New Books in Critical Theory

Vivek Chibber, "Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It" (Verso, 2022)

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so d...

Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, ...

Red Cat

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Leigh Claire La Berge talks about red cats: communist cats, revolutionary tigers, radical felines of all stripes. The ...

Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paris Marx is one of the sharpest modern writers on Silicon Valley and transit. We have been talking a lot lately about the idea of techno-utopian thi...

Bartholomew Ryan, "Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno" (Brill, 2014)

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1848, as political movements and events were sweeping Europe and Marx and Engels penned their famous Communist Manifesto, Kierkegaard wrote in a l...

Halloween Special: Jacques Derrida’s Cat

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Saronik talks with Kim about Jacques Derrida’s cat. Derrida writes about his cat, who makes him rather anxious, in “The Animal That Therefore I Am...

Andreas Malm, "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" (Verso, 2021)

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and p...

Saskia Warren, "British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is religion important in understanding creative industries? In British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries (Edinburgh Universit...

Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be f...

Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Despite changes in the media landscape, film remains a vital force in contemporary culture, as do our ideas of what "a movie" or "the cinematic" are. ...

Ahmed White, "Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers" (U California Press, 2022)

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World was rapidly gaining strength and members. Within a decade, this radical union was effectively destroyed, ...

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, "Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to ...

Cameron Awkward-Rich, "The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment" (Duke UP, 2022)

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke UP, 2022), Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought t...

Josh Bowsher, "The Informational Logic of Human Rights" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and victims become ve...

Arcia Tecun et al., "Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers, and activists. For these a...

Arthur Bradley, "Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure" (Columbia UP, 2019)

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae...

Asim Sajjad Akhter, "The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons" (Pluto Press, 2022)

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian perso...

Robin McCoy Brooks, "Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe, and Social Action" (Routledge, 2021)

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robin McCoy Brooks' book Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe, and Social Action (Routledge, 2021) uses psychoanalytic theory to explore how political subje...

Julie Sze, "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" (U California Press, 2020)

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.”—Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political m...

Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (Basic Books, 2020), Bhaskar Sunkara explores socialism's ...

Rafico Ruiz, "Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier" (Duke UP, 2021)

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, crea...

Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ramzi Fawaz, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new book that weaves together the more contemporary history of feminis...

Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new norma...

Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India" (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2021)

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nissim Mannathukkaren's book Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2021) is a the...

Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, violent disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These confli...

Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Christopher Lukman about his new book Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games (Lit Verlag, 2022). In light...

Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How does the state support writers? In State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Oxford UP, 2020), Asha Rogers, Senio...

Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester UP, 2021) details the activism that made ...

Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of Social Order (Verso, 2021) offers a critical look at policing and the power of the state, exa...

Standpoint Theory

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Soham Sen talks about standpoint theory, a method of understanding the ways in which individual and collective experience influence public discourses....

C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designe...

Clémentine Deliss, "The Metabolic Museum" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, ex...

NBN Classic: Dominik Finkelde, "Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan and the Foundations of Ethics" (Columbia UP, 2017)

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. How are we to conceive of acts...

NBN Classic: Jonathan Erickson, "Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience" (Routledge, 2019)

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. Imagination is one of the most...

Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it? We cann...

Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk...

David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn, "Capitalism and Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad" (Fernwood, 2021)

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many Canadians think of their country as a paragon of liberal democratic values at home, and a moderating force on the world stage—not so, argues th...

Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in t...

Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, p...

Digital Lethargy

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Tung-Hui Hu talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Digital Lethargy, as part of our High Theory in STEM series. As a mo...

Samo Tomšič, "The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy" (Walther Konig Verlag, 2019)

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Enjoyment appears as purely private matter, but this is by far not the case. Ever since Aristotle the philosophical social critique is tormented by th...

Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The intricacies of imperialism and colonialism within the context of the Bible are nuanced and varied. Understanding the legacy of European Imperialis...

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences ...

NBN Classic: Theodor Adorno, "The Authoritarian Personality" (Verso, 2019)

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. 70 years ago, the philosopher ...

NBN Classic: Zahi Zalloua, "​Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-Racist Future​" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. The Slovenian philosopher and ...

NBN Classic: Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek and Dialectical Materialism" (Columbia UP, 2018)

24 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. In 2012, the world-renowned ph...

NBN Classic: Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

24 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. How does the world of book rev...

Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader" (Duke UP, 2021)

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, pos...

On Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

1848 was the Year of Revolutions in Europe. It was also the year that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto, proposing a ne...

Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Democratic Socialists of America have exploded in the last few years, going from just a couple thousand members to close to a hundred thousand. Th...

Paula Serafini, "Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, And (Post)Extractivism" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How are art and social justice intertwined? In Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism Paula Serafini, a Lecturer...

Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, o...

Kim Q. Hall, "Queering Philosophy" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why isn’t there a queer subfield in philosophy? How has institutionalized philosophy continued to develop without a recognized specialization in que...

Nancy Fraser, "Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It" (Verso, 2022)

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for e...

Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy" (Stanford UP, 2022)

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended—laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's e...

Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi, "Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine" (Routledge, 2021)

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews co-authors Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in ...

Charles William Johns, "Object Oriented Dialectics: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman" (Mimesis International, 2022)

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Object Oriented Dialectics: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman (Mimesis, 2022), Johns, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the si...

Neferti X. M. Tadiar, "Remaindered Life" (Duke UP, 2022)

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintai...

Amber M. Trotter, "Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon: Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory" (Lexington Books, 2020)

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Perhaps psychoanalysis survives because it obstinately carries a torch of wild freedom and reverence for the unknowable in a world of rational epis...

Finding Your Purpose

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is the edited version of a live event held on June 17 2022 to celebrate the launch of Finding Your Purpose: a Higher Calling Workbook fo...

Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is reality TV important? In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us (FSG, 2022), Danielle J. Lindemann, an Associate Professor of Sociology ...

Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Art After Liberalism (Columbia UP, 2022) is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging political and social rifts – a moment that co...

Pew Research Center: Analyzing the Evangelical Right

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You’ve seen hilarious videos of the evangelicals for Trump. You might be inclined to ignore them, mock their excesses, or dismiss their threat. But ...

The Twisted Science of Great Replacement Theory

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On May 14, 2022, a shooter opened fire in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Ten people were killed, an additional three injured. The suspect in the ...

Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke University Press, 2022), Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad...

Neoliberalism

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Troy Vettese talks with us about neoliberalism. It turns out the neoliberals aren’t actually a secret cabal of dastardly villains, ...

Adrian Little, "Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures (Edinburgh UP, 2022), Adrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, presen...

Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Bucar is the Director of Sacred Writes, Professor of Religion, and Dean’s Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University. Bucar is an expert in ...

Erin James, "Narrative in the Anthropocene" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Narrative in the Anthropocene (Ohio State UP, 2022), Erin James poses two complementary questions: What can narrative teach us about our current...

Paul A. Silverstein, "Postcolonial France: The Question of Race and the Future of the Republic" (Pluto Press, 2018)

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. Postcolonial France: The Question of Rac...

Anthony Downey, "Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)" (Sternberg Press, 2020)

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2008, the artist Renzo Martens released his controversial film Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film port...

Philipp Felsch, "The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990" (Polity Press, 2021)

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

'Theory' - a magical glow has emanated from this word since the sixties. Theory was more than just a succession of ideas: it was an article of faith, ...

Leslie Kern, "Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies" (Verso, 2022)

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of ...

Property Technology

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Erin McElroy talks with Nathan Kim about Property Technology. This is the first episode in the High Theory in STEM ser...

Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, "Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide" (Canadian Scholars, 2022)

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An ...

Kareem Rabie, "Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank" (Duke UP, 2021)

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed...

Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (Routledge, 2021), Ruben Espinosa explores the works of the early modern dramatist in the context of Trump-er...

Paul Adler, "No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Adler's No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) is a history of the hardwork...

Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The term “metaverse” was coined in a 1993 science fiction novel. Since then, it’s grown from a dystopian literary concept to a reality that corp...

Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new t...

Ben Rhodes, "After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made" (Random House, 2021)

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Rhodes visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that are tearing ...

Gamify Everything: Turning Work Into Play . . . for Better and for Worse

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Setting goals for the new year? Learning a language? Going for a run? Delivering food? Picking packages off a warehouse shelf for delivery? There’s ...

Reality TV

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Olivia Stowell speaks with Saronik about Reality TV. In the episode she talks about the genesis of the genre in Candi...

Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adrienne Buller (The Value of a Whale) and Mathew Lawrence (Planet on Fire) have penned a radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic...

Simon Truwant, "Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The 1929 encounter between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of t...

Karen Archey, "After Institutions" (Les presses du réel, 2022)

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously, they...

Selene Wendt, "Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories Through Contemporary Art" (Skira, 2021)

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art (Skira, 2021), art historian and curator Selene Wen...

Carmen Martínez Novo, "Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) led the Ecuadoran Citizens’ Revolution that claimed to challenge the tenets of neoliberalism and the legacies of...

Antonio C. Cuyler, "Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US" (Routledge, 2020)

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Where are the success stories for people of color in opera? In Access, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the ...

Rochelle DuFord, "Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory" (Stanford UP, 2022)

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Of all the concepts that form the constellation of modern political thought, surely “solidarity” is a strong candidate for the most challenging. A...

The Pavilion: When Canadians First Had to Confront the Country’s Genocidal Story

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Expo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out: The Indians of Canada Pavilion....

Linda Connolly and Tina O’Toole, "Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave" (Arlen House, 2022)

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Linda Connolly is a professor of sociology at Maynooth University, with research focusing on gender, Irish society, family studies, migration, and Iri...

Normalization

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert tell us about normalization in international relations. Their research applies ...

Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso, 2022), Paris Marx identifies two convergent forces in...

Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Has the pandemic taught us anything? As we look forward and imagine what the future might look like, we like to think ‘next time will be different.’...

Modifying Maize: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is part 1 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters. When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexi...

The Colonial Lens: Analyzing Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Colonialism in Academia

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars want to decolonize everything, and universities say they are doing the hard work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. But is anything r...

Letters from Herzl: Settler Colonialism at work in Palestine

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode originally aired in May of 2021, while violence was erupting all along the Gaza Strip. Israeli airstrikes had left over 200 Palestin...

Nasar Meer, "The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice" (Policy Press, 2022)

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Rac...

Itay Lotem, "The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), Itay Lotem explores the remembering of empire i...