Episodes
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Hello everyone!!
The end of the year and the holidays approach rapidly, but not yet! Rejecting that, we remain in the lands of horror, as we talk about Brian Evenson's Good Night, Sleep Tight, with our friend Nate!
We dive into some of the themes in this collection of short stories, their representation of childhood and anxieties of parenthood, sleep and more. And while elaborating on elements we enjoyed and... didn't, unfortunately! Still, we have an excellent time chatting about it, and we hope you like it too!
Enjoy!
Do check out Nate's previous writing on Evenson and his fiction!
https://www.full-stop.net/2013/07/19/blog/nathan-weatherford/unknowable-quantities/
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Intro: "Ultralounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Outro: "Leve Palestina" Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
For this month's spooky HBM we go back to Interview with a Vampire! Season 2! And in good company too, with Jay, of LibraryPunk and Tender Subject fame!
It's vampire talk again, as we go back into interviewing immortal beings and finding out just how interesting their drama really is. Is it? We wonder that as we dive into this continued adaptation, its successes and limits, and just how effective, or not, their queer representation really is effective or that engaging!
Enjoy!
And, of course, check out Jay's work elsewhere!
LibraryPunk
Tender Subject
And please support our Patreon if you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras!
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Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!
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Outro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
It's October and you know what that means! We drag the ghost, from their crypts (or ship) and have a good Halloween book chat!
As Jon joined us for China Mieville's 2nd book of the Bas-Lag Trilogy: the Scar!
It's a great time talking about the power and potential of class consciousness, the strange dynamics of cities, pirates, liberation, and the terrible risks of mishandling quantum and nuclear physics.
It's Mieville, it's a fun book, and a phenomenal chat! Enjoy!
Also buy Jon's Book!
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/capitalism-a-horror-story-gothic-marxism-and-the-dark-side-of-the-radical-imagination/
And, naturally, check out and support the Horror Vanguard!
https://horrorvanguard.com
https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard/posts
And please support our Patreon if you can and are interested in early episodes and now live Here Be Extras!
https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro: "Ultralounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Outro: "Leve Palestina" Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
For this chaotic month's HBM we're diving into one of Frank's favourite genres, right back into detective fiction! This time talking about the very weird and very interesting Paradise Killer!
Join us as we discuss the complexities of building a world from scratch, of making a sociologically compelling story, and creating a decent and engaging medium to solve a mystery. All while dealing with the colonial violence and oppression exacted by an even more powerful ruling class!
What kind of detective are we, when we're the supreme elite?
All this and more on this episode! Enjoy!
And please support our Patreon if you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras!
https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!
https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPN
Intro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Outro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
We kick off September with a very interesting concept episode, as we talk about Tropes, and clichés and archetypes!
A very good time as we consider not just the creation of art, especially literature, but also its very superficial and weak discourse that is mostly upheld by these building blocks of tropes.
We also go over a general engagement with art and the willingness to confront plenty of both good and bad, and even some of our personally most enjoyed and hated tropes!
Enjoy!
And please support our Patreon if you can and are interested in early episodes and now live Here Be Extras!
https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro: "Ultralounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Outro: "Leve Palestina" Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
This is a big one! We are finally talking about Baldur's Gate 3!
In our longest Left Page and Here Be Media episode to date we dive into many of the complexities involving Dungeons & Dragons, tabletop RPGs, the fantasy problems of "races" and this incredibly interesting and fun game of wish-fulfillment, adventure, and more!
We still have many critiques though, and go into ways this is a remarkable game, but could have been even more engaging and entertaining too.
We are also, of course, joined by Holly! Making this equal parts a serious, critical, and very very fun episode! Enjoy!!
As part of our question of "races" in D&D, check out the following video too:
Bioessentialism in Gaming, https://youtu.be/u2PhrI4yZXY
And please support our Patreon if you can and are interested in early episodes and two current Here Be Extras!
https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!
https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPN
Intro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Outro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
It has been one year since, but we return to the responsible dystopia of The Expanse! Following books 4 to 6, Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games & Babylon's Ashes!
This time we dive further into the possible horrors mankind can accomplish all on its own, the difficult nature of resistance and rebellion, the looming unknowns orders of magnitude above humanity, and how this book series continues to be incredible in its commitment to the psychological the economical and the sociological!
Enjoy!
And if you missed it, check out the first part!
Episode 70 - The Expanse 1-3: Where Subtle Utopia Meets Responsible Dystopia
And please support our Patreon if you can and are interested in early episodes and now live Here Be Extras!
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Intro: "Ultralounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Outro: "Leve Palestina" Spartacus
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Comrades!
Lend us your ears! As one of the best to ever pod it joins us to talk about his book!
Are you tired of being alone in the dark clutches of Capital-C-Capitalism?! Then take our hand our downtrodden compatriot, and join us on a voyage of radical informational archeology, and imagination.
"If you’ve been feeling isolated or afraid, take up this book and find that the only thing hiding in the shadows is our hope for a better world that could yet be."
— Ashley Darrow
Please, enjoy!
Leon & Frank
Buy it! We are no longer asking:
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/capitalism-a-horror-story-gothic-marxism-and-the-dark-side-of-the-radical-imagination/
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Hello everyone!!
As a special treat this July, we have another Here Be Media episode! It's an X-Men deep dive, even as we talk about the latest show, and we're joined by a good friend and academic, André Kanasiro!
We talk about the many parallels that are usually established when one talks about the X-Men, the pervading liberalism of it all, and the terrible terrible notions of "evolution" at play here too! We even touch upon the early 2000s films and even some recent comics, it's an X-Men full platter!
Enjoy!
You can find Andre on Instagram, BlueSky, And Twitter at: @andrekanasiro
Mentioned:
https://revistazelota.com/ and @revistazelota in all social media.
https://spectrummagazine.org/ and @spectrummag on Twitter, and @adventistforum on Instagram.
And please support our Patreon if you can and are interested in early episodes and the upcoming Here Be Extras!
https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Outro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
For our first episode of July we have a very special collab! We are joined by Cassidy and Charkie of the Bad Game Hall of Fame to talk about bad videogames!
Havin been interested in the subject for a while, we bring in the experts to dive into and games, and their merits!
What makes a videogame bad? Why are they still interesting? How can we talk about and make content on them? How do we engage with their history?
These are only some of the questions we go into in this episode, all while thinking about the media criticism we make and how we engage with this gripping artistic medium for us: videogames.
Do absolutely check out Bad Game Hall of Fame in all their forms!
https://www.badgamehalloffame.com/
https://www.twitch.tv/badgamehalloffame
https://www.youtube.com/@badgamehalloffame
https://www.patreon.com/badgamehalloffame
And please support our Patreon if you can and are interested in early episodes and the upcoming Here Be Extras!
https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Outro Music: Downtime, Miracle of Sound
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Hello everyone!!
For our Here Be Media episode of the month, we dive into some aspects of this horrible and conservative force we call: Canon!
To start off this new Concept series we go into some media products and franchises, their issues as "IPs", fandom and their relationship to Canon, and finally, we talk about this terrible beast we see as the Literary Canon!
Join us as we start laying the groundwork to show and elaborate on how this must necessarily be brought down.
Enjoy!
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Hello everyone!!
For this month's Left Page we turn back to China Miéville, in a weird and fascinating book about detective stories, borders, and violence, it is The City and the City!
In this episode we dive into the place of these cities, both fictionally and the real-world cultures they interact with and are a part of; we consider the detective narrative and how it interacts with this story, and the inherent violence to sustaining and upholding borders!
Enjoy!
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Intro: "Ultralounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Outro: "Leve Palestina" Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
For this month's Left Page we talked about the very weird, very interesting, and very hybrid Gogmagog, by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard! And we are joined by friend and podcaster Eden, of Heavy Blog is Heavy, Death // Sentence and AnarchySF fame!
It's a thorough conversation over the weirdness present in the book, the alegory with England and the broader aspect of Hybridity in the many intersections, exchanges and differences Gogmagog presents us.
Join us as we dive into some very strange, yet damn good fantasy! Have fun!
And do check out Eden's various projects and works!
Heavy Blog is Heavy
Death // Sentence
AnarchySF
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Intro: "Ultralounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Outro: "Leve Palestina" Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
For our second HBM we'll dive into an animated sci-fi series that's weird, strange and very very interesting, we talk about Scavenger's Reign! And we won't do so alone, as we invited our great friend Nate along!
Join us as we discuss the challenges of being marooned in an alien moon, the inherent horror of capitalism in space, and how we must be open to engage with the environment and the world around us, and even then, we can't escape ourselves, our traumas, and our hopes.
Enjoy!
And please support our Patreon if you're interested and want access to early content and the bonus Reading Corners!! Big things are coming! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Outro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
For our first May episode we have a mega collab with Horror Vanguard, on Starship Troopers (1997), directed by Paul Verhoeven!
As we interweave Heinlein's book with the film we ultimately dive into how fascism works and should be fought at every turn, in every way.
Enjoy!
Do check out Jon's book on Bloch and Utopia: https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Utopian-Philosophy-Jonathan-Greenaway/dp/1803413271/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1
Also check out one of our references and excellent approach to the film, Heinlein and more: https://youtu.be/y5bHLrGBUKo
And, naturally, check out and support the Horror Vanguard!
https://horrorvanguard.com
https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard/posts
And please support our Patreon if you're interested and want access to early content and the bonus Reading Corners!! Big things are coming! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Outro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
For our Left Page episode of the month we are talking about a very interesting book, and documentary series! It's John Berger's "Ways of Seeing", and to dive deep we are joined by our friend, podcaster and art historian, Nadjah of Imaginarium Podcast!
We think about colonialism, the idea of "value" when atributed to art, the connection with the viewer of an art piece and how all these questions are connected to the idea of the "canon" in art, and, more importantly, capitalism and imperialism.
Overall, a necessary and wide chat on art and how we see it, enjoy!!
Do check out and support Nadjah's work and her podcast:
IMAGINARIUM: An Alternate History of Art!
Also do check out the image and video Leon mentions at the end! (It's in Dutch, but with English Subtitles!) https://youtu.be/rIjNJHAsHCw
And please support our Patreon if you're interested and want access to early content and the bonus Reading Corners!! Big things are coming! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro: "Ultralounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Outro: "Leve Palestina" Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
As a special treat for Pesach, we dive into the incredible animated film The Prince of Egypt!
Approaching Faith and Liberation, we consider not just the question of religious & historical narratives and their complex relations, but also of their representation in media. Further still, we talk about violence and how to comprehend "violence" in the name of Liberation.
In a conversation that is equal parts personal, religious, historical and, as always, political, we talk not only of an important film to us, but when Faith is allied with Liberation, and the fruits that can come of it.
Enjoy!
And please support our Patreon if you're interested and want access to early content and the bonus Reading Corners!! Big things are coming! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Hello everyone!
Our first episode of April is a different one, if something we've been meaning to do for a while, more than talking about a game, it's a studio, so join us as we talk about Bethesda and their games!
Jumping off from our mention of Bethesda games and their connection to mods last month, and Leon's previous writing on Skyrim, we decided to dive properly into their games and their "style". We talk of narrative and engagement with the world, alongside what are some ways their big franchises of Fallout and Elder Scrolls succeed and fail to create interesting political and social narratives.
All while trying to understand what makes these games sometimes good, and sometimes fun, especially as we think of this idea of the "pulp" and how it helps to describe Bethesda and Fallout.
Have fun!
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Hello everyone!
To round out this month's episodes, we dive back into sci-fi, and more utopian fiction! With a recommendation from listener, and patron, Nate: Monica Byrne's The Actual Star!
It's a complex discusson on Utopian writing, its challenges, and how sometimes things don't quite work out as we'd like. So join us in this conversation on Utopia and Religion, historical and sociological approaches, and more!
And if you, listener, have other suggestions and recommendations, by all means, let us know!!
Enjoy!
Do check out our other episodes mentioned in this one, on Kim Stanley Robinson's "2312" and Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time"!
And please support our Patreon if you're interested and want access to early content and the bonus Reading Corners!! Big things are coming! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
Intro: "Ultralounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Outro: "Leve Palestina" Spartacus
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Hello everyone!!
As we're rounding out March, we offer a different kind of conceptual HBM episode! We take a look at videogame mods, what they are, what they can be, and what's so damn interesting about them!
Join us as we talk about the difficulties involved in modding, the relationship to game companies, and how mods, at their best, can express an immense passion and creativity, in an anarchic and decentralised way.
Have fun!
And please support our Patreon if you're interested and want access to early content and the bonus Reading Corners!! Big things are coming! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage
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