Capiltalist Culture Myth Deprogramming Playground

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Professor Lionel Strick

Montréal School for Radical Aesthetics

Department of Queer Communist Aesthetic Theory

Television isn’t asking queer people to be free—it’s asking them to be marketable.

Professor Mireille Draxler

Université Nouvelle de Marseille

Communist Feminist Televisual Studies

Capitalism loves a strong female lead — she keeps the audience obedient and the market safe.

Dr. Octavio Mendieta

Autonomous University of Chiapas

Decolonial Theory & Latin American Marxism

Imperial power always hides in the character who calls himself ‘relatable.’ and Every American protagonist is trained to believe the world is theirs to inherit — this is pure imperial pedagogy.

Nazeera al-Shamsi

Professor Gideon Blatch

Dr. Ilsa Vey

Lund Institute for Radical Psychodynamics (Sweden)

Trauma Technics & Affective Infrastructure

Television does not show us our wounds — it rehearses them until they turn profitable.

Professor Marquis Redd

Institute for Racialized Media Economies, Detroit Free People’s College (unaccredited by design)

Black Labor Aesthetics & Media Capture

Capital does not depict Black labor — it chews it up and feeds it to its young.

Dr. Amrita Rangan

Bangalore Institute for Post-Capitalist Design

Techno-Marxist Narrative Systems

When machines predict what stories we want, they are really predicting what capitalism needs us to believe.

Dr. Simone Agoniste

University of the Antilles (Decolonial Media Department, temporarily defunded)

Afro-Caribbean Feminist Media / Disruption & Sonic Memory Studies

Empire demands harmony; the diaspora answers with echo.

Dr. Caspian Thorne

Institute for Televisual Dialectics (Berlin)

Affective-Structural Critique

Prestige television fabricates scarcity, then calls the result ‘emotion.’