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Description

We talk about the pen and paper role playing game Shadowrun, focusing on the themes it allows its players and storytellers to explore. Shadowrun is a troperific mix of sci-fi and fantasy that takes everything that's wrong about the world and blows it up at the same time.

Subjects discussed:

- Accelerationism and the Frankfurt school's influence on it

- Reclaiming Cybernetics

- Meaning in postmodern works

- Mosaicism

- Exceptionalism

- Radical infrastructure space