New Books in Critical Theory

Bruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and brooded over the meaning of fascism and how it might migrat...

Robert J. Dostal, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic (Northwestern University Press, 2022), Robert J. Dostal provides a comprehensive an...

Chris Boesel, "In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms: Why Derrida Doesn't Read Kierkegaard When He Reads Kierkegaard" (Fortress Academic, 2021)

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The philosophy of deconstruction, most famously pushed forward by Jacques Derrida, has left an undeniable dent on contemporary thought, and even relig...

Making Meaning Episode 3: The Weight of the World

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The ideology of capitalism, which drives us to find happiness in endless exertion and economic gain, dulls our emotions and blinds us to the source of...

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps's book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studi...

Where is the Left? The Rise and Decline of Social Democratic Movements

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on International Horizons, David Abraham from the University of Miami discusses the origins of social democratic parties in Europe and the p...

Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is the Third World? The term has essentially been scrubbed from our collective consciousness. What once used to be something concrete seems to ha...

Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can we build greener infrastructure in the face of the global climate emergency? In Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping (...

Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979)

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1979, sociologist and NYIH founder Richard Sennett, and philosopher Michel Foucault, discussed the connections between the history of sexuality and...

Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

20 years ago at Concordia University in Montreal pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police over whether Benjamin Netanyahu should be allowed to s...

Alexandre I. R. White, "Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" (Stanford UP, 2023)

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a ...

Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2022) upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno –...

Matthew Galway, "The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979" (Cornell UP, 2022)

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do ideas manifest outside of their place of origin, and how do they change once they do? The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism...

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Art has a long history of engaging with conflict and violence. From the antiquities, through Goya, to Guernica, our museums are filled with depictions...

Corey Lee Wrenn, "Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony" (SUNY Press, 2021)

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Irish vegan studies are poised for increasing relevance as climate change threatens the legitimacy and longevity of animal agriculture and widespread ...

Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Wolff's ground-breaking Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund (Haymarket Books, 2021) in...

Podcast Series: Hell on Earth--The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hell on Earth: The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism is a new 10-part series from the creators of Hell of Presidents — one of Ent...

Karyne E. Messina, "Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy" (Routledge, 2022)

21 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy (Routledge, 2022) ...

Hil Malatino, "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fatigue, disorientation, numbness, envy, rage, burnout. What good could come from thinking about trans experience and these bad feelings? In Side Aff...

The Future of the European Left

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why is it so hard for left wing parties in the West to win elections? Some such as the UK Labour Party have headed to the centre. The history of Labou...

The Thought of Ivan Illich

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Author L. M. Sacasas talks about the life, thought, and legacy of the Catholic priest, philosopher, and social critic Ivan Illich with Peoples & Thing...

The Myth of Modernity: Is There a Bigger Picture?

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many think modernity is about the rise of science, the spread of democracy and capitalism, or the decline of religion or superstition. But those stori...

Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. In Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of ...

Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have been ruled long enough. It is time to govern ourselves. If we are to get past the Constitution and all systems based on constitutions, we need...

Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shocked and appalled a number of people, forcing a critical reevaluation of what was possible, and what we ought ...

Eric A. Stanley, "Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable" (Duke UP, 2021)

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black violence Advances in LGBTQ r...

Carwil Bjork-James, "The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia" (U Arizona Press, 2020)

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politic...

Chris Bilton et al., "Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process" (Edward Elgar, 2022)

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How does creativity work? In Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process (Edward Elgar, 2022), Chris Bilton, a Reader a...

The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Most people in developed countries think inequality is increasing. And most would also agree that in terms of the global poor, the last 20 years have ...

Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important ph...

Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Total faith in meritocracy leads to the dangerous belief that all social winners and losers are wholly deserving. Instead, we need an economy of grace...

Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Ri...

Neoliberalism and Higher Education

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a roundtable discussion on the influence of the neoliberal project on higher education. Our guests are Professor Emeritus Frank Fear f...

Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)

07 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and Th...

White Balance: How Do Race and Class Intersect?

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Understanding race in America requires understanding its relationship to class. Guests Joshua Bennett, writer and poet Julian Bourg, Professor of Hi...

Carlos Alberto Sánchez, "A Sense of Brutality. Philosophy after Narco-Culture" (Amherst College Press, 2020)

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmm...

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps' book Heterotopic World Fictio...

(In)efficiency: Should Efficiency be a Moral Value?

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Efficiency has moved from a technique for measuring machines to a widely held moral value. But at what cost? Guests Jennifer Alexander, Associate Pro...

Vanessa A. Bee, "Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging" (Astra, 2022)

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vanessa A. Bee is a consumer protection lawyer with a freelancing habit. Primarily interested in inequality, corporate power, the American Left, and W...

Gareth Dale, et al., "Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age: Struggling to Be Born?" (Haymarket Books, 2021)

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The last several decades have seen a mass consolidation of wealth among a few, the rest of the world left to various degrees of dispossession. On top ...

Mairead Sullivan, "Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic, has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our curren...

Aaron Moulton, "The Influencing Machine" (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022)

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1990s, a network of twenty Soros Centres for Contemporary Art sprung up across Eastern Europe: Almaty, Belgrade, Budapest, Kiev, Ljubljana, Pra...

Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

By any reasonable metric, prisons as they exist in the United States and in many other countries are normatively unacceptable. What is the proper mora...

Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it exists, is a powerful, boundary-pu...

Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagn...

Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, autom...

Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against a...

The Partially Examined Life: A Conversation with Wes Alwan

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The Partially Examined Life" is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better...

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part 3 of 3. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first decade of ...

Naa Oyo A. Kwate, "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community. Today, fast food is disproportionately located ...

Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pedro Lebrón Ortiz's book The Philosophy of Marronage (Filosofía del cimarronaje) theorizes the broader context behind the notion of "cimarronaje...

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 2 of 3

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of 3. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first decade of ...

Arya Aryan, "The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arya Aryan's The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) not only discloses and examines different functions and conce...

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 1 of 3

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 of 3. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first decade of ...

Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than dri...

Jacob Kramer, "The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance" (Temple UP, 2015)

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance (Temple University Pre...

Quito J. Swan, "Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World" (NYU Press, 2022)

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oceania is a vast sea of islands, large scale political struggles and immensely significant historical phenomena. Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colon...

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Chokepoint Capitalism is Strangling Creative Industries

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many of the creative industries look like an hourglass. On the one side, you have creators; on the other, the rest of us. In the middle, Rebecca Gibli...

Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to...

Ben Pitcher, "Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does Prehistory mean to us now? In Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022), Ben Pitcher, ...

Avgi Saketopoulou, "Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia" (NYU Press, 2023)

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023) calls a...

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous cat...

Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Kat...

Marco Codebò, "Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital (Ohio State UP, 2020), Marco Codebò assesses the state of fiction in our time, an a...

AJ Withers, "Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing" (Fernwood, 2021)

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been one of the leading organizations in the struggle for social justice within Canada for several de...

Mathias Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. In No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a ...

Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Palm oil is a commodity like no other. Found in half of supermarket products, from food to cosmetics to plastics, it has shaped the world in which we ...

Barbara Harris Combs, "Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society (U Georgia Press, 2022) asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to b...

Jasmine Calver, "Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941" (Routledge, 2022)

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broad...

Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Comedy is so frequently the topic of cultural dialogue, but it is rarely taken seriously as an object of study. Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing ...

Denise Ferreira Da Silva, "Unpayable Debt" (Sternberg Press, 2022)

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Unpayable Debt (Sternberg Press, 2022) examines the relationships among coloniality, raciality, and global capital from a black feminist “poethica...

Irene Hilden, "Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies" (Leuven UP, 2022)

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete condit...

Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can billionaires justify the endless accumulation of wealth? Effective altruism. An almost religious philosophical belief. Sam Bankman-Fried, the ...

On Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth"

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1925, on the French occupied island of Martinique, one of the most prominent voices in post colonial theory was born, Frantz Fanon. He was born to ...

Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox (Edinburgh UP, 2021), Hilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and i...

Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the ...

The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is the best way to achieve societal harmony in a place in which groups of people with different identities are living together. Should minority g...

Marquis Bey, "Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender" (Duke UP, 2022)

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022), Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and c...

Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (wh...

On Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish"

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We moderns often tell ourselves a story that goes something like this: The past was barbaric, especially when it came to punishing criminals or persec...

Sophie Lewis, "Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation" (Verso, 2022)

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted? What if we could do better than the family? We need...

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Lapla...

Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Duke UP, 2020), Riché Richardson examines iconic black women lead...

Louise Ashley, "Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn't Fair and Diversity Doesn't Work" (Bristol UP, 2022)

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can we make the finance industry fair? In Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn’t Fair and Diversity Doesn’t Work (Bristol UP, 2022), Louise ...

Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang, "Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation" (Tilted Axis Press, 2022)

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that 'Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,' meaning that the violence of colonialism can only be counteracted in ...

Science Against the People: Anti-Capitalist Science

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s difficult to criticise science from the left. Right-wingers attack science and liberals defend it. Science for the People is a radical movement...

Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily pr...

Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches per...

Igor Shoikhedbrod, "Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is Marx relevant today, after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe? Is Marx’s political theory compatible with individual rights? You will be...

Therí Alyce Pickens, "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" (Duke UP, 2019)

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke UP, 2019), Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the ...

Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical sub...

Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do women balance feminist identities whilst being science fiction fans? In Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the...

On Edward Said's "Orientalism"

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beginning in the 17th century, European countries began colonizing countries east of Europe. They imposed their own ideas over local cultures and extr...

Helen De Cruz ed. "Philosophy Illustrated: Forty-Two Thought Experiments to Broaden your Mind" (Oxford UP, 2021)

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thought experiments are tools philosophers and scientists use to investigate how things are, without actually having to go out and experiment in the r...

Can We Square the Circle? Universalism Versus Communitarianism

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The political Left has long faced tension regarding its universalistic commitments and those to the nation it inhabits. The dilemma is captured succin...

Željka Matijasević, "The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death" (Lexington, 2021)

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Borderline personality disorder is no longer a secret. Many people who are not therapists know what it is and see it as a fitting description for thei...

Aufhebunga Bunga and Global Politics

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aufhebunga Bunga is the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History. In this episode, Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, and Philip Cunliffe t...

Peter Rehberg, "Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine 'Butt'" (Routledge, 2022)

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s easy to forget that the cultural archetypes that pass for queerness today have historical roots. Some of these roots are mere years away from t...

Graham Harman, "Architecture and Objects" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Object-oriented ontology has become increasingly popular among architectural theorists and practitioners in recent years. Architecture and Objects (...

David Caute, "Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century" (Verso, 2022)

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who pos...