Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to follow us – and Shane – down the surveillance and dataveillance rabbit hole of copious Panopticon references in order to rendezvous with Murdock. This summit occasions discussion about the weather as a character yet again, the crossover of motherwork and activistwork, revolutionary ethics, those pesky text boxes, and oh so much Foucault.

What will self-destruct first: this message, or 6 Degrees?

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Energized despair. Fugazi. Climate politics on the inside and the outside. Machiavelli and Hanna Pitkin. This self-consciously literary chapter situates the reader (and your hosts) in the midst of social movement decisions and strategizing as Kate and the FBF crew grapple with a surprise political offer…and conflicts around hierarchy in movements. What are Matt and his naïveté standing in for? Is Kate a fox or a lion (or both) – and while we’re at it, which of those are your trusty virtue-filled co-hosts?!

Stock up on gooey turkey wraps and sick burns, press play, and take a listen.

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Your hosts follow Tony up and down the Magic Mountain to Davos to ponder billionaire shenanigans and unseriousness, the politics of reality, and the use and abuse of identity for politics. Plus they ask the crucial question (no, it’s not what Thomas Mann character they are): is Tony a good dad (and does that need to have to do something with climate?!)?

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A Fierce Blue Fire’s Kate Morris Finds Beauty and Joy in Rejecting Partisanship as Usual, in her “last stand” Against Climate Change

Once a pastiche of seemingly disparate characters and experiences of climate change, through Kate Morris and A Fierce Blue Fire, Stephen Markley defied the political limits of the novel, upended the plot of The Deluge, and has ignited the literary account of movement and electoral politics. Emily and John profile the frank, funny, fearless chapter that has stormed to the front of the novel–even though it may have grasped beyond its reach.

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You manage to loop in the Book of Ezekiel, William Faulkner, and the epistemology of whiteness into an episode about this Keeper chapter. You discuss the writing of addiction and the writing of Keeper’s associative thinking style. The geographies, climatic and otherwise, of late capitalism in the account of Ohio — not to mention Keeper’s place in the novel — continue to astound and baffle. You walk through the valleys of bones to listen to this podcast.

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Feds Reconfigure Terrorism to Include Dissent; Billionaires Baffled by Failure of Money to Thwart Bombs

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Is this chapter about POV character Matt, about activist Kate Morris, about ecofeminism, or about Markley himself? Trick question — it is all of the above. Join Emily and John as they decipher Kate’ ecofeminist day-to-day life and sick burns on white male writers, strike out on an excursion into the myths of wilderness and the frontier, and mine for more entries in the ongoing “this book is so meta” ledger. They enlist some help along the way: Hannah Arendt, Edward Abbey, Jeffrey Eugenides, Greg Grandin, William Cronon are all along for the ride. Follow Matt’s lead, hop in Kate’s pick-up with us and give it a listen. 

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Why claims that environmentalists are socialists will never go away.

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Today, Emily and John had a conversation that excavated the analytical reactions they’ve experienced due to this Ashir chapter, Ash’s views on human relationships, math, and finance, their academic training in Aristotle, the movie Uncut Gems, and, for reasons they try to articulate, the National Basketball Association. Consider this an effort to understand the ways in which Ash refracts and reflects these. We’ll begin with the context: a discussion of bros and bro culture in the 2010s, and the success (?) of our proprietary podcast algorithm. 

Give it a listen, bro (ironic statement about the preposterousness of the subculture).

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You podcast about Keeper. You hear yourself discussing the use of the second person, casual cruelty, the challenge and compulsion Keeper poses for the reader. You note the heat, the saturation, the drugs, the post-financial crisis hangover of it all. You raise the issue of Nine Inch Nails and Markley’s novel Ohio and Requiem for a Dream and the capitalist-evangelical resonance machine and Deluze and Nietzsche. You analyze the dream of the lion and the field. 

You listen to this podcast episode.

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