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Todd Dufresne

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The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight: Climate Revolution for Beginners

A fearless – and fearsome – account of the world-historical social and material conditions confronting us, and a call to support utopic realism

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Book Launch — Ottawa: ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight’

Join Todd in Ottawa for the launch of his new book, ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight’ – Wednesday, … More

Book Launch – Toronto: ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight’

Join Todd in Toronto for the launch of his new book, ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight’ – Tuesday, … More

“Climate change is class warfare — fight back”: OpEd for The Winnipeg Free Press

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2026/04/15/climate-change-is-class-warfare-fight-back

Book Launch – Winnipeg: ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight’

Join Todd at McNally Robinson Bookstore, Grant Park, for the launch of his new book, ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight: Climate Revolution for Beginners’, on Thursday, May 7 at 7pm.

Book Launch – Thunder Bay: ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight’

Join Todd as he launches his new book, “The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight: Climate Revolution for Beginners”, at Entershine Bookshop, Thursday April 9 from 7-8:30PM

“Hollywood Art Flick: ‘Joker’ as Social Commentary, an Origin Story” on Bright Lights Film Journal

Todd provides commentary on Todd Phillips’ 2019 film Joker

Op Ed: Your hemp shopping bag and reusable bottle are laudable, but here’s why they aren’t enough to save the planet

Todd contributes an opinion for CBC News, arguing that the solution to our climate crisis does not lay in individual action but rather in fundamental social, political, and intellectual change.

‘The Democracy of Suffering’ Book Launch: October 22, 2019

Book launch for Todd’s ‘The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene” and Mark … More

The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, The Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life

A lively, balanced, and scholarly defense of the late Freud that doubles as a major reassessment of psychoanalysis of interest to all readers of Freud.

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About Todd Dufresne

Dr. Todd Dufresne is Professor of Philosophy at Lakehead University, and in 2018-19 Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and Visiting Professor of English at Seikei University in Tokyo.

Dr. Dufresne specializes in Critical Freud Studies, and is author or editor of 12 books.

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