Hello everyone! This is our second episode of Here Be Media! Paired with the 3rd one as we dive into the Knights of the Old Republic series! Their successes, failures, and the many things that make them interesting and noteworthy today!

For this first one, we explore the icon of Revan, the concept of the Monomyth, and why this game, and Bioware generally, are so in line with Star Wars.

Have fun!

Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Happy Halloween everyone!

Once again, for our special October episodes, we have summoned the illustrious ghosts, or should I say hosts! Of the Horror Vanguard! Jon and Ash join me to chat about China Miéville's Perdido Street Station!

It was a wonderful chat about fascist regimes, aesthetics, the politization of art, resistance and class struggle, socialist journalism and the immense power of Dialectical Materialism.

We hope you enjoy lsitening just as much as we enjoyed reading and chatting about it!

Stay Spooky everyone!

 

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone!!

For this special birthday month (and day, as it turns out!) for Frank, we have a two-for-one episode on The Witcher books! They are also joined by their friend and co-host of Here Be Media, Leon! Together we dive into the two short story collections by Andrzej Sapkowski of The Witcher: The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny.

We talk about The Witcher's relationship to fantasy and folklore, the idea of the hypercompetent character, moral philosophy, and more! Have fun!

 

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Welcome everyone! To the first episode of Here Be Media!! Our newest show on a variety of media, especially videogames!

Enjoy our first episode on Supergiant's Hades! As Frank and Leon think about mythology, representation and the multitude of relationships that make this game really stand out on all counts!

Enjoy!

 

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Intro Music: The Planets, op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holt, 1916

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone! For this month's episode I, shamelessly, dive back into Le Guin's fiction, but not only that, and not alone! I am joined by the excellent Chase from Faith and Capital and Mass Struggle, so we can talk about utopias, utopianism and two different short stories: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Le Guin, and The Ones Who Stay and Fight, by N. K. Jemisin.

From the titles you can already tell the latter is connected to or commenting on the former, and we draw on that. On the images of utopia, on ideology and what both stories offer to analysis, critique and understanding as well! All in all, a wonderful chat, and one that is absolutely what I am about when thinking of and dealing with utopia and utopianism. Enjoy!!

Read the stories, if you can! https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1302-6/readings/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-le-guin/view https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/

 

And check out Chase's projects!! https://linktr.ee/faithandcapital https://linktr.ee/massstruggle

 

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Hello everyone! In this second episode with a Kyle, albeit a different one (long live the Kylessaince!), this time Kyle Winkler, academic, writer and fellow podcaster joins me to talk about his latest book Boris Says the Words! It is a fascinating chat on how to think and represent illnesses and misery, the potential power and danger of words, and a lot of sadness. Yet, as I always do, we tend to find some moments of hope, of possibility, in sadness that is not yet bleak. A different kind of chat, but a very good one, no doubt!

 

Go buy Kyle's book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1ZF5WJQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19ZP1DWJEUILA&keywords=boris+says+the+words+kindle&qid=1653275103&sprefix=%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-1

And also check out his show, The Left Hand of Le Guin: https://twitter.com/LeftHandLeGuin

 

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Hello everyone! In this episode I am once again joined by Labor Kyle! As we dive into the magnificent world, or solar system, of Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312! We talk of Utopia, History, Xenogenders, Liberation and Emancipation!

This special almost double-length episode is certainly one you do not want to miss! Enjoy!

 

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Hello veryone!

This is a very special Writer's Desk, as it was originally closed, but now I release it to all, along with the companion piece on theReading Corner It is, after all, a conversation on the question of the Death of the Author, what it is, and how to think is alongside ethics.

In it I both present the concept and try to engage with how to engage in contemporary capitalism and any possibility for ethics or, at the very least, avoiding blatantly unethical actions. It is not an easy nor a simple conversation in the slightest, and yet, I try to handle it as best as I can and to add some important insights.

However, as I edited it, and following a train of thought the next day, I realized that there was a pretty large gap in the conversation, for which I made the Reading Corner a part of this as well. Thus, I dub this the Researcher's POV and you can at this very moment also read the Reader's POV, have fun!

Frank

Intro & Background music: Beneath the Mask, Persona 5 OST, Shoji Meguro, 2016

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Hello everyone! In this month's episode I chatted, once again, with the excellent Dr. Valeria Villegas Lindvall!

As we approach Jenny Hvall's Girls Against God, we chat a lot about art, religion, the notions of blasphemy and hate, and how to create something truly radical. It was a wonderful chat on quite a weird book, but a worthwile one regardless, enjoy!

 

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

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Hello everyone!!

In this new episode of the show I dive into some of the intricacies of how we can approach, understand, and even reconsider the ideas of genre in fiction. Both on their potential and their limitations to criticism and breaking apart gatekeeping efforts and the walls that harm our attempts at writing, reading, and understanding.

That's the reason for the provocative title of this episode! On the necessary attitudes to question and think anew these ideas of genre and how we can critique to open up and create in new ways, instead of closing them off.

It was a tad chaotic, but fun nevertheless, enjoy!!!

 

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Intro & Background music: Erik Satie, 3 Gymnopédies (1889); Gnossiennes 1-6 (1890-1897); 2 Préludes du nazaréen (1892); 2 Prélude de la porte Héroique du ciel (1894); Pièces froides (1897), No. 1: Airs a faire fuir.

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