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Over 10 years' worth of dangerous ideas to read, listen and watch. Hear from our festival alumni as they share provocative ideas through our collection of articles, podcasts and videos.
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November 7, 2024
Contagious realities - Alice Dawkins, Natasha Mitchell, Sandersan Onie, Jean Twenge & Sonny Jane Wise
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November 7, 2024
Positive Masculinity - Monty Badami, Tarang Chawla, Michael Flood & Anna Krien (FODI 2024)
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November 7, 2024
Masha Gessen - The War of the Narratives (FODI 2024)
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November 7, 2024
Art is always political - Louise Adler, Brook Garru Andrew, Violette Ayad, Gil Beckwith, Declan Greene, Simon Longstaff & Emile Sherman (FODI 2024)
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November 7, 2024
Wrecking the world order - Matt Bevan, Avani Dias, Cheng Lei, Hamish Macdonald & Johanna Weaver (FODI 2024)
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October 30, 2024
Tariq Ali - The Twilight of Democracy (FODI 2015)
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April 23, 2024
Break a Rule a Day - Lionel Shriver (2016)
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April 3, 2024
Dennis Glover - Winners and Losers (FODI 2015)
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March 18, 2024
WikiLeaks Has Not Gone Far Enough - Julian Assange (2011)
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February 25, 2024
Molly Crabapple - From the Frontline (FODI 2016)
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January 23, 2024
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Peter Greste, Ian Kemish & Sangeetha Pillai - Expendable Australians (FODI 2022)
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December 13, 2023
Tats, trust and taking risks: Whole Glory one year on
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December 11, 2023
Badiucao, Dan Ilic & Cathy Wilcox - Drawing Truth to Power (FODI 2022)
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December 7, 2023
We are turning into subscription slaves
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November 7, 2023
Steven Pinker - Enlightenment or Dark Age? (FODI 2022)
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October 26, 2023
Trigger warnings: Don’t leave before I’ve had the chance to upset you
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October 9, 2023
Jayne Crossling, Emma A. Jane, Georgia Naldrett & Michael Salter - Harmful Thoughts (FODI 2022)
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September 20, 2023
Faking It: AI must be deceptive
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September 4, 2023
Daniel Browning, Corrie Chen, Coby Edgar & Luara Ferracioli - Stealing Culture (FODI 2022)
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August 7, 2023
Claire G. Coleman - Words are Weapons (FODI 2022)
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July 10, 2023
Frances Haugen, Scott Hargreaves, Sam Mostyn & Carl Rhodes - Just be Evil (FODI 2022)
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June 15, 2023
Inequality is led by corporations
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May 31, 2023
Joanna Bourke - Last Taboo (FODI 2022)
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May 31, 2023
Are you a lone wolf, or a sheeple?
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May 7, 2023
Frances Haugen - Unmasking Facebook (FODI 2022)
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April 18, 2023
Is ‘shame’ the key to a world without rape?
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April 11, 2023
Jane Caro, Osher Günsberg, Yasmin Poole, Kevin Roose & Alok Vaid-Menon - Join the Rebellion (FODI 2022)
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March 7, 2023
Is it possible to bring the two halves of America back together?
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March 6, 2023
Joanna Bourke, Jess Hill, Sisonke Msimang, Saxon Mullins & Bronwyn Penrith - World Without Rape (FODI 2022)
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February 7, 2023
AI is not the real enemy of artists
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February 7, 2023
Wenlei Ma, Kate McClymont, Ann Mossop & Don Weatherburn - The Crime Paradox (FODI 2022)
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January 9, 2023
Sisonke Msimang – Precious White Lives (FODI 2022)
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December 15, 2022
Kevin Roose - Caught in a web (FODI 2022)
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December 1, 2022
Ruth Ben-Ghiat - Return of the Strongman (FODI2022)
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November 23, 2022
Who’s afraid of the strongman?
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November 14, 2022
Nick Bryant, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Geraldine Doogue & Adam Tooze - American Decadence (FODI 2022)
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November 1, 2022
Adam Tooze - F=Fail (FODI 2022)
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October 31, 2022
Appreciation or appropriation? The impacts of stealing culture
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October 17, 2022
Jacqui Lambie - On Blowing Things Up (FODI 2022)
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October 12, 2022
Why would you get a tattoo by an artist you’ve never met?
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September 20, 2022
5 things we learnt from FODI22
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May 27, 2022
Masha Gessen & Tom Switzer - Putin (FODI 2014)
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May 24, 2022
We are being saturated by knowledge. How much is too much?
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April 7, 2022
Ukraine Hacktivism
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April 4, 2022
Jesse Bering - We Are All Sexual Perverts (FODI 2012)
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April 1, 2022
Periods, taboos and vaccines: Teaching women to listen to their bodies
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February 26, 2022
Endtropy
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February 26, 2022
Waleed Aly & Naomi Klein - Our entanglements have been exposed
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February 26, 2022
Revivification
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February 26, 2022
S. Matthew Liao & John Rasko - Immortality, fraud and the future of the human species
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February 25, 2022
Tongues
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February 25, 2022
Roxane Gay & Kate Manne - The mild terror of publishing feminist cultural criticism
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February 25, 2022
Semi-Autonomous
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February 25, 2022
Joanna Bourke & Toby Walsh - Killer robots and the human construction of war
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February 24, 2022
The Dancer
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February 24, 2022
Eleanor Gordon-Smith & Slavoj Žižek - The age of doubt, reason and conspiracy
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February 23, 2022
Within Salt
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February 23, 2022
To see no longer means to believe
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February 23, 2022
Lee Vinsel & Tyson Yunkaporta - A gradual decline into disorder
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February 18, 2022
Anthropocene
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February 18, 2022
Sam Mostyn & Peter Singer - We have failed to protect those who don’t yet exist
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February 15, 2022
Light Shines
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February 15, 2022
Joya Chatterji & Stephen Fry - There is no beginning
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December 14, 2021
Elizabeth Pisani - Corruption Makes the World Go Round (FODI 2014)
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December 2, 2021
QAnon and My Life As An Internet Folk Villain
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December 1, 2021
2021’s most dangerous reads
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November 16, 2021
Anti-natalism: The case for not existing
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November 1, 2021
A.C. Grayling - Bad Education (FODI 2015)
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October 5, 2021
Tim Flannery, Alok Jha, Natasha Mitchell & Lee Vinsel - Don't Trust the Scientists (FODI 2016)
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September 27, 2021
Interrogating our vaccine fetish
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September 22, 2021
Dangerous ideas and pseudonyms
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September 10, 2021
Chris Berg - Nanny State (FODI 2015)
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August 18, 2021
Vaccines: compulsory or conditional?
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August 2, 2021
Erwin James - A Killer Can Be a Good Neighbour (FODI 2013)
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July 9, 2021
Jesse Bering, Raewyn Connell Cordelia Fine & Elizabeth Anne Riley - Gender Doesn't Matter (FODI 2016)
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May 17, 2021
Satyajit Das - The Bill Is Due (FODI 2016)
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April 22, 2021
Dangerous Fictions
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April 8, 2021
Pop Culture and the Limits of Social Engineering
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March 29, 2021
Misinformation is Infectious
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March 24, 2021
The Truth About China
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March 24, 2021
Kevin Rudd on the truth about China
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March 15, 2021
Ageing is a Disease
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March 9, 2021
Lionel Shriver - Break A Rule A Day (FODI 2016)
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March 2, 2021
Settler rage and our inherited national guilt
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February 24, 2021
No justice, no peace in healing Trump’s America
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February 22, 2021
Market logic can’t survive a pandemic
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February 17, 2021
Treating citizens as customers is a recipe for distrust
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February 16, 2021
Narcissists aren’t born, they’re made
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February 16, 2021
Stolen Inheritance
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February 15, 2021
It’s time to take citizenship seriously again
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February 15, 2021
Enwhitenment: utes, philosophy and the preconditions of civil society
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January 4, 2021
Tim Flannery, Elizabeth Kolbert, Steven Pinker, Jaan Tallinn – The End of the World as We Know It (FODI 2014)
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December 1, 2020
Helen Joyce - The Right To Die (FODI 2015)
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November 16, 2020
Edward Snowden - Surveillance States (FODI Digital 2020)
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November 2, 2020
Marcia Langton - Dangerous Fictions (FODI Digital 2020)