The Left Page & Here Be Media
By Frank and Leon
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A Podcast about the Art of the Possible. Hosted by Frank, a Brazilian Historian (@FrankGothic), and Leon, Dutch social scientist (@LaboringLeon). In which we look at Literature (The Left Page) and Media (Here Be Media) through a socio-historical & Utopian lens!
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The Left Page - Episode 78 - Ways of Seeing: How Art Confronts Colonialism and the Self w/ Nadjah
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 37 - The Prince of Egypt: When Liberation and Faith Reflect into one another
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 36 - Bethesda: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Pulpiest of them All?
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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The Left Page - Episode 77 - The Actual Star: The Pitfalls Towards Actual Utopia
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 35 - Mods: When Games Meet Post-"Mod"ernism
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 34 - Max Payne 3: How Hate can Erode Quality
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 33 - Cyberpunk 2077 & Edgerunners: The Dangers of Purely Aestheticizing
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 32 - Disco Elysium: Rummaging through the Ruin of History w/ Labor Kyle
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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The Left Page - Episode 76 - 5 Year Anniversary: The U and I in Utopia
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 31 - Hitman: Silliness as a Foil for Hypercompetence
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The Left Page - Episode 75 - The Knowing: Art as Triangle of the Personal, Historical, and Supernatural w/ Emma Hinds
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 30 - Looking at 2024
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 29 - 2023 Year-in-Review
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 74 - The Secret History: How dark is this academia? We found out! w/ Jay
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 28 - Armored Core VI: Capitalist Realism? In my Mech-Economy?!
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 27 - Dragon Age II: The emptiness of non-committal liberalism
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 26 - Analogue Horror: Where Horror and Nostalgia Meet w/ Leslie from Fangs for the Memories
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 73 - Woman on the Edge of Time: Ins and Outs of Communal Utopianism w/ Elton Furlanetto
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 25 - Castlevania (2017): The Merits and Faults in our Vamps w/ Jay
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 72 - The Trial: The Alienating Iterations of the Law. w/ Horror Vanguard
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 24 - The Neon Demon (2016): Style vs Industry w/ Tender Subject
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 71 - Dispatches from Anarres: Speculating in the LeGuinverse
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 23 - The Unique Evils of Copyright w/ LibraryPunk
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 22 - Stellaris: Engaging Responsibly with the History of Sci-fi
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 21 - Concept: Queer Media pt. 1 - The Politics of Queer Sexuality in Media w/ Jay
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 20 - 1 Year Anniversary
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 70 - The Expanse 1-3: Where Subtle Utopia Meets Responsible Dystopia
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 69 - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: The Complexities of Found Family, Micro & Macro Storytelling w/ Holly
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 19 - Concept: Adaptation pt. 1 - Understanding the Source Material
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 18 - Elden Ring: A Hermeneutics for the Somber and the Silly. Togetha w/ Horror Vanguard
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 17 - Dragon Age: Origins. The Challenges of Building a Fantasy World
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 16 - Interview With the Vampire (2022): How the Supernatural can relate to Social and Capitalist anxieties. W/ Fangs for the Memories Podcast
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 68 - Homo Deus: Selling Terrible History & Speculation as Prophecy. W/ Justin from LibraryPunk
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 15 - Pentiment: Achieving Meaning through History and Mystery. W/ Holly
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May 31, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 14 - Noah (2014): Biblical Adaptations. Is there Noahlternative? W/ Justin from LibraryPunk
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 67 - The Ballad of Black Tom: Rehabilitating Lovecraftian Horror Through Social Consciousness
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May 09, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 13 - The Last of Us (HBO) - Finding Hope Through the End of the World w/ Labor Kyle
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May 05, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 66 - And Seven Times Never Kill Man! Communication of Ideas Within the Fiction of Le Guin and G.R.R. Martin w/ Arthur Maia
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 12 - Mass Effect Trilogy: Configuring Sci-fi Story Telling with RPG-Mechanics
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 11 - IGN #100 Games: How to Approach Consensus About the Art and Impact of Video Games
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 65 - The Baudelaire Fractal: The Liberating Potential of Being a Weird Little Guy w/ Kayte Terry
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 10 - Crusader Kings: Considering History as a Playground
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 9 - Crimes of the Future: Where the Visceral Meets the Psychological w/Kayte Terry
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 64 - Babel: The Languages of Empire
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 8 - God of War: Ragnarök: The Role of Psychological Storytelling in Videogames
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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The Left Page - Episode 63 - The Haunting of Tram Car 015: Imagining Decolonization via Alt-history
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 7 - Andor: Perceptions of Class Struggle and Antifascist Media
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Here Be Media - Bonus Episode - What we thought of 2022 & what we expect of 2023
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Episode 62 - How to Explore State and Culture within Imperialism with A Memory Called Empire
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 6 - Voyages of Queerness in Velvet Goldmine. w/ Jay from LibraryPunk
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 5 - Love, Death, Robots and Community within the Landscape of Media. w/ Labor Kyle
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 4 - GRIS: Exploring the Balance of Themes, Mechanics and Aesthetics
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Episode 61 - Nature, AIs and Intelligence. Taking a Break in a Psalm for the Wild-Built
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 2 - Knights of the Old Republic 1: The Binary and the Monomyth in Star Wars
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 3 - Knights of the Old Republic 2: Breaking Away from the Monomyth into Ambiguity in Star Wars.
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Episode 60 - Psychic Vampires, Dialectical Materialism as Magic, Socialist Journalism. Entering China Miéville's Bas Lag World w/ Horror Vanguard
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Episode 59 - The Witcher, On the Paths of Fantasy
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Here Be Media - Episode 1 - The Mythinformation of Hades
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Episode 58 - Dreaming and Critiquing Utopia w/ Faith and Capital: Omelas and Um-Helat
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Episode 57 - Words and Misery, but Hope. Diving into Boris Says the Words w/ Kyle Winkler
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Episode 56 - The Poetry of Humanity. On Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 w/ Labor Kyle
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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*Unlocked* Writer's Desk 12 - Ethics and Death of the Author - Researcher's POV
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Episode 55 - The Art and Politics of Blasphemy. On Jenny Hvall’s Girls Against God w/ Dr. Valeria Lindvall
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May 17, 2022 |
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Episode 54 - Criticism, Genre, and Unbuilding Walls
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Episode 53 - The Endless Violence of Colonialism. On Le Guin's Word for World is Forest
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Episode 52 - 3 Years of the Left Page
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Episode 51 - Silvina Ocampo and her Weird Against Magical Realism
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Episode 50 - Making the Theory Work for Us
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Episode 49 - From Christie to the Obra Dinn. A Journey in Mysteries and History
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Episode 48 - I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird of R Murray Gilchrist. W/ Daniel Pietersen
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Episode 47 - Pod B Gone. Gay Demons, Videogames & Clive Barker. W/ Horror Vanguard and Labor Kyle
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Writer's Desk 04 - Sci-fi: of Past, Present & Future (Unlocked!)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Episode 46 - Insisting on Hope. An Interview w/ Solarpunk Magazine
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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On The Left Page moving forward
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Episode 45 - Behind the Neon. Neuromancer and Cyberpunk Literature
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Episode 44 - Postmodern Literature, Climate Chaos and Irony. On White Noise w/ RevLeftRadio
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Of the destruction of our culture
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Episode 43 - Games of Power. Aristocracy and Change in The Leopard
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Episode 42 - Life and Death on the Table. Babette's Feast, Memory and the Commune, w/ Alessandra Pino
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Episode 41 - Of Violence and Abuse. The Nordic Noir via Mankell and Larsson. w/ Maeva Chargros
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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The Writer's Desk 01
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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Episode 40 - Productivity is a lie. On Jenny Odell’s Doing Nothing w/ Nadjah O.
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Episode 39 - stanzas for four hands. The business of poetry, imperialism and capital. With/by Dominick Knowles & Mathilda Cullen
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May 28, 2021 |
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Episode 38 - The Large World of Sci-Fi
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May 14, 2021 |
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Episode 37 - Folklore as Remix. Of Gothics and Writing w/ Icy Sedgwick
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Episode 36 - Feminicide, Memory and Earth. On Cometierra W/ Valeria Lindvall
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Episode 35 - The Inherent Darkness of Science and Knowledge: its Liberation. Returning to Le Guin w/ Coffee w/ Comrades
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Episode 34 - The Atrocity of Neoliberalism in JG Ballard. W/ Labor Kyle
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Episode 33 - The Gothic in Clara Reeve. Of Power, Secrets and Economics. W/ Dr. Sam Hirst
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Episode 32 - Robbery and Ridicule. Is Arsène Lupin Radical?
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Episode 31 - Gothic Houses & Horrors. w/ CM Rosens' The Crows
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Episode 30 - Of War, pain and grime. On Vonnegut and Fiction w/ RS Benedict
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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The Left Page for 2021 - Special Announcement
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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A Beacon of Hope - A Message for 2021
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Episode 29 - 'Tis the Season [for Rioting]. A Christmas Tale from China Miéville
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Episode 28 - A trip to Mythology and the Violent Field of Art. On Neil Gaiman’s Nordic Retelling
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Poetry Club September 2020 - Baudelaire's To a Passerby (Unlocked!)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Episode 27 - Lighting Beacons Against Ligotti's Ichor of Darkness. W/ the Horror Vanguard
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Episode 26 - The Striving for Revolutionary Love, from the Epiphanies with Clarice Lispector
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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Episode 25 - History and the Incomplete Beauty of Memory. How Funes' Perfect Memory makes us feel more Human
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Episode 24 - Blood and Revolution. Werewolves among the Paris Commune
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Episode 23 - Steps Towards Infinity. Critiquing Asimov's Eternity
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Episode 22 - The New Perspective from the Eyes Who Ate Flesh
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Episode 21 - Academia is Trash. A Lesson in Vanity by Enoch Soames
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Episode 20 - Writing is not perfect, neither are us. Productivity and Time during the Pandemic
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May 28, 2020 |
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Quarantine Logs 4 - Caufield and the Legitimacy of being a Teenager
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May 23, 2020 |
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Quarantine Logs 3 - Women in the Military Dictatorship
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May 18, 2020 |
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Quarantine Logs 2 - Picard, White Saviour
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Apr 11, 2020 |
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Quarantine Logs 1
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Episode 19 - Let me be an insect in peace! Kafka and the Domination of Capitalism
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Episode 18 - The Drained Aesthetics of Imperialism. The Rotten World of Dorian Gray
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Episode 17 - What About the Polka? Art and History with Machado de Assis
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Episode 16 - Capitalism of the Post-Apocalyptic. Replicants and Humanity
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Episode 15 - Seeking Truth In a Bamboo Grove
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Jan 11, 2020 |
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Episode 14 - The Spectral Black Cat of Edgar Allan Poe
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Episode 13 - Between the Walls of Death and Immortality: A discussion about Borges
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Episode 12 - Halloween Special! Dracula. How do we understand the vampire? W/ the Horror Vanguard
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Patreon Poetry Club May 2019 - Charles Baudelaire's "L'Albatros" (Unlocked!)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Episode 11 - The Grey Out of Capitalism. A First Look at Lovecraft
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Episode 10 - How can we find Guimarães Rosa's Third Bank of the River?
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Episode 9 - Exploring our Unreal Cities. A Journey by Italo Calvino
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Episode Z - Horny on Main for Sean Connery in Zardoz
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Episode 8 - Into Borges' Labyrinths. The Detective Novel, Part II: The Analytic Detective Faces Reality
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Episode 7 - The Blind Man (O Cego). Getting to know the ones we forgot
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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Episode 6 - Haunted by Reality. The Red Crown of Mikhail Bulgakov
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May 15, 2019 |
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Episode 5 - Finding the Light of the Shades, in the Living and the Dead. The James Joyce Short Story
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May 01, 2019 |
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Episode 4 - Investigating Sherlock Holmes. The Detective Novel, Part I: The Importance of the Analytic Detective Then and Now
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Episode 3: Dreams, Writing and Ridiculousness. A Dostoyevsky Short Story
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Episode 2: Slavery's Stick. Looking at the Background with Machado de Assis
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Episode 1: Dystopia, Utopia and Science-Fiction. A Look at the Brave New World
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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The Left Page Introduction
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Feb 13, 2019 |