26: It's Easier to Imagine the End of the World than the End of Capitalism
This week we discuss the Democrats' strategy of calling their electoral opponents "weird" before plunging into a consideration of Alfonso Cuarón's 2006 dystopian masterpiece, Children of Men, paying p...
30 Juli 202456min
25: What You Thought Would Be Your Future
This week we are discussing Omar El Akkad's 2017 novel American War, which imagines a civil war in a future America driven by conflict over the continued use of fossil fuels. Charting the lives of the...
23 Juli 202458min
24: The 2012 Phenomenon and the Current Looming Catastrophe
This week we spend the first twenty minutes of the show discussing the ramifications of the attempted assassination of former President Trump before diving into a consideration of the apocalyptic 2012...
16 Juli 202454min
23: Do the Collapse
We follow up on the state of contemporary politics as covered in our last episode before turning back the clock to discuss one of the genuinely apocalyptic periods of the past, namely the Late Bronze ...
9 Juli 202459min
22: The End of the World with Donald and Joe
Election fever has gripped the United States and we are here to break it down, specifically the June 27, 2024 debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We discuss the debate itself briefly, but focus...
2 Juli 202456min
21: Watching for Pigs on the Wing
This week we're getting back into post-apocalyptic literature by considering a novel by legendary Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, namely 2003's Oryx and Crake. Set in a world...surprisingly similar t...
25 Juni 20241h 6min
20: Let the Man You Have Become Be the Boy You Were
This week we're talking about Edgar Wright's 2013 film The World's End, a movie that explores the idea of severe arrested development in the context of a covert alien invasion. We also explore some un...
18 Juni 202459min
19: Last Chance to Dance Trance
We're examining the recent "trend" of so-called "Last Chance Tourism" in this episode, which is when travelers seek out places or sites that are likely to be destroyed or rendered utterly unrecognizab...
11 Juni 202451min
