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About Gordon Katic
Gordon Katic is an award-winning radio producer and journalist with a background in health, science, and climate reporting. He is director of Cited Media Productions, which produced Cited Podcast and CRACKDOWN. Now, Gordon hosts Darts and Letters. When he’s not making podcasts, he’s working on a PhD at the University of Toronto focussed on theorizing a critical theory of science communication. Previously, he earned a Masters in Journalism from the University of British Columbia.
Gordon Katic is an award-winning radio producer and journalist with a background in health, science, and climate reporting. He is director of Cited Media Productions, which produced Cited Podcast and CRACKDOWN. Now, Gordon hosts Darts and Letters. When he’s not making podcasts, he’s working on a PhD at the University of Toronto focussed on theorizing a critical theory of science communication. Previously, he earned a Masters in Journalism from the University of British Columbia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Gordon:
October 22, 2023
The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times
Professors Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven are authors of a book called The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (Bloo…
October 11, 2023
Mutual Aid and the Anarchist Radical Imagination
This episode of Darts and Letters examines the theory and practice of anti-statist organizing. There’s a story you can tell about the post-Occupy lef…
September 1, 2023
The Past and Present of Psychedelic Medicine
Psychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing — a tool for personal revelation…
July 28, 2023
The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That
The World Economic Forum has become the bugbear of the right-wing in Canada, and beyond. Conspiracies swirl about how this shadowy, globalist cabal wa…
May 17, 2023
Misinformed
The COVID-19 lab leak theory went from being dismissed as mere misinformation, to now a credible matter of debate amongst media, scientific, and intel…
May 14, 2023
The Politics of "Misinformation"
Gordon Katic is in conversation with Nicole M. Krause. She is a PhD candidate focussing on science communication, looks at conceptual problems in the …
April 12, 2023
Hearts of Men
Online masculinity is getting weirder and weirder. We’re way past mere misogyny and sexual predation (though, that’s still certainly there). Now, we’v…
February 1, 2023
Discordia Revisited
20 years ago at Concordia University in Montreal pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police over whether Benjamin Netanyahu should be allowed to s…
December 26, 2022
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID)
Is medical assistance in dying, or MAID letting the government off the hook from providing what they should be providing? Should we respect people's c…
November 30, 2022
Mathematical Morality
How can billionaires justify the endless accumulation of wealth? Effective altruism. An almost religious philosophical belief. Sam Bankman-Fried, the …
November 16, 2022
Science Against the People
It’s difficult to criticise science from the left. Right-wingers attack science and liberals defend it. Science for the People is a radical movement…
October 31, 2022
Darts Transit Commission
Paris Marx is one of the sharpest modern writers on Silicon Valley and transit. We have been talking a lot lately about the idea of techno-utopian thi…
October 19, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 3
The first two episodes of this series told stories of technocrats who tied themselves to a muscular state. They believed the state could remake societ…
October 10, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 2
On part #2 of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies. First, we hear the story of Charles A. McClelland, a liberal political sc…
October 3, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 1
Technocracy is the idea that experts should govern. For the common good, presumably. In fact, it's an idea as old as politics itself, and it emerges j…
September 9, 2022
Pew Research Center
You’ve seen hilarious videos of the evangelicals for Trump. You might be inclined to ignore them, mock their excesses, or dismiss their threat. But th…
September 6, 2022
Alexandr Dugin, Russia’s Imperial Philosopher
We look at the mind behind Russia’s imperial vision, Aleksandr Dugin. Political theorist Matt McManus walks us through this far-right thinker’s strang…
September 5, 2022
Truck Nuts
The pickup truck is the symbol of rural conservative masculinity. So, it often takes centre stage in the tired culture wars between reactionary neo-po…
September 2, 2022
The Tamiflu Trials
Before Remdesivir and Hydroxycloroquin there was Tamiflu. To prepare for Swine Flu and Bird Flu, governments spent billions stockpiling this drug ca…
September 1, 2022
The Heroin Clinic
At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is …
August 30, 2022
Pathological--The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
Dr. Charles Smith performed autopsies at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. The cops kept turning to him with new corpses, and he kept cla…
August 29, 2022
Derailed--The Crisis of Forensic Expertise
When it comes to complex social problems, us “sensible” types turn to the experts, but what if they don’t actually know what they’re talking about? Th…
August 23, 2022
Save the Whales
We’ll save the Moby Dick puns for the episode itself, but suffice it to say that sinister game developers are on a whale hunt. This episode, originall…
August 19, 2022
The Poison Paradigm
We are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals daily. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in ou…