Sleep Dealer and Work Without Workers

Joe Clement reads from Jason Read's review of Sleep Dealer, which he wrote for The Portland Phoenix. Sleep Dealer is a recent sci-fi dystopia in Spanish about a near future where robots are operated from afar by desperate Mexican workers. Jason writes about how he got to talk with the film's director, Alex Rivera, about the changing nature of work and the lived reality of exploitation in late capitalism. You can find Sleep Dealer at the Multnomah County Library. The song we hear afterward is the title track from the Paquet Courts' new album Content Nausea.