Post #3316569
2026-06-14 11:56 UTC
I feel like there’s a strong case for there being a (sub)genre of fiction about protagonists finding themselves in opposition to a force that controls the world and/or reality around them.
A friend I’ve been watching TV shows like this with have jokingly referred to them as "entrapment shows" so I think about that proposed genre as "entrapment" thought that might not be the best term for it
There are plenty of these stories in popular culture, almost always in sci-fi, and in these stories you can find tropes and recurring themes such as the self, alterity, collectivism vs individualism, existentialism, etc., it all fits really neatly into postmodernism
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@Siph@meemu.org 2026-06-14 12:00
Works I think fit into this potential genre (you’ve probably heard me talk about some o those a lot already if you’ve been following me for a while) : - I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream - The Prisoner - The Truman Show - The Matrix - The Good Place - Severance - The Amazing Digital Circus - Pluribus All of those are rather well-known, there are probably many, many more examples, feel free to name some if you think of any