Author: Garry Potter

Garry Potter is a film maker and Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has made a number of educational films, which are available for purchase at socialtheoryfilms.com. He is also author of the book Dystopia, as well as The Bet: Truth in Science, Literature and Everyday Knowledges and The Philosophy of Social Science: New Perspectives.

Luxury Eco-Communism: A Wonderful World is Possible

This film is very much not a utopian vision of the future. In fact, the very different strategies of utopian and materialist thinking for imagining the future are discussed in … Watch video »

Theory • August 23, 2020 • Garry Potter
Viral Ideas of the Pandemic Moment

“The meanings that COVID-19 takes on in different contexts is a result of the different ways it is being mediated – public health officials, news media, Hollywood, and the new … Watch video »

Public Goods • August 2, 2020 • Garry Potter and Penelope Ironstone
Political Struggle in the Time of Covid

The film explores the possibilities for socialist change in the pandemic situation. Emergency economic measures demonstrate for example that the “unaffordable” is actually not and the temporary can be made … Watch video »

Social Movements • July 19, 2020 • Garry Potter

Author: Garry Potter

Luxury Eco-Communism: A Wonderful World is Possible

Viral Ideas of the Pandemic Moment

Political Struggle in the Time of Covid