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The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced

The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced

By: Ernesto Todd Mireles Ph.D.
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The Reality Dysfunction Platform is the latest in unapologetic, thought-provoking discourse on Xicano identity, resistance, and liberation. Through podcasts, essays, and dialogue, we challenge conventional narratives, confront colonial legacies, and amplify voices committed to social transformation. Whether exploring cultural politics, insurgent theory, or grassroots organizing, The Reality Dysfunction Platform is where radical thought meets real-world action. #Control the Narrative. #Resist the Dysfunction.Copyright 2019 All rights reserved. Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • #123 - Reclaiming The Past Through Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer
    Jun 18 2025

    In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction, Dr. Ernesto Mireles is joined by Scott Russell Duncan, Colton Campbell and Alex Garcia fellow thinkers and insurgent storytellers to dive deep into Alex Rivera’s prophetic 2008 film Sleep Dealer. What begins as a conversation about drones, borders, and labor quickly becomes a powerful indictment of settler colonialism, digital commodification, and the war on memory.

    We explore the film’s dystopian vision of disconnected laborers—plugged into machines across borders—as a mirror of today’s racialized gig economy. Through Xicanx Gothic, racialized horror, and speculative fiction, the panel traces how Sleep Dealer flips the narrative from assimilation to ancestral return. From the sacred milpa to neural implants, from water theft to resistance, this episode asks: What happens when we name the machine—and choose to plant instead of plug in?

    If you’ve ever questioned the cost of survival in a system built to erase you, or wondered what decolonial science fiction might sound like in Spanglish, this one’s for you.

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    56 mins
  • #122 - Adan and Pauline interview two first gen NAU professors
    Mar 19 2025

    🎙️ First Gen Podcast | Adan & Pauline sit down with Drs. Manny Preciado & Ernesto Mireles to talk academia, hustle, and what brought them to NAU. Plus, their top advice for first-gen students — and the real secret to success. Don’t miss it!

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    49 mins
  • #121 - First Gen reveals all
    Mar 17 2025

    Adan and Pauline open up about their first year and talk about how things have developed from the first semester to the second semester.

    Email Adan and Pauline directly at dysfunctionalfirstgen@gmail.com.

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    28 mins
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