New Books in Critical Theory
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1801
Jonathan Sklar, "Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Per...
In between this psychoanalytically informed reading of history, politics and their relation to the individual psyche, Sklar leaves room for applying the analysis of the histories of trauma and mourning...
50 min
1802
Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...
68 min
1803
Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
This volume takes Hegel as its key point of reference...
95 min
1804
Crystal Mun-hye Baik, "Reencounters: On the Kor...
This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended...
76 min
1805
Marianna Ritchey, "Composing Capital: Classical...
What is the place of classical music in contemporary society?
47 min
1806
Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender V...
Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...
50 min
1807
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media...
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?
64 min
1808
Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fas...
The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...
70 min
1809
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
16 min
1810
Ali Meghji, "Black Middle-Class Britannia: Iden...
Maghji considers the identity of Britain’s Black middle-class by understanding culture and cultural consumption...
32 min
1811
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
1812
Josh Cerretti, "Abuses of the Erotic: Militariz...
Cerretti argue that a project of militarizing sexuality succeeded in the 1990s United States...
58 min
1813
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: ...
What is the culture of the tech industry?
40 min
1814
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
1815
Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches...
Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...
67 min
1816
Minou Arjomand, "Staged: Show Trials, Political...
Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...
73 min
1817
Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in t...
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
34 min
1818
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire o...
Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community living both in historic Palestine and in diaspora...
52 min
1819
Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence an...
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...
67 min
1820
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
24 min
1821
Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizensh...
Kamugisha reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism...
58 min
1822
Robert Nichols, "Theft Is Property!: Dispossess...
Nichols explores the idea of recursive dispossession, which Nichols explains as the situation where “new proprietary relations are generated but under structural conditions that demand their simultaneous negation.”
57 min
1823
Alberto Harambour, "Soberanías fronterizas: Est...
Harambour examines the explosion of foreign-owned sheep farming, the fitful expansion of Argentine and Chilean sovereignty, and the violence of primitive accumulation and genocide in southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego...
55 min
1824
Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the America: A Poetics...
45 min
1825
Fadi A. Bardawil, "Revolution and Disenchantmen...
One of these movements, Socialist Lebanon, took root in the 1960s, and much Arab political thought has developed in its shadow ever since.,,
87 min