By Eli Allan. Music by Esme. Transcript: stationarcadia.wixsite.com/podcast/transcripts

The biggest question I’ve asked myself about Station Arcadia over the years is “Why am I doing this?”. This is also something that Kass questions.

How do we measure the value of our actions? How do we judge if something is ‘worth it’? A worthy use of time, of effort… If we can only know in retrospect, based on how it turns out, then we’ll never, ever, know whether our choices in the present moment are actually “worth it”. So that can’t be the right way to measure…

It’s intensely gratifying that as of September 2025, Station Arcadia has accumulated over 200 000 listens. We also won a few internet podcast awards, received fan-art and commentary, and even presented at a (virtual) convention once. We earned enough money through merch and our patreon to pay cast and crew members a non embarrassing honorarium. I’m extremely proud of how far we came. I tried to honour the arcpod team in wrapping up the project as I have.

Maybe that answers my question. I'm not sure.

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Social Theory Sources/Further Reading:

• Delanty, G., & Harris, N. (2021). Critical theory and the question of technology: The Frankfurt School revisited. Thesis Eleven, 166(1), 88-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136211002055 [Part 4 Specifically]


• Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. The Undercommons : Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Minor Compositions, 2013.