We Are the Deluge Podcast

Interlude 11 (2034): Politics as Usual Crandall researches Six Arms, Fortress Europe, and Siberian anthrax. McMahon attempts meagre political musings. Once again, it must be asked, are this headlines about now or 2034? — — — Our theme m…

New interlude episode: Book IV's headline splash feat. Siberian anthrax, nationalism, and political violence. AKA the usual, for the world of The Deluge and our own.
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Back with new episodes starting next week!

The Marx connection was well done.

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23. The Siege, part 2 (2034)- The Heat, the Death, the Vanishing to Wind and Stars May 20: In an assemblage of seemingly ever radical and not-so-radical moments from the shared pool of myths and dreams, the Siege gets beat by and beats back state violence June 30: Our new main ch…

New pod, our second episode on The Siege: Kate, glory, and selflessness in radical activism; how do you write terrifying violence in a beautiful way?; the politics of vision; the brutality of heat; and much more

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22. The Siege, part 1 (2034)- A Complex and Dangerous Nonviolent Ambush, AKA This Unthinkable Nightmare The Concert for the Climate becomes a deluge of occupying creativity and power… but will it become a trickle and go down as the most embarrassing protest action in modern memory? We have spli…

We're splitting The Siege into two parts, here is the first: what social movements influence this? what kind of democracy is being enacted? What under-appreciated 2024 movies did this make us think of? And, btw, who/what is the POV here?!
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21. Matt IV (2034) – Mesmerizingly Abstruse Narrative: The Years of Reunions and Breakups Matt’s secret reunion with the FBF crew and the breaking apart of his relationship with Kate open up an exploration of green capitalism, the security state, love and gender, and narrative. Plans, d…

Matt IV: you love to see a reunion match-cut a breakup, as debates about the way(s) forward for climate politics proliferate and Markley is being both subtle and not-subtle
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20. Tony IV (2033) – Leviathan or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Instead be Terrified of the Security Apparatus Tony, preoccupied with impending clandestine plans and thoughts of his daughters, is frustrated by another useless encounter with law enforcement, only to realize, perhaps too late, how threadbare …

Tony IV: It's Time For Some Hobbes as Tony encounters not Climate Leviathan but the ghastly Kafkaesque hell of the Security State Leviathan...and maybe (maybe) finds some resolve in the face of it?
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19. Shane IV (2033) – In an Emergency, Smash Protocol The women of 6Degrees stage a coup – but a new leadership structure, new relationship to funding, and a new mission clarifies something about fear for Shane. No one knows what she is capable of. Is…

Shane IV: coups, terror, chilling writing (non-derogatory), secret missions, pondering human existence -- you know, a usual Shane chapter

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18. Ashir III (2032): Executive Summary On the Anomic American Polity and Clandestine Conferences What follows here, we fear, will be less than helpful, and will cover the major events of Ash’s chapter of 2032 and the impact of already anomic American polity on Ash’s greatest fears, his relatio…

Ash III: Markley takes social VR to a whole new world(e) as global faminogenic policies accelerate cascading catastrophes. Plus, some game of thrones content? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/a...

17. Jackie III (2032) – Leveraging New HoriZons for the Environmentalism of the Rich Struggling to define her self (our selves), Jackie’s “realism” looks a lot like denial as warning signs of the flood (might we say the deluge?) to come pile up around her, pooling at her ankles unt…

Jackie III: As Jackie traverses floods on multiple continents 1%-style, we ponder the self, her selves, and some cursed pieces of pop culture
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Interlude 10 (2032):[redacted] Our brains cannot even wrap around the explosive and [redacted] chapter about [redacted], the FBI report, and the surprisingly [redacted] nature of the report. — — Our theme music is fr…

Book III's redacted FBI report: how much can we turn redaction into a bit, and what does it tell us about 'ecoterrorism' and the security state?
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16. Tony III (2031) – Rescuing What: Why is there an Action Movie in My Climate Fiction? Tony – who should have believed in the omen of his dreams – sees his academic and personal lives collide as climate disaster shifts from something he has been warning us about to something threaten…

Tony III: The unlikeliest of action heroes raises the stakes for the novel as climate change-induced firestorms meet the prison industrial complex, more complexities, and - we suggest - the Parable of the Sower
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Interlude 9 (2031): Dude, When’s my Headline Splash? Once again, state violence in the novel have Emily and John pondering catastrophe and reality in our own world as readers… — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Mil…

Book III headline splash: are we sure this is written when it's written and set in the future? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/i...

15. Matt III (2031) – Sex Scandals, The Corporate Plutocracy and the Security State: Kate Morris wracks up losses in climate, life, love, and hope As climate legislations fails and devolves into police state hell, Matt flails in his relationships with Kate, and interrogates the nature of agency, love, and sex along the way. — — &#…

We have been very amiss in posting here, so here's a long thread of many episodes:

Matt III, in which we are totally not paranoid about the security state, social media, surveillance, climate, podcasting, love, this novel, or anything else. Really.

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14. Shane III (2030) – Too Late for Slogans Escalate. This podcast insists there is no accountability for lazy thinking in a boondoggle. EmilyIt wasn’t like she didn’t share the chapter’s disdain for the quasi-celebrities the climate n…

New episode: Shane III, in which a summit of the principals of 6 degrees leads us to a discussion of the meanings and scope and temporalities of violence (hello Fanon), socially reproductive labor and gender within movements, and much more
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Interlude 8 (2030): Generic AI-generated weather pun about terrible politics An LLM political analyst leans too hard on the weather puns to report on the political upheaval impacting climate legislation in the US — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymor…

A new episode: an interlude chapter lets us think about LLMs, journalism, climate politics, and the purpose of writing good sentences delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/w...

13. Keeper III (2030) – You’re a Sinner in the Storm of an Angry God You push the boundaries of possibility for redemption as you once again fall into — but also explode — your familiar patterns.You feel the weather, the light, and the infinite sadness.&…

This week's episode is a reason-revelation-salvation-redemption joint as Keeper kicks off Book III. The weather (and infinite sadness) persist, Keeper confronts and enacts white supremacy, and we wonder if Stephen Markley is a Christopher Nolan hater or fan

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12. Jackie II (2029) – Steer, Into the. Skid: Strategic Accommodation of the Persuadable Middle Jackie spearheads a counterintuitive ratf*** of an advertising strategy for the worst corporations in the world as she navigates her sex life and fights off an anti-nostalgic nostalgia — — Our them…

Jackie II: what does Jackie's meeting with, pitch to, and reflections on the "Sustainable Future Coalition" (🤮) tell us about nostalgia, green capitalism, and sexual politics?
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Interlude 7 (2029): The Daily Deluge Podcast Join your hosts Emily Crandall and John McMahon as they interview climate fiction podcasting experts John McMahon and Emily Crandall about Kate Morris’ interview on The Conversation podcast. They d…

Our most audacious (ridiculous?) formal conceit yet, ecofeminism, terrorism, non-violence, cancel culture, Kate Morris. We’re playing the hits.

AKA a podcast making a podcast about a podcast, you know you love it.
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Interlude 6 (2029): Crandall and McMahon Ponder the Bleak Future – Or is it the Present? Alienated Young Men in 2029 Marveling at Markley’s Metafiction Multiplies Gaza as an “auto-kill” zone: when and how do people get politicized? — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See t…

New episode: Is the Book II headline splash taking place in 2029 or right now? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/b...

11. Ashir II (2029) – Executive Summary on Sloppy Science and the Chaos of Reality Ash struggles with the tension between the adequate and the possible — challenging coalitional concerns with dispassionate empiricism, disappointing climate hardliners, and ultimately present…

New ep on Ashir II. What are the limits of dispassionate empiricism, how does Ash's dispassionate empiricism interact with legislative policy negotiations?! Plus feminist philosophy office hours w/Dr. @emilykcrandall.bsky.social & the sexual politics of meat
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If you're a fan of Stephen Markley's climate epic "The Deluge" and you're massive EPT nerd, you'll love this podcast 💚💚💚

Interlude 5 (2028): OK, Boomer — Don’t Be A Climate Doomer The Climate Old Guard Forges Ahead As They Exit the Stage, But Have They Learned Anything About Politics? — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily …

New episode! An interlude posing the most important question of them all :can (more importantly, should) you rhyme "OK boomer" with "climate doomer"? We also talk about the legacies of Gore, McKibben and Hansen and how/why Markley engages them in the novel.

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10. Shane II (2028) – Slow Ends Our World: Society Must Not be Defended Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to follow us – and Shane – down the surveillance and dataveillance rabbit hole of copious Panopticon references in order to rendezvous w…

New episode on Shane II! Surveillance capitalism, the slow violence of climate change and what that means for human agency, oh so much Foucault, and surprise surprise, the weather is a character again. Plus, the eternal question: are you a Shane or a Kate?

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We're on a brief hiatus (back with Shane II April 29ish). In the meantime, check out Emily and John's other pods!

@stuckinstoneybrook.bsky.social, with recent shows about BSC summer camps and radio DJing

@notgreatbookstv.bsky.social, which is a couple episodes into Season 5 of The Americans

9. Matt II (2028) – The Sensation of Density: Years of Boldness and Prudence Energized despair. Fugazi. Climate politics on the inside and the outside. Machiavelli and Hanna Pitkin. This self-consciously literary chapter situates the reader (and your hosts) in the midst of …

New episode time: Matt II gives us another opportunity to discuss movement politics and movement theory as we dig deeper into Fierce Blue Fire confronting their inside-outside strategy for climate politics. Stick around for a rousing game of Fox or Lion!

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The promise of climate fiction | 10 | Imagination, storytelling, and t This chapter explores the possibility of strengthening people's imagination skills with the help of an unusual tool: climate fiction. It uses three novels that

Oooh thank you. I have actually used one of Milkoreit's pieces in the climate film/fiction class I've taught: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Social tipping points everywhere?—Patterns and risks of overuse Four patterns in the rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary scholarship on social tipping points jointly create a tendency to overuse the concept—seeing the world through “tipping-point glasses.” These...

I particularly enjoyed the part on tipping points and whose rationality counts.

Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...

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