Vicky Osterweil on Disney, Intellectual Property and Storytelling

This week, we're featuring a recent, live interview that I did at Firestorm books with Vicky Osterweil, anarchist writer and worker, author of In Defense of Looting and more recently The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed The Movies and Took Over the World (Haymarket, 2026). Vicky is a member of the Collective of Anarchist Writers (CAW), and you can also find her on Bluesky and what she's thinking about what she's watching at Letterboxd. During the chat Vicky talks about intellectual property and how it overlaps between entertainment and other elements like technology and medicine, the shaping and limiting effects IP has on popular culture and imagination, the film industry and more. To hear Vickys past appearances on our show check out: In Defense of Looting with Vicky Osterweil The Interregnum: Roundtable with Vicky Osterweil Announcements Support Jason Reynard Walker Incarcerated activist and journalist Jason Reynard Walker is asking for support as he nears the end of his state sentence in Texas prisons and before starting his Federal sentence. He's concerned about the shifting of his release dates around that may put him in a dangerous position where he's more likely to have a hit on him placed by prison authorities. Read more at: https://jasonsprisonjournal.com/a-rogue-within-tdcjs-bureaucracy-changed-my-release-date-with-malice-aforethought-to-get-me-murdered/ . ... . .. Featured Track: TFSR by The Willows Whisper