New Books in Critical Theory
Episodes
Daniel Andrés López, "Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Hungarian Marxist philosopher George Lukács has long occupied a complicated place in the Marxist canon of thinkers, both his lived and theoretica...
Adesola Akinleye, "(Re:) Claiming Ballet" (Intellect Books, 2021)
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(Re:) Claiming Ballet (Intellect Books, 2021) by Dr. Adesola Akinleye explores the history of movement through ballet, representation, and the futur...
Emma Dowling, "The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?" (Verso, 2021)
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of care? In The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Verso, 2021), Emma Dowling, an assistant professor at the ...
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bys...
Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, journalists, legal professionals, activists, and artists challenge the state's monopoly on investigation and the production of narratives of tr...
Catherine Knight Steele, "Digital Black Feminism" (NYU Press, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How have Black women lead a digital revolution? In Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press, 2021), Catherine Knight Steele, an assistant professor of co...
Graham Harman, "Skirmishes: With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals" (Punctum Books, 2020)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the fifty most influential living philosophers, a “self-promoting charlatan” (Brian Leiter), and the orchestrator of an “online orgy of s...
Erica R. Edwards, "The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire" (NYU Press, 2021)
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Erica R. Edwards's The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (New York University, 2021) reveals the troubling intimac...
Peter Mitchell, "Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves" (Manchester UP, 2020)
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves (Manchester UP, 2020) Peter Mitchell offers a “history of the present”. That is t...
Terence Renaud, "New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe’s New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents’ antiquated politics ...
Alana Jelinek, "Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some fields have an easier time describing themselves than others. "History is the study of past events." "Biology is the study of living organisms." ...
Michelle Caswell, "Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work" (Routledge, 2021)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Michelle Caswell about her new book Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021). What is the place of arch...
Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: ...
Teun Voeten, "Mexican Drug Violence: Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty" (2020)
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With an estimated 250,000 people killed in 15 years, the Mexican drug war is the most violent conflict in the Western world. It shows no sign of abati...
Sheldon George and Derek Hook, "Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory" (Routledge, 2021)
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Hook and Sheldon George's Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2021) is a path-breaking edited volume that draws ...
Working Class History Collective, "Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion" (PM Press, 2020)
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Personally, I hate the This-Day-in-History genre. Far too often it is some Great-Man-History trope, representing a rather archaic way of thinking abou...
Ted Stolze, "Becoming Marxist: Studies in Philosophy, Struggle, and Endurance" (Haymarket, 2020)
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marxism is having a moment; higher workloads, stagnating wages, rising costs of living, a new economic crisis every few years, a warming climate and n...
Henning Trüper, "Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the turn of the nineteenth century, European philologists were engaged in the study of Semitic languages and Indology, breaking with the past in ma...
Milton Santos, "The Nature of Space" (Duke UP, 2021)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Nature of Space (Duke UP, 2021) is a translation (by Brenda Baletti) of pioneering geographer Milton Santos' A Natureza do Espaço, ori...
Lorenzo Veracini, "The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism As a Political Idea" (Verso, 2021)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in 'empty lands' somewhere else has often been proposed as a solu...
Hannah Turner, "Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation" (UBC Press, 2020)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does colonialism still shape museums today? In Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation (UBC Press, 2020), Hannah ...
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous cat...
Joshua Preiss, "Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century" (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by...
Linda Steele, "Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion" (Routledge, 2020)
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a focus on the court diversion of disabled people, Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion (Routledge 2020) undert...
Erin Y. Huang, "Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility" (Duke UP, 2020)
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Y. Huang’s Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility (Duke UP, 2020) is an expansive and ambitious book that expl...
Muhammad Umar Faruque, "Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his painstakingly researched and splendid new book Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing (U Michigan Press, 2021), Muhammad ...
Gonzalo Lizarralde, "Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed" (Columbia UP, 2021)
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed (Columbia UP, 2021) offers a new perspective on our most pre...
Forces of Production, Climate Change, and Canadian Fossil Capitalism
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we see in the news every day, climate change is already upon us. The climate crisis is no longer a bridge to be crossed in the future. It must be d...
Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As governments and corporations mine our “entrenched culture of sharing” to invade privacy (down to Target creating an algorithm to figure out whi...
Minna Salami, "Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone" (Amistad, 2021)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Minna Salami's book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2021) is a collection of thought provoking e...
Alan Shandro, "Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Political Practice and Theory in the Class Struggle" (Haymarket Books, 2015)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Few figures stand as prominently in Marxist theory and history as V.I. Lenin. The revolutionary who played a pivotal role in one of the most important...
Ginetta Candelario on Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So we are reaching across our mentor network t...
Emily Erikson, "Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought" (Columbia UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Co...
Rachel Zolf, "No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics" (Duke UP, 2021)
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interview Rachel Zolf—a poet whose “interdisciplinary practice explores questions about history, knowledge, subjectivity, respo...
Alex Hochuli et al., "The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century" (Zero Books, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We live in strange times. Politics around the world seem to be transforming into something new and often frightening. But this process has a history. ...
Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Ameri...
Amelia Jones, "In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (Routledge, 2021) is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performanc...
Barrett Holmes Pitner, "The Crime Without a Name: Combatting Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America" (Counterpoint, 2021)
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name: Combatting Ethnocide and...
Hannah McCann, "Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation" (Routledge, 2019)
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation (Routledge, 2019), Hannah McCann asks, “how can we consider feminini...
Matthew Flisfeder, "Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most fundamental aspects of modern life is that much of it is lived on and through social media. We create profiles, post pictures, update ...
Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Mirvis' The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press, 2020) offers an ...
Lynne Huffer, "Foucault`s Strange Eros" (Columbia UP, 2020)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lynne Huffer, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Emory University to speaks widely about the body of her work, includi...
Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second Amend...
Andrea J. Pitts, "Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance" (SUNY Press, 2021)
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we think together multiplicity and agency? How can we resist oppression and build transformative political coalitions while attending to the a...
Tom Mould, "Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America" (Indiana UP, 2020)
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is a familiar story: A recipient of public assistance funds is caught buying expensive steaks, seafood, or other luxury foods with food stamps at t...
Nicola J. Smith, "Capitalism's Sexual History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As ongoing controversies over commercial sex attest, the relationship between capitalism and sexuality is deeply contentious. Economic and sexual prac...
Hannah Wohl, "Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is pro...
Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Crisis? What Crisis? At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism (Lund Humphries P...
Kanika Batra, "Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights" (Routledge, 2021)
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights (Routledge, 2021) demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print...
Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can music change the world? In Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos (Bloomsbury, 2020), Mal...
Frans-Willem Korsten, "Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption (Hart Publishing, 2021) looks at the way in which the 'call for justice'...
Annemarie Mol, "Eating in Theory" (Duke UP, 2021)
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eat...
Marcello Tarì, "There Is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution" (Common Notions, 2021)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Marxist philosopher Theodor Adorno once quipped that much of his work was written without practical applications in mind, and that the constant de...
Rafia Zakaria, "Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion...
Lorenzo Fusaro, "Crises and Hegemonic Transitions: From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gramsci’s concept of hegemony is often invoked, but usually as a means of cultural critique and analysis. However, my guest Lorenzo Fusaro argues in...
Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that purports to know more about the future than any before it, why do we still need speculation? Insubstantial speculations – from utopi...
Meryl Altman, "Beauvoir in Time" (Brill, 2020)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meryl Altman's new book Beauvoir in Time, published by Brill Rodopi Press (2020), situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) in its histo...
Scott Krzych, "Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria" (Oxford UP, 2021)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Krzych's book Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria (Oxford University Press, 2021) offers the firs...
Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how pub...
Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian, "Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious" (Routledge, 2018)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Psychoanalysis began as a politicized form of treatment for people from all walks of life. Yet in the United States, it has become divorced from these...
Anna Stenning et al., "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm" (Routledge, 2020)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human natu...
Philip Butler, "Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), edited by Dr. Philip Butler, imagines worlds, afrofuture...
David Scott, "For Abolition: Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics" (Waterside Press, 2020)
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting the ...
Catharina Gabrielsson et al., "Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has bee...
Nicholas Harrison, "Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education" (Liverpool UP, 2019)
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Harrison's Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education (Liverpool UP, 2019) is a fascinating examination of colonial educati...
William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021)
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Routledge, 2021), William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central plac...
Robert Ovetz, "Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives" (Pluto Press, 2021)
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The point of studying the world – including the past and other’s writings – is not just to understand it but to use that understanding to chang...
Thomas D. Mullaney et al., "Your Computer Is on Fire" (MIT Press, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking ...
Sara Rushing, "The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity" (Oxford UP, 2020)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Sara Rushing’s new book, The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity (Oxford UP, 2020), examines...
Catalina M. de Onís, "Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2021)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2021) provides an urgent and nuanced p...
Rahul Rao, "Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality" (Oxford UP, 2020)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer right...
Monica Popescu, "At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2020)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African litera...
Marco Checchi, "The Primacy of Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume (prioritising rem...
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is now just over a decade since protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square started Egypt's chapter in the events of the Arab Spring. Much has been made in w...
Nuala Morse, "The Museum as a Space of Social Care" (Routledge, 2020)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future for the museum? In The Museum as a Space of Social Care (Routledge, 2020), Nuala Morse, a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the Un...
Claire L. Jones, "The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2020)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does understanding business help us understand sex? In The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Rev...
Jane Gallop, "Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus" (Duke UP, 2019)
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop e...
Rocío Zambrana, "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What can debt reveal to us about coloniality and its undoing? In Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Rocío Zambr...
C. Owens and S. Swales (Part 2), "Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch" (Routledge, 2019)
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of a two part interview with Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales about their book Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: O...
Susan Crane, "Nothing Happened: A History" (Stanford UP, 2021)
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their ...
C. Owens and S. Swales (Part 1), "Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch" (Routledge, 2019)
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is part one of a two part interview with Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales about their book Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: ...
Gemma Commane, "Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a woman 'bad' is commonly linked to certain 'qualities' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. Bad Gir...
Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs, "From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs' book From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2021) outlines key developments in underst...
François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn’. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation ...
John B. Thompson, "Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing" (Polity, 2021)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of the book? In Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021) John Thompson, Professor of Sociology at the Univ...
David Arditi, "Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does the record industry work? In Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), David Arditi, ...
Manon Garcia, "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives" (Princeton UP, 2021)
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are here today with Manon Garcia, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published this year, 2021, by ...
Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art c...
Neil Altman, "White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Altman’s White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) is a slip (80 pages including references and the index) of a book th...
Hannah Jones, "Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control" (Zed Books, 2021)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups, and the national response is to encourage...
The Social Constructions of Race: A Discussion with Brigitte Fielder
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to br...
Sergio Benvenuto, "Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan" (Routledge, 2019)
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan (Routledge, 2019)brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan...
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to...
Democracy and Social Critique with Cornel West
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Professor West is among the nation’s most distinguished philosophers...
Bernard E. Harcourt, "Critique and Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action" (Columbia UP, 2020)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seek...
Zahi Zalloua, "Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The figure of the human looms large of the history of philosophy, from the ancient Greeks speculating about featherless bipeds to contemporary program...
Matthew Thompson, "Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives" (Liverpool UP, 2020)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we develop solutions to the housing crisis? In Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Liverpo...
Jon Dean, "The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good" (Policy Press, 2020)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do people give to charity? In The Good Glow Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good (Policy Press, 2020), Jon Dean, Associate Professor i...
Ana Honnacker, "Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: An Essay on Making the World a Home" (Palgrave, 2019)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we feel at home in this world? Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: An Essay on Making the World a Home (Palgrave, 2019) offers a humanist re-read...
Gavin Arnall, "Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change" (Columbia UP, 2020)
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, J.J. Mull interviews Gavin Arnall, author of Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change (Columbia University Press...