New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
1551
Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented:...
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....
67 min
1552
Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presume...
This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...
78 min
1553
Martin Jay, "Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt S...
Jay provides ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times...
86 min
1554
Jonathan Sklar, "Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Per...
In between this psychoanalytically informed reading of history, politics and their relation to the individual psyche, Sklar leaves room for applying the analysis of the histories of trauma and mourning...
50 min
1555
Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...
68 min
1556
Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
This volume takes Hegel as its key point of reference...
95 min
1557
Crystal Mun-hye Baik, "Reencounters: On the Kor...
This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended...
76 min
1558
Marianna Ritchey, "Composing Capital: Classical...
What is the place of classical music in contemporary society?
47 min
1559
Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender V...
Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...
50 min
1560
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media...
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?
64 min
1561
Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fas...
The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...
70 min
1562
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
16 min
1563
Ali Meghji, "Black Middle-Class Britannia: Iden...
Maghji considers the identity of Britain’s Black middle-class by understanding culture and cultural consumption...
32 min
1564
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
1565
Josh Cerretti, "Abuses of the Erotic: Militariz...
Cerretti argue that a project of militarizing sexuality succeeded in the 1990s United States...
58 min
1566
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: ...
What is the culture of the tech industry?
40 min
1567
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
1568
Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches...
Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...
67 min
1569
Minou Arjomand, "Staged: Show Trials, Political...
Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...
73 min
1570
Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence an...
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...
67 min
1571
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
24 min
1572
Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in t...
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
34 min
1573
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire o...
Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community living both in historic Palestine and in diaspora...
52 min
1574
Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizensh...
Kamugisha reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism...
58 min
1575
Alberto Harambour, "Soberanías fronterizas: Est...
Harambour examines the explosion of foreign-owned sheep farming, the fitful expansion of Argentine and Chilean sovereignty, and the violence of primitive accumulation and genocide in southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego...
55 min