Optimist Awakenings with Citizen Sleeper
Citizen Sleeper is touching and optimistic without being saccharine and might be just what we need in these trying times. The podcast opens with us venting our feelings and thoughts about another demo...
7 Aug 20221h 16min
Repo Virtual repossesses Cyberpunk
We talk about Corey J White's modern vision of Cyberpunk: Repo Virtual, reimagining the genre and its radical potential. Topics discussed: - Data creep - Radical potential of games - Firearms in smart...
9 Maj 20221h 3min
Spire, racialization and resistance
We discussed the role-playing game Spire, with its different ways of representing oppression and the struggle against it. - Epistemic vice and epistemic resistance - Construction of knowledge and infr...
21 Feb 20221h 10min
The Materialist Fantasy of Mordew
Mordew is a down-to-earth, complex fantasy world, and a promising beginning to a promised trilogy. We talk about: - Realist fantasy - Materialist morality - Knowledge and Protagony - Mark Fisher's Red...
16 Jan 20221h 8min
Woah, the Matrix
We dive deep into "The Matrix (1999)" and a little bit into the sequels. No Resurrections here as this was recorded before it came out. Topics discussed: - What is the Matrix? - Snooty philosophers vs...
5 Jan 20221h 1min
Kurt Vonnegut Wrote Some Pretty Good Books
We talk about a medley of Kurt Vonnegut books, how they play around with cynicism and sentimentalism, how they're anarchist and humble and absurdist. Near the end Eden mentions this paper by David Gra...
29 Aug 202154min
Dishonored, not Resentful
We talk about the video game franchise Dishonored. Topics discussed: - The means of magical production - Sociological storytelling - Resentiment - Hypocritical opiate (of the masses) - What good is an...
30 Juni 202159min
Oval - Is Reciprocity in Our Nature?
We had a great time talking about Oval, by Elvia Wilk. It's a complicated little story about being an artist in Berlin and watching as the world around you burns, or turns. Discussions: - Leftism's "c...
25 Mars 20211h 11min
