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...

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...

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...