Category: Culture/Media
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Imagine a Free Palestine
I wrote Siegebreakers because I can’t liberate Gaza or Palestine, but I can dream about it. I wanted it to be a proximate dream, a dream of the next step from now, not a distant dream that depends on too many unpredictable things going right. I wanted to write about how just a few things … Keep reading »
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 »
Sneak peek: HBO’s Chernobyl
Lina Nasr, Brent Toye, and Olena Lyubchenko continue their discussion of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Listen to audio »
Stir It Up: From Whitman to Marx w/George Elliot Clarke
George Elliott Clarke reads his poems. Recorded in Toronto, 5 May 2018. Watch video »
HBO’s Chernobyl
Lina Nasr, Brent Toye, and Olena Lyubchenko offer their takes on the recent HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Listen to audio »
General Strike 1919: Cabaret
An exciting cabaret evening of music and poetry with Zing Zing Zing, Afro-Métis Nation, Mike Katz and Rick Pearson, and Mohammad Ali. Recorded in #Toronto 14 May 2019. Watch video »
Toronto 1919
Play by the Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group in memory of the Toronto General Strike in 1919. Recorded in Toronto, 14 May 2019, part of the Cabaret 1919. Watch video »
People Music: From Mozart to Climate Change
David Yearsley’s fine article “Disaster Music” in April 12 Counterpunch generates thoughts about what can be called People Music. At present, global political and environmental events unfold disastrously. Yearsley writes about people in the past facing the forces of natural catastrophes, framed as People versus God in Handel’s powerful music: “…earthquakes on land and beneath … Keep reading »
General Strike: Cabaret 1919
An exciting cabaret evening of theatre, music and poetry on the centenary of the Winnipeg General Strike (15 May 1919). Recorded in #Toronto, 14 May 2019. Watch video »
Sneak peek: Patreon-exclusive segment on Zizek/Peterson debate
We continue our discussion about the Zizek/Peterson debate. This time, we talk about the reactions that others have had to the debate and also discuss what we would’ve liked to see in the dabate. Listen to audio »
The Zizek/Peterson Debate
Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson recently debated in Toronto. Oats sits down to discuss what was supposed to be ‘the debate of the century’. Listen to audio »
Digital Games: A Canary in the Coal Mine of Capital
Not everyone plays digital games, but with the rise of casual, mobile-based gaming, we all know someone who does. With global sales revenues that far exceed global Hollywood’s annual box office, the digital games industry is a leading and fast growing sector of digital capitalism, and the logics and mechanics of digital games are spreading … Watch video »