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Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Clips for the Creatively Maladjusted. Helpful Hints for radicals, intellectuals, strangers, artists, dreamers, readers, writers, speakers, activists, pacifists, fools, and professors. Extraordinary Discourse has been long in preparing. A multi-voiced thought adventure, around an hour a week. Its many themes converge in the theme of Play. Walt Whitman: "Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."

Extraordinary Discourse 064

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April 14, 2012

Gamechanging The Narrative

Jobs, school, drugs, therapy, heckling, meat, fun!

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Extraordinary Discourse 531

April 11, 2021

This’ll Dig Ya In The Intellectual Ribs The real underlying currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even military might. The real underlying currency of our world is narrative, and the ability to control it. Everything always comes down to this one real currency. If you look at what all these think tanks, NGOs, media outlets and grant making networks that billionaires pour their money into actually do, it ultimately boils down to controlling the dominant stories that people tell about what’s going on in their world. Caitlin Johnstone

Extraordinary Discourse 413

January 05, 2019

When You're Ready ...in a world driven by data, metrics, and the replacement of knowledge by the overabundance of information, educators need to enable students to engage in multiple literacies extending from print and visual culture to digital culture. They need to become border crossers who can think dialectically, and learn not only how to consume culture but also to produce it. Henry Giroux

Extraordinary Discourse 040: The World Owes You A Living 3

October 29, 2011

Extraordinary Discourse 040 Special: The World Owes You A Living 3 Workplace And Men Men And War Families, Roles Pictures of Rich and Poor Today's Extraordinary Discourse Special is Episode 3 of The World Owes You A Living suite, a 6-part Millennial Associational Documentary. A good look behind the mask of the job system and its supporting institutions and memes. Where do we go, men, from a war to a matrix of desks/suit jackets /coldwar defense contracts. Whence domestic violence, "managers"? Powerlessness. Child sexual abuse? Powerless predators. Soul unity, camaraderie of WWII grunts broken into the centrifugal entropia of consumer items for the wife and kids and TV and alcohol til death. Dr. William Temple, 98th Archbishop of Canterbury: "I am inclined to agree with the Biblical saying that work is a curse." Dedicated to the #Occupy movements around the planet. The World Owes You A Livin