Author: Tanner Mirrlees
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Automating Creativity? Questioning AI’s Impact on the Arts
Dr. Tanner Mirrlees’s keynote for Hot Docs Teachers’ Conference on the topic of generative AI and automation in the creative industries and higher education. The keynote focuses on the disruption … Watch video »
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Socialists on Social Media /w Dr. Tanner Mirrlees
In the digital age, socialists have used the Internet to their advantage, both for messaging and organizing. But what kind of a radical politics can really emerge from the clutches of capital and their dominance of Big Tech? Listen to audio »
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Socialist Media Politics, Digital Capitalism and Media Imperialism /w Tanner Mirrlees
On Socialist Media Politics, Digital Capitalism and Media Imperialism Listen to interview: Your browser does not support the audio element. Created and hosted by Peter Bloom, “Another World is Podable” is … Watch video »
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The Digital Revolution and its Discontents
Tanner Mirrlees (Ontario Tech University), gives the opening talk on day two of Aion Network’s Rebuild Genesis conference, April 24, 2019. Watch video »
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Episode 09: The alt-right and the Bannon-Frum debate w/ Tanner Mirrlees
Oats sat down with Tanner Mirrlees to chat about the rise of the “alt-right” as well as the recent debate between Steve Bannon and David Frum in Toronto. Listen to audio »
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A Critique of the Alt-Right’s ‘Cultural Marxism’: A Conspiracy Theory for Inter-sectional Hate
In this video, Dr. Tanner Mirrlees explores the history, content and political uses of the alt-right’s “cultural Marxist” conspiracy theory to contextualize Jordan Peterson’s slippery usage of the phrases “neo-Marxism,” “postmodern Marxism,” and sometimes, “cultural Marxism.” Watch video »
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The New (Canadian) Imperialism, in Honduras – An interview with Tyler Shipley
Tanner Mirrlees interviews Tyler Shipley about Ottawa and Empire: Canada and the Military Coup in Honduras (Between the Lines, 2017). They discuss pertinent topics such as: the meaning of Canadian imperialism, … Keep reading »
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A Review of Tyler Shipley’s Ottawa and Empire
Stories about Canada’s role in the world define “who Canadians are” and “who they are not.” The story that gets told most is a positive one. Canada, benign and benevolent, … Keep reading »
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Tanner Mirrlees – The US Empire’s Culture Industry
The US Empire’s Culture Industry Toronto — 20 October 2016. View on www.slideshare.net From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of … Watch video »
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The U.S. Empire’s Culture Industry, at Large
“U.S. Empire’s Decline”: Spectre or Social Fact? For readers immersed in the annals of Empire, it is well known that the United States is no ordinary country in the world system. … Keep reading »
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The Canadian Media Oligopoly Against Media Democracy
To observe that the North American media is dominated by corporate oligopolies serving commercial interests and squeezing out critical voices is to state the obvious. Media concentration in Canada is … Keep reading »
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Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles – An interview with Robert McChesney
In The German Ideology, Marx said the following about the media: “The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the same time over … Keep reading »