All Episodes

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

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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

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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