Shows That Haunt Us: Pilot

In this podcast, three millennial scholars from different disciplines play around with a scene from Captain Planet, and the ways we’re haunted by childhood media. What binaries is this scene constructing around an idea of “nature”? What kind of hero are we looking for? What’s up with the mustaches?

Follow us down the rabbit hole in this episode “There’s No Such Thing as a Good Bomb”.

A few links to scholarship we reference:

Ted Chiang and Halimah Marcus, “Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In”

Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, “Navigating M/other-Son Plots as a Migrant Act: Autobiography, Currere, and Gender” in Mothering A Bodied Curriculum: Emplacement, Desire ...