The Lost Signals The Lost Signals
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- Arts
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Discussions on narrative in movies, television, literature and video games
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Philosophy & Narrative: Cyberpunk, Posthumanism, and Slavoj Žižek
We cover an article by man of the peoples’ philosopher Slavoj Žižek, exploring emerging ideas and the landscape of what posthumanism might evolve into via current pop culture touchstones.
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Literature: The (Not So) Midas Touch | 2N5E by Yuki Iwama
We discuss this intriguingly opaque short story, and ponder what it means to consume a god.[Average score: 5.6]
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Film & TV: Strawberry y Chocolate
We head down to Cuba circa the late 70s to check out this touted foreign flick covering a range of socio-political topics. [Average 8.3]
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Games & Gaming Culture: Recontextualization/Defamiliarization
On the frontier as always, we define and discuss the practice of recontextualizing and/or defamiliarizing narratives in games (and some other media) framed around likely the most famous example of such found within the Nier series.
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Games & Gaming Culture: Mortal Kombat Khicanery
Two kombatants enter the ring to briefly review the series’ 2021 film incarnation before turning their attention to the franchise overall.
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Games & Gaming Culture Guest Special: Grand Theft Auto with American Slacker Podcast
Grab a bat and haul ass in your Banshee, as TLS is joined by the hooligans of ASP for a whirlwind tour of the GTA series.
Customer Reviews
Unique and interesting format for a movie podcast
I really enjoy this podcast. The MOTS scale is an interesting way of assessing the quality of movies. Plus you can tell these guys are having a good time. which is always nice to hear.
Not offering nuanced or complex analysis
And overly smug (too much meaningless intellectual flexing)
Very entertaining
Great podcast, they discuss cool topics and give funny, interesting takes.