Cultured Swine

In which death takes a moment to linger appreciatively at the throne before continuing its grim business. A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their music here: https://terminalkhaosbuilders.bandcamp.com/music Come chat with us on our discord (...

In which war is very pointedly avoided by all involved for at least the present moment. A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their music here: https://terminalkhaosbuilders.bandcamp.com/music Come chat with us on our discord ( https://discord.g...

The classic moral philosophy problem in the form of a short story! Or that's the popular perception anyway; GSV examines that reading, and Johnny presents a less popular one with more Cultural undertones as they examine Ursula K. Le Guine's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/   https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTh...

In which war is hell and it all works out fine in the end. https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2302 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their music here:...

Attempting (and beautifully executing) an apparently rapid recovery from the pyschological problems one would expect Horza to suffer in this situation, our hero continues down his dark path, commenting on how nice the rapidly moving light at the end of the tunnel looks! How to destroy the world: https://qntm.org/destroy A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this...

A cast to downsize and a presence of demise! Horza makes his way back to the railroad that fate built for him and makes every effort to reach the death world he was destined for, but endless complexities are before him as ever. A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's...

Coprophagic Cults and ill-equipped adults! Horza continues his adventures aboard the Clear Air Turbulence, and finds himself encountering tales seemingly unrelated to his own! https://xkcd.com/558/ A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their mus...

Fascists and Feculence! Johnny and GSV begin the long awaited beginning to the culture series, as The Culture ramps up for its fight against the hated Idiran Empire! But neither the empire nor their cultured foes are the focus of this tale, as we start on contemporary religious references and move immediately on to a seemingly inconsequential pair of doomed agents fleeing dangerous situations in s...

Orbs of sight, reader's delight! GSV and Johnny, aided by special guests Jace Dickey and Zeek Aran, read through the entire damnable text of the ancient work of ill-advisedly published fantasy fiction, The Eye of Argon! Strap in for 3 hours of audiobook and 1 hour of complaining and giggling, both of them nonconsecutively. Here's the PDF version we were reading from: [ https://ansible.uk/misc/eyea...

Inversions episode 6: In which Johnny is right about goddamned everything.  This episode is the first one edited by dear friend of the show GSV. If you noticed any differences, feel free to point them out so we can get competitive about who's the better editor :D  A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off t...

Rape survivors and cruel connivers! The good doctor faces the dual threats of a duke's dastardly design and a longtime lover's sudden confidence! Urleyn faces a situation that would be very easily solved if he was just in the other narrative thread! DeWar faces some uncomfortable facts about the society he's in! At last, things are happening in this novel! http://livingwithinreason.com/ A huge tha...

Murderer Investigations and Inheritors of fledgling nations! The good Doctor attempts to discover the culprit of a strange and inexplicable murder, while DeWar tries to improve the spirit of the ailing Lattens- perhaps protecting the Protector's mental wellbeing as well as his physical safety! Professor Layton and the big dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkkNpBjYkg A huge thanks to Terminal K...

Assassinations real and imagined! Johnny and GSV enter the third episode of Inversions with a shocking murder and a "Tragic Hunting Accident" that no one can be remotely blamed for! A special thanks to my older sister who got me a wonderful new mic! And also thanks to GSV, who insisted I record on a different platform so that anyone could actually tell the difference. A huge thanks to Terminal Kha...

That which can be destroyed by proper literary criticism should be. Meditations on Moloch link: [ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ ] A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their music here: https://terminalkhaosbuilder...

Kings and Clinics! Inversions begins with a setting unfamiliar to our dear readers, but one they may remember from stories told by mad old mercenaries! A Doctor tries to leave her mark on a changing world! A bodyguard tried to save his ward from his own stupidity! Oelf immidietely reveals his incurable horniness! A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode...

Entropy and Exposition! Ian M. Banks takes off his narratorial limitters and explains backstory at maximum power! Johnny and GSV, being careful readers, mostly know what's being discussed anyway! Join us in this thrilling one-part special! A link to today's text:  http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm The referenced post by Eleizer Yudkowsky discussing The Culture:  https://www.lesswro...

Warships and Wonderment! As the affront ships close in on the excession, our heroes close in on romantic conflict resolution! Which explosion will happen first?! Will one preempt the other!? The format of this show suggests that you should already have read the sections in question and know the answers, but if not, listen and find out! A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all mus...

Aliens attack! Ships seccede! Rogues reminisce! And Johnny says Morvin f***ing Skell again!  A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their music here:  https://terminalkhaosbuilders.bandcamp.com/music   Also, the music used while GSV read the good...

Covering Excession parts 6 and 7. GSV feels hate, which may some day lead to anger! Johnny confuses characters with characters from previous books! A discussion about fallout goes on so long that most of it gets cut! And there's something going on with some weird space rock. A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never...

Alien A******s and Muddling Minds! Tension builds as Johnny and GSV cover parts 4 and 5 of Ian M. Banks' Excession! A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our opening theme is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their music here:  https://terminalkhaosbuilders.bandcamp.com/music   Come chat with us on...

Plots and prognostications! Trouble brews in the culture as forces from beyond, forces from within, and forces from the forgotten list of unresolved disputes rear their ugly heads!  A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our intro and outtro music is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their music here...

Featuring Hobodemon!  Come chat with us on our discord ( https://discord.gg/5RweN4Z )    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit culturedswine.substack.com

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Covering the beginning of the short story "State of The Art" to the end of chapter 4. State Of the Art radioplay --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU The art is finally stated Come chat with us on our discord ( https://discord.gg/5RweN4Z )   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit culturedswine.substack.co...

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit culturedswine.substack.com