The Left Page & Here Be Media

Episode 62 - How to Explore State and Culture within Imperialism with A Memory Called Empire

Dec 26, 2022

Hello everyone! Welcome to our last episode of 2022!

In this Leon and I talk about the excellent novel by Arkady Martine "A Memory Called Empire"! A story and book that allows us to dive into matters of Imperialism, survival, and especially culture within a devouring and wide-spanning empire as is Teixcalaan.

Here Be Media - Episode 6 - Voyages of Queerness in Velvet Goldmine. w/ Jay from LibraryPunk

Dec 23, 2022

Hello everyone! For this last month of the year we're having a bonus HBM episode!! (Feel free to thank Leon for the effort of setting this up!)

CONTENT WARNINGS: Homophobia, queerphobia, misogyny, drug abuse, conversion therapy

It's our first proper movie episode! Of Todd Haynes' 1998 film "Velvet Goldmine", a...

Here Be Media - Episode 5 - Love, Death, Robots and Community within the Landscape of Media. w/ Labor Kyle

Dec 15, 2022

Hello everyone! It's another month, which means another HBM! And with a guest! The truly magnificent Labor Kyle, friend, comrade, all around good guy and excellent researcher! We got him!

And for this episode we chat about something OTHER than videogames! It's the Netflix anthology tv series "Love, Death, Robots"! Where...

Here Be Media - Episode 4 - GRIS: Exploring the Balance of Themes, Mechanics and Aesthetics

Dec 1, 2022

Hello everyone! For this month's HBM episode we dive into the beautiful GRIS, talking about the many elements that make and connect a videogame! It is a great chat on what can make a great game and the things that sometimes fall short. Definitely an investigation into good media and the...