New Books in Critical Theory
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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
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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
1728
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
1729
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
1730
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A ...
What does Friends mean to us now?
39 min
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Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can'...
Free market capitalism has failed women...
27 min
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Victoria Reyes, "Global Borderlands: Fantasy, V...
Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...
69 min
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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
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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
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Srdja Popovic, "Blueprint for Revolution" (Spie...
20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.
40 min
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Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigeno...
Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...
42 min
1737
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
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Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
1739
Marcos González Hernando, "British Think Tanks ...
González Hernando explores how think tanks were impacted by the 2008 crisis.
38 min
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Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt N...
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...
56 min
1741
Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oi...
How do states use cultural policy?
32 min
1742
Ian Parker, "Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Contex...
Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...
58 min
1743
Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Powe...
What is the future of the museum?
31 min
1744
Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Va...
Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...
42 min
1745
Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How ...
Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...
71 min
1746
Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listenin...
Eidsheim contents that vocal timbre is an even stronger marker for race and gender than physical appearance...
66 min
1747
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1748
Benjamin Fong, "Death and Mastery: Psychoanalyt...
Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...
65 min
1749
Lynne Pettinger, "What’s Wrong with Work?" (Pol...
How should we understand work?
34 min
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Christian Sorace, "Afterlives of Chinese Commun...
What to make of the fact that China is ruled by a Communist Party which detains and arrests people studying Maoism, organising workers, or campaigning for women’s liberation...
59 min