anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast

Listen people, we're mad about capitalism. We discuss the game Frostpunk and the movie Snow Piercer, two critiques of capitalism in frozen worlds.

Themes discussed:

Hobbes' Leviathan

Mark Fisher's "Abandon hope, summer is coming"

http://k-punk.org/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming/

The revolt of nature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic_of_Enlightenment

Inherent conflict

Religion and society

What do we work for?

We discuss 1988 Anime masterpiece "Akira"

Some themes discussed:

Deleuze and Foucault's ideas of societies of discipline and societies of control

Hannah Arendt's approach to violence, and violence in leftist ideology

The rise and fall of capitalist Japan

Science as Pandora's box

Radical friendship

Catherine M. Valente's Radiance:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N03G440/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Hannah Arendt Reflections on Violence:

http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~alexroni/IPD%202019%20readings/IPD1%202019%20No.8/A%20Special%20Supplement_%20Reflections%20on%20Violence%20by%20Hannah%20Arendt%20_%20The%20New%20Yor.pdf

For our podcast premiere we discussed the ZA/UM movement's game: Disco Elysium.

Themes discussed:

Mourning and Walter Benjamin's angel of history

Radical friendship

The Cartesian experiment and the cop within your head

An anarchist love letter to communism

Hauntology

Links:

Derrida's "Specters of Marx": https://books.google.com/books/about/Specters_of_Marx.html?id=sEENbAP5FZsC

Dark Crystal: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6905542/

Relevant essay by Mark Fisher: https://frieze.com/article/mark-fisher-and-work-mourning-visual-essay-tony-cokes

Walter Benjamin's Concept of History: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm

We talk about the excellent solitary space adventure that is Moon (2009). Topics discussed:

How exploitation is marketed to white men

Foucault's "Care of the self"

How space capitalism is an especially risky form of exploitation

How space can be an opportunity to organize

The race between capitalist exploitation and worker organization

Capitalism's obvious failures

Links:

Innuendo Studio's discussion of the right's obsession with cucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjVbk6JSck&ab_channel=InnuendoStudios

The Ethics of the Care of the Self as a Practice of Freedom: https://pages.uoregon.edu/koopman/events_readings/cgc/foucault_ethics_concern_for_self.pdf

PhilosophyTube and Mexie's video on the housing market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qihG6AGjkRk&t=1059s&ab_channel=PhilosophyTube

Current Affairs' Fake Nerd Boys of Silicon Valley: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/the-fake-nerd-boys-of-silicon-valley

We talk about how to critique the Fascist sentiments in Warhammer 40k, without worrying too much about the degrees of intent or satire behind it.