New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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M. Evans, S. Moore, and H. Johnstone, "Detectin...
How can detective fiction explain the social world?
38 min
1302
Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough...
Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...
55 min
1303
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, "Adivasis and the State: Su...
This longue-durée approach allows Alf Gunvald Nilsen to unravel the Indian state's everyday tyranny against its adivasi citizens...
39 min
1304
Tania Li, "Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on ...
f you want to read just one book to properly understand capitalism, let it be Tania Li’s award-winning 2014 book Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014).
63 min
1305
Andrea Micocci and Flavia Di Mario, "The Fascis...
In their words, they claim that capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their ‘feasibility’ within the capitalist system...
38 min
1306
Irmak Karademir Hazir, "Enter Culture, Exit Art...
How has European culture changed since the 1960s?
34 min
1307
Victoria Cann, "Girls Like This, Boys Like That...
How does cultural taste regulate our lives?
38 min
1308
Hannah Holleman, "Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperia...
None of the climate news that we’re getting is good right now, especially now that a number of governments are reversing or failing to meet commitments they made as part of the Paris Climate Accord...
56 min
1309
Sarah Banet-Weiser, "Empowered: Popular Feminis...
What is the relationship between popular misogyny and popular feminism?
37 min
1310
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
1311
Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian and Tully Barne...
How should we value culture?
32 min
1312
Llerena Searle, "Landscapes of Accumulation: Re...
Few who have visited India in the past two decades will have failed to noticed the sudden and spectacular urban transformation that has taken place in many of its cities...
44 min
1313
Catherine Russell, "Archiveology: Walter Benjam...
50 min
1314
Oli Mould, "Against Creativity" (Verso, 2018)
32 min
1315
Grant Farred, "The Burden of Over-Representatio...
Today we are joined by Grant Farred, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University.
57 min
1316
Keisha Lindsay, "In a Classroom of Their Own: T...
52 min
1317
Jeong-Hee Kim, "Understanding Narrative Inquiry...
62 min
1318
Julie L. Rose, "Free Time" (Princeton UP, 2018)
55 min
1319
Michelle Fine, “Just Research in Contentious Ti...
What can a researcher do to promote social justice? A conventional image of a researcher describes her staying in the ivory tower for most of the time, producing papers filled with academic jargons periodically,
78 min
1320
Chris Horrocks, “The Joy of Sets: A Short Histo...
Television started as a dream of nineteenth-century science fiction. It took its place in the twentieth-century home, and became a fixture of family life and a transformative cultural force. Today, televisions are both less visible and more present tha...
37 min
1321
Raymond Boyle, “The Talent Industry: Television...
What are the hidden structures of the television industry? In The Talent Industry: Television, Cultural Intermediaries and New Digital Pathways (Palgrave, 2018), Raymond Boyle, a professor of communications at the University of Glasgow‘s Centre for Cul...
38 min
1322
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, “The New Immigrant Whit...
From Dancing with the Stars to the high-profile airport abandonment of seven-year-old Artyom Savelyev by his American adoptive parents in April 2010, popular representations of post-Soviet immigrants in America span the gamut of romantic anti-Communist...
51 min
1323
Melissa Terras, “Picture-Book Professors: Acade...
How have academics been represented in children’s books? In Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh,
30 min
1324
Jennifer Yusin, “The Future Life of Trauma: Par...
How does postcolonial theory and the work of Freud help us understand trauma? In The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetition (Fordham University Press, 2017), Dr. Jennifer Yusin, Associate Professor of English and Philosophy at Drexel Un...
32 min
1325
Tim Jelfs, “The Argument about Things in the 19...
In The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism (West Virginia University Press, 2018), Tim Jelfs argues that debates about the nature of stuff—its moral valence, its spiritual value,
62 min