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Science
Social Sciences
1651
Tom Holert, "Knowledge Beside Itself: Contempor...
An interview with Tom Holert
44 min
1652
Barbara Dennis, "Walking with Strangers: Critic...
An interview with Barbara Dennis
73 min
1653
Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the E...
An interview with Jemma Deer
42 min
1654
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (D...
An interview with Laura Hyun Yi Kang
72 min
1655
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Po...
An interview with Jodi Rios
50 min
1656
Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (R...
An interview with Regina Rini
59 min
1657
K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: ...
An interview with Kevin Young and Michael Schwartz
128 min
1658
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1659
Adam Fabry, "The Political Economy of Hungary: ...
An interview with Adam Fabry
55 min
1660
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolit...
An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas
79 min
1661
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial Histo...
An interview with Jean Casimir
78 min
1662
Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution:...
An interview with Matt Christman
65 min
1663
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
1664
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1665
L. Layton and M. Leavy-Sperounis, "Toward a Soc...
An interview with Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis
72 min
1666
Ashley E. Lucas, "Prison Theatre and the Global...
One place that might surprise a lot of people is the popularity of performances staged by incarcerated persons...
60 min
1667
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min
1668
Rebecca Harrison, "The Empire Strikes Back" (Bl...
Harrison tells the story of the film’s production and reception, and analyses the film’s on-screen representations...
42 min
1669
Rosemary-Claire Collard, "Animal Traffic: Livel...
Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital....
82 min
1670
Andrea Jain, "Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of ...
Jain examines the interconnectedness between global spirituality and neoliberal capitalism through an examination of the global yoga and self-care industries...
36 min
1671
Adam Kotsko, "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Po...
Neoliberalism’s Demons posits we can best understand neoliberalism through the lens of political theology...
75 min
1672
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
85 min
1673
Ani Maitra, "Identity, Mediation, and the Cunni...
The politics of identity have played center stage in many political debates in the last few years, and is often seen somewhat pejoratively as an epiphenomenal manifestation of the dynamics of capitalism....
72 min
1674
Daniela Vallega-Neu, "Heidegger's Poietic Writi...
Looking at Heidegger’s writing from 1936-1942, Vallega-Neu’s text is an excellent guide through this incredibly difficult period of Heidegger’s thinking...
63 min
1675
Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and ...
Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....
45 min