Pretty Heady Stuff

By Pretty Heady Stuff

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Episodes: 122

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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.

Episode Date
Deborah Britzman wants education to be antagonistic toward closemindedness, carelessness and violence
Mar 31, 2025
Abdaljawad Omar and Ajay Parasram outline postcolonial paths to peace via Palestinian liberation
Feb 24, 2025
Mark Stoll charts a path through histories of energy, extraction and profit
Jan 27, 2025
Sarah Marie Wiebe cares about care, insisting we fight climate change through love and reconnection
Jan 07, 2025
Ava Val gets bravery, but wonders why comedy can be so cowardly when it comes to trans lives
Dec 20, 2024
Wim Carton and Andreas Malm want a radical break to overcome the resignation to overshoot
Nov 15, 2024
Jennifer Wickham documents the fight of the Wetʼsuwetʼen against pipelines, pollution and plunder
Oct 24, 2024
Alder Keleman Saxena sees how climate impacts & neoliberalism exacerbate each other
Oct 17, 2024
Robert Neubauer traces how Right-wing populism sells the fiction that fossil fuels are inevitable
Sep 20, 2024
Alice Mah and Cara Daggett talk degrowth, doomerism and the ecological damage of endless growth
Aug 09, 2024
Allie Rougeot recounts her route to climate activism and shares her vision of a just transition
Jul 05, 2024
Ingrid Waldron gives us solutions to the scourge of environmental racism that reimagine space
Jun 03, 2024
Catherine Abreu expresses a deep commitment to climate action & explains why the system must change
Apr 26, 2024
Darin Barney, Jesse Goldstein & Hannah Tollefson narrate anti-capitalist energy futures
Apr 09, 2024
Abboud Hamayel interrogates the perpetual state of war Israel imposes on Palestinians
Mar 17, 2024
Sherene Seikaly yearns for what we can’t see: a world without genocide, ecocide or epistemicide
Mar 01, 2024
Nadia Yaqub chronicles the struggles and steadfastness of Palestine through visual culture
Feb 16, 2024
Jeff Karabanow bridges action and fieldwork in the struggle to end homelessness
Feb 09, 2024
Veronica Post zigzags through stories of care, crisis, migration and trauma
Jan 29, 2024
Gideon Levy implores us to thwart Israel’s wanton destruction of Palestinian life
Jan 12, 2024
Licypriya Kangujam staged an intervention for fossil fuel addicts out of concern for the planet
Jan 05, 2024
Hadil Kamal describes the beauty of living in Palestine and the brutality of Israeli occupation
Dec 29, 2023
Michael Hardt subverts ideas about political failure and revisits histories of liberation struggle
Dec 22, 2023
Mark Paul challenges the economic and environmental injustices of neoliberalism in a climate crisis
Dec 15, 2023
Seth Klein galvanizes us to fight a future of climate chaos and guards against historical amnesia
Dec 08, 2023
Margaret Galvan travels between visual archives to sense how memory is preserved & proscribed
Dec 01, 2023
Macarena Gómez-Barris refuses to abandon the hope for a future after extractivism
Nov 24, 2023
Matt Wolf makes documentaries that spotlight world-builders and risk-takers
Nov 17, 2023
Sara Ahmed extols the feminist killjoy and iterates on her sweeping oeuvre
Nov 10, 2023
Kyla Tienhaara sheds light on legal barriers to climate action & outlines a path to just transition
Nov 03, 2023
Gernot Wagner pulls apart the paradoxes of economics, expediency and growth in climate action
Oct 20, 2023
Casey Williams & Rhys Williams amplify the value of friction & rethink the promises of technology
Oct 06, 2023
Amanda Boetzkes contemplates what it means for waste to be charged with meaning
Sep 22, 2023
Sarah Marie Wiebe searches for strategies to resist disaster and incite joy
Sep 11, 2023
Raja Swamy moves from resilience to resistance in the struggle against exploitative development
Aug 23, 2023
Brenna Walsh factors in the social cost of carbon when fighting fossil fuel dependency
Aug 04, 2023
Paris Marx targets the gnarled roots of our broken transportation infrastructure
Jul 21, 2023
Thomas Beller takes a step back and looks at basketball more critically
Jul 07, 2023
Amy Cardinal Christianson on Indigenous fire stewardship as climate action & cultural practice
Jun 23, 2023
John Vaillant confronts the climate-induced brutality of modern wildfires
Jun 07, 2023
Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AI
May 12, 2023
Evan Newman dwells with the quandary of musicians concerned about the climate crisis
Apr 24, 2023
Angele Alook & David Gray-Donald breathe new life into the struggle for a habitable planet
Apr 21, 2023
Moira Weigel listens closely to entrepreneurs working within Amazon’s empire
Apr 13, 2023
Wendy Chun rejects the unsustainable assumptions that govern networks & make technology undemocratic
Mar 24, 2023
Alexander Etkind spotlights the asymmetrical sacrifice & oil curse at the core of the War in Ukraine
Mar 17, 2023
Natasha Lennard lauds the successes of social movements & the vitality of oppositional rage
Mar 03, 2023
Sarah King vies to end the plastic era by closing loopholes and confronting industry
Feb 21, 2023
Heather Davis and Mark Simpson deconstruct the toxic and unknown properties of plastics
Feb 10, 2023
Kim Fry rallies musicians to take a stand on energy transition and the climate crisis
Feb 01, 2023
Tanner Mirrlees wrestles with American militarism and the cultural projection of imperial power
Jan 13, 2023
El Jones strengthens the bonds of solidarity and fights for the abolition of prisons
Dec 16, 2022
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay & Alexis Shotwell diagnose systems & document the timescales of disease
Dec 05, 2022
Fab Filippo & Gray Powell describe the humour & humility required to care & create in a messy world
Nov 14, 2022
Marcus Boon amplifies the spiritual, mathematical and political aspects of music
Nov 04, 2022
Ben Tarnoff untangles the histories and complex architectures of the modern internet
Oct 14, 2022
Ajay Parasram & Alex Khasnabish answer pressing questions about racism & anti-racist politics
Sep 29, 2022
Monty Scott laughs at the abyss and enlightens us on comedy in Canada
Sep 09, 2022
Sandra Battaglini takes a hard look at the business of comedy in Canada
Aug 25, 2022
Armond R. Towns explores the mechanics of revolutionary thought and the media of resistance
Aug 12, 2022
Janelle Niles is creating a legacy in comedy based on camaraderie and care
Aug 05, 2022
Tey Meadow believes passionately in gender diversity and supporting transgender youth
Jul 26, 2022
Al Val brings joy, truth and trans representation to the comedy scene
Jul 22, 2022
Gernot Wagner breaks down the economics of climate collapse & the cultural barriers to change
Jul 12, 2022
Clayton Thomas-Müller helps protect Mother Earth through art, activism and a little bit of magic
Jul 08, 2022
Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam & Shiri Pasternak plant the seeds for abolitionist transformation
Jun 24, 2022
Jennifer Esposito & Venus Evans-Winters embolden activists & intellectuals to fight harm
Jun 15, 2022
Murtaza Hussain looks for a moral baseline in a world riven by power and conflict
Jun 02, 2022
Max Haiven unmasks the global entanglement & human sacrifice that the palm oil industry demands
May 26, 2022
Meredith Ralston unchains sexual pleasure from carceral thinking & calls for an end to slut-shaming
May 20, 2022
Rebecca Wanzo insists we reassess the way we read and condemn stereotypical representations
May 12, 2022
Dru Oja Jay breaks down the manifest necessity and moral hazards of political compromise
May 04, 2022
Uahikea Maile nurtures radical responsibility & a refusal of settler colonial capitalism
Apr 26, 2022
Shannon Miedema connects the climate emergency to the need for coordinated political action
Apr 22, 2022
Ivo Nieuwenhuis implores us to take comedy seriously and to think deeply about humour scandals
Apr 13, 2022
Keolu Fox, Theresa Stewart-Ambo & K. Wayne Yang dream of flourishing Indigenous futures
Mar 28, 2022
Yuliya Yurchenko expands the frame for understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Mar 16, 2022
Joshua Cotter draws the reader in by rendering the indescribable complexity of consciousness
Feb 28, 2022
Tari Ajadi, El Jones & Julia Rodgers define democracy as trusting the public & investing in care
Feb 22, 2022
Gina Dent & Erica Meiners offer abolition feminism as a way to fight the prison-industrial complex
Feb 15, 2022
Ardath Whynacht advocates insurgent love & indicts the carceral system that colonialism built
Feb 07, 2022
Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald refuse to abandon victims to a vicious world
Feb 03, 2022
Nora Loreto signals the need for social change & pushes journalists to dig deeper
Jan 24, 2022
Melanie Yazzie traffics in radical certainty & fights against the fallout of political atomization
Jan 14, 2022
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel radicalize care through deep medicine and an urgent appeal for plurality
Jan 05, 2022
Imre Szeman campaigns for a revolution in energy use and environmental communication
Dec 16, 2021
Jeff Diamanti zooms in on the terminal & reinforces the elemental otherness of the planet
Dec 03, 2021
Matt Bors curates a space for alternative cartooning and traces the roots of the webcomic
Nov 26, 2021
Neil Cohn rethinks visual literacy and underscores the unexplored dynamics of comic books
Nov 11, 2021
Carlyn Zwarenstein shatters our misconceptions about opioids and refuses the violence of prohibition
Oct 19, 2021
Francesca Ekwuyasi yearns for stories about pleasure and writes searingly about pain
Sep 22, 2021
Henry Adam Svec plays with norms of songwriting & storytelling, urging us to plug in & pick a team
Jul 29, 2021
Judith Butler dismantles the forces that unleash violence
Jun 08, 2021
Andreas Malm thinks through how to break the spell of climate change defeatism & fossil fascism
May 25, 2021
Nora Loreto uses humour and critical debate to confront the neoliberal politics of fauxminism
May 04, 2021
Natasha Lennard elevates oppositional movements & attacks the conditions for contemporary fascism
Apr 23, 2021
Daniel Lombroso documents a groundswell of racist populism and tracks the sources of violence
Apr 14, 2021
Caroline Monnet finds meaning in the border spaces and experiments with strategies for change
Apr 01, 2021
Anna Tsing mines the meanings of ferality and summons the ghosts of haunted landscapes
Feb 18, 2021
Holly Jean Buck takes seriously the innovation and revolutionary change needed to repair the planet.
Feb 05, 2021
Kathi Weeks expands on economic power, essential work and the tension between reform and revolution
Dec 17, 2020
Cara Daggett sparks a dialogue on dynamism and works to demystify the human relationship to energy.
Dec 15, 2020
Derf Backderf discusses how comics can nurture dissent, empower readers and offer new perspectives.
Nov 06, 2020
Alexis Shotwell outs the lie of individual purity & encourages an entangled sense of responsibility.
Oct 23, 2020
Max Taylor resists public apathy & throws his hat into the ring, powered by the TikTok boom.
Oct 10, 2020
Jesse David Fox reckons with the ways that comedy restores, challenges and reorients us.
Oct 02, 2020
Andy Brown on the languages of the literary graphic novel & the intuitive art of editing.
Aug 07, 2020
Summer Pierre captures the ways that music moves us and images come to matter.
Jul 26, 2020
Veronica Post draws links between borders, injustice & the power of stories to provoke thought.
Jul 16, 2020
Rebecca Roher outlines the exhilarating puzzle of making comics that inspire a sense of wonder.
Jul 12, 2020
Cassie Thornton imagines how radical collaboration and revolutionary care networks are possible.
Jul 07, 2020
Liza Mandelup sheds light on the meaning and making of her documentary Jawline.
Jun 25, 2020
Elaine Power on the politics of food provision and the necessity of a basic income guarantee.
Jun 18, 2020
Dave Zirin on anti-racism and nonviolence in contemporary sports and culture.
Jun 04, 2020
Linda MacDonald & Jeanne Sarson on feminism as a means of opposing misogyny and mass violence.
May 22, 2020
Priscilla Wald on microbial metaphors, outbreak narratives and the politics of pandemic disease.
May 03, 2020
Joe Duggan on using emotion to communicate the empirical truth of climate change
Apr 27, 2020
Max Haiven on the desire for vengeance and the demons of capital
Mar 29, 2020
Jodi Cooper on the promise and challenge of crowdfunded filmmaking.
Mar 08, 2020
Box Brown on the complex frivolity of comic books
Mar 08, 2020
Jeff Diamanti on capturing the climate emergency in a system that resists change
Mar 08, 2020
El Jones on the power of critical intervention as a driver of social justice
Mar 08, 2020