Off the Page: A Columbia University P...

Interviews with Columbia University Press authors.

Books
History
Science
301
Jamieson Webster, "Conversion Disorder: Listeni...
What do psychoanalysts do with bodies, and what do they do with them now?
55 min
302
E. Lonergan and M. Blyth, "Angrynomics" (Agenda...
How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?
44 min
303
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
304
Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated...
Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...
53 min
305
Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global...
Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...
59 min
306
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Tra...
Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...
38 min
307
Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalys...
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened...
54 min
308
Dominik Finkelde, "Excessive Subjectivity: Kant...
How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order?
74 min
309
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Pol...
The authors show that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve....
96 min
310
Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achiev...
McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...
50 min
311
Ruth Palmer, "Becoming the News: How Ordinary P...
Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and experiences of those who have been featured in news stories – voluntarily or not – sheds new light on the practice of journalism and the importance many continue to place on the role of the mainstream media...
56 min
312
Tania Jenkins, "Doctors’ Orders: The Making of ...
Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...
48 min
313
Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Pow...
Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...
46 min
314
L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the R...
Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...
59 min
315
Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel,...
Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...
115 min
316
Anna M. Gade, “Muslim Environmentalisms: Religi...
The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies...
52 min
317
Leor Halevi, "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s G...
How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?
50 min
318
Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of...
Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...
46 min
319
Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North K...
Fahy gives a thorough and compelling analysis of testimonies and reports on North Korea...
47 min
320
Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: T...
Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...
61 min
321
Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public ...
"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..
44 min
322
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
323
Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Wom...
"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...
25 min
324
Benjamin Fong, "Death and Mastery: Psychoanalyt...
Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...
65 min
325
Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min