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 delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/t...

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?! delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/2...

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. delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/m...

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 delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/s...

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...

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 delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/k...

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? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/j...

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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. delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/k...

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

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 delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/a...

If you're a fan of Stephen Markley's climate epic "The Deluge" and you're massive EPT nerd, you'll love this podcast 💚💚💚

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. delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/o...

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? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/s...

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

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! delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/m...

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... wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New episode, on Tony's trip up and down Magic Mountain. Come for the analysis of identity politics in the chapter and novel, stay for the celeb commentary, Thomas Mann bits, and the "Is Tony a Good Dad?" discussion. delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/t...

New episode! Markley's version of a longform profile of Kate merits a full episode from your trusty Delugecasters. We go inside A Fierce Blue Fire and a new set of characters to examine movement politics and the politics of The Novel as a form delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/k...

Our new episode is Keeper II, in which we discuss Faulkner, the geographies of late capitalism, why Keeper and Tony are both necessary POVs in a climate novel, Warren Zevon, freezing hurricanes, and power rank best Book of Ezekiel/valley of bones references delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/7...

New episode: A loooooong time jump and a new part of The Deluge begins with...an imagined article on ecotage, the criminalization of dissent, US climate politics, and many kinds of connecting many kinds of dots for character and reader alike... delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/i...

Our first Matt episode closes out our coverage of Book I. Is Matt a Markley avatar? Is Kate the main character of the novel? How does this engage myths about wilderness and the West? Can you really impress someone by carrying around Arendt? All this and more: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/6...

I really enjoyed this episode, it captures so well how scientists keep getting played. Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."

A new interlude episode this week, on the in-universe WSJ article criticizing Tony's climate book. Come for office hours w/ @emilykcrandall.bsky.social on the politics of science, stay for some commentary on the humor and functional purpose of the interlude delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/i...

New episode time: Ashir I, set in 2016, leads us two bros to consider betting, algorithms, human relationships, the NBA, writing neurodivergence, Aristotle, Uncut Gems...and surely climate too, no? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/a...

Second of two new episodes this week! The first Keeper chapter. We explore connections to Markley's previous book Ohio; the effects on the reader of the second person perspective for Keeper; cruelty and violence in the chapter and novel; and more. delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/k...

First of two new episodes this week! We discuss the headline splash in Book I of The Deluge, covering the reading experience and function of the headline collages, and the way this one in particular situates us in the late Obama years: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/i...

Timing update: taking a holiday break, we are back January 7 with a mini episode on the first headline splash and a full ep on Keeper 1. And then no wait until the next episode, Ashir I, on January 14.

New episode! Our first chapter with Jackie situates the reader in the Midwest, introduces us to The Actor, queries 21st c. hetero gender relations, shows us the normie POV on climate, and provokes your dear podcast hosts to do a lot of psychoanalysis. delugecast.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/3...

New episode! It's the first Shane chapter, which gives us a chance to talk about the invisible infrastructures of fossil capitalism (and of this novel), the politics and culture of the war on terror, the audacity and uncertainty of the text boxes, and more. delugecast.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/2...

Our first two episodes are OUT NOW! Prologue: What is this podcast and why does this novel merit such analysis?! Tony I: the meaning of science, the threats to and of climate science, and the depoliticization of science...plus absurdist Harrison Ford daydreaming delugecast.wordpress.com