Category: Culture/Media
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The ROM Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit
Re/Mapping Identity, Culture, & Colonial Discourse “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” — George Orwell Even before the highly anticipated six-month, … 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 »
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Poetry and Socialist Politics
Poet and painter Joe Rosenblatt (1933-2019) was a tremendously important icon of the Canadian cultural left in the 60s and 70s. Watch video »
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The Dirt of Pretty Things in Dirty Pretty Things (2003)
Review of Dirty Pretty Capitalism Dirty Pretty Things (2003), a film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, is a realist narrative set in the cosmopolitan global city-scape of London in the period following Thatcher’s neoliberal ascendancy. Keep reading »