New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial Histo...
An interview with Jean Casimir
78 min
1252
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1253
Adam Fabry, "The Political Economy of Hungary: ...
An interview with Adam Fabry
55 min
1254
Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution:...
An interview with Matt Christman
65 min
1255
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
1256
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1257
L. Layton and M. Leavy-Sperounis, "Toward a Soc...
An interview with Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis
72 min
1258
Ashley E. Lucas, "Prison Theatre and the Global...
One place that might surprise a lot of people is the popularity of performances staged by incarcerated persons...
60 min
1259
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min
1260
Rebecca Harrison, "The Empire Strikes Back" (Bl...
Harrison tells the story of the film’s production and reception, and analyses the film’s on-screen representations...
42 min
1261
Rosemary-Claire Collard, "Animal Traffic: Livel...
Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital....
82 min
1262
Andrea Jain, "Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of ...
Jain examines the interconnectedness between global spirituality and neoliberal capitalism through an examination of the global yoga and self-care industries...
36 min
1263
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
85 min
1264
Adam Kotsko, "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Po...
Neoliberalism’s Demons posits we can best understand neoliberalism through the lens of political theology...
75 min
1265
Ani Maitra, "Identity, Mediation, and the Cunni...
The politics of identity have played center stage in many political debates in the last few years, and is often seen somewhat pejoratively as an epiphenomenal manifestation of the dynamics of capitalism....
72 min
1266
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: ...
Mandler charts the tension between demands for democracy and the defence of meritocracy within both elite and public discourses, showing how this tension plays out in Britain’s complex and fragmented education system...
35 min
1267
Daniela Vallega-Neu, "Heidegger's Poietic Writi...
Looking at Heidegger’s writing from 1936-1942, Vallega-Neu’s text is an excellent guide through this incredibly difficult period of Heidegger’s thinking...
63 min
1268
Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and ...
Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....
45 min
1269
David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global...
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years...
63 min
1270
Christine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Mi...
Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.”
56 min
1271
Betty Rojtman, "The Fascination with Death in C...
Rojtman analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence...
39 min
1272
Lisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polit...
Inheritance, they claim, is no longer a 19th-century-style transmission of property titles after death but a “strategically timed transfer of funds that need to be leveraged and put to work in the speculative logic of the asset economy”....
30 min
1273
K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towar...
"Capitalisms" aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space...
84 min
1274
Zakkiyah Imam Jackson, "Becoming Human: Matter ...
In a world where black(ened) flesh, particularly feminine flesh, is considered the ontological zero of humanness, what interventions and complications are available from art and speculative fiction of the African disapora?
53 min
1275
Silvie Jacobi, "Art Schools and Place: Geograph...
The book draws on ethnographic research in Manchester and Leipzig, comparting and contrasting two nations, two educational systems, and two cities, to show the different approaches to training and supporting contemporary culture...
37 min