Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary

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A read-along podcast exploring the world(s) of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. Two humanities scholars read and discuss Kim Stanley Robinson's amazing Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, one part at a time. Utopian sci-fi fun and anti-capitalist thinking! Matt and Hilary are humanities professors. Matt has taught cinema and media studies at DePaul University and the University of Chicago. He now lives in Maine. Hilary is the Director of the MA Program in Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she also teaches English and gender studies. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marooned-on-mars-with-matt-and-hilary/support

2312 Episode 9: "Swan and the Inspector" to "Extracts (12)": Totalities, Interpretability, and The Sad Planet

October 16, 2021

We spend the first ten minutes or so of this episode talking about an issue in Maine politics that presents a conundrum that's characteristic of the f...

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2312 Episode 8: "Lists (7)" to "Quantum Walk (1)": Noir, Late Feudalism, and the Long Postmodern

September 28, 2021

This week's episode features coughing, an apology (not for the coughing), and cat-talk. Also we discuss science communication, agency and historical p...

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2312 Episode 7: "Swan and the Inspector," Swan in Wonderland, Post-Scarcity Conspiracies, and the Nature of Evil

September 12, 2021

This week’s episode is the second half of our conversation from last week’s episode, and concerns the “Swan and the Inspector” chapter. Genette takes ...

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2312 Episode 6: "Lists (4)" to "Lists (6)": Patterns, Agency, Cops, Detection

September 7, 2021

We had to split this episode up into two because we talked so long! The following episode (Episode 7, or maybe 6.2?) will deal with "Swan and the Insp...

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2312 Episode 5: "Wahram and Swan:" A bird and a toad go for a walk and whistle Beethoven

August 22, 2021

This long episode is devoted to the "Wahram and Swan" chapter of 2312, when the two characters attend a Beethoven concert and the tracks on which Term...

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2312 Episode 4: "Extracts (3)" to "Extracts (6)": Rainbows, Frogs, Worms, and Heterogeneous Economies

August 10, 2021

We talk about the form of the "Extracts" chapters, the importance of Earth in the relationships in the story, the sky, living on the side of a planet,...

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2312 Episode 3: Intentions, Aporia, Freedom

July 30, 2021

We continue our conversation from last week, ending right before the chapter "Extracts (3)." Matt and Hilary talk about art, chemistry, repetition, in...

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2312 Episode 2: "Extracts (1)" to "Wahram and Swan": Decadence, Dragons, Seizing the Day in the Pseudoiterative

July 23, 2021

In this episode we talk about chapters from Extracts (1) to Wahram and Swan (yes, only two chapters, how decadent of us!). We talk about the "Ascensio...

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2312 Episode One: Attachment, Habit, Gender, and Purloined Letters

July 12, 2021

In this episode we read from the first chapter after the prologue up to "Swan and Alex." First, Hilary and Matt start by discussing the work of Lauren...

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2312 Episode Zero: "Prologue," Far-Future Posthumanism, Narrative, Gender, Habit, and Ritual

June 27, 2021

We're back to reveal your desires to you! We're starting on our new season, which will focus on 2312. In this episode we talk about far-future science...

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