Constellary Tales is a speculative fiction (SF — science fiction and fantasy) magazine and podcast. The podcast examines SF storytelling on the page and screen and addresses (not too seriously) how SF intersects culture and society. Selected episodes feature interviews with writers and others in the SF world as well as narrated stories from Constellary Tales magazine.
Octavia Butler's novelette "Bloodchild" and Hugo/Oscar crossover successes fuel discussion by SF writers/publishers Brian Hirt and Ken Gerber in this new podcast for the Partially Examined Life podcast network. Contents (00:00) Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" is (among other things) a successful example of a certain kind of pregnancy story. Other examples are Continue Reading …
Top 13 One-Line Anti-Theodicies to Explain ‘mother!’ (h/t John Milton)
Mother Earth is not happy with Father Time's career. Creator is compromised by creation by way of reciprocation. The paternal brooder turned out not to be such a good fit for the maternal abyss. God neglects the world because its obsession with him has gone to his head. The apocalypse is just God’s creative narcissism reaping what it has sown. Patriarchal Being Continue Reading …
“Who Is You?”: Moonlight in the Social Scriptorium
In a radio interview with the BBC, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins attributed the movie’s overwhelmingly positive reception to the fact that it showed filmgoers something new. Crediting cowriter Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue inspired the film, Jenkins observes, “I’ve never seen a black man cradle a black boy in any film I’ve ever seen […] Continue Reading …
The Tree of Life’s Contingent Universe
http://youtu.be/1WvuJwMFPz4 Watch on YouTube I can write nothing on Heideggerian scholar*/(anti)Hollywood director Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life that hasn't been better written elsewhere. Even so, the film has just come available on DVD and digital download, so I thought I'd recommend it to anyone who has been interested in PEL's recent religion episodes. Continue Reading …
Partially Examined Film Review: “Stupidity”
We are exuberant fellows and have long discussed using this blog as a BLOG and not just as a podcast accompaniment, so I'm going to initiate an idea I've been wanting to try out, sort of... You see, I've wanted to go beyond the bounds of the podcast and tell folks about the philosophy books I've stumbled over of late, largely in trying to figure out things for us to talk Continue Reading …