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Darren Fleet
Darren Fleet is a writer, multi-media journalist, and third-year Ph.D. student in Communications at Simon Fraser University. In 2011 he was part of the editorial team at Adbusters magazine that launched the #occupywallstreet meme into the world, sparking his current research direction. Prior to that, he completed his MA in Journalism at UBC and worked as a media trainer with Journalists for Human Rights. He’s been published in 30+ media outlets, including the UTNE Reader, Al-Jazeera and the Globe & Mail, and has given numerous public lectures on art and activism, including at the 2013 Istanbul Biennial of Art. His research interests include climate change, consumer culture, activist art, faith-based activism, social movements, and energy humanities. He is co-author of Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics (2013, Penguin). In 2015 he was the recipient of a not-so-kind letter from Canada's spy agency.