Pretty Heady Stuff
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Harsha Walia reframes ICE fascism and American aggression in an era of border brutality
38 mins; January 20, 2026
Anna Quon muses about mental health, social trust and the costs of inequality
57 mins; January 08, 2026
Rana Zaman struggles for universal human rights and peace globally. Why is she being attacked?
75 hours 55 mins; December 23, 2025
Kai Bosworth wonders whether populism can turn us into climate activists
62 hours 32 mins; December 05, 2025
Nora Loreto and Alex Khasnabish argue for saving the university from itself
87 hours 45 mins; November 13, 2025
Sherene Seikaly knows the Nakba never ceased. Who will stop that history from being the future?
62 hours 46 mins; October 24, 2025
Sarah Stein Lubrano offers a recipe for reviving sociality and detoxifying democracy
110 hours 47 mins; October 01, 2025
Ingrid Waldron traces the psychological scars & medical neglect of trauma in Black communities
71 hours 3 mins; September 22, 2025
El Jones and Jonathan Liew decode how sportswashing works and why Israel is struggling to use it
58 mins; September 13, 2025
Dominic Boyer derides the fossilized luxury and conveniences that bind us to ecological breakdown
71 hours 33 mins; July 31, 2025
Rupa Marya demonstrates the courage required to contest the neocolonial erasure of Palestine
51 mins; July 06, 2025
Kilian Jörg plays with new ways of being toward nature and puzzles over the pitfalls of Reason
65 hours 25 mins; June 23, 2025
Alexander Gallant and Sarah Swire walk us through the ecstatic discipline of making music
80 hours 26 mins; May 21, 2025
Caleb Wellum treats the oil shocks of the 1970s as a byproduct of neoliberalism’s Cold War conquest
0 secs; May 16, 2025
James Rowe finds insight and sites of social justice in a mindful relation to death
0 secs; May 03, 2025
Imre Szeman spurns the standard logic of the energy transition: that capitalism will save the Earth
0 secs; April 22, 2025
Max Haiven invites us to unleash chaos and grab the world’s wealth with Billionaires and Guillotines
0 secs; April 20, 2025
Mark Bourrie rips Pierre Poilievre for being Canada's "Trump-lite,” sowing division and stoking political grievance
49 mins; April 17, 2025
Judy Haiven knows we can't wait for the powerful to change, we have to organize against them
50 mins; April 13, 2025
Deborah Britzman wants education to be antagonistic toward closemindedness, carelessness and violence
55 mins; March 30, 2025
Abdaljawad Omar and Ajay Parasram outline postcolonial paths to peace via Palestinian liberation
0 secs; February 24, 2025
Mark Stoll charts a path through histories of energy, extraction and profit
41 mins; January 26, 2025
Sarah Marie Wiebe cares about care, insisting we fight climate change through love and reconnection
51 mins; January 06, 2025
Ava Val gets bravery, but wonders why comedy can be so cowardly when it comes to trans lives
42 mins; December 19, 2024
Wim Carton and Andreas Malm want a radical break to overcome the resignation to overshoot
44 mins; November 14, 2024
Jennifer Wickham documents the fight of the WetĘĽsuwetĘĽen against pipelines, pollution and plunder
43 mins; October 23, 2024
Alder Keleman Saxena sees how climate impacts & neoliberalism exacerbate each other
49 mins; October 16, 2024
Robert Neubauer traces how Right-wing populism sells the fiction that fossil fuels are inevitable
86 hours 3 mins; September 20, 2024
Alice Mah and Cara Daggett talk degrowth, doomerism and the ecological damage of endless growth
67 hours 11 mins; August 09, 2024
Allie Rougeot recounts her route to climate activism and shares her vision of a just transition
64 hours 57 mins; July 05, 2024
Ingrid Waldron gives us solutions to the scourge of environmental racism that reimagine space
84 hours 6 mins; June 03, 2024
Catherine Abreu expresses a deep commitment to climate action & explains why the system must change
55 mins; April 26, 2024
Darin Barney, Jesse Goldstein & Hannah Tollefson narrate anti-capitalist energy futures
81 hours 20 mins; April 09, 2024
Abboud Hamayel interrogates the perpetual state of war Israel imposes on Palestinians
81 hours 32 mins; March 17, 2024
Sherene Seikaly yearns for what we can’t see: a world without genocide, ecocide or epistemicide
89 hours 14 mins; March 01, 2024
Nadia Yaqub chronicles the struggles and steadfastness of Palestine through visual culture
82 hours 34 mins; February 16, 2024
Jeff Karabanow bridges action and fieldwork in the struggle to end homelessness
66 hours 28 mins; February 09, 2024
Veronica Post zigzags through stories of care, crisis, migration and trauma
56 mins; January 29, 2024
Gideon Levy implores us to thwart Israel’s wanton destruction of Palestinian life
57 mins; January 12, 2024
Licypriya Kangujam staged an intervention for fossil fuel addicts out of concern for the planet
38 mins; January 05, 2024
Hadil Kamal describes the beauty of living in Palestine and the brutality of Israeli occupation
64 hours 36 mins; December 29, 2023
Michael Hardt subverts ideas about political failure and revisits histories of liberation struggle
75 hours 41 mins; December 22, 2023
Mark Paul challenges the economic and environmental injustices of neoliberalism in a climate crisis
50 mins; December 15, 2023
Seth Klein galvanizes us to fight a future of climate chaos and guards against historical amnesia
48 mins; December 08, 2023
Margaret Galvan travels between visual archives to sense how memory is preserved & proscribed
60 hours 50 mins; December 01, 2023
Macarena GĂłmez-Barris refuses to abandon the hope for a future after extractivism
46 mins; November 24, 2023
Matt Wolf makes documentaries that spotlight world-builders and risk-takers
36 mins; November 17, 2023
Sara Ahmed extols the feminist killjoy and iterates on her sweeping oeuvre
60 hours 41 mins; November 10, 2023
Kyla Tienhaara sheds light on legal barriers to climate action & outlines a path to just transition
54 mins; November 03, 2023
Gernot Wagner pulls apart the paradoxes of economics, expediency and growth in climate action
53 mins; October 20, 2023
Casey Williams & Rhys Williams amplify the value of friction & rethink the promises of technology
106 hours 59 mins; October 06, 2023
Amanda Boetzkes contemplates what it means for waste to be charged with meaning
70 hours 44 mins; September 21, 2023
Sarah Marie Wiebe searches for strategies to resist disaster and incite joy
57 mins; September 11, 2023
Raja Swamy moves from resilience to resistance in the struggle against exploitative development
67 hours 50 mins; August 23, 2023
Brenna Walsh factors in the social cost of carbon when fighting fossil fuel dependency
59 mins; August 04, 2023
Paris Marx targets the gnarled roots of our broken transportation infrastructure
71 hours 18 mins; July 21, 2023
Thomas Beller takes a step back and looks at basketball more critically
49 mins; July 07, 2023
Amy Cardinal Christianson on Indigenous fire stewardship as climate action & cultural practice
64 hours 9 mins; June 23, 2023
John Vaillant confronts the climate-induced brutality of modern wildfires
59 mins; June 07, 2023
Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AI
66 hours 25 mins; May 12, 2023
Evan Newman dwells with the quandary of musicians concerned about the climate crisis
32 mins; April 24, 2023
Angele Alook & David Gray-Donald breathe new life into the struggle for a habitable planet
52 mins; April 21, 2023
Moira Weigel listens closely to entrepreneurs working within Amazon’s empire
58 mins; April 13, 2023
Wendy Chun rejects the unsustainable assumptions that govern networks & make technology undemocratic
54 mins; March 24, 2023
Alexander Etkind spotlights the asymmetrical sacrifice & oil curse at the core of the War in Ukraine
53 mins; March 17, 2023
Natasha Lennard lauds the successes of social movements & the vitality of oppositional rage
69 hours 41 mins; March 03, 2023
Sarah King vies to end the plastic era by closing loopholes and confronting industry
59 mins; February 21, 2023
Heather Davis and Mark Simpson deconstruct the toxic and unknown properties of plastics
77 hours 36 mins; February 10, 2023
Kim Fry rallies musicians to take a stand on energy transition and the climate crisis
50 mins; February 01, 2023
Tanner Mirrlees wrestles with American militarism and the cultural projection of imperial power
66 hours 40 mins; January 13, 2023
El Jones strengthens the bonds of solidarity and fights for the abolition of prisons
68 hours 35 mins; December 16, 2022
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay & Alexis Shotwell diagnose systems & document the timescales of disease
70 hours 19 mins; December 05, 2022
Fab Filippo & Gray Powell describe the humour & humility required to care & create in a messy world
61 hours 11 mins; November 14, 2022
Marcus Boon amplifies the spiritual, mathematical and political aspects of music
69 hours 17 mins; November 04, 2022
Ben Tarnoff untangles the histories and complex architectures of the modern internet
60 hours 39 mins; October 14, 2022
Ajay Parasram & Alex Khasnabish answer pressing questions about racism & anti-racist politics
92 hours 5 mins; September 29, 2022
Monty Scott laughs at the abyss and enlightens us on comedy in Canada
57 mins; September 09, 2022
Sandra Battaglini takes a hard look at the business of comedy in Canada
44 mins; August 25, 2022
Armond R. Towns explores the mechanics of revolutionary thought and the media of resistance
83 hours 8 mins; August 12, 2022
Janelle Niles is creating a legacy in comedy based on camaraderie and care
58 mins; August 05, 2022
Tey Meadow believes passionately in gender diversity and supporting transgender youth
95 hours 59 mins; July 26, 2022
Al Val brings joy, truth and trans representation to the comedy scene
68 hours 2 mins; July 22, 2022
Gernot Wagner breaks down the economics of climate collapse & the cultural barriers to change
48 mins; July 12, 2022
Clayton Thomas-MĂĽller helps protect Mother Earth through art, activism and a little bit of magic
68 hours 18 mins; July 08, 2022
Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam & Shiri Pasternak plant the seeds for abolitionist transformation
87 hours 47 mins; June 24, 2022
Jennifer Esposito & Venus Evans-Winters embolden activists & intellectuals to fight harm
81 hours 1 min; June 15, 2022
Murtaza Hussain looks for a moral baseline in a world riven by power and conflict
52 mins; June 02, 2022
Max Haiven unmasks the global entanglement & human sacrifice that the palm oil industry demands
91 hours 47 mins; May 26, 2022
Meredith Ralston unchains sexual pleasure from carceral thinking & calls for an end to slut-shaming
56 mins; May 20, 2022
Rebecca Wanzo insists we reassess the way we read and condemn stereotypical representations
62 hours 21 mins; May 12, 2022
Dru Oja Jay breaks down the manifest necessity and moral hazards of political compromise
88 hours 21 mins; May 04, 2022
Uahikea Maile nurtures radical responsibility & a refusal of settler colonial capitalism
83 hours 41 mins; April 26, 2022
Shannon Miedema connects the climate emergency to the need for coordinated political action
59 mins; April 22, 2022
Ivo Nieuwenhuis implores us to take comedy seriously and to think deeply about humour scandals
83 hours 45 mins; April 13, 2022
Keolu Fox, Theresa Stewart-Ambo & K. Wayne Yang dream of flourishing Indigenous futures
74 hours 2 mins; March 28, 2022
Yuliya Yurchenko expands the frame for understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine
88 hours 20 mins; March 16, 2022
Joshua Cotter draws the reader in by rendering the indescribable complexity of consciousness
47 mins; February 28, 2022
Tari Ajadi, El Jones & Julia Rodgers define democracy as trusting the public & investing in care
72 hours 59 mins; February 22, 2022
Gina Dent & Erica Meiners offer abolition feminism as a way to fight the prison-industrial complex
67 hours 49 mins; February 15, 2022
Ardath Whynacht advocates insurgent love & indicts the carceral system that colonialism built
60 hours 39 mins; February 07, 2022