New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
1551
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, "Climate Crisis...
Together, Chomsky and Pollin show how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches of the Earth will become uninhabitable, plagued by extreme weather, drought, rising seas, and crop failure....
50 min
1552
Bethany Klein, "Selling Out: Culture, Commerce ...
Klein explores the relationship between music and money, from the early years of the pop industry to contemporary society’s ‘promotional culture’...
40 min
1553
Filippo Menozzi, "World Literature, Non-Synchro...
Menozzi offers to look at literature and literary processes through the prism of non-synchronism...
44 min
1554
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth...
French offers a comprehensively researched and finely argued book that traces Barthes engagement with questions of cinema from early research pre-dating the publication of Mythologies to his last work, Camera Lucida,,,
71 min
1555
Kathryn Sikkink, "The Hidden Face of Rights: To...
Sikkink puts forward a framework of rights and responsibilities; moving beyond the language of rights that has come to dominate scholarship and activism...
59 min
1556
Ben Burgis, "Give Them an Argument: Logic for t...
Both a professor of philosophy and a committed political leftist, Burgis wades through a host of contemporary examples, arguing that the common arguments for capitalism and against socialism often rely on questionable logic that can be debated...
102 min
1557
Angèle Christin, "Metrics at Work: Journalism a...
How are algorithms changing journalism?
55 min
1558
Albena Azmanova, "Capitalism on Edge: How Fight...
Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...
66 min
1559
Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rig...
Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....
68 min
1560
C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultu...
How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?
41 min
1561
Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Securi...
Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East....
46 min
1562
João Costa Vargas, "The Denial of Antiblackness...
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.
70 min
1563
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hol...
Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...
44 min
1564
Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Co...
Jackson demonstrates that cultural appropriation (especially of Black culture by white artists) is prevalent and deeply rooted in America’s history of inequality...
59 min
1565
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of...
Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...
59 min
1566
Danielle Knafo, "The New Sexual Landscape and C...
Knafo and Lo Bosco survey modern sex culture and suggests ways psychoanalysis can update its theories and practice to meet the novel needs of today’s generations...
53 min
1567
S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our H...
The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...
76 min
1568
Madina Tlostanova, "What Does it Mean to be Pos...
Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition...
55 min
1569
Karen Patel, "The Politics of Expertise in Cult...
By analyzing the impact and importance of social media, the book offers an important insight into how inequality functions even where technology seems to offer an end to cultural hierarchy...
36 min
1570
Mack Hagood, "Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Contro...
How have we used twentieth- and twenty-first-century sound technologies to carve out sonic space out of the hustle and bustle of contemporary life?
78 min
1571
Caron Gentry, "Disordered Violence: How Gender,...
Gentry argues that mainstream Terrorism Studies must contend with the growing misogynist and racialized violence against women...
52 min
1572
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorpo...
The authors move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others...
69 min
1573
Tanya Kant, "Making it Personal: Algorithmic Pe...
How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?
34 min
1574
Orit Kamir, "Betraying Dignity" (Fairleigh Dick...
What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common?
70 min
1575
Michael Rectenwald, "Beyond Woke" (New English ...
Rectenwald returns with his characteristic sharp wit and incisive analysis and continues to fine tune his critique of modern leftism...
61 min