New Books in Critical Theory
Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books
1601
Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back...
A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?
24 min
1602
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A ...
What does Friends mean to us now?
39 min
1603
Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can'...
Free market capitalism has failed women...
27 min
1604
Victoria Reyes, "Global Borderlands: Fantasy, V...
Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...
69 min
1605
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" ...
Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...
42 min
1606
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1607
Srdja Popovic, "Blueprint for Revolution" (Spie...
20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.
40 min
1608
Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigeno...
Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...
42 min
1609
James Gordon Finlayson, "The Habermas-Rawls Deb...
Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...
121 min
1610
Marcos González Hernando, "British Think Tanks ...
González Hernando explores how think tanks were impacted by the 2008 crisis.
38 min
1611
Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt N...
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...
56 min
1612
Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
1613
Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oi...
How do states use cultural policy?
32 min
1614
Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Powe...
What is the future of the museum?
31 min
1615
Ian Parker, "Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Contex...
Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...
58 min
1616
Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Va...
Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...
42 min
1617
Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How ...
Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...
71 min
1618
Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listenin...
Eidsheim contents that vocal timbre is an even stronger marker for race and gender than physical appearance...
66 min
1619
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1620
Benjamin Fong, "Death and Mastery: Psychoanalyt...
Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...
65 min
1621
Lynne Pettinger, "What’s Wrong with Work?" (Pol...
How should we understand work?
34 min
1622
Christian Sorace, "Afterlives of Chinese Commun...
What to make of the fact that China is ruled by a Communist Party which detains and arrests people studying Maoism, organising workers, or campaigning for women’s liberation...
59 min
1623
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1624
Erik Harms, "Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Di...
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms?
49 min
1625
Melanie Simms, "What Do We Know and What Should...
What is the future of work?
29 min