The Wrath of God: knowledge, technology and social control in two contemporary TV series by Roca, Alejandra, del Piero, Gina

“…Through the comparative study between the first season of the TV series Westworld (2016) and the first season of The Handmaid’s Tale (2017), which explore dystopia and science fiction, it is possible to draw similarities amongst the android’s, the handmaid’s and our own –each time more– illusory realities, in which the dominant segments employ certain strategies based on the unequal distribution of knowledge and technology. …”
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