Antonio Alexander

I make video essays on history, books, media and try to link them all together

If you want to contact me reach out to: antoniomedinareubke@gmail.com


Antonio Alexander

Hey everyone, wanted to say that I am taking a small (1-2 month) break from YouTube due to some life stuff getting in the way.

Unfortunately I’m having trouble finding somewhere to live and I have to move out of my current apartment in a few weeks. I’ll be able to stay with friends so it is not as bad as it could be but I’ve been struggling to find an apartment for months now and nothings worked out. This search is time consuming and I don’t want it to take away from the topic of the next video (deportations) so It’ll be postponed until I have some stability again.

I work full time (more than full time actually) as a cook, and earn more than minimum wage, it is just extremely hard to find any apartment in Berlin, and even harder to find one that you can actually afford. The problem is not that I can’t pay rent, it’s that there are fewer and fewer affordable homes and apartments in this city.

On top of this, I’m also going to be helping shoot a documentary in the next few weeks, so I wouldn’t be able to focus as much as I wanted too on this channel. Once this month is behind me and I have somewhere to live again I’ll start working on the videos again.

I hope you understand and aren’t worried about why there may not be another video for the next 1-2 months. Thank you !

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 118

Antonio Alexander

Check out the most recent video from ‪@beacebrocess‬ featuring me! And new video from me coming in the next two weeks!

7 months ago | [YT] | 28

Antonio Alexander

Wishing everyone a good last few hours of 2024, hoping that the next year is a bit better.

Thank you to all the new people who’ve found my channel this year, lots of changes to the channel and my content this year but I like the direction it’s going.

Originally I was gonna make a favourite books I’ve read this year video but I ran out of time so I’ve decided to just post it instead. What books have you read this year?

1. Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
2. The Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)
3. No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
4. My People Shall Live (Leila Khaled)
5. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
6. Another Country (James Baldwin)
7. Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew (Avi Shlaim)
8. At Night All Blood is Black (David Diop)
9. Intermezzo (Sally Rooney)
10. Blackshirts and Reds (Michael Parenti)

Honorable mentions: The Killers (Hemmingway), The Kaisers Holocaust (Olusoga), Reform or Revolution (Luxemburg), Cuba: An American History (Ferrer), Stasi State or Socialist Paradise (de la Motte), Patriots, Traitors, and Empires (Gowans)

8 months ago | [YT] | 57

Antonio Alexander

Rest in Peace to the last living director of the French New Wave.

3 years ago | [YT] | 85