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Blue Mars, Part 10: "Werteswandel," Running, Choices, Ecstasy and Escape
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In this episode we discuss Part Ten of Blue Mars, Werteswandel, a Nirgal chapter.
Nirgal is running around Mars--running in circles, running from something, outside and inside himself at the same time. Running looks like a new technology on Mars, just like the new technology discussed in the prologue, of super-fast interplanetary travel. The only thing comparable is...nineteenth century train travel (thanks, Wolfgang Schivelbusch!).
Nirgal (literally) runs into a society of feral hunter-gatherers, who seem like they'd fit right in at the FYRE Festival. There he meets Zo, and, well...it's complicated.
This is one of those really short chapters where Matt and Hilary get to really dig in and be very expansive. If you're not interested in hearing our end-of-quarter conversation about teaching and corrupting the youth by opening their minds to utopian thinking (or just thinking), skip the last twenty minutes or so. But if you'd like to hear Matt's groundbreaking bumming-students-out-as-pedagogy technique, feast your ears!
Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com
Rate and review us on iTunes
Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars
Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor app
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Music by The Spirit of Space
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Manage episode 229515652 series 2418654
In this episode we discuss Part Ten of Blue Mars, Werteswandel, a Nirgal chapter.
Nirgal is running around Mars--running in circles, running from something, outside and inside himself at the same time. Running looks like a new technology on Mars, just like the new technology discussed in the prologue, of super-fast interplanetary travel. The only thing comparable is...nineteenth century train travel (thanks, Wolfgang Schivelbusch!).
Nirgal (literally) runs into a society of feral hunter-gatherers, who seem like they'd fit right in at the FYRE Festival. There he meets Zo, and, well...it's complicated.
This is one of those really short chapters where Matt and Hilary get to really dig in and be very expansive. If you're not interested in hearing our end-of-quarter conversation about teaching and corrupting the youth by opening their minds to utopian thinking (or just thinking), skip the last twenty minutes or so. But if you'd like to hear Matt's groundbreaking bumming-students-out-as-pedagogy technique, feast your ears!
Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com
Rate and review us on iTunes
Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars
Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor app
(You can donate to the show if you insist, we won't mind)
Music by The Spirit of Space
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marooned-on-mars/message133 episodes
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