Yanai Sened / Eden Kupermintz
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The podcast companion to anarchysf.com, an archive of anarchist science fiction. During each episode, we'll analyze one piece of science fiction media which explores themes relevant to left-wing ideology.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Eden and Yanai read science fiction's imagined systems as arguments about power, freedom and the political choices concealed inside world-building.
anarchySF treats science fiction as a political thought experiment whose machinery deserves close inspection. Eden and Yanai move between films, novels and games, asking how imagined worlds organize power and whose freedom their utopias quietly restrict.
Space marines have a body-politics problem, if that's the argument you've been waiting to hear.
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A loose, wide ranging anti monarchist conversation that moves from royal mourning to symbols, power, and a dry report without losing its edge.
Anarchie SF opens with royal death and quickly turns it into a clear eyed anti monarchist discussion about symbols, power, religion, semiotics, elephant society, and the habits that keep public ritual alive.
A politically charged reading of care, stability, and quiet generosity in a game.
AnarchySF treats the game as a study of what becomes possible once scrambling gives way to stability. Eden Kupermintz and Yanai keep returning to jobs, dice, and the breathing room created by better work: mistakes hurt less, lower dice can cover necessary tasks, and stronger…
A thoughtful, unruly book discussion that uses Ammonite to think through complexity without flattening it.
Nicola Griffith's Ammonite opens into a discussion about how to face ugly conditions without accepting them as permanent. From there, the hosts move into gender, what it means to be a woman, and how minority experience resists neat, shallow stereotypes.
A conversational reading that keeps the novel's freedom-versus-vulnerability tension in view.
Eden Kupermintz and Yanai Sened read the novel as a study of how shadows and fetters can turn into questions about surveillance, social legibility, and vulnerability.
A sharp conversation that uses Ixion to push on power, fate, and repetition.
AnarchySF uses Ixion to think aloud about command pressure, hierarchy, and the way a survival game can end up looking like the systems it claims to outrun.
A talky Mars Express discussion that makes legal limbo and robot oppression feel uncomfortably concrete.
AnarchySF uses Mars Express to ask what it means for androids to be present and still treated as legally disposable. It moves from the film into abolition, banishment, billionaire engineering fantasies, and the ordinary bureaucratic habits that turn violence into procedure.
A political sci-fi discussion that turns a game into an argument about revolution and state power.
The episode starts in loose, self-aware banter before settling into a political argument about revolution, state power, and what genre stories can carry without pretending to be neutral.
A conversational critique of billionaire mythmaking that stays lively even when it gets messy.
AnarchySF uses Space Sweepers to talk about billionaire power without dressing it up. The conversation keeps circling back to a plain idea: some people call hoarding wealth a talent, then sell the rest of us a story about generosity, rescue, or public good.
Great books, taken chapter by chapter, with delight
Book talk with room to wander.
Mars starts as a fake emergency.
Eden Kupermintz and Yanai Sened come back after a long gap and open with a deliberately absurd, self-aware bit about being back.
Ammonite starts in collapse.
Yanai and Eden open with the claim that they are not back, since they never really left.
Hierarchy is the first snag.
The film gets worked over.
Yanai and Eden open with a furious, funny read on the death of a monarch.
Eden Kupermintz and Yanai discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict before turning to Citizen Sleeper, a game about a consciousness in a deteriorating corporate-owned robotic body.