Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Interview: Dr. Vincent Lloyd on Black Dignity and the Struggle Against Domination — Epistemic Unruliness 38
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back! After a not-so-brief hiatus, we’re excited to bring you a very special and energizing episode. James and Sid talk with Dr. Vincent Llo...
Interview: Breea Willingham on Incarceration, Higher Ed, and Abolition – Epistemic Unruliness 37
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John is joined by his colleague, Dr. Breea Willingham, to discuss her multiple forms of work on higher education in prisons, both wit...
Ep. 72 – Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back from a hiatus in western Massachusetts, B joins John and special guest co-host Alyssa Ruth Mazer to discuss Miguel de Beistegui’s book The Gove...
Ep. 71 – Jedidiah Purdy, After Nature
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emily and John welcome John’s colleague Gary Kroll for a discussion of Jedediah Purdy‘s After Nature: A Politics for the...
Ep. 70 – Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John is joined by friends-of-the-show Tyler Tully and Danielle Hanley to discuss Audra Simpson‘s Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the B...
Interview: Jane Gordon and Drucilla Cornell on Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg — Epistemic Unruliness 36
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, Rachel and John have the honor and pleasure of interviewing Dr. Jane Anna Gordon and Dr. Drucilla Cornell about their new edited vol...
Interview: Eric Bayruns García on Race and Epistemic Injustice — Epistemic Unruliness 35
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emily and Rachel talk with the inimitable Eric Bayruns García, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Cal State San Bernardino, about ...
Ep. 69 – Dorfman and Mattleart on Disney and Imperialism
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emily, James, and John enter the Worrisome World-Making of Disney (™) via How to Read Donald Duck, a 1971 Chilean Marxist critique...
Ep. 68 – W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Emily, B, Sid, and John for a classic AAP text discussion, this time featuring W.E.B. Du Bois’s Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil. Ou...
Interview: Jessica Blatt on Race and the Making of American Political Science — Epistemic Unruliness 34
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John welcomes Jessica Blatt, Associate Professor of Political Science at Marymount Manhattan College, for a conversation about her 20...
Interview: Mutual Aid and Black Queer Futurities, with Empty Your Venmo Fund — Epistemic Unruliness 33
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Epistemic Unruliness interview, James features Savanna Touré, Lincoln Mondy, and Amirio Freeman — the activists-creatives at the Empty ...
Interview: Joanna Steinhardt and Tehseen Noorani on the Psychedelic Revival — Epistemic Unruliness 32
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, James welcomes back friend of the podcast Joanna Steinhardt and introduces Tehseen Noorani, co-editors of the recent “The Psych...
Interview: Joel Schlosser on Herodotus in the Anthropocene – Epistemic Unruliness 31
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, James and John interview Joel Alden Schlosser about his new book Herodotus in the Anthropocene (University of Chicago Press, 2020). T...
Ep. 67 – Joel Olson, The Abolition of White Democracy
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John and Sid are joined by friend of the podcast Danielle Hanley of Rutgers University to discuss Joel Olson’s The Abolition o...
Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human — Epistemic Unruliness 30
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emily is delighted to talk with Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson about her new book Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World...
Interview: Michael Sawyer on the Political Philosophy of Malcolm X – Epistemic Unruliness 29
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sid and John have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Michael Sawyer about his new book, Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malco...
Interview: Frank B. Wilderson III on Afropessimism – Epistemic Unruliness 28
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode, Sid and James sit down with Dr. Frank B. Wilderson, III for a lively and wide-ranging conversation about his new highly-...
Ep. 66 – Juliet Hooker, Race and the Politics of Solidarity
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emily, John, and Sid are joined by friend of the podcast Danielle Hanley of Rutgers University for a discussion of the first half of ...
Interview: Practicing Critical Care Through COVID-19 and Beyond – Epistemic Unruliness 27
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode focusing on the hazards of COVID-19, James interviews Dr. Sarmistha Talukdar, a queer, immigrant, neurodivergent audio-visual artist a...
Ep. 65 – Race, Capitalism, and Intersectionality
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emily, Sid, and John intervene in the resurgent and lively (and possibly trendy?) discussion on “racial capitalism.” By engaging with four...
Ep. 64 – Robin James, The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This long overdue episode brings James, B, and John together for a discussion of Robin James’s most recent book, The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resona...
Ep. 63 – Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
[Edited to add: Federici published an earlier version of this book in Italian in 1984; the English book Caliban and the Witch, published in 2004, as a...
Interview: Jason Ortiz on #RickyRenuncia and Puerto Rican Sovereignty Movements – Epistemic Unruliness 26
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this new installment of Epistemic Unruliness, James interviews Jason Ortiz, president of the Connecticut Puerto Rican Agenda, to discuss the recent...
Caribbean Carnival Complex – Epistemic Unruliness 25
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special installment of Epistemic Unruliness, James brings you a student-assembled episode produced by some the intrepid undergraduates who too...
Awks AF: The Democratic Presidential Debates – AAP After Dark 4
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this Always Already After Dark 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary Debate Special™, Emily, John, Sid, and James give their wide-ranging and free...
Ep. 62 – Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital Part III
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we (finally!) get to the third section of Rosa Luxemburg‘s The Accumulation of Capital, “The Historical Conditions of Ac...
Ep. 61 – Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital Part II
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join Rachel, John, and Sid as they tackle Part II of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. Picking up where Part I left off, the team waste...
Interview: J.T. Roane on Plotting the Black Commons – Epistemic Unruliness 24
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After a dissertating hiatus, James returns with a new Epistemic Unruliness interview featuring Dr. J.T. Roane, Assistant Professor of Women’s, G...
Ep. 60 – Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In what could be their first trio podcast, co-hosts James, Emily, and B tarry with the Preface and a Chapter titled “Occult Philosophy” from Eugen...
James Padilioni on the Wild Mind Collective: Visionary Scholarship Beyond Recognition with the Ancestors
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this special crossover episode of Epistemic Unruliness, James sat down with Kaitlin Smith, the founder of the Wild Mind Collective and host of thei...
Ep. 59 – Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital Part I
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join Rachel, John, and newly-appointed co-host Sid for the first entry in the first ever AAP podcast series, a multi-part exploration of Rosa Luxembur...
Ep. 58 – Mariana Ortega on Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a year of dissertating, graduating, and professor-ating, B reunites with Emily and John as they all discuss Mariana Ortega’s book In-Between: ...
Interview: James Chamberlain on Undoing Work, Rethinking Community – Epistemic Unruliness 23
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, James A. Chamberlain (Political Science, Mississippi State) joins John to discuss his recent book, Undoing Work, Rethinking Communit...
Ep. 57 – Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom”
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, James, Shadee, and John settle into unsettling the ongoing colonial project with Sylvia Wynter’s “Unsettling the Colonial...
Ep. 56 – Donna Haraway, When Species Meet
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Emily, James, and John discuss Donna Haraway‘s When Species Meet (2008), a personal and at times intimate figuring/figuration of...
Ep. 55 – Kylie Jarrett: Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AAP, John and Emily are joined by guest and friend of the podcast Amy Schiller for a discussion of Kylie Jarrett‘s book Fem...
Interview: Kyla Schuller on Race Science and the Biopolitics of Feeling – Epistemic Unruliness 22
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join John as he interviews Kyla Schuller (Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers) about her new book The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Sc...
Ep. 54 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, James is joined by AAP Fanon correspondent M. Shadee Malaklou as they welcome a new guest, Derrais Carter, assistant professor of Bla...
Ep. 53 – Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
27 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AAP, Rachel, Emily, and John tackle a special request from Patreon supporter Alex. We discuss Byung-Chul Han‘s The Burnout ...
Ep. 52 – Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back, and with an episode featuring frequent guest of the show Sid Issar joining Rachel and John! The trio engages with a two-part article...
Ep. 51 – Anna L. Tsing on Capitalism, Mushrooms, and the End of the World
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emily and John are joined by a new guest and friend of the podcast Joseph Bookman for a lively discussion of Anna L. Tsing‘s b...
Teaching the Political Theory Canon – AAP Pedagogy Hour
29 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this special episode of the AAP – special because all of your hosts are actually in the same place, and special because we devote th...
Interview: Charles Mills on Racial Liberalism
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode, John talks with Charles W. Mills (Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY) about his new book, Black Rights/White Wrongs:...
Ep. 50 – Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this especially agentic episode, Emily, John, and B attempt to meet Karen Barad halfway–examining three chapters from her major work, Meeting...
Interview: Kai M. Green on Transracialism – Epistemic Unruliness 21
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Join James as he talks with activist-scholar-artist Kai M. Green about the transracial question as presented in his June 2015 The Feminist Wire articl...
Psychoanalysis, Liberalism, and Trump – AAP After Dark 3
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Join James, John, and Emily for another installment of Always Already After Dark. In this episode we (accidentally?) discuss the Twilight franchise be...
Ep. 49 – Eric L. Santner on Sovereignty, Flesh, and Biopolitics
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Join B, John, and Emily for a patron-suggested discussion of Eric L. Santner‘s book The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the End...
Interview: Mark Padoongpatt on neoliberalism and the (under)commons – Epistemic Unruliness 20
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode James is joined by Dr. Mark Padoongpatt, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at University of Nevada ...
Ep. 48 – Calvin Warren and Frank Wilderson III on Antiblackness, Nihilism, and Politics
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features James, John, and newly-christened Always Already Correspondent M. Shadee Malaklou in a discussion drawn from a cross-reading of ...
Ep. 47 – Jürgen Habermas on Secularism and Democracy; Review of Get Out
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Always Already Podcast we discuss two distinct, overlapping, and not-so-overlapping essays by Jürgen Habermas: “Three N...
Interview: Barbara Sostaita on Immigration Urgencies – Epistemic Unruliness 19
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this first installment of Epistemic Unruliness recorded from within the Trump Age, James interviews Barbara Sostaita, a Feministing.com columnist, ...
Ep. 46 – Martijn Konings, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for Rachel’s triumphant return to the podcast as she, Emily, and John discuss a few chapters from Martijn Konings‘ The Emotional ...
Ep. 45 – Rebecca Jordan Young, Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
20 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this special crossover episode, James, John, and Emily are joined by Conor, Grace, and Josh from the Unsupervised Thinking podcast. We discuss seve...
Interview: Banu Bargu on the Weaponization of Life
14 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Over at New Books in Global Ethics and Politics, John interviewed Banu Bargu on her recent book. Thanks to the NBN, we are cross-posting the episode h...
Always Already On the Road: Voices from ASA, Part 2 – Epistemic Unruliness 18
22 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Part 2 of Always Already on the Road (for part 1 click here!), where James attends the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Denve...
Always Already On the Road: Voices from ASA, Part 1 – Epistemic Unruliness 17
22 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 1 of this first-ever Always Already on the Road, James attends the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. This year’...
Neoliberal imaginaries and electoral failures: or, what the hell happened last week?- AAP After Dark 2
16 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In a new installment of our occasional series, Always Already Podcast After Dark, James, Emily, John, and B tackle the elephant in political imaginar...
Interview: Suhaly Bautista-Carolina on the Radical Futurity of Art – Epistemic Unruliness 16
08 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this installment of Epistemic Unruliness, James talks with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, also known as “The Earth Warrior.” In addition to ...
Ep. 44 – Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on theory, paranoid reading, and reparative reading
25 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Join Emily, John, and B as they celebrate a reunion: John’s brief return to New York in this exciting episode on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s critiques...
Ep. 43 – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
04 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In our first text-discussion episode in a while (sorry podcast fam!), John is joined by two special guest hosts, his Beloit College colleagues M. Shad...
Interview: Mary Hawkesworth on Embodied Power
21 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Over at New Books in Global Ethics and Politics, John interviewed Mary Hawkesworth on her recent book. Thanks to the NBN, we are cross-posting the epi...
Interview: Sandra Harding on Objectivity and Diversity
09 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Emily debuts on the New Books in Global Ethics and Politics podcast by interviewing Sandra Harding. Thanks to the New Books Network for letting us cro...
Roundtable on the Movement for Black Lives – Epistemic Unruliness 15
16 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this special round-table discussion on Black Lives Matter, James is joined by Travis Harris, Shana Haines, and Tyrell Cooper, activist-scholars fro...
Ep. 42 – Queer Inhumanisms
09 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Emily, B and Rachel dig into GLQ‘s special issue, “Queer Inhumanisms,” edited by Mel Y. Chen and Dana ...
Interview: Joanna Steinhardt on Mushrooms, Ecological Movements, and the Anthropocene – Epistemic Unruliness 14
02 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this rhizomatic episode, James is joined by Joanna Steinhardt, PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and today’s re...
Interview: Simone Kolysh on Activist Pedagogy – Epistemic Unruliness 13
19 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, James is joined by Simone Kolysh, PhD candidate in Sociology from The Graduate Center, CUNY. Their conversation focuses upon pedagogy...
Ep. 41 – Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony
28 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode we read Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony, focusing in particular on the Introduction and Chapters 5 and 6. We be...
Muhammed Ali, Race, and Sports – Epistemic Unruliness 12
14 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of EU, James takes the role of guest as he joins a panel on the YouTube show Akil’s Ruminations to pay tribute to t...
Ep. 40 – J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It)
07 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this special anniversary episode, your founding co-hosts John, Rachel, and B tackle the deconstruction of capitalism in J. K. Gibson-Graham’s cla...
Ep. 39 – Marcuse and Radiohead: A Special Episode with Theory for Turntables podcast
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in to this week’s very exceptional episode of the Always Already Podcast! John, B, and Emily are joined by special guests Matt and Ryan fro...
Ep. 38 – Annemarie Mol on Ontology, Science, and Politics
27 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Join John, Emily, and the lamp specter of B for this week’s discussion of some of the work of Dutch anthropologist and philosopher of medicine, ...
Interview: Richael Faithful on Black folk occultism and Black power – Epistemic Unruliness 11
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Join James as he interviews Richael Faithful, folk healer from Washington, DC, who views their work in shamanism as a love practice and love politic. ...
Ep. 37 – Daniel C. Barber, Deleuze and the Naming of God
12 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, James joins Rachel and John in NYC to discuss Daniel Colucciello Barber’s Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-Secu...
Interview: Amy Allen on Decolonizing Critical Theory – Epistemic Unruliness 10
22 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to our friends over at the New Books Network, we bring you John’s interview for New Books in Global Ethics and Politics with Amy Allen on...
Interview: Lester Spence on Neoliberalism and Black Politics – Epistemic Unruliness 9
15 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Join James as he talks with Dr. Lester Spence (Political Science and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins), about his book Knocking the Hustle: Against the...
Ep. 36 – Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason
08 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode Emily, Rachel, and B attempt to crack Max Horkheimer’s Eclipse of Reason, written in 1947 in the aftermath of World...
Interview: Bad Infinity on Making Deleuze-Inspried EDM Music – Epistemic Unruliness 8
16 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, James interviews Kaif Syed, aka Bad Infinity, an EDM artist based out of Detroit. The conversation covers Bad Infinity’s Deleuz...
Ep. 35 – Gayatri Spivak, In Other Worlds
09 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week Emily, Rachel, and John read Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak‘s collection of essays In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. We focus...
Interview: Alfie Bown on Candy Crush and Capitalism’s Injunction to Enjoy – Epistemic Unruliness 7
28 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, James talks with Dr. Alfie Bown about his book Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism. The conversation delves into the sticky relat...
AAP After Dark 1: The Badness of Academia; Willow and Jaden Smith
19 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Join James, John, and Emily for an extra special episode of Always Already “After Dark,” a potentially new series. This episode is “...