Feral Historian
Stories are cultural artifacts, whether it's epics on clay tablets or big-budget films. Those artifacts can tell us a lot about the time and culture that made them if we take a few minutes to shake them and see what falls out. To that end, an independent scholar goes rogue from academic respectability, wanders out into the wild, and talks to the trees and rocks about science fiction and its place in historical study.
Grab your hiking pack and get your nerd-on, we've got a lot to talk about.
Also, I'm just going to say there's a blanket spoiler warning for the entire channel.
Feral Historian
Damo’s latest is an important entry in the ongoing discussion of the slow apocalypse we’re living through. I recommend it. (The video, not the relentless decline into ruin)
https://youtu.be/n6czzarv3tM?si=iGJW4...
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So I ended up in Detroit , but I'm back now and will try to catch up on comments and messages before this Friday's video that will surely provoke . . . completely calm and rational discussion.
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A while back I had a conversation with Ross and Ryan over at the History on Film podcast. We talked about Star Trek VI, Children of Men, and Gattaca within the context of the "End of History" shows.acast.com/the-history-on-film-podcast
2 months ago | [YT] | 505
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I finally started watching Farscape. Let's see where this goes . . .
7 months ago | [YT] | 972
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Some of you have been getting replies to comments from a scammer posing as me with a Telegram account wanting to have "a private discussion." I'll never do that and I'm not on Telegram.
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Last week the guys at the _V'Ger Please_ podcast and I nerded out over Enterprise, I became more interesting as the level of Scotch in my glass went down, and many tangents were followed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGF7o...
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Had a talk with KMO today about the Draka. kmoptimal.substack.com/p/kmo-show-027 Actually we talked about a lot of stuff, but somehow the Draka was all that survived. Even in a podcast, their plot-armor came through.
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I’ve been leisurely working on something involving H.G. Wells’ “Things To Come” (which I’ve referred to as “peak fascism” on occasion) but @DamienWalter beat me to a few points by a wide margin. I recommend giving his recent video on Wells a look, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFIRY...
1 year ago | [YT] | 165
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No new video this week, but back on schedule next Friday with a look at the CoDominium and the revolution on Sparta.
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