New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
1626
Tad DeLay, ​"Against: What Does the White Evang...
DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...
63 min
1627
Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Tech...
The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?
31 min
1628
Wendy Bottero, "A Sense of Inequality" (Roman a...
Bottero offers a detailed and challenging new approach to how we conceive of, how we study, and how we might challenge, social inequality...
37 min
1629
Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Cons...
Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of this military waste when it has served its purpose and what does it tell us about militarism in American culture?
74 min
1630
Gonzalo Lamana, "How 'Indians' Think: Colonial ...
Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism...
46 min
1631
Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife of Reproducti...
Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism...
53 min
1632
Raj Patel, "A History of the World in Seven Che...
Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...
44 min
1633
H. Appel, S. Whitley, C. Kline, "The Power of D...
62 min
1634
Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Mo...
Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..
68 min
1635
M. Schneider-Mayerson and B. R. Bellamy, "An Ec...
"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...
43 min
1636
Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self in Precarity...
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?
58 min
1637
Xiao Liu, "Information Fantasies: Precarious Me...
Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...
63 min
1638
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
1639
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A ...
What does Friends mean to us now?
39 min
1640
Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can'...
Free market capitalism has failed women...
27 min
1641
Victoria Reyes, "Global Borderlands: Fantasy, V...
Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...
69 min
1642
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
1643
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
1644
Srdja Popovic, "Blueprint for Revolution" (Spie...
20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.
40 min
1645
Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigeno...
Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...
42 min
1646
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
1647
Marcos González Hernando, "British Think Tanks ...
González Hernando explores how think tanks were impacted by the 2008 crisis.
38 min
1648
Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
1649
Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt N...
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...
56 min
1650
Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oi...
How do states use cultural policy?
32 min