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We Are Being IP-ed to Death / Vicky Osterweil

May 27
Episode 1910
IP has allowed us finally to produce food that cannot reproduce itself and that requires corporate intervention. IP has produced a world where diseases that affect the Global South get no treatment and no care because there's no money for them, while while hair loss is one of the most well-medicated conditions in the world. We are being IP'd to death and entertainment is a huge part of it. Disney has been a huge part of that. If we can't overthrow the regime of IP, then I do fear desperately for where this world is headed.

Vicky Osterweil joins us to discuss her new book, The Extended Universe
How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World from Haymarket Books.

"The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.

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Vicky Osterweil

 

Guest

Vicky Osterweil

Vicky Osterweil is a Philadelphia-based writer, agitator, and worker whose first book, In Defense of Looting, described historical struggles for liberation in the US. She is a member of the anarchist journal CAW and has written about the intersections of film, politics, and culture for publications such as The Paris Review, Art in America, Al Jazeera America, The Baffler, Dissent, Lux Magazine, and The New Inquiry, where she was also a culture editor for many years.