New Books in Critical Theory
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Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the E...
An interview with Jemma Deer
42 min
1777
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (D...
An interview with Laura Hyun Yi Kang
72 min
1778
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Po...
An interview with Jodi Rios
50 min
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Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (R...
An interview with Regina Rini
59 min
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K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: ...
An interview with Kevin Young and Michael Schwartz
128 min
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Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolit...
An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas
79 min
1782
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial Histo...
An interview with Jean Casimir
78 min
1783
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1784
Adam Fabry, "The Political Economy of Hungary: ...
An interview with Adam Fabry
55 min
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Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution:...
An interview with Matt Christman
65 min
1786
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
1787
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1788
L. Layton and M. Leavy-Sperounis, "Toward a Soc...
An interview with Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis
72 min
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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
1790
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min
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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
1792
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
1793
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
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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
1795
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
85 min
1796
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
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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
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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
1799
David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global...
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years...
63 min
1800
Lisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polit...
Inheritance, they claim, is no longer a 19th-century-style transmission of property titles after death but a “strategically timed transfer of funds that need to be leveraged and put to work in the speculative logic of the asset economy”....
30 min