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 Importance of Objectives in Postmodernism
I get why Jordan Peterson freaks out about that because he's built his life and career on this notion of objectivity, which I think often people will use the word objective just as a rhetorical strategy. People who are familiar with postmodernism sometimes get frustrated that it doesn't have enough conclusive information within it. And so, they're basically just asking like, how do we drag that into conversations where it doesn't belong? But again, that's kind of why I like to put it mostly within an artistic frameworkBecause most people don't read fiction and be like, wait did this really happen? Like, there's a suspension of disbelief.
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