Show Notes for Ep. 40 "Welcome to Season 2"
The hosts of Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans return for season 2! Mary Anne and Ben ease back into podcast mode by reflecting on the first season of the show, as well as the kinds of guests they should invite and topics they should explore in the coming episodes. Of course, it wouldn’t be an MRAH without the tangents on American politics, the ecological question, and dystopian writing. Welcome back humans!
Recorded July 17, 2022 / Published May 22, 2023
Contents
- 0:00:00 – Reflecting on season 1 of the show and what kinds of topics should be explored in the second season
- 0:06:00 – Discussing how to be more intentional on the guests invited for season 2, and how submissions are selected for literary projects like anthologies and magazines
- 0:34:38 – How Mary Anne and Ben have been personally
- 0:56:33 – Intermission, the state of the climate, and the progression and regression of american politics
- 1:19:36 – On the ecological question and dystopian writing
Works Mentioned
Organized by order of appearance.
- Farah Mendlesohn, British Academic and author of Rhetorics of Fantasy (2009)
- Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler
- The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh
- The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
- The Postman, David Brin
- The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
- Welcome to Dystopia, edited by Gordon Van Gelder
- Paolo Bacigalupi, author
- Also, see the SLF’s Deep Five with Paolo Bacigalupi on message fiction
- Sherwood Nation: a novel, Benjamin Parzybok
Other Clarifying or Explanatory Links
- Links to articles on colonialism and global living standards
- Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel
- How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel
- The economic impact of colonialism, James Robinson and Daron Acemoğlu
- ICFA: The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, also known as IAFA
- Guest sign up form on MRAH page, needs to be created still
- Strange Horizons, spec fic magazine
- Jaggery Magazine, A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal
- Tumba Rumba
- Fred Berman MRAH episode
- Plague Inc, game
- Dave Chappelle SNL Skit, “Election Night”
