Tag: Power (social and political)
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The Story of Techno Viking
I found Matthias Frisch’s documentary about the whole Techno Viking case via another video “The Meme that Sued It’s Creator’ which pretty much sums it up in one line. Matthias Frisch filmed the man who became Technoviking at Fuck Parade in Berlin in 2000, but it later became a meme and out of control of…
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RC 348: Pride and Prejudice (Mashup Show)
This one took a while to edit (a week and a half?) and is a Pride themed podcast with LGBTQ mashup artists and themes running throughout. Happy Pride! Also we say goodbye to a mashup artist, go very Crumplstrange in preparation for Crumplstock 9 later this month, and tracks from the three albums I reviewed…
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No-one is coming for me
I haven’t been avoiding COVID-19 stuff, just what can you say? We lost a year of our lives to idiocy, mismanagement, a virus. This video from Caitlin Doughty aka Ask A Mortician sums up the desperation for parts of the world that are hardest hit and government doesn’t seem to care. Nowhere to be found.…
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Everybody in the Place
Not sure how long this will be up, but this is a great documentary on youth culture and the rave scene by artist Jeremy Deller. It’s not your usual documentary either, just showing some dancing people in an hanger and then clips of angry news reports – Jeremy is filmed doing a talk to a…
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The Racism Game – Baratunde Thurston TED Talk
Amazing, funny and thought-provoking look at how racism is reported by Baratunde Thurston, but also how we can flip the script, and change the system by each of our actions. How gentrification and white (and usually cis/straight) fears lead to ‘drone strikes’ on those who look or act different, but that it doesn’t have to…
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Jonathan Pie @ Extinction Rebellion
Love this video from the excellent Jonathan Pie, and completely on the money. For the record I support Extinction Rebellion – their stunts and actions are really good, and they have I think a fairly wide support. Yes some people found it difficult to travel in London, but really people don’t have the right to…