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

We never left, so we are not back. We just like to keep you guessing about episode times. This time we talk about the brilliant Saint of Bright Doors, a decolonial multifaceted dark fantasy novel that's quite a thinker, but also pretty accessible. Give it a read!

Eden recommends playing "Laysara: Summit Kingdom", which kinda fits the theme of this episode.

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