Welcome to Episode 2 of the Implausipod! In this episode we'll look at the use of genre in Westworld, centred around Season 4 Episode 3 Annees Folles.  The show has had an deep and ongoing relation with genre since it's beginning, and has grown since Season 2.  Westworld asks us if genre is an aesthetic, which can be transposed upon the structure of the media that we participate with?  We look at the larger genres that Westworld is situated in and tries to break out of, including cyberpunk, the western, and others, and look at how genre is employed in KW Jeter's novel Noir and in the TTRPG Shadowrun.

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Welcome to the Implausipod!  I'm your host Dr Implausible.  In this episode, we offer a brief introduction, and then discuss some of the broader themes of arising out of Season 4, Episode 2 of HBO's "Westworld" series, originally airing on 2022-07-03.  We offer a quick comparison with Jonathan Nolan's earlier work and cyberpunk science fiction, before looking at the some basic concepts of emergence that are appearing in, and may have had an influence on, the show.  

Finally, in the interest of brevity and maintaining momentum, we'll lay out a quick guide to the future of this podcast.  We're aiming for the first "arc" to run parallel to season 4 of the show, after which we will turn to some related materials that are linked to our larger project.

Thanks for joining us, we're glad to have you with us.

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