All Episodes
Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary — 143 episodes
Frankenstein 3: Frames Collapse!
Frankenstein 2: Bildungsromonster!
Frankenstein 1.4-7: The Consolation of Elizabeth
Frankenstein 1.1-3: Portrait of the Mad Scientist as a Young Man
Frankenstein Episode 2: Walton's Letters
Frankenstein 2025
New York 2140 Part Five: "Escalation of Commitment," Hinge Points, Monocausotaxophilia, and GOLD!
New York 2140, Episode 4: Expensive or Priceless? Sticky or Epiphenomenal? Law or Dispossession? The Good or Ideology?
New York 2140 Part Three: "Liquidity Trap,"
New York 2140 Part Two: "Expert Overconfidence," Epigrams, Property Regimes, and Outlaw Polar Bears
New York 2140 Part One: "The Tyranny of Sunk Costs," Mistaking the Past for the Future, and Street Anemones
New York 2140 Intro: Hello! (Again)
The World Soul Visits His Mummy: Napoleon
Proof of Life, or, Hoping in One Hand
Obstructed Viewing (A Backdoor Pilot): SABOTAGE!
Galileo's Dream, Episode 4: Dumb Verbal Tics, Foregone Conclusions, and the Undramatic Inevitability of Grief
Galileo's Dream, Episode 3: No Lent on Callisto
Galileo's Dream, Episode 2: Sneezing, Shitting, and Fucking in Space-Time, plus the Redemption of Human Folly
Galileo's Dream, Episode 1: Quantum Historical Fiction and the Messiness of the Future
Nothing for Nobody: STEALTH and the Nu Militarism
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072: Problems of Centrality and Narrative in a De-hierarchicalized Future
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
Last Survivors of the Covenant, 2: ALIEN: COVENANT, Automythopoesis, Empire, Kinship, and Shower Sex
Last Survivors of the Covenant, Part 1: ALIEN: COVENANT, Wheat, Cults, History, and Couples
The Last Survivors of the PROMETHEUS: Universal Dumbness, the Victory of Postmodernism, and the Intersection of Desire
Last Survivors of the Betty: ALIEN: RESURRECTION, the Inexplicable Film, Boots, Whiskey, Sex-Gender Panic, and $11 million
The Last Survivors of Fury 161: ALIEN CUBED, End of History Bafflement, Postmodern Genre Mishmash, Rumor Control and Religion
Last Survivors of the Sulaco: ALIEN$, Reproduction, Settler Colonialism, and the Military Turducken
Last Survivors of the Nostromo Episode One: ALIEN, Labor, Robots, and, of course Cats
Green Earth, Episode 8: "Terraforming Earth," "The Dominoes Fall," and "You Get What You Get": Unintelligibility, the Everyday, and Climate Politics
Green Earth, Episode 7: "Undecided," "Sacred Space," "Emerson for the Day:" Necessity, Joy, and Cats
Green Earth, Episode 6: "60 Days and Counting" 1, Exhaustion, Plastic, Solidity, Total Information Awareness
Green Earth, Episode 5: "Fifty Degrees Below" 3, Indecision, Mutual Aid, Election Theater, and Bailiwicks
Green Earth, Episode 4: Permaculture, the Commons, Destiny
Green Earth, Episode 3: "Fifty Degrees Below," Robinsonades, Realism, Lama-Grooming
Green Earth, Episode 2: Sweatpants, Buddha Nature, and Nukes
Green Earth, Episode 1: "The Buddha Arrives" to "Science in the Capital": Setting the Table, the Literature of Banality, and Science in the W. Era
2312 Episode 14: "Kiran on Ice" to "Epilogue': The Final Countdown!, Crossword Puzzles, Exile, Pair Bonding, Pronouns!
2312 Episode 13: "Swan and Pauline and Wahram and Genette," and Diane Keaton and Joe Manchin and Sonny Crockett and Jerry Seinfeld
2312 Episode 12: "Extracts (17)" to "ETH Mobile" (I'm not even going to try to spell it): Utopias of Gender, Virginia Woolf, the Long Stare of the Tenured Professor
2312 Episode 11: "Extracts (15)" to "Lists (14)": Piloerection, Multispecies Solidarity, Land Art, Freedom
2312 Episode 10: "Swan in the Vulcanoids" to "Wahram on Earth": Political Economy, Aggressive Charity, Gifts
2312 Episode 9: "Swan and the Inspector" to "Extracts (12)": Totalities, Interpretability, and The Sad Planet
2312 Episode 8: "Lists (7)" to "Quantum Walk (1)": Noir, Late Feudalism, and the Long Postmodern
2312 Episode 7: "Swan and the Inspector," Swan in Wonderland, Post-Scarcity Conspiracies, and the Nature of Evil
2312 Episode 6: "Lists (4)" to "Lists (6)": Patterns, Agency, Cops, Detection
2312 Episode 5: "Wahram and Swan:" A bird and a toad go for a walk and whistle Beethoven
2312 Episode 4: "Extracts (3)" to "Extracts (6)": Rainbows, Frogs, Worms, and Heterogeneous Economies
2312 Episode 3: Intentions, Aporia, Freedom
2312 Episode 2: "Extracts (1)" to "Wahram and Swan": Decadence, Dragons, Seizing the Day in the Pseudoiterative
2312 Episode One: Attachment, Habit, Gender, and Purloined Letters
2312 Episode Zero: "Prologue," Far-Future Posthumanism, Narrative, Gender, Habit, and Ritual
Marooned at the Movies! Escapes From New York and L.A.
Shaman 8: "Shaman," Art-Making, Transmitting Knowledge, Portrait of the Shaman as a Young Man
Shaman 7: "All the Worlds Meet," Anthropology, Home, Teaching, and the Bird's Eye View
Shaman 6: "Hunted," Butt-Eating, Hermeneutics, and Barack Obama's Almonds
Shaman 5: "Under the Ice," Metabolics, Captivity, and Thermal Abundance
Shaman 3 & 4: "Elga," "The Hunger Spring," Art-Making and -Experiencing, Neanderthals, and Poor Richard's Podcast
Shaman 1 & 2: Loon's Wander, The Wolves at Home, Abundance, Scarcity, and Life Before Capitalist Ruins
Shaman Episode Zero: Caves, Common Life, Adventure, and Fire
The Ministry for the Future: The Kim Stanley Robinson Interview
The Ministry for the Future 97-106: Promethean Authority, Invisible Revolution, Guggenmusik, No Fate, Dignity
The Ministry for the Future 89-96: Mourning Myths, Taking Stock, Pyrrhic Defeat, Anti-Anti-Utopia
The Ministry for the Future 76-88: Mourning, Loss, Followers, and the Tapestry of Shit
The Ministry for the Future 71-75, 77: The Everything Feeling, Big Dickens Energy, and Sneezing Cats
The Ministry for the Future 51-59: Happiness is a Cold Glacier, I Hate LA, Democracy?
The Ministry for the Future 38-50: Metabolisms of Capital, the Family Form, and Pooping Angels
The Ministry for the Future 18-37: Impersonal Challenges, Charismatic Megafauna, Liberal Realism, Intention and Action
The Ministry for the Future 1-17: An Exercise for the Reader
Marooned at the Movies! They Live! (John Carpenter, 1988)
Marooned at the Movies!: Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
The Years of Rice and Salt 10: "The First Years," Circularity, Ending, Swerving, Becoming Fully Human
The Years of Rice and Salt 9: "Nsara," Feminism and Science, Scents and Scentsibility, Robot Voice and Patriarch, Cooking and Cleaning
The Years of Rice and Salt 8: "War of the Asuras," War, Necropolitics, Hope, Repetition
The Years of Rice and Salt 7: "The Age of Great Progress," Charisma, Air, and Empire (and Cats)
The Years of Rice and Salt 6: "Widow Kang," the Fantastic, the Novel, Footbinding, Footnotes, Revelation, Recognition, Rice, Salt
The Years of Rice and Salt 5: "Warp and Weft," Historicity, Futurity, Indigeneity, and Esports
The Years of Rice and Salt 4: "The Alchemist," Discovery, Cleanliness, Love, and Tubing
The Years of Rice and Salt 3: "Ocean Continents," the Real World, and Abundance Without Surplus
The Years of Rice and Salt 2: "The Haj [is] In The Heart," Puzzles, Knowledge, and What Happens in the World
The Years of Rice and Salt 1: "Awake to Emptiness," Provincializing Europe, History, Modernity, and Structures of Feeling
Aurora 6: "The Hard Problem," Love & Death, Meaning & Loneliness, Pepsi & Werner Herzog
Aurora 5: “Homesick,” Time, Abundance, Living Systems, Ideology, and Sourdough
Aurora 4: "Reversion to the Mean," Parenthood, Sovereignty, Hobbes, Kropotkin, and Lasagna
Aurora 3: "In the Wind," Planets, Aliens, and V's
Aurora 2: "Land Ho," Narrative Theory, Self-Reflexivity, and CORONAVIRUS
No-rora: The Wandering Earth, the Martian Time-Slip, and the Devil (Matt)
Aurora 1: Starship Girl, Freedom, Scale, Ghosts, and These Kids Tomorrow
Aurora Zero: Science Fiction, Utopia, Socialism, and Bernie MFing Sanders
The Martians 30-31: A Meditative Something-or-Other and Equilibrium Punctuation
The Martians 25-29: Brotherhood, Love, Naming, Writing, Cats
The Martians 22-24: Whale Chimps, Rakes, and Fate
The Martians 15-21: Perspective, Words, Surfing, and Science
The Martians 11-14: Baseball, Myths, Laws, and Trees
The Martians 10: "Green Mars," Romanticism, Existentialism, and the Four Pips
The Martians 8-9: Coyote and Michel, Condemned to Freedom
The Martians 5-7: Uneventfulness, Gray Paint Patch Lichen, and Balderdash
The Martians, Parts 1-4: the Sublime, Negation, and Big Sky Country
A Nebula Award for a Double -- the Kim Stanley Robinson Interview
Blue Mars, Part 14: "Phoenix Lake," Endings, Children, and Horizons on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars
Blue Mars, Part 13: "Experimental Procedures," Terran Sky Blue, Common Archives, and SCIENCE!
Blue Mars, Part 12: "It Goes So Fast," Pearly Gems of Wisdom, Contingency, Memory, and Death
Blue Mars, Part 11.5: “Viriditas,” Part Two: Democracy, Harmony, and Planetary Politics
Blue Mars, Part 11: “Viriditas,” Part One: Freedom, Pleasure, and Zo
Blue Mars, Part 10: "Werteswandel," Running, Choices, Ecstasy and Escape
Blue Mars, Part 9: "Natural History," Monsters, Self-Government, and Hot Air
Blue Mars, Part 8: "The Green and The White," Viriditas and the Virids, Landscape and Dandelion Spores
Blue Mars, Part 7: "Making Things Work," Chickens, Soil, Shit, and Politics
Blue Mars, Part 6: "Ann in the Outback," Bears, Cold, and Werner Herzog
Blue Mars, Part 5: "Home at Last," Nostalgically Eating Uncured Olives
Blue Mars, Part 4: "Green Earth," (Post-)Colonialism, and Uncanny Hallucinations
Blue Mars, Part 3: "A New Constitution," the Bardo, Hypnogogic Visions, and A Definite Article
Blue Mars, Part 2: "Areophany," Toxic Masculinity, and Throwing Things Together
Blue Mars, Part 1: "Peacock Mountain" and the Look in People's Eyes
GREEN MARS Wrap-up, Harry Potter Tattoos, and Ritual Protest
Red Moon, Thanksgiving, Beer Law, and Quantum Mechanics
hilary’s mini ep
Matt’s Mini Episode
Green Mars, Part 10: "Phase Change," Long Walks, and Designated Arbitrators
Our Dinner With Stan
Green Mars, Part 9: "The Spur of the Moment" and Cats on the Table
Green Mars, Part 8: "Social Engineering," Sax Russell, and Unilateralism
Green Mars, Part 7.2: "What Is to Be Done?" William Fort: the Ancient Dolphin
Green Mars, Part 7: "What Is to Be Done?" Part 1, the Gift Economy, and Family Issues
Green Mars--Listener Mailbag!
Green Mars, Part 6: "Tariqat" (Part 2) Political Economy and Culture of the Demimonde
Green Mars, Part 6: "Tariqat," Culture, and the next John Boone
Green Mars, Part Five: "Homeless" and Guerrilla Climatology
Green Mars, Part Four: "The Scientist as Hero," Sleeping with the Enemy, and the Magic of Lenses
Green Mars, Part Three: "Long Runout," Action, and Thinking Like a Stone
Green Mars, Part Two: "The Ambassador," Alternate Sensoriums, and Acquiring Mars
Green Mars, Part One: "Areoformation," Viriditas, and The Great Unexplainable
Red Mars Wrap-Up and the Curse of the Baggy Monster!
Red Mars, Part Eight: Shikata Ga Nai
Red Mars, Part Seven: Senzeni Na
Red Mars, Part Six: Guns Under the Table (Part 1??)
Red Mars, Part Five: Falling into History (Part 2)
Red Mars, Part Five: Falling into History (Part 1)
Red Mars, Part Four: Homesick
Red Mars, Part Three: The Crucible
Red Mars, Part Two: The Voyage Out
Red Mars, Part One: Festival Night
Introducing "Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary"