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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
1627
Raluca Soreanu, "Working-through Collective Wou...
Soreanu formulates a theory of collective trauma, drawing on the work of Sándor Ferenczi...
66 min
1628
Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented:...
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....
67 min
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Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: Th...
Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.
34 min
1630
Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presume...
This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...
78 min
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Martin Jay, "Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt S...
Jay provides ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times...
86 min
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Jonathan Sklar, "Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Per...
In between this psychoanalytically informed reading of history, politics and their relation to the individual psyche, Sklar leaves room for applying the analysis of the histories of trauma and mourning...
50 min
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Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
This volume takes Hegel as its key point of reference...
95 min
1634
Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...
68 min
1635
Crystal Mun-hye Baik, "Reencounters: On the Kor...
This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended...
76 min
1636
Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender V...
Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...
50 min
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Marianna Ritchey, "Composing Capital: Classical...
What is the place of classical music in contemporary society?
47 min
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Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media...
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?
64 min
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Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fas...
The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...
70 min
1640
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
16 min
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Ali Meghji, "Black Middle-Class Britannia: Iden...
Maghji considers the identity of Britain’s Black middle-class by understanding culture and cultural consumption...
32 min
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Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
1643
Josh Cerretti, "Abuses of the Erotic: Militariz...
Cerretti argue that a project of militarizing sexuality succeeded in the 1990s United States...
58 min
1644
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: ...
What is the culture of the tech industry?
40 min
1645
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
1646
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
1647
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
1648
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
24 min
1649
Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in t...
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
34 min
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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