Our second apocalypse takes us for a ride down the fury road. Join us as we follow Imperator Furiosa to the green place in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road.

Our first trip to the apocalypse takes us down to the Australian outback, and then swiftly off the rails as we visit with none other than Tank Girl. Come along for the ride as we work through our fairly wide-ranging responses to Hewlett and Martin’s styli

In our final Digital Romance episode, we compare and contrast the visions of both romance and human interaction presented in our three sources: Connie Willis’s Crosstalk, Owen Harris’s “San Junipero” episode of Black Mirror, and Kyle Seeley’s Emily is Awa

After several episodes spent in the future, our third digital romance shifts gears and brings us back to the early 2000s as we relive our years spent on AIM with Kyle Seeley’s Emily is Away.

In our second digital romance episode, we watch San Junipero, an episode of Black Mirror about two women who meet at a bar and their growing relationship.

Our first digital romance is Connie Willis’s Crosstalk, a novel about a young woman who undergoes a surgery that is supposed to bring her closer to her partner, but who ends up able to hear the thoughts of everyone around her.

In our final episode of the topic, we revisit our three syncopated worlds: Beijing, Elysium, and Colombia, and examine the ways that all three works use the idea to make broader points. We also sketch out our own syncopated world games in a game design li

We travel to the flying city of Colombia for our third Syncopated Worlds episode, as we take on Bioshock Infinite. We dig into the game’s lofty ambitions, and whether it manages to achieve them. Note: Unfortunately, the vast majority of Clio’s audio for

Our second Syncopated Worlds episode takes us to Los Angeles in the year 2154, where the Earth’s population lives constantly in the shadow of the space station Elysium. Topics of discussion include the movie’s themes and structure, computer programming, a

In a future Beijing that bends and folds to split its time between three distinct populations, a man undertakes an errand that reveals a city on the edge of an even bigger change. We dig into the gorgeous imagery and implications of the folding city, and