Videos by Literate Machine
Ground News and the War on Reality 54 min
Ground News bills itself as a way to evaluate bias in the news, but the way it does so plays into the hands of those who have a reason to make you think all news bias falls into a simple...
Anarchism and the Promise of Revolution (V for Vendetta) 60 min
The book V for Vendetta posits a battle for the soul of the country between Anarchism and Fascism, freedom and oppression. But what if revolution doesn't happen the way we think it does?
Superman and the Case for Open Borders 66 min
What does Superman tell us about the ethics of closed borders? Superman was created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two sons of Jewish immigrants, and his origin story is...
Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash) 58 min
There's a worst case scenario looming here, isn't there?
What Do We Do Now? 9 min
What do we do now that the orange fascist is back?
How Capitalism Becomes Feudalism (Severance and Technofeudalism) 36 min
As commerce transforms around the new rent-extracting digital fiefdoms, algorithms and AI become a way to transform skilled labor into machine-learning piecework. In Severance...
Loki and How Conservatives Become Fascists 41 min
Marvel's Loki shows us what fascism looks like, and how it comes to take root within innocuous conservatism.
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