New Books in Critical Theory
Episodes
Care Ethics
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Merel Visse and Inge van Nistelrooij talk with Kim about Care Ethics. Over the course of the episode, we discuss works by many care ethicists and othe...
Matthew T. Huber, "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet" (Verso, 2022)
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who...
Fandom
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
andré carrington talks about the origins of contemporary fandoms, race and gender as its determinants, and its emancipatory potential in the face of ...
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious values an...
Çigdem Çidam, "In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2021)
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Çigdem Çidam, Associate Professor of Political Science at Union College, has a new book titled In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and...
Theory from the South with Borderlines
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Olga Verlato and Antara Chakrabarti, contributing editors at Borderlines, talk about the concept of theory from the south, which critiques the notion...
Louis M. Maraj, "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics" (Utah State UP, 2020)
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics (Utah State University Press, 2020) explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly...
Decolonial Queerness
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sandeep Bakshi (@sandeepbak on Twitter) talks to Saronik about understanding queerness and its emancipatory politics through transnational solidarity...
Treva B. Lindsey, "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice" (U California Press, 2022)
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, this book is a call to action in our collective journey toward just ...
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The history of revolutionary politics is rich enough that it includes the full spectrum of inspiration and tragedy. Those with revolutionary aspiratio...
Milton Santos, "For a New Geography" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography and it marked the emergence of i...
Catherine Besteman, "Militarized Global Apartheid" (Duke UP, 2020)
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Militarized Global Apartheid, Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproduc...
Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The internet’s potential to perform political miracles has been a source of both hope and disappointment for many grassroots movements. We remember ...
Sexual Difference
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Heaney talks about the social organization of the supposedly biologically derived terms of the sex binary into a hierarchy of persons and qualiti...
Paul Le Blanc, "Revolutionary Collective: Comrades, Critics, and Dynamics in the Struggle for Socialism" (Haymarket, 2022)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Revolutionary politics are experiencing a resurgence in popularity, and a quick look at today’s headlines make it easy to see why. For those dipping...
Ryan Watson, "Radical Documentary and Global Crises: Militant Evidence in the Digital Age" (Indiana UP, 2021)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When independent filmmakers, activists, and amateurs document the struggle for rights, representation, and revolution, they instrumentalize images by ...
Rosalind Galt, "Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization (Columbia University Press, 2021), film scholar Rosalind Galt offers a cinematic e...
Experimental Life
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Travis Chi Wing Lau talks about the notion that one can experiment on the fundamental conditions and nature of life in order to perfect them. He look...
Laura Clancy, "Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages Its Image and Our Money" (Manchester UP, 2021)
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why does the monarchy matter? In Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages Its Image and Our Money (Manchester UP, 2021), Laura Clancy, ...
Wen Liu, et al., "Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to two of the editors of Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism (Palgrave MacMil...
David Swift, "The Identity Myth: Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality" (Constable & Robinson, 2022)
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In conversations about polarised political issues, phrases like ‘it’s not about race, it’s about class’ have become the perfect way to induce ...
Heather Davis, "Plastic Matter" (Duke UP, 2022)
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we bre...
Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas, "Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony" (Oxford UP. 2021)
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas' book Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony (Oxford UP. 2021...
Yanis Varoufakis, "Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present" (Melville House, 2020)
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What would a fair and equal society look like? In Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present (Melville House Publishing, 2020), thewo...
Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data (UCL Press, 2022...
Undisciplining
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim talks to Amy Wong, Ronjaunee Chatterjee, and Alicia Christoff about ‘Undisciplining’, a term they borrowed from Christina Sharpe’s In t...
Richard Seymour, "The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism" (Indigo Press, 2022)
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism (Indigo Press, 2022), Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading left-wing writers,...
Jafari S. Allen, "There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intell...
Abolition
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leading up to Mayday, the nationwide Day of Refusal, and Abolition May, Saronik talks with Sean Gordon about abolition as an historical movement to...
Jami Rogers, "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans, 1966-2018: Integrating Shakespeare" (Arden Shakespeare, 2022)
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is the hidden history of performers of colour in in British theatre? In British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966–...
The Future of Neoliberalism: A Conversation with Gary Gerstle
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The word neoliberalism is often used more as an insult than a description of a set of beliefs. And people can be rather hazy about the beliefs it refe...
The Right to Maim
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bassam Sidiki talks about the right to maim, the titular concept in Jasbir K. Puar’s book, and the related concept of debility. He explains how th...
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon—kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or...
Eve Darian-Smith, "Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis" (Stanford UP, 2022)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in...
Autotheory
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kim speaks with Lauren Fournier about autotheory. Lauren has recently published a book on the subject, titled Autotheory as Feminist ...
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, "Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Nước Việt Nam: a home, a cradle, a point of departure” (Gandhi, 1). The Vietnamese word nước embraces the duality of land and water wi...
Military Industrial Complex
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim talks to Patrick Deer about the Military Industrial Complex, a term used by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a 1961 speech to describe a p...
Anamik Saha, "Race, Culture and Media" (Sage, 2021)
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Race, Culture and Media (Sage, 2021), Anamik Saha provides an account of the role that media plays in both circulating and shaping ideas about ra...
Christopher W. Wells, "Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader" (U Washington Press, 2018)
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence—but these developm...
Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres" (Peter Lang, 2020)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examin...
Alienation
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kim talks with Mustafa Yavas about Alienation. Mustafa quotes Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. He also r...
Alicia Puglionesi, "In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire" (Scribner, 2022)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The important new book by Alicia Puglionesi, In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession and the Landscapes of American Empire (Scribner, 2022), is a fat sam...
Hannah White, "Held in Contempt: What's Wrong with the House of Commons?" (Manchester UP, 2022)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future for the House of Commons? In Held in Contempt: What’s Wrong with the House of Commons? Hannah White, Deputy Director of the In...
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher’s insights, ...
Jonathan Sterne, "Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment" (Duke UP, 2022)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (Duke UP, 2022) begins by calling into question a fundamental principle of orthodox phe...
Heterotopia
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim speaks with Amanda Caleb about Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. Amanda says that the classic definition of “heterotopia” is found i...
Dylan Mulvin, "Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In" (MIT Press, 2021)
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the hidden histories of how the modern world functions? In Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In (MIT Press, 2021), Dylan Mulvin, Ass...
Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how ...
Banu Subramaniam, "Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism" (U of Washington Press, 2019)
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019), Banu Subramaniam examines how science and religion ha...
Dissensus
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim talks with Gina about Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus. Gina refers to several major works of philosophy including: Jacques Rancière’...
Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical medi...
Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web (Indiana University Press, 2021), Sangeet Kumar interrogates the world wide we...
Deterritorialization
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saronik talks to Shweta Krishnan, doctoral candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. She speaks about how she uses Giles Deleuze and...
The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few years, museums of contemporary art have come under a fair deal of scrutiny. Pressures from groups such as Decoloinise This Space or ...
Taylor Eggan, "Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's NBN Environmental Studies interview, dancer, performer, and literary scholar Dr. Taylor Eggan joins us to speak about his new book Unsettl...
Dhanveer Singh Brar, "Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century" (Goldsmiths Press, 2021)
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century (Goldsmiths Press, 2021) uses three Black electronic musics...
Simon Critchley, "The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology" (Verso, 2014)
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The return to religion has arguably become the dominant theme of contemporary culture. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new e...
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)" (Haymarket, 2022)
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both onl...
Marta Puxan-Oliva, "Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel" (Routledge, 2021)
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marta Puxan-Oliva’s Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel (Routledge, 2021), engages with the intertwined rela...
The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the rights and wrongs of toppling statues? Sometimes everyone agrees it’s a good idea. After the second world war, for example, the defeat ...
Robert E. Gutsche Jr., "The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump" (Routledge, 2022)
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump (Routledge, 2022), Dr. Robert E. Gutsche Jr. examines the effects of Donal...
Intersectionality
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saronik interviews Kim about intersectionality, a concept developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw. Kim references two essays by Crenshaw in the episode: one t...
Juan Dal Maso, "Hegemony and Class Struggle: Trotsky, Gramsci and Marxism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky exerted a powerful influence on the world, even if his historical and theoretical contributions have often been...
Marlon B. Ross, "Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness" (Duke UP, 2022)
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness (Duke University Press, 2022) by Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order ...
Border as Method
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saronik talks to Kim about Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson’s seminal 2013 book Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor, where they use ...
Mary Louise Pratt, "Planetary Longings" (Duke UP, 2022)
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Planetary Longings (Duke UP, 2022), eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the fir...
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Race is the subject of passionate and increasingly angry debate. But amidst all the talk of unconscious bias it’s an area into which many fear to tr...
Settler Colonialism
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim talks with Margaret Nash about settler colonialism. Margaret Nash is an Emeritus Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University ...
The Renaissance of Marxist Studies: A Discussion with Babak Amini
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in academic research in Marxism and related fields, and many researchers have been stepping up t...
Gavin Mueller, "Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job" (Verso, 2021)
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites are Right About Why You Hate Your Job (Verso, 2021), Gavin Mueller provides a bracing and wide-ranging stu...
Nicole Starosielski, "Media Hot and Cold" (Duke UP, 2021)
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Media Hot and Cold (Duke UP, 2021) attunes the reader to temperature as a crucial but often overlooked terrain of control, communication and contesta...
Nandita Sharma, "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants" (Duke UP, 2020)
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's program, we speak to Nandita Sharma, activist scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. We talk about Ho...
Commodity Fetishism B-Side
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An excerpt from Kim’s conversation with Elaine Freedgood on commodity fetishism that didn’t make it into the original episode. Elaine references ...
The Future of the Far Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Timothy Snyder
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The events of January 6th 2021 are contested in the US. For some supporters of Donald Trump it was, and remains, a case of a legitimate protest again...
Commodity Fetishism
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim talks with Elaine Freedgood about Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism. The concept comes from: Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1, translated by...
Patricia A. Banks, "Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America" (Stanford UP, 2022)
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why do corporations fund cultural organisations and events? In Black Culture, Inc: How ethnic community support pays for corporate America Patricia ...
Intertextuality
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kim and Chad talk about Julia Kristeva’s theory of “intertextuality.” Chad references Chapter 3 of Kristeva’s book Desire in ...
Matt Sheedy, "Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility " (Routledge, 2021)
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility (Routledge, 2021), Matt Sheedy, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Unive...
Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021) Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commod...
María Elena García, "Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru" (U California Press, 2021)
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Maria Elena García about her wonderful new book Gastropolitic...
Death of the Author
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kim and Saronik discuss Roland Barthes’ essay “The Death of the Author” printed in Image Music Text, translated by Stephen Hea...
Autonomous Work of Art
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim talks with Pardis about Theodor Adorno’s concept of the autonomous work of art, as articulated in his Aesthetic Theory, and The Dialectic of ...
G. S. Sahota, "Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Taking cues from Walter Benjamin’s fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism ...
James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our mod...
Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most cel...
Critique
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kim and Saronik discuss Bruno Latour’s essay, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern.” ...
Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate―five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the ...
Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022)
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The epochal shift toward neoliberalism–– a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reas...
Karl Kitching, "Childhood, Religion and School Injustice" (Cork UP, 2020)
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Childhood, Religion, and School Injustice (Cork University Press, 2020), Dr. Karl Kitching examines how debates about religion and education inte...
Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U of California Press, 2022)
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is the finance industry fair? In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (University of California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely,...
Aura
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Saronik asks Kim about the aura. The idea comes from Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reprod...
Lene Andersen, "Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World" (Nordic Bildung, 2019)
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So what is metamodernity you may ask, and what does it have to do with systems thinking and cybernetics? Well, I recently had a chance to find out for...
Welcome to High Theory
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each oth...
Abigail Susik, "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" (Manchester UP, 2021)
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to the definition offered by Tate on the occasion of the exhibition Surrealism Without Borders, Surrealism “aims to revolutionise human e...
Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Although the dividing line between private life and public responsibilities can never be definite and clear, there is a moral threshold which is cross...
Eve Worth, "The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain Since 1945" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the history of post-war Britain? In The Welfare State Generation Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945 (Bloomsbury,...
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, "Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America" (Duke UP, 2020)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020), Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focus...
Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the US contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this timely study considers the impacts of digital technologies on the country’s ...
Hil Malatino, "Trans Care" (U of Minnesota Press, 2020)
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care...
Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, "Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E. T. Kingsley" (U British Columbia Press, 2021)
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People with disabilities have always struggled to make ends meet. Finding a job you can actually do, a housing situation you can afford that meets you...