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
1602
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
1603
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...
Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...
74 min
1605
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
1606
Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: ...
What does it mean to be a political subject?
40 min
1607
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
1608
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
1609
Paul Harkins, "Digital Sampling: The Design and...
How does technology shape music?
44 min
1610
Richard Williams "Why Cities Look the Way They ...
How should we understand our cities?
33 min
1611
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
1612
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
1613
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
1614
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
1615
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
1616
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
1617
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
1618
Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: Ho...
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence?
51 min
1619
Jathan Sadowski, "Too Smart" (MIT Press, 2020)
The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What are the benefits? And, what are the impacts?
46 min
1620
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
1621
Mark Sedgwick, "Key Thinkers of the Radical Rig...
The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...
64 min
1622
Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare...
How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?
42 min
1623
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
1624
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
1625
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...