luca zani
@lucazani.bsky.social
my writing focuses on the intersection between philosophy, literature, and cultural politics. I’m interested in the philosophy of language, and the impact of social media on dystopian cultural production. Read my work here: https://medium.com/@lucazani
“Dystopias…help us to imagine and envisage how the present can change into something very nasty….[they] interrogate the now and offer warnings and sometimes prophecies about the future; they are often the jeremiads of utopianism. But sometimes they offer glimmers of hope”
medium.com/@lucazani/dy...
medium.com/@lucazani/dy...
Dystopia and America
How the fixation on traumatic narratives sheds light on the grisly past of the American progress myth.
medium.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:51 AM
“Dystopias…help us to imagine and envisage how the present can change into something very nasty….[they] interrogate the now and offer warnings and sometimes prophecies about the future; they are often the jeremiads of utopianism. But sometimes they offer glimmers of hope”
medium.com/@lucazani/dy...
medium.com/@lucazani/dy...