New Books in Critical Theory
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Albena Azmanova, "Capitalism on Edge: How Fight...
Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...
66 min
1627
Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rig...
Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....
68 min
1628
C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultu...
How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society?
41 min
1629
Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Securi...
Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East....
46 min
1630
João Costa Vargas, "The Denial of Antiblackness...
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.
70 min
1631
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hol...
Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...
44 min
1632
Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Co...
Jackson demonstrates that cultural appropriation (especially of Black culture by white artists) is prevalent and deeply rooted in America’s history of inequality...
59 min
1633
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of...
Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...
59 min
1634
Danielle Knafo, "The New Sexual Landscape and C...
Knafo and Lo Bosco survey modern sex culture and suggests ways psychoanalysis can update its theories and practice to meet the novel needs of today’s generations...
53 min
1635
S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our H...
The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...
76 min
1636
Madina Tlostanova, "What Does it Mean to be Pos...
Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition...
55 min
1637
Mack Hagood, "Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Contro...
How have we used twentieth- and twenty-first-century sound technologies to carve out sonic space out of the hustle and bustle of contemporary life?
78 min
1638
Caron Gentry, "Disordered Violence: How Gender,...
Gentry argues that mainstream Terrorism Studies must contend with the growing misogynist and racialized violence against women...
52 min
1639
Karen Patel, "The Politics of Expertise in Cult...
By analyzing the impact and importance of social media, the book offers an important insight into how inequality functions even where technology seems to offer an end to cultural hierarchy...
36 min
1640
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorpo...
The authors move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others...
69 min
1641
Tanya Kant, "Making it Personal: Algorithmic Pe...
How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?
34 min
1642
Orit Kamir, "Betraying Dignity" (Fairleigh Dick...
What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common?
70 min
1643
Michael Rectenwald, "Beyond Woke" (New English ...
Rectenwald returns with his characteristic sharp wit and incisive analysis and continues to fine tune his critique of modern leftism...
61 min
1644
Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahm...
Hussain explores ways in which Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s thought on profound questions of moral obligations, knowledge, Jihad, and time disrupts a politics of “either/or” ...
58 min
1645
Nadine El-Enany, "Bordering Britain: Law, Race ...
How can we understand the legacy of colonialism within contemporary society?
43 min
1646
Andrew Kettler, "The Smell of Slavery: Olfactor...
Kettler charts the impact that smell had on the making of race and justifications for enslavement in the Atlantic world....
51 min
1647
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Design Justice: Communit...
Design justice demands a deep understanding of the community and its needs, engagement with community members, and a recognition of their expertise, along with reciprocation of value....
34 min
1648
Marika Rose, "A Theology of Failure: Žižek Agai...
Rose argues that failure should be welcomed as a core element of Christian identity....
60 min
1649
Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Mo...
Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the conversation about modernism and modernity, which is shaped and conditioned by the already post-postmodern condition...
53 min
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Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Sha...
Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...
67 min