Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
This political comedy podcast makes over a million dollars a year from its Patreon subscribers alone. We try to unpack how it gets made while learning more about the personal values associated with the "dirtbag left."
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- Meet Chapo Trap House: The Funniest and Most F**ked Up New Podcast About Media and Politics
- THE RADICAL CHEEK OF 'CHAPO TRAP HOUSE'
- Chapo Trap House are the Vulgar, Brilliant Demigods of the New Progressive Left
- Explaining the ‘Chapo Trap House’ Podcast to the Uninitiated
- Liberals are making bank on a site called Patreon. The right calls it "hipster welfare."
- What Will Become of the Dirtbag Left?
- Is This the Stupidest Book Ever Written About Socialism?
- Chapo Trap House subreddit quarantined for allegedly encouraging violence
- SOCIALISM IS BACK, AND THE KIDS ARE LOVING IT. Reason. Aug/Sep2019, Vol. 51 Issue 4, p55-52. 4p. 2
- 'The Voice of the Dirtbag Left': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House
- Chapo Trap House: Socialism for the Extremely Online
This 2015 comic mixes folklore and magic with science and technology. We discuss how each creator brings their own experimentation to the project, and how it's been received by the comic book industry and its more philosophical readers.
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- Warren Ellis' Freaky Scifi Comic Series Injection Gets Optioned for TV
- Exclusive Interview with Injection’s Warren Ellis
- INTERVIEW: Warren Ellis talks about ‘Injection’ without crying
- AN INJECTION OF WARREN ELLIS IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
- Matt Chats: Declan Shalvey on Wolverine, Injection, Learning from Scripting Comics, and Why He Brings up ArtCred Less
- What's at Stake with Warren Ellis's 'Injection'
- INJECTION #1 TALK WITH WARREN ELLIS, DECLAN SHALVEY & JORDIE BELLAIRE
- Take Control Of Your World: Revisiting ‘Injection’ By Ellis, Shalvey & Bellaire [Sci-Fi Week] Read More: Take Control Of Your World: Revisiting 'Injection' [Review]
- https://injectioncomic.tumblr.com/
- BELLAIRE & SHALVEY: ART & COLOR, WORKING IN CONCERT [GALLERY]
- INJECTION #2: LETHAL DECOMPRESSION [CLOSE READ]
- Haug H. The Alchemical Singularity: Magic and Technology in Warren Ellis’s Injection. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. 2019;48(132):22
This collection of non-fiction essays attempts to define two modes of storytelling by providing examples of each from popular culture. We talk about how Fisher's argument fits into our larger discussions of horror stories and how his definitions may be useful for considering the end of capitalism.
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- The Revolution Will Be Weird and Eerie
- Eugene Thacker – Weird, Eerie, and Monstrous: A Review of “The Weird and the Eerie” by Mark Fisher
- Making Sense of “The Weird and the Eerie”
- In Memoriam: Mark Fisher
- why we quit: tariq goddard on leaving zero books
- Toward a Theory of the New Weird
Thank you to our Co-producer patron Kevin Wetter for selecting this week's topic!
This 2009 TV show, helmed by Joss Whedon, was meant to be a thematic exploration of identity and sexuality but many have argued about its problematic story. Was that because of corporate interference or Whedon's own issues with feminist representation?
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- Adams, Pippa. Women in Science Fiction: Opportunities and Constraints of Representations in Postfeminist Worlds
- Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre
- JOSS WHEDON TALKS FIREFLY, DOLLHOUSE AND LEAVING TELEVISION
- The Mind-Transplant Script Whedon Wrote Before Dollhouse
- Anderson, D. (2016). Echoes of Frankenstein: Shelley’s Masterpiece in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse and Our Relationship with Technology. Slayage, 43, 1
- Kitchens, J. (2016). Object Entanglements: From Postmodern Subjectivity to Posthuman Thingness in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Studies in Popular Culture, 38(2), 1.
- Rogers, S. (2011). Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse and Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 22(2), 153.
- Avni, S. (2008). Inside the Dollhouse. Mother Jones, 33(6), 88–89.
- Jensen, J. (2008). Welcome to the “Dollhouse” Fan Frenzy. Entertainment Weekly, (997), 14.
- The Expired Feminism of Joss Whedon
- In defence of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
- Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity, edited by Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman, Heather M. Porter
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- “Fantasy Is His Business, but It Is Not His Purpose” by Alyson R. Buckman
- The Fascinating No-Consent Fantasia of Dollhouse and Mad Men
- POSTMORTEM: WHY WE HATED DOLLHOUSE. AND WHY WE LOVED IT.