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What's changed for women in Iran since the Mahsa Amini protests?

Iran’s revolution isn’t just being televised: it’s being deepfaked, wiretapped and surveilled by big tech. A year after the Woman, Life, Freedom protests convulsed the country, what does the future of dissent look like in Iran?

Life & Culture

Oct 09, 2023

Tiara Sahar Ataii

Life & Culture

TikTok creators have started imagining eerie alternate realities

What would have happened if the UK went to war with Russia in the 1990s? Or if the Queen died in 2001? TikTokers are imagining the answers with the help of AI

Life & Culture

Jun 02, 2023

Serena Smith

Life & Culture

Davey Davis’s novel will scare you... but also turn you on?

Eli Cugini sat down with Davey Davis to discuss their latest novel, X – a sexy, queer dystopian thriller

Life & Culture

Oct 19, 2022

Eli Cugini

Art & Photography

Ian Cheng, Life After BOB: The Chalice Study (2021)

Ian Cheng imagines a world where the internet inhabits our nervous systems

Life After BOB at Halle am Berghain explores the perils and promise of allowing an AI to co-habit our consciousness

Art & Photography

Sep 15, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Life & Culture

The erotic SOPHIE-soundtracked play taking a chainsaw to Jeff Bezos’ head

The Barbican’s Prime_Time is a dystopian takedown of big tech featuring topless cyberfeminists and ancient Amazonian warriors

Life & Culture

Nov 05, 2021

Felicity Martin

Science & Tech

Read a future-facing fictional piece on technology by the late Mark Fisher

Celebrating the AI: More Than Human exhibition at the Barbican, we’re exclusively sharing ‘Commodities Leap the Species Barrier’, a piece by the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher and curator Suzanne Livingston

Science & Tech

Jun 13, 2019

Suzanne Livingston

Art & Photography

An AI-made artwork just sold for more at auction than most artists do

But the three French students who sold it have been accused of stealing the code from artist Robbie Barrat

Art & Photography

Oct 26, 2018

Ashleigh Kane

Fashion

A-COLD-WALL* drops its subversive SS18 campaign

The distorted images feature 'a collective of individuals roaming dystopian London' according to founder Samuel Ross

Fashion

Mar 13, 2018

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Arts+Culture

Five cult feminist dystopias you need to know

As The Handmaid’s Tale plunges into darkness at 100mph, we look at other sci-fi classics that stick it to the man

Arts+Culture

Jun 14, 2017

Alex Denney

Arts+Culture

What to expect from Black Mirror’s dystopian new season

As the Charlie Brooker’s desolate view of the future returns, we discuss Trump, the comfort of virtual reality and whether he could have prevented Brexit

Arts+Culture

Oct 20, 2016

Nick Chen

Arts+Culture