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Science
Social Sciences
1726
Tom Holert, "Knowledge Beside Itself: Contempor...
An interview with Tom Holert
44 min
1727
Barbara Dennis, "Walking with Strangers: Critic...
An interview with Barbara Dennis
73 min
1728
Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the E...
An interview with Jemma Deer
42 min
1729
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (D...
An interview with Laura Hyun Yi Kang
72 min
1730
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Po...
An interview with Jodi Rios
50 min
1731
Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (R...
An interview with Regina Rini
59 min
1732
K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: ...
An interview with Kevin Young and Michael Schwartz
128 min
1733
Adam Fabry, "The Political Economy of Hungary: ...
An interview with Adam Fabry
55 min
1734
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolit...
An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas
79 min
1735
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1736
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial Histo...
An interview with Jean Casimir
78 min
1737
Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution:...
An interview with Matt Christman
65 min
1738
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
1739
L. Layton and M. Leavy-Sperounis, "Toward a Soc...
An interview with Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis
72 min
1740
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1741
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
1742
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min
1743
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
1744
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
1745
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
1746
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
85 min
1747
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
1748
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
1749
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
1750
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