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What's Next for Sci-Fi and it's Empires? w/ RevLeftRadio

Lets Prattle # 3 - Help! I am Being Pathologized!

Let's Prattle #2 - Fantasies of Power

"Concerning" Men: The Patriarchy & Weaponized Media Illiteracy

Let's Prattle #1 - AI in Video Games

What Escapism Has Sown

Wolfenstein: How to Kill Fascism? W/ TheLitCritGuy

The Left Page - Oddysscourse. The Tragedy of MAGA-memnom

The Left Page 7 Year Anniversary!

The Left Page - Episode 100 - Don Quixote: Jousting with Fiction

The Left Page - Episode 99 - The First Law Standalones Pt. 2: The Heroes Journey

The Left Page - Episode 99 - The First Law Standalones Pt. 1: Back With a Revengeance

Here Be Media - Episode 64 - Hades II: The Pitfalls of Chronic Therapy

Here Be Media - Episode 63 - Superman: Fortress of Imperialism w/ André

The Left Page - Episode 98 - The Hobbit: Hobbitual Fantasy

The Left Page - Episode 97 - Golden Harvest: Abolish the Present State

Here Be Media - Episode 62 - Arrival (2016): Posadist Aliens Show Us the End of History

Conversation #0004: Star Trek, The Original Series - Continuities of Empire

Here Be Media - Episode 61 - Titane: Liberté, égalité, Peugeot Coupe w/Jay

The Left Page - Episode 96 - Berserk (Golden Age): Revitalizing Your Resolve w/ Horror Vanguard

Here Be Media - Episode 60 - El Paso: Elsewhere: Facing All That's Abyssal

Here Be Media - Episode 59 - Ghost in the Shell (1995): This whole thing smacks of gender

The Left Page - Episode 95 - The Expanse 7-9: Ideals for the Dreamless

Here Be Media - Episode 58 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: Ontological Crash Out w/ André

The Left Page - Episode 94 - Moby Dick: The White Whale is Everything w/ Jon

Here Be Media - Episode 57 - Sinners: Sinnin' till you Saint it

The Left Page - Episode 93 - Witcher Saga pt. 2: Pathologizing the Path

Here Be Media - Episode 56 - Andor (S2): Building a Rebellion on (a New) Hope

Conversation #0002 - You Forgot Yourselves

The Left Page - Episode 92 - The Witcher Saga pt.1 : The Witchering Hour

The Left Page - Episode 91 - The Historical Torment Nexus w/ Justin

Here Be Media - Episode 55 - The Wire: The Arborescent Function of the Police w/ Oli Mould

The Left Page & Here Be Media Intro

Here Be Media - Episode 54 - Dragon Age The Veilguard: A Journey from Reign to Ruin w/ Holly

The Left Page - Episode 90 - Meditations: How to Hide Inside Your Empire

Here Be Media - Episode 53 - Concept: RPGs Pt. 1

Conversation #0001 - History is Written by the Historians

Here Be Media - Episode 52 - Don Giovanni: Ways Opera deals with Societal Strife w/ Jay

Here Be Media - Episode 51 - Conclave: The Obscene Dynamics of Doubt

The Left Page - Episode 89 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Animation of Science Fiction

Here Be Media - Episode 50 - Arcane: Alienation Through Political Complacency w/ André

The Left Page - Episode 88 - The Quick and the Dead: A Traversal of Finding One's Place w/ Emma Hinds

The Left Page - Episode 87 - The First Law 1-3: Master Making Fantasy Worlds

Here Be Media - Episode 49 - Ace Combat 7: Mach 3 Speed Propaganda w/ Sid

Here Be Media - Episode 48 - Dune (1984): Lynching Social Identity w/ Audrey

Here Be Media - Episode 47 - Dragon Age: Inquisition: Putting "U" in Institution!

The Left Page - Episode 86 - Dune: The Spice is Right

Here Be Media - Episode 46 - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree: FromSoft's End of History

The Left Page - Episode 85 - Good Night, Sleep Tight: Short Friction w/ Nate

Here Be Media - Episode 45 - Interview with the Vampire S02: Vamphere, Vampthere, Vampeverywhere! w/ Jay

The Left Page - Episode 84 - The Scar: The Dangers of DIY Quantum Physics w/ Horror Vanguard

Here Be Media - Episode 44 - Paradise Killer: Defective Detectives

The Left Page - Episode 83 - Concept: Tropes and their handling of Art

Here Be Media - Episode 43 - Baldur's Gate 3: The Complexities of Creation and Desire w/ Holly

The Left Page - Episode 82 - The Expanse 4-6: A Culmination of Tragedy

The Left Page - Episode 81 - Capitalism: A Horror Story

Here Be Media - Episode 42 - X-Men '97: Liberalism's Flawed Dreams w/ André

Here Be Media - Episode 41 - Bad Game Hall of Fame: Give Bad Games a Chance

Here Be Media - Episode 40 - Concept: Canon Pt. 1

The Left Page - Episode 80 - The City and the City: Breaching Borders in Solidarity

The Left Page - Episode 79 - Gogmagog: Hybridity, innit? W/ Eden

Here Be Media - Episode 39 - Scavenger's Reign (2023): How Space Exploration Leads Us Back to Ourselves w/ Nate

Here Be Media - Episode 38 - Starship Troopers (1997): F*ck Fascism w/ HorrorVanguard

The Left Page - Episode 78 - Ways of Seeing: How Art Confronts Colonialism and the Self w/ Nadjah

Here Be Media - Episode 37 - The Prince of Egypt: When Liberation and Faith Reflect into one another

Here Be Media - Episode 36 - Bethesda: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Pulpiest of them All?

The Left Page - Episode 77 - The Actual Star: The Pitfalls Towards Actual Utopia

Here Be Media - Episode 35 - Mods: When Games Meet Post-"Mod"ernism

Here Be Media - Episode 34 - Max Payne 3: How Hate can Erode Quality

Here Be Media - Episode 33 - Cyberpunk 2077 & Edgerunners: The Dangers of Purely Aestheticizing

Here Be Media - Episode 32 - Disco Elysium: Rummaging through the Ruin of History w/ Labor Kyle

The Left Page - Episode 76 - 5 Year Anniversary: The U and I in Utopia

Here Be Media - Episode 31 - Hitman: Silliness as a Foil for Hypercompetence

The Left Page - Episode 75 - The Knowing: Art as Triangle of the Personal, Historical, and Supernatural w/ Emma Hinds

Here Be Media - Episode 30 - Looking at 2024

Here Be Media - Episode 29 - 2023 Year-in-Review

The Left Page - Episode 74 - The Secret History: How dark is this academia? We found out! w/ Jay

Here Be Media - Episode 28 - Armored Core VI: Capitalist Realism? In my Mech-Economy?!

Here Be Media - Episode 27 - Dragon Age II: The emptiness of non-committal liberalism

Here Be Media - Episode 26 - Analogue Horror: Where Horror and Nostalgia Meet w/ Leslie from Fangs for the Memories

The Left Page - Episode 73 - Woman on the Edge of Time: Ins and Outs of Communal Utopianism w/ Elton Furlanetto

Here Be Media - Episode 25 - Castlevania (2017): The Merits and Faults in our Vamps w/ Jay

The Left Page - Episode 72 - The Trial: The Alienating Iterations of the Law. w/ Horror Vanguard

Here Be Media - Episode 24 - The Neon Demon (2016): Style vs Industry w/ Tender Subject

The Left Page - Episode 71 - Dispatches from Anarres: Speculating in the LeGuinverse

Here Be Media - Episode 23 - The Unique Evils of Copyright w/ LibraryPunk

Here Be Media - Episode 22 - Stellaris: Engaging Responsibly with the History of Sci-fi

Here Be Media - Episode 21 - Concept: Queer Media pt. 1 - The Politics of Queer Sexuality in Media w/ Jay

Here Be Media - Episode 20 - 1 Year Anniversary

The Left Page - Episode 70 - The Expanse 1-3: Where Subtle Utopia Meets Responsible Dystopia

The Left Page - Episode 69 - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: The Complexities of Found Family, Micro & Macro Storytelling w/ Holly

Here Be Media - Episode 19 - Concept: Adaptation pt. 1 - Understanding the Source Material

Here Be Media - Episode 18 - Elden Ring: A Hermeneutics for the Somber and the Silly. Togetha w/ Horror Vanguard

Here Be Media - Episode 17 - Dragon Age: Origins. The Challenges of Building a Fantasy World

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

The Left Page - Episode 68 - Homo Deus: Selling Terrible History & Speculation as Prophecy. W/ Justin from LibraryPunk

Here Be Media - Episode 15 - Pentiment: Achieving Meaning through History and Mystery. W/ Holly

Here Be Media - Episode 14 - Noah (2014): Biblical Adaptations. Is there Noahlternative? W/ Justin from LibraryPunk

The Left Page - Episode 67 - The Ballad of Black Tom: Rehabilitating Lovecraftian Horror Through Social Consciousness

Here Be Media - Episode 13 - The Last of Us (HBO) - Finding Hope Through the End of the World w/ Labor Kyle

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

Here Be Media - Episode 12 - Mass Effect Trilogy: Configuring Sci-fi Story Telling with RPG-Mechanics

Here Be Media - Episode 11 - IGN #100 Games: How to Approach Consensus About the Art and Impact of Video Games

The Left Page - Episode 65 - The Baudelaire Fractal: The Liberating Potential of Being a Weird Little Guy w/ Kayte Terry

Here Be Media - Episode 10 - Crusader Kings: Considering History as a Playground

Here Be Media - Episode 9 - Crimes of the Future: Where the Visceral Meets the Psychological w/Kayte Terry

The Left Page - Episode 64 - Babel: The Languages of Empire

Here Be Media - Episode 8 - God of War: Ragnarök: The Role of Psychological Storytelling in Videogames

The Left Page - Episode 63 - The Haunting of Tram Car 015: Imagining Decolonization via Alt-history

Here Be Media - Episode 7 - Andor: Perceptions of Class Struggle and Antifascist Media

Here Be Media - Bonus Episode - What we thought of 2022 & what we expect of 2023

Episode 62 - How to Explore State and Culture within Imperialism with A Memory Called Empire

Here Be Media - Episode 6 - Voyages of Queerness in Velvet Goldmine. w/ Jay from LibraryPunk

Here Be Media - Episode 5 - Love, Death, Robots and Community within the Landscape of Media. w/ Labor Kyle

Here Be Media - Episode 4 - GRIS: Exploring the Balance of Themes, Mechanics and Aesthetics

Episode 61 - Nature, AIs and Intelligence. Taking a Break in a Psalm for the Wild-Built

Here Be Media - Episode 3 - Knights of the Old Republic 2: Breaking Away from the Monomyth into Ambiguity in Star Wars.

Here Be Media - Episode 2 - Knights of the Old Republic 1: The Binary and the Monomyth in Star Wars

Episode 60 - Psychic Vampires, Dialectical Materialism as Magic, Socialist Journalism. Entering China Miéville's Bas Lag World w/ Horror Vanguard

Episode 59 - The Witcher, On the Paths of Fantasy

Here Be Media - Episode 1 - The Mythinformation of Hades

Episode 58 - Dreaming and Critiquing Utopia w/ Faith and Capital: Omelas and Um-Helat

Episode 57 - Words and Misery, but Hope. Diving into Boris Says the Words w/ Kyle Winkler

Episode 56 - The Poetry of Humanity. On Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 w/ Labor Kyle

*Unlocked* Writer's Desk 12 - Ethics and Death of the Author - Researcher's POV

Episode 55 - The Art and Politics of Blasphemy. On Jenny Hvall's Girls Against God w/ Dr. Valeria Lindvall

Episode 54 - Criticism, Genre, and Unbuilding Walls

Episode 53 - The Endless Violence of Colonialism. On Le Guin's Word for World is Forest

Episode 52 - 3 Years of the Left Page

Episode 51 - Silvina Ocampo and her Weird Against Magical Realism

Episode 50 - Making the Theory Work for Us

Episode 49 - From Christie to the Obra Dinn. A Journey in Mysteries and History

Episode 48 - I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird of R Murray Gilchrist. W/ Daniel Pietersen

Episode 47 - Pod B Gone. Gay Demons, Videogames & Clive Barker. W/ Horror Vanguard and Labor Kyle

Writer's Desk 04 - Sci-fi: of Past, Present & Future (Unlocked!)

Episode 46 - Insisting on Hope. An Interview w/ Solarpunk Magazine

On The Left Page moving forward

Episode 45 - Behind the Neon. Neuromancer and Cyberpunk Literature

Episode 44 - Postmodern Literature, Climate Chaos and Irony. On White Noise w/ RevLeftRadio

Of the destruction of our culture

Episode 43 - Games of Power. Aristocracy and Change in The Leopard

Episode 42 - Life and Death on the Table. Babette's Feast, Memory and the Commune, w/ Alessandra Pino

Episode 41 - Of Violence and Abuse. The Nordic Noir via Mankell and Larsson. w/ Maeva Chargros

The Writer's Desk 01

Episode 40 - Productivity is a lie. On Jenny Odell's Doing Nothing w/ Nadjah O.

Episode 39 - stanzas for four hands. The business of poetry, imperialism and capital. With/by Dominick Knowles & Mathilda Cullen

Episode 38 - The Large World of Sci-Fi

Episode 37 - Folklore as Remix. Of Gothics and Writing w/ Icy Sedgwick

Episode 36 - Feminicide, Memory and Earth. On Cometierra W/ Valeria Lindvall

Episode 35 - The Inherent Darkness of Science and Knowledge: its Liberation. Returning to Le Guin w/ Coffee w/ Comrades

Episode 34 - The Atrocity of Neoliberalism in JG Ballard. W/ Labor Kyle

Episode 33 - The Gothic in Clara Reeve. Of Power, Secrets and Economics. W/ Dr. Sam Hirst

Episode 32 - Robbery and Ridicule. Is Arsène Lupin Radical?

Episode 31 - Gothic Houses & Horrors. w/ CM Rosens' The Crows

Episode 30 - Of War, pain and grime. On Vonnegut and Fiction w/ RS Benedict

The Left Page for 2021 - Special Announcement

A Beacon of Hope - A Message for 2021

Episode 29 - 'Tis the Season [for Rioting]. A Christmas Tale from China Miéville

Episode 28 - A trip to Mythology and the Violent Field of Art. On Neil Gaiman's Nordic Retelling

Poetry Club September 2020 - Baudelaire's To a Passerby (Unlocked!)

Episode 27 - Lighting Beacons Against Ligotti's Ichor of Darkness. W/ the Horror Vanguard

Episode 26 - The Striving for Revolutionary Love, from the Epiphanies with Clarice Lispector

Episode 25 - History and the Incomplete Beauty of Memory. How Funes' Perfect Memory makes us feel more Human

Episode 24 - Blood and Revolution. Werewolves among the Paris Commune

Episode 23 - Steps Towards Infinity. Critiquing Asimov's Eternity

Episode 22 - The New Perspective from the Eyes Who Ate Flesh

Episode 21 - Academia is Trash. A Lesson in Vanity by Enoch Soames

Episode 20 - Writing is not perfect, neither are us. Productivity and Time during the Pandemic

Quarantine Logs 4 - Caufield and the Legitimacy of being a Teenager

Quarantine Logs 3 - Women in the Military Dictatorship

Quarantine Logs 2 - Picard, White Saviour

Quarantine Logs 1

Episode 19 - Let me be an insect in peace! Kafka and the Domination of Capitalism

Episode 18 - The Drained Aesthetics of Imperialism. The Rotten World of Dorian Gray

Episode 17 - What About the Polka? Art and History with Machado de Assis

Episode 16 - Capitalism of the Post-Apocalyptic. Replicants and Humanity

Episode 15 - Seeking Truth In a Bamboo Grove

Episode 14 - The Spectral Black Cat of Edgar Allan Poe

Episode 13 - Between the Walls of Death and Immortality: A discussion about Borges

Episode 12 - Halloween Special! Dracula. How do we understand the vampire? W/ the Horror Vanguard

Patreon Poetry Club May 2019 - Charles Baudelaire's "L'Albatros" (Unlocked!)

Episode 11 - The Grey Out of Capitalism. A First Look at Lovecraft

Episode 10 - How can we find Guimarães Rosa's Third Bank of the River?

Episode 9 - Exploring our Unreal Cities. A Journey by Italo Calvino

Episode Z - Horny on Main for Sean Connery in Zardoz

Episode 8 - Into Borges' Labyrinths. The Detective Novel, Part II: The Analytic Detective Faces Reality

Episode 7 - The Blind Man (O Cego). Getting to know the ones we forgot

Episode 6 - Haunted by Reality. The Red Crown of Mikhail Bulgakov

Episode 5 - Finding the Light of the Shades, in the Living and the Dead. The James Joyce Short Story

Episode 4 - Investigating Sherlock Holmes. The Detective Novel, Part I: The Importance of the Analytic Detective Then and Now

Episode 3: Dreams, Writing and Ridiculousness. A Dostoyevsky Short Story

Episode 2: Slavery's Stick. Looking at the Background with Machado de Assis

Episode 1: Dystopia, Utopia and Science-Fiction. A Look at the Brave New World

The First Left Page Introduction