New Books in Critical Theory

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...

John Bellamy Foster, "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" (Monthly Review Press, 2021)

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It is slowly becoming clear that we are heading towards a deep ecological catastrophe. Our societies carbon footprint and its impact have been known f...

Jonathan M. Katz, "Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Katz’s Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire (St. Martin’s Press, 202...

Martin Shuster, "How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism" (Indiana UP, 2021)

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What can the history of Jewish philosophy teach us about modern life? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism (Indiana UP, 2021), Marti...

Natasha Iskander, "Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2021)

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Skill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but D...

Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is the hidden history of women in the television industry? In Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television (U California Press...

Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza, "A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2021), Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza exam...

Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative Davos Men-memb...

Asef Bayat, "Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring" (Harvard UP, 2021)

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Seamlessly blending field research, on-the-ground interviews, and social theory, Asef Bayat shows how the practice of everyday life in Egypt and Tunis...

Poulomi Saha, "An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal" (Columbia UP, 2019)

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can subalterns speak? Now an iconic question from a prominent postcolonial studies scholar Gayatri Spivak, the question interrogates the in-built assu...

Joshua Myers, "Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition" (Polity, 2021)

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century, whose work...

Julie Froud and Karel Williams, "Foundational Economy: The Infrastructure of Everyday Life" (Manchester UP, 2022)

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke with Prof Julie Froud and Prof Karel Williams about Foundational Economy: The Infrastructure of Everyday Life (Manchester University Press...

Tina Sikka, "Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law, and gender relations have taken centre stage in academic, journalistic and so...

Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Christian Thompson's book, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2022) examines the changin...

John Zerzan, "When We Are Human: Notes from the Age of Pandemics" (Feral House, 2021)

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilizational crisis. Chronic illnes...

Julian Stallabrass, "Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck that may have had a weapon attached to its fl...

Susan Oman, "Understanding Well-being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can we understand well-being? In Understanding Well-being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research (Palgrave Macmillan,...

Myisha Cherry, "The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle" (Oxford UP, 2021)

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

According to a broad consensus among philosophers across the ages, anger is regrettable, counterproductive, and bad. It is something to be overcome or...

Carl Rhodes, "Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy" (Policy Press, 2021)

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Carl Rhodes about his book Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy (Policy Press, 2021). When Milton Frie...

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, "Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora" (Duke UP, 2021)

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández once again engages in the fearless work of challenging structures of domination. In her most recent book, Archiving Mex...

Teresa Kulawik and Zhanna Kravchenko, "Borderlands in European Gender Studies: Beyond the East-West Frontier" (Routledge, 2020)

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experi...

David Boarder Giles, "A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities" (Duke UP, 2021)

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities (Duke UP, 2021), David Boarder Giles explores the way...

The Future of the Apocalyptic Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How did Steve Bannon come to believe the strange things he believes? The influential, former Trump aid, began as a Democrat-supporting Naval officer ...

Mark Devenney, "Towards an Improper Politics" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Historically, discourses of racial, civilizational, and sexual difference have inevitably been entangled with, shaped by, and constitutive of institut...

Kyle T. Mays, "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2021)

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Kyle T. Mays, an Afro-Indi...

Irmgard Emmelhainz, "Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and...

Keller Easterling, "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" (Verso, 2021)

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world’s unresponsive or intractable dilemmas, from climate change, to inequality, to concentration...

Vânia Penha-Lopes, "The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation" (Lexington Books, 2021)

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation (Lexington Books, 2021) is a sociological analysis of the similarities b...

Nina Power, "What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents" (Penguin, 2022)

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Something is definitely up with men. From millions online who engage with the manosphere to the #metoo backlash, from Men's Rights activists and incel...

Himani Bannerji, "The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender" (Brill, 2020)

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How should we understand identity? What sort of politics are needed to address various forms of oppression and marginalization? Are knowledge and prac...

Mimi Sheller, "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2020)

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2020), Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challe...

Corinne Fowler, "Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections" (Peepal Tree Press, 2021)

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections (PeePal Tree Press, 2021), Dr. Corinne Fowler explores the repr...

Katie Rios, "This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape" (Lexington Books, 2021)

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“This is America”: Race Gender and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape by Katie Rios (Lexington Books, 2021) examines an eclectic mix of di...

Elizabeth Anderson, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (Princeton UP, 2019)

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for...

3.1 On Being Unmoored: Chang-rae Lee Charts Fiction with Anne Anlin Cheng

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Season three of Novel Dialogue launches in partnership with Public Books and introduces some fresh new voices into the mix. John and Aarthi welcome ...

Simon Critchley, "Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts" (Yale UP, 2021)

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (Yale UP, 2021) brings together thirty-five essays, originally published in the Times, on a wide range of topics, ...

Paul Gowder, "The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation" (Hart Publishing, 2021)

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation (Hart, 2021), Dr. Paul Gowder focuses on examining the ideals of ...

Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, "Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial" (Leuven UP, 2020)

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been ...

Kerry L. Haynie et al., "Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach" (Oxford UP, 2020)

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do gender and race interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of all individuals – raced women and gendered minorities alike? Accordi...

Oishik Sircar, "Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India" (Oxford UP, 2021)

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is ...

Grant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021)

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always done so through the lens of metaphysics, asking questions about the reality...

Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021)

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as ...

Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill, "Confidence Culture" (Duke UP, 2022)

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Confidence Culture (Duke UP, 2022), Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe...

Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life (Duke UP, 2021), Dr. Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternati...

Traci Brynne Voyles, "The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Salton Sea is a kaleidoscope. To some people, it's a waste land, a place of death only suitable for a dumping ground. For others, it's a clarion c...

Terri Givens, "Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides" (Policy Press, 2021)

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Structural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country’s founding. Although the country has mad...

Amy Holdsworth, "On Living with Television" (Duke UP, 2021)

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How should we understand the role of television in everyday life? In On Living with Television (Duke UP, 2021), Amy Holdsworth, a Senior Lecturer...

Sanjukta Sunderason, "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization" (Stanford UP, 2020)

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization (Stanford UP, 2020), Sanjukta Sunderason explores art's entanglements with histor...

Timothy Brennan, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said" (FSG, 2021)

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy Brennan is Professor of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of several semi...

Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke UP, 2021), Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, ...

Miranda Campbell, "Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care" (Routledge, 2021)

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can we make creative industries fair and inclusive? In Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (Routledge,...

Kris Sealey, "Creolizing the Nation" (Northwestern UP, 2020)

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can the concept of the nation be a resource for liberatory political struggle? Are the dangers of nationalism simply too great? In Creolizing the Nat...

Alexander Etkind, "Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources" (Polity Press, 2021)

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Polity Press, 2021), Alexander Etkind views the history of humankind through the prism...

Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism" (Duke UP, 2021)

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (Duke UP, 2021),  Elizabeth A. Povinelli the...

71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Recall this Book, another delightful crossover episode from our sister podcast Novel Dialogue, which puts scholars and writers togethe...

Laurie R. Lambert, "Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

My conversation with Laurie Lambert, author of Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution (University of Virginia Press...

Anna Watkins Fisher, "The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance" (Duke UP, 2020)

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinf...

Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas...

Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk" (Cambria Press, 2020)

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mabel Moraña's book Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk (Cambria Press, 2020) explores the complex relationsh...

Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray...

Andrew Zitcer, "Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever stopped to think about your local grocery cooperative and what makes it different than, say Safeway or Giant or Whole Foods? That is, if...

Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Almond is Professor of World Literature at Georgetown University in Qatar, and author of six books, including Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslim...

Noreen Giffney, "The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic" (Routledge, 2021)

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic (Routledge, 2021) introduces "the culture-breast," a new clinical concept, ...