George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
1602
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
1603
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
1604
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
1605
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
1606
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
24 min
1607
Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in t...
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
Kamugisha reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism...
58 min
1609
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
1610
Robert Nichols, "Theft Is Property!: Dispossess...
Nichols explores the idea of recursive dispossession, which Nichols explains as the situation where “new proprietary relations are generated but under structural conditions that demand their simultaneous negation.”
57 min
1611
Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the America: A Poetics...
45 min
1612
Fadi A. Bardawil, "Revolution and Disenchantmen...
One of these movements, Socialist Lebanon, took root in the 1960s, and much Arab political thought has developed in its shadow ever since.,,
87 min
1613
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
1614
Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright...
How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?
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
1616
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...
74 min
1624
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
1625
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...