New Books in Critical Theory
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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
1752
Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt N...
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...
56 min
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Marcos González Hernando, "British Think Tanks ...
González Hernando explores how think tanks were impacted by the 2008 crisis.
38 min
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Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
1755
Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oi...
How do states use cultural policy?
32 min
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Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Powe...
What is the future of the museum?
31 min
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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
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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
1759
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
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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
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1762
Lynne Pettinger, "What’s Wrong with Work?" (Pol...
How should we understand work?
34 min
1763
Benjamin Fong, "Death and Mastery: Psychoanalyt...
Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...
65 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
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Erik Harms, "Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Di...
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms?
49 min
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Melanie Simms, "What Do We Know and What Should...
What is the future of work?
29 min
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David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capi...
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...
20 min
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Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min
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T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A Pe...
Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...
58 min
1771
Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Betwe...
Part 2 of a two part interview with Allen and Ruti about Klein, Lacan, and Critical Theory...
59 min
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Remi Joseph-Salisbury, "Black Mixed-Race Men: T...
Joseph-Salisbury explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK...
44 min
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Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
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Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulne...
Purser takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm...
88 min
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Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Betwe...
What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between their psychoanalytic perspectives?
69 min