Category: Culture/Media
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Artist Takes Up BDS Campaign – Pulls Out of TIFF in Protest
John Greyson withdraws his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to protest the festival’s promotion of Israeli government’s strategy for cultural export. Keep reading »
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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 »