New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
1551
Sam Han, "(Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global U...
Han analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory....
49 min
1552
Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright...
How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?
56 min
1553
Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam, "Inconvenient Strangers: T...
Yam examines how three transnational groups—mainland Chinese maternal tourists, Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers, and South Asian permanent residents—engage with the existing citizenry and gain recognition through circulating personal narratives....
58 min
1554
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1555
Elinor Carmi, "Media Distortions: Understanding...
What is spam?
33 min
1556
Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam ...
According to Viet Thanh Nguyen, all wars are fought twice: first on the field of battle, and then in the struggles over memory...
67 min
1557
Thomas A. Discenna, "Discourses of Denial: The ...
Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...
59 min
1558
Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a ...
Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...
68 min
1559
Santiago Zabala, "Being at Large: Freedom in th...
In recent years, questions around the nature of ​truth ​and ​facts have reentered public debate...
54 min
1560
Dana El Kurd, "Polarized and Demobilized: Legac...
Kurd’s rich case study illustrates how certain authoritarian strategies used by the PA increased societal polarizing...
50 min
1561
Yassir Morsi, “Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De...
Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...
74 min
1562
James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politi...
Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encourage the public to see them as weak or immoral?
41 min
1563
Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalys...
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened...
54 min
1564
Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: ...
What does it mean to be a political subject?
40 min
1565
Nancy J. Chodorow, "The Psychoanalytic Ear and ...
Chodorow advocates for a return to an interest in the social and social sciences in psychoanalytic thinking...
63 min
1566
John D. Caputo, "Hoping Against Hope" (Fortress...
Caputo’s conversation partners in this volume include Lyotard, Derrida, and Hegel, but also earlier versions of himself:...
73 min
1567
Paul Harkins, "Digital Sampling: The Design and...
How does technology shape music?
44 min
1568
Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...
77 min
1569
Richard Williams "Why Cities Look the Way They ...
How should we understand our cities?
33 min
1570
Matthew McManus, "The Rise of Post-Modern Conse...
Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...
46 min
1571
Sheetal Chhabria, "Making the Modern Slum: The ...
Chhabria argues that cities are not naturally occurring spaces or innocent administrative categories marked by lines on a map: instead they are spaced produced by constant labors of inclusion and exclusion which serve to keep capital flowing while stigmatizing the laboring poor...
35 min
1572
Alexander Zevin, "Liberalism at Large: The Worl...
Zevin helps us see what he calls “really existing liberalism”––that is, a liberalism that rooted for empire, embraced finance, and has always wielded an ambivalence towards democracy...
66 min
1573
Danny Haiphong, "American Exceptionalism and Am...
According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history...
76 min
1574
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
1575
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