Heart of Darkness
Novella by Joseph ConradWikipedia
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Sep 21, 2026
John BatchelorHOST
Well, simultaneously, there was a contest between the Native Americans on their land and the colonials of Virginia and Pennsylvania on their land, I welcome Professor Robert G. Parkinson.
John BatchelorHOST
His new book is Heart of American Darkness.
John BatchelorHOST
Bewilderment and Murder on the Early Frontier.
John BatchelorHOST
Rob, the Pennsylvania Journal in February of 1775 prints what is famous as Logan's Lament.
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John BatchelorHOST
And we're not going to go to Shikhalemi, the United diplomat.
John BatchelorHOST
We're going to go to his second son, who is called James Logan Shikhalemi.
John BatchelorHOST
When we come back, the book is Heart of American Darkness.
John BatchelorHOST
Robert G. Parkinson is the author, Bewilderment and Horror of the Early Frontier.
John BatchelorHOST
However...
John BatchelorHOST
We now go to an additional irony that Rob finds, and I'm sympathetic to, the story by Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, about the conduct of a man named Kurtz coming up against natives, indigenous people in Central Africa.
John BatchelorHOST
Rob, can you explain quickly how these two stories intertwined for you?
Robert G. ParkinsonGUEST
Absolutely.
Robert G. ParkinsonGUEST
I mean, this...
Robert G. ParkinsonGUEST
Bewilderment being the first word of the subtitle is the theme of the book for the author as well as the reader, I think, of trying to sort out what all happens here.
Robert G. ParkinsonGUEST
The title and the theme of thinking about Joseph Conrad's brilliant and yet problematic novella, Heart of Darkness, that was published in 1902.
Robert G. ParkinsonGUEST
I would teach world history, John.
RalphHOST
Geographically it's the Everglades rather than Cameroon and it's narrated in the first person and the narrator is observing the phenomenon flanked by the obligatory military detachment which finds itself unprepared for the sudden shift in the landscape.
RalphHOST
It's aliens as opposed to Heart of Darkness but it has identical story beats including the helicopter crash, a jewelled alligator, the priest and the man in the white suit.
RalphHOST
Names have been changed, so Serena is now Emeralda, Vontress is Marconde, and Thorinson is Police Captain Shelley.
RalphHOST
The first few pages focus on the scientific discoveries and theories around the Hubble effect, and so the short story is much more explicit on the discussion of anti-time.
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RalphHOST
So, the quote continues, In the drowned world, Ballard more characteristically inverted that model, creating a hero who conspires with, rather than fight against, the climate change disaster that is overtaking his world.
RalphHOST
It was this novel which gained him acceptance as a major author, with its brilliant descriptions of an inundated London and an ecology reverting to the Triassic.
RalphHOST
A vision intensified by clear analogues between the savage anti-hero Strangman and his gang in the jungle, and Mr Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
RalphHOST
However, the self-immolating tendency of his characters drew adverse criticism.
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speaker_6HOST
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, published in 1899.
speaker_5HOST
Now, Heart of Darkness requires immediate contextualization.
speaker_6HOST
Because it is deeply entangled with the era of its creation.
speaker_5HOST
Right.
speaker_5HOST
As the source material accurately points out, Conrad was a product of the late 19th century.
speaker_6HOST
I mean, his previous book bore a title that has aged abysmally.
speaker_5HOST
And Heart of Darkness itself contains perspectives and depictions that reflect the deeply flawed colonial mindset of the time.
The RemembrancerGUEST
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The RemembrancerGUEST
but, uh, the, the creators at Yager took direct inspiration from Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella, The Heart of Darkness, and its cinematic s- uh, spiritual successor, Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The RemembrancerGUEST
The intent of the game from the outset was for players to question their decisions whilst underlying how we as consumers play games about war for entertainment whilst ignor- ignoring the ramifications of, like, mass slaughter, taking of life, et cetera.
The RemembrancerGUEST
So it's, like, quite a highbrow idea.
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DKDiamantesHOST
Oh.
The RemembrancerGUEST
Um, he's also probably likely heavily based on the American photojournalist, who doesn't have a name, from Apocalypse Now, portrayed by Dennis Hopper.
The RemembrancerGUEST
Uh, Konrad's name, his surname specifically, is a combination of the aut- author of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad with a C, and Kurtz, the antagonist of both the aforementioned book and Apocalypse Now.
The RemembrancerGUEST
So Konrad, like Konrad Kurtz.
Michael NixonHOST
There are one-on-one interviews with all of the cast.
Michael NixonHOST
There's a chapter that's just called Guns, um that i think we're going to have a lot of fun with um yeah yeah so there's there's a lot of texture to dig into but uh the great thing is this week we can really just sort of talk about episode three uh heart of darkness because it it encapsulates just everything we're really talking about
Drew HamiltonHOST
yeah so without further ado let's voice this vice thing i'm still working on catchphrases to start i'm sorry nixon
Michael NixonHOST
we'll figure it out So the pilot aired Sunday, September 16th.
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Michael NixonHOST
Oh, yes.
Michael NixonHOST
Yeah.
Michael NixonHOST
This is the moment we get the close enough Riff on a Heart of Darkness line from Artie.
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I don't want you or anybody else to question my methods,
Josh HorowitzHOST
Tells the story of two men, one kind of lost soul photographer, one who is out for some kind of redemption, revenge after a horrible tragedy befalls some of his family members.
Josh HorowitzHOST
Uh, and they kind of go on this like Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now-esque adventure journey.
Josh HorowitzHOST
Um, it is violent.
Josh HorowitzHOST
It is sexual.
Steven PalmerHOST
Um, this-
Edward JonesHOST
Heart of Darkness.
Steven PalmerHOST
Yeah.
Steven PalmerHOST
This is, um ...
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Steven PalmerHOST
Um, he's not army material, um, at all.
Steven PalmerHOST
Well, Azulin thinks he is, but he's not.
Steven PalmerHOST
Um, but, but actually this journey into this heart of darkness is the making of Gordy, and Gordy realizes lots of things.
Steven PalmerHOST
Um, he realizes, you know, the, the, the horrors of war and the, and, and the f- and, and the futility of everything he does.
John PlotzHOST
Both the explicit practice of slavery and the more diffuse practices of colonialism that corralled the less powerful into situations where they had no choice but to labor for a pittance for the benefit of the poor.
John PlotzHOST
As Joseph Conrad put it in Heart of Darkness in 1899, the conquest of the earth, which mostly means that taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
John PlotzHOST
Leo's point is that nowadays such exploitation needs a whole new set of alibis.
John PlotzHOST
Post-humanism spuriously assigns pseudo-agency to machines, as if the real questions of agency here were between skilled engineers on the one hand and living, quote, AI agents on the other.
Jon PlotzHOST
Both the explicit practice of slavery and the more diffuse practices of colonialism that corralled the less powerful into situations where they had no choice but to labor for a pittance for the benefit of the poor.
Jon PlotzHOST
As Joseph Conrad put it in Heart of Darkness in 1899, Leo's point is that nowadays, such exploitation needs a whole new set of alibis.
Jon PlotzHOST
post-humanism spuriously assigns pseudo-agency to machines, as if the real questions of agency here were between skilled engineers on the one hand and living, quote, AI agents on the other.
Jon PlotzHOST
And it makes exploitative wage slavery or piecework precarity seem reasonable.
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