Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction

Rant Against the Regime

By: Kirk Combe

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Hardcover | 28 December 2020 | Edition Number 1

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Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, highly imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres. It mixes facets of satire, science fiction, and monster tale to produce widely consumed spectaclesâ"major studio movies, popular television/streaming series, bestselling novelsâ"designed to disturb and to provoke. The Rant targets what Combe calls the Regime. Simply put, the Regime is the sum of the dangerous social, economic, and political orthodoxies spurred on by neoliberal and neoconservative polity. Such practices include free-market capitalism, corporatism, militarism, religiosity, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and so on. In the Rant, then, we have a unique and wholly contemporary genre of political expression and protest: speculative satire.

Chapters 1 and 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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"Kirk Combe brings welcome clarity and precision to delineating and defining anemergent subgenre of popular and cult-favorite narrative work in print, TV, and cinema. Bringing to bear literary history and theory coupled with political analysis and cultural critique, Combe usefully and often wittily illuminates the relationship between the current socio-political moment and the 'speculative satire' that comments on it."

--Brian A. Connery, Professor Emeritus, Oakland University

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