New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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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
1552
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
1553
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
1554
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promis...
Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...
45 min
1555
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
1556
Anna Bull, "Class, Control, and Classical Music...
What is the relationship between inequality and classical music?
41 min
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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
1558
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
1559
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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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
1561
Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Pun...
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?
49 min
1562
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
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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
1564
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
1565
Sukey Fontelieu, "The Archetypal Pan in America...
Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...
60 min
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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
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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
1568
Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social L...
What does music tell us about society?
35 min
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Megan T. Neely and Ken Hou-Lin, "Divested: Ineq...
Neely and Hou-Lin explore the rise of finance in American life over the last forty years and its implications for American workers, families, and economies...
47 min
1570
Andrew Milner, "Again, Dangerous Visions: Essay...
The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,
64 min
1571
Salman Sayyid, "Recalling the Caliphate: Decolo...
Sayyid offers a breathtakingly brilliant meditation on the problem of decolonization through Muslim thought and politics...
52 min
1572
Jonathan Hopkin, "Anti-System Politics: The Cri...
Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sanders and Trump?
50 min
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Richard Polt, "Time and Trauma: Thinking Throug...
For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party...
55 min
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Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, "Data Fem...
D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...
34 min
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Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unle...
Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking...
48 min