Or: The Long Year Reviewed (Summer Edition)

In this episode, we contemplate what we are calling the ‘long year’ of the pandemic, and assess if we have reached the goals that we set in our first episode.

We also look at pet peeves in pop culture, literature of the pose, why lit fic and ‘the western canon’ suck, and what we are looking forward to discussing in future episodes.

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To lever Foucault into this episode – where there is power there is always resistance, that’s the whole shtick.

Nick

Timestamps:

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 0:50 – The Long Year in Review
• 4:18 – Best of 2021
• 25:12 – Pet peeve of pop culture in 2021
• 126:30 – What we are looking forward to in 2022
• 1:39:40 – Wrap up & Outro

Evil-Lyn goes full nihilist – she looks into the abyss, and the abyss looks back. And she says “There is nothing at the centre of the universe, there is just ME.”

Philippa

References – note: Flip has a broken arm, so links will be added in slowly.

Books we discuss

• Carriger, Gail.  The Heroine’s Journey
• el-Motar, Amal and Max Gladstone. This is how you lose the time war
• Gladstone, Max. The Witch who came in from the cold
• Jordan, Robert. Wheel of Time series
• Martin, George RR – Game of thrones series
• Rocha, Kit. Mercenary Librarians series
• Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter series
• Roupenian, Kristen. Cat Person

Movies & TV shows we discuss

• Blown Away
• Bo Burnham’s Inside
• Brigerton
• Cowboy bebop anime
• Cowboy Bebop Netflix show
• Eva Rebuild
• Evangelion
• Friday the Thirteenth
• Glow up
• The Great British Bake Off
• The Great Pottery Throwdown
• Grave / Raw
• Halloween
• Kate
• Katla
• The Long Kiss Goodnight
• Masters of the Universe: Revelation
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
• Metalwork Masters
• Midnight Diner
• Next in Fashion
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• Police Academy
• Schitt’s Creek
• Squid Game
• Star Wars The Force Awakens
• Star Wars The Last Jedi
• Star Wars Solo
• Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
• Sweet Magnolias
• Taskmaster
• Teenage Bounty Hunters
• Titan (movie)
• Three Colours series
• Trese
• Virgin River
• Way of the House Husband
• Wonder Woman movie

Games we discuss

• The Good Life
• Knights of the Old Republic
• Knights of the Old Republic 2
• Mass Effect
• Mass Effect 2
• Mass Effect 3
• Observation
• Xbox Game Pass
  

Other links:

• Bloom, Harold
• Casella Brookins, Jake. ‘Patterns, Guts: Style & Substance in This Is How You Lose The Time War‘ in Ancillary Review of Books
• Foucault, Michel. The History of Seculity, Volume 1: An Introduction (1976)
• Marche, Stephen. ‘Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose‘ in Literary Hub.
• Patches, Mark. ‘The Cowboy Bebop team aims to go deeper than a simple anime remake‘ in Polygon.
• Pod Cuture Oz: Episode 1 – Life in Lockdown
• Pod Culture Oz: Episode 2 – Omega Point, Sensates and Space Catholics
• Pod Culture Oz: Episode 3 – Zombie Apocalypse – Worthy of survival
• Pod Culture Oz: Episode 9 – Rampancy of the Artificial Mind Pt 1
• Pod Culture Oz: Episode 11 – Happily Ever After
• Pod Culture Oz: Episode 12 – Ghosts are NOT Horror
• Pod Culture Oz: Episode 13 – Rockets, Billionaires and Space Cowboys
• IASPR 2018 conference: The Single Mother and the Law: Romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces
• Western Literary Canon
• Wicked Wallflowers Club: Episode 137 – Gail Carriger: The Heroine’s Journey