New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transformi...
Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...
49 min
1377
Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African Am...
Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...
42 min
1378
Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: Ho...
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence?
51 min
1379
Jathan Sadowski, "Too Smart" (MIT Press, 2020)
The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What are the benefits? And, what are the impacts?
46 min
1380
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
1381
Mark Sedgwick, "Key Thinkers of the Radical Rig...
The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...
64 min
1382
Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare...
How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?
42 min
1383
Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard...
Piketty expands his focus to include the political and ideological in his comparative analysis of capital accumulation and ‘inequality regimes’.
33 min
1384
K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Ne...
In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as the Green New Deal.,,
102 min
1385
Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: Ho...
Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...
82 min
1386
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promis...
Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...
45 min
1387
Matthew McManus and Marion Trejo, "Myth and May...
In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation...
49 min
1388
Anna Bull, "Class, Control, and Classical Music...
What is the relationship between inequality and classical music?
41 min
1389
Marco Z. Garrido, "The Patchwork City: Class, S...
Synthesizing literature in political sociology and urban studies, Garrido shows how experiences along the housing divide in Manila constitute political subjectivities and shape the very experience of democracy in contemporary Philippines...
45 min
1390
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Pol...
The authors show that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve....
96 min
1391
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1392
Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in th...
Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...
30 min
1393
Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Pun...
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?
49 min
1394
Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achiev...
McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...
50 min
1395
Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Polit...
Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...
55 min
1396
Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinem...
O'Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades...
50 min
1397
Sukey Fontelieu, "The Archetypal Pan in America...
Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...
60 min
1398
Lewis Raven Wallace, “The View from Somewhere: ...
Wallace traces the history of how objectivity became the gold standard in journalism, and looks at examples of people who have bucked the trend along the way...
42 min
1399
Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He ...
Baron addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they...
41 min
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Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social L...
What does music tell us about society?
35 min