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Shadowrun; Acceleration and Mosaics
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
09/05/20 • 53 min
We talk about the pen and paper role playing game Shadowrun, focusing on the themes it allows its players and storytellers to explore. Shadowrun is a troperific mix of sci-fi and fantasy that takes everything that's wrong about the world and blows it up at the same time.
Subjects discussed:
Accelerationism and the Frankfurt school's influence on it
Reclaiming Cybernetics
Meaning in postmodern works
Mosaicism
Exceptionalism
Radical infrastructure space
09/05/20 • 53 min
Random Acts of Senseless Violence - The center cannot hold
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
07/26/20 • 51 min
We talk about Jack Womack's "Random acts of senseless violence" - a "minute into the future" dystopia told from the perspective of a 12 year old girl. It's gritty and depressing, just our speed.
Topics include:
How this is a horror story for the Bourgeois
The atomization of daily life
Hobbesian themes
Derrida and the duality between center and periphery
The merits of a political book with no obvious villain
The violence/mundanity barrier
07/26/20 • 51 min
Splendor, Misery, Time and Resistance
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
05/27/20 • 55 min
We talk about a Sci-fi album by the band Clipping - Splendor and Misery. The album is a prime example of Afro-Futurism, dealing with such topics as time, space, bodies, space travel, slavery, and much more that we couldn't cover.
The discussed album:
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/album/splendor-misery
Topics discussed:
Queer time and its relevance to race theory
Space, resistance and the body
Belonging
Alternate futures in space
Anger as a political emotion
Anarchy and violence
05/27/20 • 55 min
The Telling, Colonialism and the Center
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
05/14/20 • 55 min
We discuss one of science fiction's titans: Ursula K. Le Guin, in one of her slightly less read books: The Telling, offering a radical perspective on religion, colonialism and reason. Some themes:
Center-based vs. non-center-based epistemology
Decolonialism
Non-ideal anthropology
Multiple views on religion
Ways of life as resistance
Audio on my (Yanai's) side is a bit rough due to a recording issue, sorry about that!
For more information on Decolonialism I would, from my limited experience, recommend Serene Khader's "Decolonizing Universalism" and Vrinda Dalmiya's "Caring to Know" (tangentially related)
05/14/20 • 55 min
Frostpunk and Snowpiercer, Leviathan and red plenty
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
04/22/20 • 66 min
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?
04/22/20 • 66 min
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Sex, Drugs and Knowledge
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
04/10/20 • 55 min
We discuss Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said".
Some themes discussed:
Kant's metaphysics in Philip K. Dick's writing
Power's will to knowledge
Radical embodiment
The danger and potential of drugs
The transparency of police
Self identity as a source of stability
04/10/20 • 55 min
Akira, Violence and Friendship
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
03/08/20 • 53 min
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:
03/08/20 • 53 min
The Girl in The Road, Infrastructure and Standpoints
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
02/27/20 • 51 min
We Discuss Monica Byrne's "The Girl in The Road"
Themes Discussed:
Franz Fanon's phenomenology and race theory
The Infrastructure Space
Standpoint theory
Byrne's unusual approach to writing an audience-insert character
Embodied writing
Links:
Fanon's "Black Skins, White Masks":
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OYIKUG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Extrastatecraft (on infrastructure space):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K9MK1R6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Stanford Encyclopedia entry for standpoint theory (as well as other feminist epistemology theories):
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-social-epistemology/
02/27/20 • 51 min
Disco Elysium, Ghosts and Angels
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
02/04/20 • 61 min
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
02/04/20 • 61 min
Too Like the Lightning, and Enlightenment
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast
09/26/20 • 66 min
We talk about Ada Palmer's "Too Like the Lightning", how it portrays the enlightenment, gender, politics, all the goodness.
It's a challenging read, but it delivers on its promises
Themes discussed:
How the social contract makes a new person
What was the Enlightenment?
Confusing gender roles
Fabricating consent
Ideology
09/26/20 • 66 min
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anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast currently has 28 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Fiction, Podcasts and Science Fiction.
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The episode title 'Shadowrun; Acceleration and Mosaics' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast is 64 minutes.
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Episodes of anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast are typically released every 37 days.
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The first episode of anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast was released on Feb 4, 2020.
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