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Red Horizons

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Red Horizons is a podcast that explores leftist thought and revolutionary theory through the lens of science fiction. Hosted by Steve McPhail, each episode blends literary analysis with political philosophy, examining how speculative worlds can illuminate real-world struggles for justice, liberation, and ecological survival. From anarchist utopias to post-capitalist experiments, Red Horizons invites listeners to imagine—and build—radical futures.

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Portada del episodio Episode 10 – The Forest Strikes Back: Colonialism, Collapse, and the Politics of Survival in The Word for World is Forest

Episode 10 – The Forest Strikes Back: Colonialism, Collapse, and the Politics of Survival in The Word for World is Forest

Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest begins with conquest and ends with a reckoning. Terran colonizers arrive on Athshe to strip its forests, enslaving its people in the name of progress. But when the Athsheans rise up, their fight is not just for survival but for the soul of a world that dreams. In this episode, we dive into Le Guin’s sharpest critique of empire: how domination reshapes both the oppressed and the oppressor. We explore how colonialism, ecological destruction, and moral awakening intertwine in a story written at the height of the Vietnam War, and how its lessons echo in the burning forests and fractured politics of our own time. The forest remembers. The question is: will we?

24 de oct de 2025 - 50 min
Portada del episodio Episode 9 – The Left Hand of Darkness: Gender, Loyalty, and Survival on the Ice

Episode 9 – The Left Hand of Darkness: Gender, Loyalty, and Survival on the Ice

On Gethen, winter never ends. Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness imagines a world without fixed gender, where survival depends on loyalty and warmth shared across difference. But this isn’t just a story of ice and endurance. It’s a study of empire, misrecognition, and the walls we carry inside ourselves. In this episode, we follow Genly Ai and Estraven across the Gobrin Ice, and ask what solidarity looks like when categories collapse. We trace the failures of the envoy, the ethics of loyalty that defies the state, and the radical challenge Le Guin offers to empire’s rigid binaries. Solidarity begins when certainty fails. On Gethen, survival belongs to those willing to share warmth. Special thanks to comrade Bob Wilson for the Proverb reading.

3 de oct de 2025 - 36 min
Portada del episodio Episode 8 - The Wall and the World: Anarchism, Exile, and Revolutionary Time in The Dispossessed

Episode 8 - The Wall and the World: Anarchism, Exile, and Revolutionary Time in The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed is Ursula K. Le Guin’s great anarchist novel. A story about walls, worlds, and what it means to live without masters. In this episode of Red Horizons, we explore Le Guin’s vision of an anarchist society on Anarres, the contradictions of freedom and scarcity, and the shadow cast by Urras, a world of wealth and hierarchy just across the sky. Through Shevek’s journey, we ask: what does it mean to build a world where solidarity replaces domination? And how do we fight to protect it when empire always presses at the gates? This is the opening chapter of our Le Guin arc, where we dive into her most revolutionary works. Not as escapism, but as blueprints for struggle.

19 de sep de 2025 - 38 min
Portada del episodio Episode 7 - The Stars Are Right: Reactionary Realism and the Imperial Imagination of Niven & Pournelle

Episode 7 - The Stars Are Right: Reactionary Realism and the Imperial Imagination of Niven & Pournelle

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle didn’t just write bestselling science fiction, they built survival fantasies for empire. The Mote in God’s Eye, Lucifer’s Hammer, and Footfall wrapped authoritarian order and militarized “realism” in the language of hard science fiction. In this episode, Red Horizons uncovers how their collaborations transformed fiction into ideology: collapse as stress test, violence as salvation, and continuity of government as the only future worth defending. These weren’t just stories. They were manuals for empire, echoing through Pentagon war games, aerospace strategy, and the survivalist fantasies of billionaires. 🎧 Released Thursdays on Patreon (always free), Fridays everywhere else. 🔗 patreon.com/RedHorizonsPod [https://patreon.com/RedHorizonsPod]

12 de sep de 2025 - 38 min
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Soy muy de podcasts. Mientras hago la cama, mientras recojo la casa, mientras trabajo… Y en Podimo encuentro podcast que me encantan. De emprendimiento, de salid, de humor… De lo que quiera! Estoy encantada 👍
MI TOC es feliz, que maravilla. Ordenador, limpio, sugerencias de categorías nuevas a explorar!!!
Me suscribi con los 14 días de prueba para escuchar el Podcast de Misterios Cotidianos, pero al final me quedo mas tiempo porque hacia tiempo que no me reía tanto. Tiene Podcast muy buenos y la aplicación funciona bien.
App ligera, eficiente, encuentras rápido tus podcast favoritos. Diseño sencillo y bonito. me gustó.
contenidos frescos e inteligentes
La App va francamente bien y el precio me parece muy justo para pagar a gente que nos da horas y horas de contenido. Espero poder seguir usándola asiduamente.

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