Good lord! It's sure been a while, huh?

Celebrating 7 years of running this podcast, Frank and Leon go over some of the changes, some of the achievements, how they see the pod, how they think of it moving forwards, and a couple of interesting things to come!

Thank you all so so much for being here, for listening, and especially supporting the show, for as little or as long as you have! It means the world!

Here's to the great things coming!

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Intro Music: All Along the Watchtower, Jimmy Hendrix; The Planets, Op.32 - 4. Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity, Gustav Holst; Gymnopédie n. 1, Erik Satie; Home, Karl Casey; I Would Never Have To Know, Samurai Drive; Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music: Vistas - Downtime, Miracle of Sound

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To celebrate the centennial Left Page we go to the start, the originator of the modern novel: Don Quixote de la Mancha!

We go over the fantasies of Don Quixote, the way the two books deal with reality, fantasy, and primarily books and reading! All the while not forgetting the deep materiality involved in the depictions, and how there is still more than we think to it.

Come celebrate our 100th episode with one of the greatest of all time!

Enjoy!

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Intro Music: Ultralounge · Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun

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Hello everyone!!

We continue with the First Law Standalone novels, now going into Heroes and Red Country!

We talk about how these characters continue to be engagin, how the materiality of war and conflict continues, and how change, propelled by capital, can be such a dangerous thing the world over, fantasy world it might be.

Enjoy!

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Intro Music: Ultralounge · Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun

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Hello everyone!!

We continue with Joe Abercrombie's First Law series, now talking about the 3 standalone novels: Best Served Cold, Heroes, and Red Country!

Because these books are great and there is a lot to talk about, we split these episodes in 2 parts, both already available for Patrons! First we talk about Abercrombie and the setup to these books, then Best Served Cold and how to write a phenomenal revenge story indeed.

Enjoy!

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Intro Music: Ultralounge · Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun

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Hello everyone!!

We visit the sequel of our very first Here be Media episode, coming alongside a very special announcement in the first 10 minutes about the future of this podcast.

We set out to explore the pitfalls of exclusively centreing psychology in your familial narrative, that is therefore ot able to grapple with the existential conflict it seeks to portray.

Please enjoy!

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Intro Music: I Would Never Have To Know - Samurai Drive. From the Album: Samurai Drive ℗ 2020 Daniel Riederauer

Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun

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Hello everyone!!

We're wrapping up the year in serious fashion, diving once back into Imperialism everywhere, with the 2025 Superman, and bringing our superhero liasion along, André!

This was a film really well talked about for being positive, and progressive and... things which it isn't. It's still imperialist and still very much on the US' side when thinking about anything.

So come along as we look at this at first, maybe good superhero film, and yet, rather vile film, regardless of its liberal good intentions.

Enjoy!

And do check out André's text on superhero films and his interview with good friend Jon from Horror Vanguard:

https://operamundi.uol.com.br/cultura/filmes-de-super-heroi-e-possivel-escapar-do-cinismo/

https://youtu.be/-KFmOxZ1-z4?list=LL

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Intro Music: I Would Never Have To Know - Samurai Drive. From the Album: Samurai Drive ℗ 2020 Daniel Riederauer

Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun

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Hello everyone!!

We're finally tackling Tolkien! And so here we are, at the beggining... In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.

We go into Tolkien's role in fantasy, how The Hobbit still holds up as both a monument of fantasy and still an excellent book, and the resonance that this work has to fantasy still.

Thus we close off 2025 on The Left Page, by beggining Tolkien, with more to come!

Enjoy!

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Intro Music: Ultralounge · Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun

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Hello everyone!!

We're back talking about Brazilian Literature, with a long overdue request! It's "Golden Harvest" or "São Jorge dos Ilhéus", by Jorge Amado!

The horrors of capitalism are everywhere, and none less here, where the forces of empire and capital seek to make Brazilian cocoa production their own, with no regard for people and their lives.

So come along in this historically inspired novel to further deepen the obviousness that we must abolish the present state of things.

Enjoy!

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Hello everyone!!

We're talking about a great Sci-fi film, going into language, history and time. As we discuss some of Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life", but primarily, the Denis Villeneuve film "Arrival"!

Why are aliens here? How can our understanding of reality changing help us confront the horrors of capitalism? How is time's linearity a simplistic way to confront capital's victories over past, present and future?

Come along as we answer those questions and more, in our more Posadist episode yet!

Enjoy!

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Intro Music: I Would Never Have To Know - Samurai Drive. From the Album: Samurai Drive ℗ 2020 Daniel Riederauer

Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun

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In our latest Conversation, Frank has something special for us!

Following attempts at bringing together all their academic work, Frank goes into Star Trek proper for the first time in the podcast, surprisingly. In an attempt to articulate how the original 1966-1969 run articulated a certain version of the future that, while utopian, was still entrenched in Liberalism and certain elements of Empire from which it could not imagine a different outcome.

So follow along as we dive into proto-Q, liberal visions of race, a mining colony, and the Cold War all over again! Enjoy!

Episodes discussed:

• S1E17 - The Squire of Gothos
• S1E21 - The Return of the Archons
• S1E25 - The Devil in the Dark
• S1E26 - Errand of Mercy
• S2E19 - A Private Little War
• S2E23 - The Omega Glory
• S3E15 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

Some bibliography from Frank's own current research into the topic:

GOLUMBIA, David. “Black and White World: Race, Ideology and Utopia in Triton and Star Trek.” Cultural Critique v. 32, Winter 1995-1996. pp. 75-95.

MCKAGEN, E. Leigh. “45. Colonialism and Imperialism” GARCIA-SIINO, Leimar; MITTERMEIER, Sabrina; RABITSCH, Stefan. (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. New York: Routledge, 2022. pp. 332-339.

RIEDER, John. “Chapter Two: Fantasises of Appropriation”. ______. Colonialism and the emergence of Science Fiction. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. pp. 34-60.

SPIEGEL, Simon. “60. Utopia” GARCIA-SIINO, Leimar; MITTERMEIER, Sabrina; RABITSCH, Stefan. (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. New York: Routledge, 2022. Utopias in Star Trek pp. 471-472.

STEPHENSON, Anders. Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

WORLAND, Rick. “Captain Kirk, Cold Warrior” Journal of Popular Film and Television. Los Angeles, 16, n. 3, 1988. pp. 109-117.

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