New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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Lynne Pettinger, "What’s Wrong with Work?" (Pol...
How should we understand work?
34 min
1452
Benjamin Fong, "Death and Mastery: Psychoanalyt...
Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...
65 min
1453
Christian Sorace, "Afterlives of Chinese Commun...
What to make of the fact that China is ruled by a Communist Party which detains and arrests people studying Maoism, organising workers, or campaigning for women’s liberation...
59 min
1454
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1455
Erik Harms, "Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Di...
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms?
49 min
1456
Melanie Simms, "What Do We Know and What Should...
What is the future of work?
29 min
1457
David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capi...
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...
20 min
1458
T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A Pe...
Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...
58 min
1459
Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min
1460
Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Betwe...
Part 2 of a two part interview with Allen and Ruti about Klein, Lacan, and Critical Theory...
59 min
1461
Remi Joseph-Salisbury, "Black Mixed-Race Men: T...
Joseph-Salisbury explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK...
44 min
1462
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
1463
Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulne...
Purser takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm...
88 min
1464
Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Betwe...
What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between their psychoanalytic perspectives?
69 min
1465
Alexandra Minna Stern, "White Ethnostate: How t...
Our conversation examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, and is they relate to her her research on eugenics, white nationalists, the alt-right, and the alt-lite...
64 min
1466
Mubbashir A. Rizvi, "The Ethics of Staying: Soc...
Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP)...
51 min
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Adem Yavuz Elveren, "The Economics of Military ...
Elveren offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy...
37 min
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Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
1469
Patricia A. Banks, "Diversity and Philanthropy ...
Banks explores the rise of the African American museum and its patrons and philanthropists...
34 min
1470
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Poli...
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...
48 min
1471
Nazia Kazi, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Pol...
Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...
43 min
1472
Alpa Shah, et al., "Ground Down by Growth: Trib...
Shah and her co-authors focuses on those left behind by, and indeed ground down by, India’s much touted growth...
62 min
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Anne O’Brien, "Women, Inequality and Media Work...
How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries?
40 min
1474
Aimee Bahng, "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Spe...
Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction...
61 min
1475
Jaime Alves, "Anti-Black City: Police Terror an...
Alves makes a powerful contribution to urban anthropology, describing the spatial contours of “Brazilian Apartheid” in Sao Paulo...
62 min