Pretty Heady Stuff
By Pretty Heady Stuff
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Episodes: 155
Description
This podcast features interviews with a variety of theorists, artists and activists from across the globe. It's guided by the search for radical solutions to crises that are inherent to colonial capitalism. To this end, I hope to keep facilitating conversations that bring together perspectives on the liberatory and transformative power of care, in particular.
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Marta Figlerowicz thinks Maria Janion’s political insights are key to navigating our present chaos
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Alexander Gallant & Joel Plaskett harmonize on concept albums & finding the lyrical in everyday life
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Steven Swarbrick conceives of a world where Palestine is free because none of us "belong"
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan want a world where "sustainability" isn't meaningless
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May 27, 2026 |
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Arang Keshavarzian examines the politics of modern Iran and devises an escape from perpetual war
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May 13, 2026 |
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Aaron Hagey-MacKay opines on satire as sensemaking, and scenarios where we 'bend but don't break'
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Ava Val believes in comedy as a source of joy, site of community and weapon against cynicism
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Wim Carton dissects the gore, gaslighting and chaotic consequences of fossil capitalism
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Jeff Diamanti tracks the shockwaves disrupting the global economy as war rages on in Iran
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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C. Thi Nguyen troubles the way the art of play and agency in games is co-opted & commodified
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Shora Esmailian refuses to abandon hope for freedom and self-determination in Iran
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Alyssa Battistoni takes apart the hostile system that incentivizes taking selfishly from nature
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Timothy Leduc finds meaning in humility, ecological wonder and pluralistic thinking
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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James Adomian goads us to laugh our way through the absolute absurdity of our moment
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Harsha Walia reframes ICE fascism and American aggression in an era of border brutality
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Anna Quon muses about mental health, social trust and the costs of inequality
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Rana Zaman struggles for universal human rights and peace globally. Why is she being attacked?
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Kai Bosworth wonders whether populism can turn us into climate activists
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Nora Loreto and Alex Khasnabish argue for saving the university from itself
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Sherene Seikaly knows the Nakba never ceased. Who will stop that history from being the future?
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Sarah Stein Lubrano offers a recipe for reviving sociality and detoxifying democracy
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Ingrid Waldron traces the psychological scars & medical neglect of trauma in Black communities
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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El Jones and Jonathan Liew decode how sportswashing works and why Israel is struggling to use it
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Dominic Boyer derides the fossilized luxury and conveniences that bind us to ecological breakdown
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Rupa Marya demonstrates the courage required to contest the neocolonial erasure of Palestine
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Kilian Jörg plays with new ways of being toward nature and puzzles over the pitfalls of Reason
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Alexander Gallant and Sarah Swire walk us through the ecstatic discipline of making music
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May 22, 2025 |
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Caleb Wellum treats the oil shocks of the 1970s as a byproduct of neoliberalism’s Cold War conquest
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May 16, 2025 |
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James Rowe finds insight and sites of social justice in a mindful relation to death
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May 03, 2025 |
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Imre Szeman spurns the standard logic of the energy transition: that capitalism will save the Earth
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Max Haiven invites us to unleash chaos and grab the world’s wealth with Billionaires and Guillotines
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Mark Bourrie rips Pierre Poilievre for being Canada's "Trump-lite,” sowing division and stoking political grievance
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Judy Haiven knows we can't wait for the powerful to change, we have to organize against them
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Deborah Britzman wants education to be antagonistic toward closemindedness, carelessness and violence
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Abdaljawad Omar and Ajay Parasram outline postcolonial paths to peace via Palestinian liberation
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Mark Stoll charts a path through histories of energy, extraction and profit
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Sarah Marie Wiebe cares about care, insisting we fight climate change through love and reconnection
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Ava Val gets bravery, but wonders why comedy can be so cowardly when it comes to trans lives
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Wim Carton and Andreas Malm want a radical break to overcome the resignation to overshoot
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Jennifer Wickham documents the fight of the Wetʼsuwetʼen against pipelines, pollution and plunder
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Alder Keleman Saxena sees how climate impacts & neoliberalism exacerbate each other
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Robert Neubauer traces how Right-wing populism sells the fiction that fossil fuels are inevitable
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Alice Mah and Cara Daggett talk degrowth, doomerism and the ecological damage of endless growth
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Allie Rougeot recounts her route to climate activism and shares her vision of a just transition
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Ingrid Waldron gives us solutions to the scourge of environmental racism that reimagine space
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Catherine Abreu expresses a deep commitment to climate action & explains why the system must change
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Darin Barney, Jesse Goldstein & Hannah Tollefson narrate anti-capitalist energy futures
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Abboud Hamayel interrogates the perpetual state of war Israel imposes on Palestinians
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Sherene Seikaly yearns for what we can’t see: a world without genocide, ecocide or epistemicide
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Nadia Yaqub chronicles the struggles and steadfastness of Palestine through visual culture
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Jeff Karabanow bridges action and fieldwork in the struggle to end homelessness
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Veronica Post zigzags through stories of care, crisis, migration and trauma
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Gideon Levy implores us to thwart Israel’s wanton destruction of Palestinian life
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Licypriya Kangujam staged an intervention for fossil fuel addicts out of concern for the planet
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Hadil Kamal describes the beauty of living in Palestine and the brutality of Israeli occupation
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Michael Hardt subverts ideas about political failure and revisits histories of liberation struggle
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Mark Paul challenges the economic and environmental injustices of neoliberalism in a climate crisis
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Seth Klein galvanizes us to fight a future of climate chaos and guards against historical amnesia
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Margaret Galvan travels between visual archives to sense how memory is preserved & proscribed
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Macarena Gómez-Barris refuses to abandon the hope for a future after extractivism
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Matt Wolf makes documentaries that spotlight world-builders and risk-takers
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Sara Ahmed extols the feminist killjoy and iterates on her sweeping oeuvre
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Kyla Tienhaara sheds light on legal barriers to climate action & outlines a path to just transition
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Gernot Wagner pulls apart the paradoxes of economics, expediency and growth in climate action
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Casey Williams & Rhys Williams amplify the value of friction & rethink the promises of technology
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Amanda Boetzkes contemplates what it means for waste to be charged with meaning
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Sarah Marie Wiebe searches for strategies to resist disaster and incite joy
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Raja Swamy moves from resilience to resistance in the struggle against exploitative development
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Brenna Walsh factors in the social cost of carbon when fighting fossil fuel dependency
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Paris Marx targets the gnarled roots of our broken transportation infrastructure
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Thomas Beller takes a step back and looks at basketball more critically
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Amy Cardinal Christianson on Indigenous fire stewardship as climate action & cultural practice
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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John Vaillant confronts the climate-induced brutality of modern wildfires
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AI
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May 12, 2023 |
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Evan Newman dwells with the quandary of musicians concerned about the climate crisis
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Angele Alook & David Gray-Donald breathe new life into the struggle for a habitable planet
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Moira Weigel listens closely to entrepreneurs working within Amazon’s empire
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Wendy Chun rejects the unsustainable assumptions that govern networks & make technology undemocratic
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Alexander Etkind spotlights the asymmetrical sacrifice & oil curse at the core of the War in Ukraine
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Natasha Lennard lauds the successes of social movements & the vitality of oppositional rage
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Sarah King vies to end the plastic era by closing loopholes and confronting industry
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Heather Davis and Mark Simpson deconstruct the toxic and unknown properties of plastics
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Kim Fry rallies musicians to take a stand on energy transition and the climate crisis
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Tanner Mirrlees wrestles with American militarism and the cultural projection of imperial power
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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El Jones strengthens the bonds of solidarity and fights for the abolition of prisons
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay & Alexis Shotwell diagnose systems & document the timescales of disease
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Fab Filippo & Gray Powell describe the humour & humility required to care & create in a messy world
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Marcus Boon amplifies the spiritual, mathematical and political aspects of music
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Ben Tarnoff untangles the histories and complex architectures of the modern internet
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Ajay Parasram & Alex Khasnabish answer pressing questions about racism & anti-racist politics
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Monty Scott laughs at the abyss and enlightens us on comedy in Canada
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Sandra Battaglini takes a hard look at the business of comedy in Canada
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Armond R. Towns explores the mechanics of revolutionary thought and the media of resistance
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Janelle Niles is creating a legacy in comedy based on camaraderie and care
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Tey Meadow believes passionately in gender diversity and supporting transgender youth
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Al Val brings joy, truth and trans representation to the comedy scene
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Gernot Wagner breaks down the economics of climate collapse & the cultural barriers to change
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Clayton Thomas-Müller helps protect Mother Earth through art, activism and a little bit of magic
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam & Shiri Pasternak plant the seeds for abolitionist transformation
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Jennifer Esposito & Venus Evans-Winters embolden activists & intellectuals to fight harm
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Murtaza Hussain looks for a moral baseline in a world riven by power and conflict
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Max Haiven unmasks the global entanglement & human sacrifice that the palm oil industry demands
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May 26, 2022 |
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Meredith Ralston unchains sexual pleasure from carceral thinking & calls for an end to slut-shaming
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May 20, 2022 |
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Rebecca Wanzo insists we reassess the way we read and condemn stereotypical representations
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May 12, 2022 |
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Dru Oja Jay breaks down the manifest necessity and moral hazards of political compromise
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May 04, 2022 |
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Uahikea Maile nurtures radical responsibility & a refusal of settler colonial capitalism
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Shannon Miedema connects the climate emergency to the need for coordinated political action
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Ivo Nieuwenhuis implores us to take comedy seriously and to think deeply about humour scandals
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Keolu Fox, Theresa Stewart-Ambo & K. Wayne Yang dream of flourishing Indigenous futures
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Yuliya Yurchenko expands the frame for understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Joshua Cotter draws the reader in by rendering the indescribable complexity of consciousness
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Tari Ajadi, El Jones & Julia Rodgers define democracy as trusting the public & investing in care
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Gina Dent & Erica Meiners offer abolition feminism as a way to fight the prison-industrial complex
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Ardath Whynacht advocates insurgent love & indicts the carceral system that colonialism built
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald refuse to abandon victims to a vicious world
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Nora Loreto signals the need for social change & pushes journalists to dig deeper
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Melanie Yazzie traffics in radical certainty & fights against the fallout of political atomization
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Rupa Marya and Raj Patel radicalize care through deep medicine and an urgent appeal for plurality
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Imre Szeman campaigns for a revolution in energy use and environmental communication
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Jeff Diamanti zooms in on the terminal & reinforces the elemental otherness of the planet
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Matt Bors curates a space for alternative cartooning and traces the roots of the webcomic
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Neil Cohn rethinks visual literacy and underscores the unexplored dynamics of comic books
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Carlyn Zwarenstein shatters our misconceptions about opioids and refuses the violence of prohibition
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Francesca Ekwuyasi yearns for stories about pleasure and writes searingly about pain
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Henry Adam Svec plays with norms of songwriting & storytelling, urging us to plug in & pick a team
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Judith Butler dismantles the forces that unleash violence
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Andreas Malm thinks through how to break the spell of climate change defeatism & fossil fascism
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May 25, 2021 |
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Nora Loreto uses humour and critical debate to confront the neoliberal politics of fauxminism
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May 04, 2021 |
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Natasha Lennard elevates oppositional movements & attacks the conditions for contemporary fascism
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Daniel Lombroso documents a groundswell of racist populism and tracks the sources of violence
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Caroline Monnet finds meaning in the border spaces and experiments with strategies for change
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Anna Tsing mines the meanings of ferality and summons the ghosts of haunted landscapes
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Holly Jean Buck takes seriously the innovation and revolutionary change needed to repair the planet.
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Kathi Weeks expands on economic power, essential work and the tension between reform and revolution
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Cara Daggett sparks a dialogue on dynamism and works to demystify the human relationship to energy.
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Derf Backderf discusses how comics can nurture dissent, empower readers and offer new perspectives.
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Alexis Shotwell outs the lie of individual purity & encourages an entangled sense of responsibility.
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Max Taylor resists public apathy & throws his hat into the ring, powered by the TikTok boom.
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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Jesse David Fox reckons with the ways that comedy restores, challenges and reorients us.
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Andy Brown on the languages of the literary graphic novel & the intuitive art of editing.
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Summer Pierre captures the ways that music moves us and images come to matter.
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Veronica Post draws links between borders, injustice & the power of stories to provoke thought.
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Rebecca Roher outlines the exhilarating puzzle of making comics that inspire a sense of wonder.
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Cassie Thornton imagines how radical collaboration and revolutionary care networks are possible.
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Liza Mandelup sheds light on the meaning and making of her documentary Jawline.
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Elaine Power on the politics of food provision and the necessity of a basic income guarantee.
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Dave Zirin on anti-racism and nonviolence in contemporary sports and culture.
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Linda MacDonald & Jeanne Sarson on feminism as a means of opposing misogyny and mass violence.
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May 22, 2020 |
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Priscilla Wald on microbial metaphors, outbreak narratives and the politics of pandemic disease.
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May 03, 2020 |
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Joe Duggan on using emotion to communicate the empirical truth of climate change
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Max Haiven on the desire for vengeance and the demons of capital
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Jodi Cooper on the promise and challenge of crowdfunded filmmaking.
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Box Brown on the complex frivolity of comic books
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Jeff Diamanti on capturing the climate emergency in a system that resists change
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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El Jones on the power of critical intervention as a driver of social justice
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Mar 08, 2020 |