Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
The Matrix and the archetypes of Carl Jung
There’s a question about The Matrix I’ve been asking myself since the franchise established itself in the collective unconscious of humanity back in…
4 years, 7 months ago
Kim Stanley Robinson | Interstellar travel is a religious fantasy
Science fiction is fighting a doctrinal war. Between those who believe that humankind’s future is still the stars, and those – like Kim Stanley Robi…
4 years, 8 months ago
The most powerful scene in scifi cinema Blade Runner’s Tears in Rain
Rick Deckard is a Replicant. And Rick Deckard is also not the hero of Blade Runner…but is the villain. But the obvious questions about Blade Runner …
4 years, 10 months ago
The failure of Foundation is a lost opportunity for Apple
Stories that last through the ages aren’t just great storytelling, they also serve the power structures of their time. Powerful people have always p…
4 years, 10 months ago
Thoughts after watching Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE (2021)
If science fiction is a gateway to the psychedelic, then DUNE is a portal to…awakening. Frank Herbert’s seminal novel and David Lynch’s baroquely we…
4 years, 10 months ago
The true meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey
It’s more than a little ironic that the motion picture widely called the greatest science fiction story ever told was made by an artist who hated sc…
4 years, 11 months ago
There Is No Antimemetics Division – an interview with Qntm
It’s logical that the best science fiction being written today has its origins online and in collaborative forums. There Is No Antimemetics Division…
5 years ago
What is science fiction?
There’s nothing that science fiction fans like to do more than arguing about the great question….what IS science fiction? Many have tried to answer …
5 years ago