Escape Pod 894: The Uncool Hunters

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Uncool Hunters By Andrew Dana Hudson Before she settled down into publishing in Minneapolis, before she got taken for a ride by the Chicago AltNormLit scene, before she flared spectacularly out of Silicon Alley, and had her pilot shoot C&Ded by the City of Santa Barbara, and narrowly avoided cryptocollar prison in the floodzone formerly known as Tampa, Rocky Cornelius was a fucking uncool hunter. She always said it like that, with the “fucking,” because it was important for people to understand how dangerous and difficult the job was. Anyone could hang out in Bed-Stuy, Kichijoji, or the 5th Arrondissement. Anyone could find dope shit, hot trends, hip sub-viral memeplexes. It took a different moxie altogether to trawl the dull edge of the economic machete and actually come to grips with the materiality of majoritarian modern life. Way Rocky figured, the whole mid-21st century culturesensing apparatus had been fine-tuned to surface niche in-group productpractices that could be brought to masser markets. But inequality had metastasized, and societal fragmentation had reached a critical stage. Global capitalism was a bigass dinosaur with two distant brains. There was a major industry blindspot for what the hell was actually going on in the middle American consumer consciousness. In other words: what nobody was looking at was the stuff everyone was looking at.

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0:00.0	A skateboard, Episode 894. The Uncle Hunters. By Andrew Dana Hudson.
0:30.0	Hi there. Welcome to Escape Pod. I'm your host and co-editor, Mur Lafferty.
0:45.9	This week we bring you uncool hunters by Andrew Dana Hudson.
0:51.0	Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher and futurist.
0:57.0	He is the author of Our Shared Storm, a novel of five climate futures, as well as over 20 short stories,
1:04.0	appearing in Slate Future Tents, Light Speed magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review,
1:12.0	Grist, and many more. You can find out more about him at Andrew Dana Hudson.com.
1:18.0	It's narrated by our own Valerie Valdez. Valerie is the co-editor and occasional host at Escape Pod.
1:25.0	Lives in an elaborate, mean palace with her husband and kids, where she writes, edits, and moon lights as a muse.
1:32.0	I'll wait till you're done with your consensual bloody stretch, and then it's story time.
1:39.0	The Uncle Hunters. By Andrew Dana Hudson. Narrated by Valerie Valdez.
1:49.0	Before she settled down into publishing in Minneapolis, before she got taken for a ride by the Chicago alt-normally lit scene,
1:58.0	before she flared spectacularly out of silicone alley and had her pilot shoot C-Indeed by the city of Santa Barbara,
2:05.0	and narrowly avoided crypto-collar prison in the flood zone formerly known as Tampa.
2:11.0	Rocky Cornelius was a fucking uncool hunter.
2:17.0	She always said it like that, with the fucking, because it was important for people to understand how dangerous and difficult the job was.
2:26.0	Anyone could hang out in Bedstuy, Kichijoji, or the Fifth Orondiz Mont.
2:31.0	Anyone could find dope shit, hot trends, hip-subviral memeplexes.
2:37.0	It took a different moxie altogether to troll the dull edge of the economic machete and actually come to grips with the materiality of majoritarian modern life.
2:49.0	Way rocky-figured. The whole mid-21st century culture-sensing apparatus had been fine-tuned to surface niche in-group product practices that could be brought to mass or markets.
3:01.0	But inequality had metastasized, and societal fragmentation had reached a critical stage.
3:07.0	Global capitalism was a big-ass dinosaur with two distant brains.
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