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Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary Matt Hauske & Hilary Strang
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a kim stanley robinson read-along podcast with regular forays into utopia. hosted by some friends who are into communism, science fiction and other stuff
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The World Soul Visits His Mummy: Napoleon
Our review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon.
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Music by Spirit of Space
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Proof of Life, or, Hoping in One Hand
We're still here! Grumpier than ever, complaining about things we probably shouldn't be, reading books, talking.
And you're still listening! Thank you. We've been away for a long time for...reasons. But we are momentarily back, and maybe we'll be back again soon to talk about Napoleon and Ridley Scott. But this time we chat about the impossibilities and injustices of the working day under capitalism, capitalist education (indoctrination) and entertainment (propaganda), and let you in on what we've been reading instead of KSR, namely:
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
LOTS of Philip K. Dick, especially Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Dr. Futurity, and Clans of the Alphane Moon
the crime noir novels of Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Ursula K. Le Guin's short story "Direction of the Road"
Grapes of Wrath
and Bartolome de las Casas, just as a pick-me-up
You cannot hear a cat purring at around 37:40, college students are planning for a future they don't believe will arrive, and we're all wondering when our last hot shower will happen.
Happy Thanksgiving, and please to enjoy.
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Obstructed Viewing (A Backdoor Pilot): SABOTAGE!
A very special episode of Marooned on Mars, a backdoor pilot, as they say in the biz, of Obstructed Viewing with friends of the pod returning-guest champion Bill and Dauphin Josh debuting their new movie podcast (has anyone ever done a podcast about movies before?).
The theme of the show today is sabotage and movies that feature it: The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964) and Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977).
If possible, you should watch these movies before listening, just so you know what the heck we’re talking about.
What is sabotage, who does it and why? Is terrorism sabotage by another name? What level of complicity does a saboteur need to have with the object or process that is the target of their sabotage? Why do people commit sabotage? How does sabotage relate to self-sabotage? Is it a negative or positive action? Is there a dialectics of sabotage? What is the good of sabotage in and of itself? What is the temporality of sabotage?
But more importantly, how awesome are these movies, huh? Lots of stuff going on in them that’s sabotage, and perhaps even more that’s not sabotage!
We talk about money, the national question, art, culture, modernity, economics, labor, politics, all the classic Marooned topics our listeners have grown accustomed to love and expect.
With a special appearance by Slavoj Zizek.
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Thanks for listening!
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Galileo's Dream, Episode 4: Dumb Verbal Tics, Foregone Conclusions, and the Undramatic Inevitability of Grief
In our final reckoning with GALILEO'S DREAM, we talk about our horrible voices and their dumb verbal tics, the trickiness of time travel narratives, anticlimactic moments, conspiratorial webs, the decentering of Event, crabbing sideways toward the good, rocking, the universal unity of grief, and Milton doing TikTok dances.
Thanks for listening! We'll be back later, probably with a movie episode or several. You can let us know what you'd like us to read next by emailing or tweeting. Stop donating to our podcast!
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Galileo's Dream, Episode 3: No Lent on Callisto
This episode we discuss the Jovian society, the way the novel posits the relationship between science and religion, the entwined logics of extraction and redemption, the astrological epistemology, ecstasy, the our own Thirty+ Years War, and whales.
Thanks for listening!
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Galileo's Dream, Episode 2: Sneezing, Shitting, and F*****g in Space-Time, plus the Redemption of Human Folly
In probably our greatest episode ever, Matt and Ms. Partial Sentence talk about all the stuff we normally talk about, like Shark Tank, redemption, helmets, jazz, the Divine Comedy, and Constructivism. Plus Matt does drugs.
Stay tuned to the very end to hear our next-level casting idea for who should play Galileo in the movie adaptation. The answer may shock and surprise you!
Thanks for listening!
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Customer Reviews
Green Earth: Episode 5
First, I think it’s safe to say Stan is not being groomed to be the next Dalai Lama. Next, thank you so much for this space of refuge. Your podcast has helped me understand more clearly and poignantly the essential necessity of story and community in my life. Thank you.
5 bags of popcorn!
Incisive analysis, positive attitudes, lovely camaraderie!
Good Vibes Central
The hosts do KSR’s work justice by approaching it with the depth it deserves while still generally keeping things light.
The Years of Rice and Salt is one of the books that got me into Alternate History (and Islamic studies), I am EAGERLY anticipating their coverage. That book has a lot of counterfactual rabbit holes to go down and the author constantly find clever ways to import real life references and history into his alt universe, I hope the hosts do their research so they can recognize and dig into all of them.
The show is generally more of a vibe and theme analysis, a lot of which went over my teenage head when I first read Rice and Salt, so I’ll be starting a reread and looking forward to the hosts’ takes.