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"The Age of Insecurity" - 2023 CBC Massey Lectures: Astra Taylor
Filmmaker and writer Astra Taylor explains how society runs on insecurity – and how we can change it.

Nov. 17, 2023

Lecture 1: Cura’s Gift
Lecture 2: Barons or Commoners?
Lecture 3: Consumed by Curiosity
Lecture 4: Beyond Human Security
Lecture 5: Escaping the Burrow

About Astra Taylor

About the CBC Massey Lectures

Almost everyone is feeling insecure these days, whether it’s financial pressures, mental health issues or all-consuming anxiety about the state of the world.

According to writer, filmmaker and political organizer Astra Taylor, insecurity is a “defining feature of our time.” Not only that, she argues our society is actually built to make us all feel insecure on purpose.

In her series of Massey Lectures, which she delivered this fall across Canada, Taylor explores all the ways that different social institutions are both built on and perpetuate feelings of anxiety — from politics to education to policing.

The 2023 CBC Massey Lectures are also available as a book, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, from House of Anansi Press.

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“What [these lectures say] is, ‘Let’s step back. Actually, maybe insecurity isn’t just about you.’ And in fact, it’s not,” Taylor told CBC Radio. “Insecurity is really central to the functioning of our political and economic system.”

Taylor takes a deep dive into the history of capitalism and explores how, paradoxically, the ways that we’ve been encouraged to achieve security — purchasing health and wellness products, buying life insurance, acquiring property — actually work against us.

She also looks forward at the ways we might be able to achieve true security, using collective action.

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