S3E38: Where are the campy cli-fi series? Why do we only have literary climate fiction?!—w/ Daniel Backer, author
Reversing Climate Change
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The Oedipus Complex in Pop Culture
I wish there was more play with genre and climate fiction because to date it hasn't been in the same kind of playfulness that I long to see. The Oedipus complex, both in pop culture and also in literary criticism is extremely old. And so just naming someone Oedipa already could be a red herring or like a misleading thing as there's so much meeting already tied up in it. Like one of my friends, older sisters, she reads like 500 mysteries a year. How much titillation can one person stand in a lifetime? She might be over her allotment. But there is something that's having like the tropes that are regularized that you're just
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