
@mattbencole.bsky.social
📍Boston | VAP @ Binghamton University | Author of "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (Michigan 2025) | 🏳️🌈
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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...
August 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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...
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...
August 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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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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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On Dystopia, Fearing the Future and Political Imagination
A Conversation with Matthew Cole
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August 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Had a great time on the Anti Dystopians talking to Matthew Cole about his new book on dystopianism and fearing the future!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
Reposted by Matt Cole
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...
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...
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November 20, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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...