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Chris revisits an old favourite — Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot — and revels in how many types of nothing happen in its two acts. Suzanne, meanwhile, is excited about a new book, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s essay Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, and is wrapping her head around how, in it, Simpson thinks with water (in all of its forms) to imagine new political possibilities.

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, originally published as En Attendant Godot.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.

Other books by Samuel Beckett mentioned: Molloy, and Imagination Dead Imagine.

Other books by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson mentioned: Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, Rehearsals for Living (with Robyn Maynard), Islands of Decolonial Love, and Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence.

Our episode on Dancing On Our Turtle's Back.

Also, our episode on The Tempest.

Jean-Paul Sartre: No Exit.

Beckett on Film.

When Robin Williams and Steve Martin starred in Waiting for Godot.

Wikipedia’s overview of sintering.

Textiles in Manuscripts: A Local and Global History of the Book, edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Melissa Moreton, will be available in a few months! You can already explore the book’s companion website.

Map Men (Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones): This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters). And their YouTube channel.

Chris talks about Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972) at length in the latest episode of It’s Just A Show.

Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier, 2025).

Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015).

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