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Astra Taylor (born September 30, 1979) is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. She is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation for her work on challenging predatory practices around debt.
Sep 24, 2023 · Astra Taylor’s Age of Insecurity. The activist and writer sees capitalism as an insecurity-producing machine. By Molly Fischer. September 24, 2023. Photograph by Heather Sten / Guardian /...
Astra Taylor is a writer, documentarian, and organizer. Her films include Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world’s most outrageous philosopher, and Examined Life, a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Peter Singer and others.
Sep 7, 2023 · In conversation with IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed, the 2023 Massey lecturer Astra Taylor explains how her early years in the unschooling movement shaped her worldview and how Occupy Wall Street...
Nov 20, 2023 · Above all other titles, writer, filmmaker and organizer Astra Taylor is a reader. She's also presenting 2023 Massey Lectures on her book The Age of Insecurity — and she caught up with CBC Books...
Feb 2, 2024 · Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and activist whose latest book is The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, based on her CBC Massey Lectures. Today she discusses the themes of her lectures, which are built around the ideas of security and insecurity.
Oct 20, 2023 · What is going on? In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental...
