anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast Yanai Sened / Eden Kupermintz

We talk about how to critique the Fascist sentiments in Warhammer 40k, without worrying too much about the degrees of intent or satire behind it.

We talk about Ammonite, a somewhat under-the-radar excellent sci-fi book about a virus killing all the men in a far-off planet and exploring indigenous lands as a colonizer anthropologist

Themes explored:

- Anthrophopolitics and diversity within identity

- Biopolitics and virology

- "Going Native" (TM)

- Some Ursula LeGuin themes



Eden's ep of death-sentence about The Dawn of Everything:

https://soundcloud.com/death-sentence-pod/david-wengrow-and-david-graeber-the-dawn-of-everything

We talk about the sci-fi strategy game Ixion and its somber adventure through space.



Some topics discussed:

- Shameful space

- Space is silence and death

- Gravestone science

- Accelerating the flows

- The eternal recurrence of the same

- Middle management euphemisms



Referenced Some More News video 'Jeff Bezons Learned Nothing in Space':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7TQFFH9gj8&ab_channel=SomeMoreNews

This is an especially rambly episode of us talking about the excellent kitchen sink space romp movie Spacesweepers.

Topics discussed:

- Billionaires hate humanity

- The limits of Villainry

- What internationalism looks like

- The ethics/politics distinction

We read Brooke Bolander's short and painful novelette and spoke about:

- Nuclear semiotics

- The uses of violence

- The master's tools

- Being pushed to the corner

Citizen Sleeper is touching and optimistic without being saccharine and might be just what we need in these trying times.

The podcast opens with us venting our feelings and thoughts about another demonstration of incredible violence from Israel against the Palestinian people. Free Palestine!

Then we talk some themes. Here's what you can expect:


Gaming under capitalism
Vicious and virtuous cycles
Refugee experience
Care ethics - A softer world is possible)
Intra-class struggles
Radical embodiment (Yes, Eden talks about the body some more)