Respair Presents: Quantum Entanglements

Respair Production & Media

Respair Production & Media is a movement journalism and media organization reshaping culture toward liberation. Rooted in Chicago, we build media projects about, in partnership with, and in support of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. From producing award-winning podcasts and films to supporting and advising collaborators across our ecosystem, we're building new media infrastructure for collective justice and liberation.  Respair contributes programming, production, publishing, development, and personal tools to emergent media makers, while encouraging the autonomy necessary to independently build transformative media. A resilient, sustainable media ecosystem is both a necessary tool for liberation and a difficult structure to build. Respair makes it possible for movement mediamakers across the country to have access to the resources and support they need to create without compromise. Check out all our work at http://respairmedia.com!

  1. 9h ago

    Respair Presents: Quantum Entanglements

    Quantum Entanglements is a new multimedia investigative feature from Respair about South Side Chicago communities fighting for self-determination in response to potentially being poisoned, pushed out, and policed by an impending 9-billion dollar quantum computer on the shores of Lake Michigan. Over the four decades since the US Steel South Works steel mill shut its doors, the land it sat on has remained undeveloped as the surrounding communities heal from the physical, environmental, economic, and social wounds left behind by this industrial behemoth.  Now, a coalition of public and private power players from all levels of government and different sectors of industry is preparing to break ground on a "Quantum Campus"–a multi-billion dollar sprawling facility of next-generation technology and surveillance that could both release poisonous contamination and dismantle digital privacy around the globe.  As the next industrial revolution descends on a community still reeling from the destruction of deindustrialization, we talk with organizers and neighbors living alongside the site about how they're building power, demanding answers, making sense of the area’s history, and fighting for the ability to determine the future of their neighborhoods, livelihoods, and relationships to the land on which they live. Check out the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia, Share the podcast with your people here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/respair-presents-quantum-entanglements/id1721426761 Get the Quantum Entanglements Listening Guide here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19sgxkK8Uf45YpsgjuGECzzuij4sBBoC8/view?usp=sharing Quantum Entanglements was recorded at Chicago Beyond and Kit Studios here in Chicago.  Find all of our work at http://respairmedia.com.  CREDITS Cohosts & Executive Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.  Video Post-Production Supervisor - Troi Valles Lead Video Editor - Troi Valles Multimedia Producer is Troi Valles - Troi Valles  Associate Audio Editors - Cin Pimentel & Rocio Santos   Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Additional Reporting - Kamari Patrick Artwork - Areanna Eggleston & Danbee Kim MUSIC Dubstep Next Left (feat. Tom Wilkinson) - Asthmatic Astronaut Funk Heaven - Ketsa China Town - Audiobinger Contemplate Jat - Katrah Quey Agua - Katrah Quey Sleeper Agent - Tab Anitek Outer Orbit - Revolution Void Dragon Drop - Darkstorm Diabolik Glass Harp - dustmotes Ascension (Leaving Earth Pt. 1) - Mr. Smith

    1h 5m
  2. Season 3 Trailer

    Respair Presents: Quantum Entanglements, a new investigative feature dropping Thursday 6/18/26! (TRAILER)

    Respair is so hyped to share the trailer for a new project, dropping this Thursday 6/18/26! Quantum Entanglements is a new multimedia investigative feature from Respair about South Side Chicago communities fighting for self-determination in response to potentially being poisoned, pushed out, and policed by an impending 9-billion dollar quantum computer on the shores of Lake Michigan. You can also check out the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia, and share the podcast with your people here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/respair-presents-quantum-entanglements/id1721426761 Over the four decades since the US Steel South Works steel mill shut its doors, the land it sat on has remained undeveloped as the surrounding communities heal from the physical, environmental, economic, and social wounds left behind by this industrial behemoth.  Now, a coalition of public and private power players from all levels of government and different sectors of industry is preparing to break ground on a "Quantum Campus"–a multi-billion dollar sprawling facility of next-generation technology and surveillance that could both release poisonous contamination and dismantle digital privacy around the globe.  As the next industrial revolution descends on a community still reeling from the destruction of deindustrialization, we talk with organizers and neighbors living alongside the site about how they're building power, demanding answers, making sense of the area’s history, and fighting for the ability to determine the future of their neighborhoods, livelihoods, and relationships to the land on which they live. Check out the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/@respairmedia Share the podcast with your people here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/respair-presents-quantum-entanglements/id1721426761 Get the Quantum Entanglements Listening Guide here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19sgxkK8Uf45YpsgjuGECzzuij4sBBoC8/view?usp=sharing Quantum Entanglements was recorded at Chicago Beyond and Kit Studios here in Chicago.  Find all of our work at http://respairmedia.com.  CREDITS Cohosts & Executive Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.  Video Post-Production Supervisor - Troi Valles Lead Video Editor - Troi Valles Multimedia Producer - Troi Valles  Associate Audio Editors - Cin Pimentel & Rocio Santos   Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker Additional Reporting - Kamari Patrick Artwork - Areanna Eggleston & Danbee Kim MUSIC Dubstep Next Left (feat. Tom Wilkinson) - Asthmatic Astronaut

    1 min

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Respair Production & Media is a movement journalism and media organization reshaping culture toward liberation. Rooted in Chicago, we build media projects about, in partnership with, and in support of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. From producing award-winning podcasts and films to supporting and advising collaborators across our ecosystem, we're building new media infrastructure for collective justice and liberation.  Respair contributes programming, production, publishing, development, and personal tools to emergent media makers, while encouraging the autonomy necessary to independently build transformative media. A resilient, sustainable media ecosystem is both a necessary tool for liberation and a difficult structure to build. Respair makes it possible for movement mediamakers across the country to have access to the resources and support they need to create without compromise. Check out all our work at http://respairmedia.com!