New Books in Critical Theory
Episodes
Sara Salem, "Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Sara Salem, author of Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (Cambridge University Press, 2020), talks to ...
Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy, "Neoliberalism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 2021)
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
George Orwell once said that “the word ‘fascism’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’”. The word ...
Jonas Staal, "Propaganda Art in the 21st Century" (MIT Press, 2019)
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How to understand propaganda art in the post-truth era—and how to create a new kind of emancipatory propaganda art. Propaganda art — whether a d...
Sheldon George, "Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity" (Baylor UP, 2016)
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his book, Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (Baylor UP, 2016), Sheldon George treats an old idea--that Africa...
Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers" (Verso, 2020)
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Being a great power almost seems to invite discussion of decline: whether you are declining, what can be done to prevent or arrest it, and what the co...
Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder, "Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond" (Faber and Faber, 2021)
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we create a more equal media industry? In Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond, Marcus Ryder and Sir Lenny Henry, b...
Sabrina Mittermeier, "A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms" (Intellect, 2020)
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the theme park in our globalised world? In A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms (Intelle...
Leigh Claire La Berge, "Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art" (Duke UP, 2019)
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social ju...
Peter E. Gordon, "Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization" (Yale UP, 2020)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory, Migrants in the Pr...
Matthew McManus, "A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights" (Palgrave, 2020)
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tradition of political liberalism has a long and complicated history, filled with twists, turns, critiques and responses that have filled books, e...
Christoph Menke, "Critique of Rights" (Polity, 2019)
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christoph Menke, who is professor of philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Germany and considered the most important representative of the ...
Tom Holert, "Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect? Knowledge Beside Itself...
Barbara Dennis, "Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise" (Peter Lang, 2020)
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educa...
Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jemma Deer’s Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020) invites the reader to take a moment and to ponder...
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (Duke UP, 2020)
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can we ever overcome the epistemological barrier to conceptualizing Asian women not as particular cases but as theories, and can women of color aca...
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis" (Cornell UP, 2020)
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios ...
Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (Routledge, 2020)
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seemingly fleeting and barely legible insults, slights, and derogations might seem morally insignificant. They’re the byproducts of ordinary thought...
K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It" (Verso, 2020)
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It is often assumed that American politics is dominated by financial elites and the 1%, who use their massive wealth to gain power and influence, push...
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham University Press, 2020) recovers a genealogy ...
Adam Fabry, "The Political Economy of Hungary: From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism" (Palgrave, 2019)
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Fabry's book The Political Economy of Hungary: From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism (Palgrave, 2019) explores the political ec...
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" (UNC Press, 2020)
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Haitians: A Decolonial History (UNC Press, 2020), leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin w...
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity Into the Twenty-First Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, (The Ohio State University Press, 2020), Alyson K. Spurgas, Ph.D. e...
Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason" (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s face it, 2020 has been a hell of a year. We could all use a good laugh. But as historians and/or fans of history, we have to read something hi...
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico" (U Illinois Press, 2015)
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is part of our Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation b...
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What can Shakespeare tell us about territory, and what can territory tell us about Shakespeare? In Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicag...
L. Layton and M. Leavy-Sperounis, "Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes" (Routledge, 2020)
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, J.J. Mull interviews Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis, author and editor respectively of Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Cu...
Ashley E. Lucas, "Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world of theater performances is often thought of as being composed of wealthy persons who received elite educations at art institutions all so th...
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. ...
Rebecca Harrison, "The Empire Strikes Back" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why does The Empire Strikes Back matter? In BFI Classics Series's The Empire Strikes Back (Bloomsbury, 2020), Rebecca Harrison, a lecturer in Fil...
Rosemary-Claire Collard, "Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade" (Duke UP, 2020)
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadsi...
Adam Kotsko, "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital" (Stanford UP, 2018)
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to avoid conversations about ‘neoliberalism’ these days. The meaning of the term—indeed its very existence—is hotly contested. Ada...
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology and the Future of Faith" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2020), David Newheis...
Andrea Jain, "Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality" (Oxford UP, 2020)
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality (Oxford University Press, 2020), Andrea Jain examines the interconnectedness between global ...
Ani Maitra, "Identity, Mediation, and the Cunning of Capital" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The politics of identity have played center stage in many political debates in the last few years, and is often seen somewhat pejoratively as an epiph...
Daniela Vallega-Neu, "Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to the Event" (Indiana UP, 2018)
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scholarship on the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has traditionally focused on his magnum opus Being and Time and related earlier work, his lat...
Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood" (Columbia UP, 2019)
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the history of equal rights in Hollywood? In A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood (Columbia UP, 2019), Ei...
David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State" (U California Press, 2020)
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years. Across nearly two-and-a-half centuries, that’s a lot of war. In his...
Christine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2020)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In ...
Betty Rojtman, "The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought: A Longing for the Abyss (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes...
Lisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polity, 2020)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The key element shaping inequality is no longer the employment relationship but rather whether one is able to buy assets that appreciate at a faste...
K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towards a Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon, aims to decenter work on the histo...
Zakkiyah Imam Jackson, "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" (NYU Press, 2020)
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where black(ened) flesh, particularly feminine flesh, is considered the ontological zero of humanness, what interventions and complications...
Silvie Jacobi, "Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is an art school? In Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Dr Silvie Jacobi, a r...
M. Sobolewska and R. Ford, "Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the identity conflicts that define contemporary society? In Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics (Cambridge ...
Francesca Sobande, "The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain" (Palgrave, 2020)
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the possibilities and what are the inequalities of the digital world? In The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave, 2020), Franc...
Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Harvard University Press, 2020), Sianne Ngai continues her theoretical work of demys...
Elisabeth Paquette, "Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference? In Universa...
Tamura Lomax, “Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture” (Duke UP, 2018)
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel.” This trope deems Black women and girls as dish...
Adam Knowles, "Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: A Politics of Silence" (Stanford UP, 2019)
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s influence over the last several decades of philosophy is undeniable, but his place in the canon has been c...
Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Manchester UP, 2020)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It would be hard to overstate the importance of culture. It teaches us, heals us, rips us apart and puts us back together in new and surprising ways. ...
Elleni Centime Zeleke, "Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals whe...
Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kristin J. Jacobson In her new book, The American Adrenaline Narrative (University of Georgia Press), Kristin Jacobson considers the nature of perilou...
Sophie Richter-Devroe, "Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sophie Richter-Devroe’s book, Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival (University of Illinois Press, ...
Joshua Chambers-Letson, "After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life" (NYU Press, 2018)
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (NYU Press, 2018) Joshua Chambers-Letson invites you to a party featuring Eiko, Nina Simone, J...
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2020) a brilliant but shocking account of the cr...
Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press 2020)
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Briggs’s Taking Children: A History of American Terror (University of California Press 2020) is a forceful and captivating book that readers w...
Yves Citton, "Mediarchy" (Polity Press, 2019)
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences s...
Karl Gerth, "Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Gerth’s new book, Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) details how the...
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso Books, 2020)
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet (Verso Books, 2020), Noam Chomsky, the world’s leading p...
Bethany Klein, "Selling Out: Culture, Commerce and Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does the music industry work in the modern world? In Selling Out: Culture, Commerce and Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2020), Bethany Klein, a Profess...
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (Bloomsbury) is a book by Patrick Ffrench, Professor of French at Kings College. It is a comprehe...
Kathryn Sikkink, "The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities" (Yale UP, 2020)
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities (Yale University Press), Kathryn Sikkink puts forward a framework...
Ben Burgis, "Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left" (Zero Books, 2019)
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Logic, the study of how certain arguments either succeed or fail to support their conclusions, is one of the most important topics in philosophy, its ...
Filippo Menozzi, "World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time (Palgrave Macmillan) Filippo Menozzi offers to look at literature and literary processe...
Angèle Christin, "Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms" (Princeton UP, 2020)
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are algorithms changing journalism? In Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press), Angèle ...
Albena Azmanova, "Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Utopia or Crisis" (Columbia UP, 2020)
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet. This desperation was intensified in 2008, and ...
Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism" (Verso, 2019)
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, in Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise ...
C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, "Global Cultural Economy" (Routledge, 2018)
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society? In Global Cultural Economy (Routledge) Christiaan De Beukelaer, a se...
Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War"(Duke UP, 2019)
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press), Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of ...
João Costa Vargas, "The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering" (U of Minnesota Press, 2018)
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society. Thanks to movemen...
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Waleed Mahdi’s book, Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press) offers a...
Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation" (Beacon, 2019)
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation (Beacon, 2019), Lauren Michele Jackson analyzes Christi...
Danielle Knafo, "The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis" (Confer Books, 2020)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The sexual landscape has changed dramatically in the past few decades, with the meaning of gender and sexuality now being parsed within the realms of ...
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rat...
S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this current moment it has become increasingly clear that US society is deeply entangled in racist policies and logics of white supremacy. While th...
Madina Tlostanova, "What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (Duke University Press, 2018), Madina Tlostanova traces how...
Mack Hagood, "Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control" (Duke UP, 2019)
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How have we used twentieth- and twenty-first-century sound technologies to carve out sonic space out of the hustle and bustle of contemporary life? In...
Karen Patel, "The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How has social media changed inequality in the cultural industries? In The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities (Rowm...
Caron Gentry, "Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Caron Gentry looks at how gende...
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence" (Duke UP, 2020)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C. K., comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection hav...
Orit Kamir, "Betraying Dignity" (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2019)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common? Betraying Dignity: The Toxic Seduction of Social Media, Shaming, an...
Tanya Kant, "Making it Personal: Algorithmic Personalization, Identity, and Everyday Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet? In Making it Personal: Algorithmic Personalization, Identity, and Everyday Life (Oxford Uni...
Michael Rectenwald, "Beyond Woke" (New English Review Press, 2020)
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A few short years ago, Michael Rectenwald was a Marxist professor at NYU, pursuing his career and contemplating becoming a Trotskyist, when the politi...
Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Delighting in Khurram Hussain’s consistently sparkling prose is reason enough to read his new book Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Chal...
Nadine El-Enany, "Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire" (Manchester UP, 2020)
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we understand the legacy of colonialism within contemporary society? In Bordering Britain Law, Race and Empire (Manchester University Press, 2...
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need" (MIT Press, 2020)
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (MIT Press, 2020), Sasha Costanza-Chock, an associate professor of Civic Media...
Andrew Kettler, "The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Dr. Andrew Kettler charts the impac...
Marika Rose, "A Theology of Failure: Žižek Against Christian Innocence" (Fordham UP, 2019)
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christian theology has a long and at times contradictory history, riddled with tensions that make it difficult (if not impossible) to develop a single...
Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity (Northwestern University Press, 2020), Ari Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the co...
Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" (UNC Press, 2020)
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Gomer is the author of White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights, published by the University of Nort...
Raluca Soreanu, "Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) formulates a theory of collective ...
Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law" (NYU Press, 2020)
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement. This is especially true surrounding the activism of th...
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2020)
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Hacking Diversity: The Politics of inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton University Press, 2020), Christina-Dunbar Hester, an associate ...
Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia" (Utah State UP, 2019)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The courageous and inspiring personal narratives and empirical studies in Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Acad...
Martin Jay, "Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations" (Verso, 2020)
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding me...
Jonathan Sklar, "Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History and Mourning" (Phoenix, 2018)
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Although small, this book goes against the grain of the current trend for brief soundbites that allow us to pass swiftly over painful information. It...
Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there. In Future Histories: What Ada Love...
Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism Volume II: A Weak Nature Alone" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Engaging with almost any Western philosopher of the last couple centuries means you are usually, whether you realize it or not, working in the shadow ...
Crystal Mun-hye Baik, "Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique" (Temple UP, 2020)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended. How are the particular...
Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors...