We Are the Deluge Podcast
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Spoiler-free chapter-by-chapter podcast about the climate novel The Deluge by Stephen Markley, brought to you by Emily Crandall and John McMahon
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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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…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/m...
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/m...
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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delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/t...
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 …
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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?
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/t...
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/t...
Shane IV: coups, terror, chilling writing (non-derogatory), secret missions, pondering human existence -- you know, a usual Shane chapter
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/s...
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/s...
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…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Shane IV: coups, terror, chilling writing (non-derogatory), secret missions, pondering human existence -- you know, a usual Shane chapter
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/s...
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/s...
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...
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…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
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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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…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Jackie III: As Jackie traverses floods on multiple continents 1%-style, we ponder the self, her selves, and some cursed pieces of pop culture
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/j...
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/j...
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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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…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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?
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/i...
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/i...
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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delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...
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…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...
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...
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…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
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...
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
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March 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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...