In the 2013 science fiction film Elysium, directed by Neill Blomkamp, the affluent orbit above the Earth’s atmosphere, enjoying a habitat free of hunger, thirst, and suffering. They have medical devices that can cure diseases with a quick scan. Below them, the planet has been depleted into an overcrowded and polluted wasteland where the poor struggle and are surveilled by droids.
According to Naomi Klein, author previously of The Shock Doctrine and Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, along with filmmaker, writer, and activist Astra Taylor, we are closer than ever to this harrowing dystopian vision, which they reference in their new nonfiction book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World.
