Frostpunk and Snowpiercer, Leviathan and red plenty

04/22/20 • 66 min

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?

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?

Previous Episode

Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Sex, Drugs and Knowledge

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

Next Episode

The Telling, Colonialism and the Center

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)