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We are thrilled to be joined by Stephen Markley for a wide-ranging (and spoiler-filled) conversation about The Deluge! We discuss the many forms the novel takes, the process of research and working on the novel, writing, reading, and existing amid climate catastrophe, prophesy, social movements (and fiction about social movements), violence and humor, the need […]
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On our own long way home, we consider how and why Matt’s authorial voice turns over the end of the novel to its main character, Kate, in order to consider the climate fight and our reserves of energy, one’s legacy, the practical and metaphysical questions, and the Truth. We also play (?) the super fun […]
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It was the brink of annihilation, it was the brink of resurrection. Matt Markley — err, Stanton Farooki — is freaking me out with these psychological reconstructions of individual terror, multiplicitous emergence, and system change with climate change. He tells stories fabricated from complex systems modeling, taking an interest in people, exploring, spinning yarns, being […]
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Tony fights a potentially futile battle for the future, for his kids and grandkids, for peckerwoods and surly fucks and maybe for us all, while refusing to fight his own cancer; all his dreams, memories of Gail, and creeping oceanic feeling flood over him and flood over us. AKA: In this chapter, the reader is […]
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A vortex has opened you don’t understand what’s happening. You know love, you take leaps of faith, you can be easily squashed, you negotiate. You see the burning eyes of angels. You witness people reveal themselves to you over and over and over, and somehow you manage to reveal yourself to the world. Does that […]
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Ash records for posterity this time, the democratic conflagration mirrored by the burning forest, with a lifetime of observation converted to persuasion, but the question remains, can we do it? Are we unvarnished-ly recording for posterity? Are we the podcast to unf*ck the world? — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See […]
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Jesus, Kate, take the wheel. Jackie’s willingness to believe in the meaning of wealth falters, as she reckons with her selves and with the foil she’s been for Kate. She cracks the fourth wall as the ugly bifurcations of this chapter drive Jackie to new horizons, making discoveries about change, climate change, and self-definition, all […]
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Hop on a party bus to St. Pete and press play on our bonus episode on the 2012 masterpiece Spring Breakers written and directed by Harmony Korine. Sex, the male gaze, violence, whiteness, hilarity, Faith and temptation, truly inspired editing and sound and lighting choices, film literacy, we cover (or is it bare?) it all. […]
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Behold our gruesome and just judgments. The Deluge is our Roman Empire. — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily encourage you to check out Alex’s music.
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Shane loses sight, maybe, of her position on violence; coming back to Kate, or maybe they were always together; she joins the ranks of the many vanished, but not in the way 6 Degrees imagined. Where do you go in a world on fire? P.S. F*** off, nothing left to steal. P.P.S. Who is telling […]
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A Year of Horrors: The Metastasization of this Civilizational Crisis. Why does this chapter feel a bit off (no, it’s not only because there’s even more epistemology talk than usual)? Might it be the civil wars failed states xenophobic politics typhoons behemoth storms heat wave monsoon the coup the occupation the power outage the splinters […]
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You are hungry and you recognize the danger, the danger of others, of fear, of uncertainy, of hunger. You retain your humor and your highly selective bullshit detector. You cannot forget. You know empty is so much bigger, and yet you know that maybe there is a power vibrating in every atom in this eternal […]
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Don the latest version of your favorite AR/VR glasses, turn your ASMR fractal visuals to high and enter the DELUGE-CAST XPERE OF DISCUSSION ™. Who is writing this novel, where AI generators imitate humans constructing virtual realities, asking are we even here, what is this all for is this even a real podcast?Brought to you […]
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Jackie wrestles with guilt, dread, and unease as the contradictions of her life become unbearably (and increasingly) impossible to ignore, all while the financialization of everything continues apace. Greenland mining, amirite? — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily encourage you to check out […]
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VP McGuirk the most recent public figure to claim “nothing could be done but please forgive me” — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily encourage you to check out Alex’s music.
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Ash hungers, mourns, fears. He yearns to understand, feed, and protect people as he struggles to make sense of another loss. The domestic and global political (which is also personal, natch) dynamics intensify the skyrocketing action. — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We […]
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Crandall researches Six Arms, Fortress Europe, and Siberian anthrax. McMahon attempts meagre political musings. Once again, it must be asked, are this headlines about now or 2034? — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily encourage you to check out Alex’s music.
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May 20: In an assemblage of seemingly ever radical and not-so-radical moments from the shared pool of myths and dreams, the Siege gets beat by and beats back state violence June 30: Our new main character, The Heat, debuts: sweltering, scorching, burning, searing, murdering as Victor Love prepares his battle plans. July 31: The siege […]
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April 1: The Concert for the Climate becomes a deluge of occupying creativity and power… but will it become a trickle and go down as the most embarrassing protest action in modern memory April 4: The occupation of DC builds to critical mass and Kate issues her demands to the state. We have split “The Siege” […]
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Matt’s secret reunion with the FBF crew and the breaking apart of his relationship with Kate open up an exploration of green capitalism, the security state, love and gender, and narrative. Plans, deception, misdirection, and friendship tangle and untangle. — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by […]
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