New Books in Critical Theory
Episodes
Marianna Ritchey, "Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the place of classical music in contemporary society? In Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era (University of Chicago Press...
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination" (Temple UP, 2019)
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds? The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radic...
Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech" (Routledge, 2020)
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech (Routledge, 2020) is the first to outline the history of the tactic...
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Economic, and Political Adversities (Part 2)
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The current neoliberal era has seen a paradigm shift in terms of economic liberalization, such as policies on privatization, deregulation, and glo...
Ali Meghji, "Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption" (Manchester UP, 2019)
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who are the Black middle-class in Britain? In Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption (Manchester University Press...
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession? Tsedale Melaku explores this question and more in her new book: You Don’t L...
Josh Cerretti, "Abuses of the Erotic: Militarizing Sexuality in the Post-Cold War United States" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jana Byars talks to Josh Cerretti, Associate Professor of History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Western Washington Univ...
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (Emerald, 2019)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the culture of the tech industry? In The Culture of Women in Tech: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Emerald, 2019), Mariann Hardey, an Associat...
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The success of populist politicians and the emergence of social justice movements around the world, and the recent demonstrations against police viole...
Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" (Liveright, 2020)
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright, 2020) by Marcia Chatelain is a fascinating examination of the relationship between the fast-...
Minou Arjomand, "Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment" (Columbia UP, 2020)
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment (Columbia University Press, 2020), Minou Arjomand provides a startling accou...
Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence and the Limits of Police" (Duke UP, 2018)
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police a...
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020) anthropologist and activist Sa’ed Atshan explores the Palesti...
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Economic, and Political Adversities (Part 1)
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The current neoliberal era has seen a paradigm shift in terms of economic liberalization, such as policies on privatization, deregulation, and glo...
Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City" (Repeater Books, 2020)
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city? In Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City, Dr Joy White, a sociologist and ethnographer ...
Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" (Indiana UP, 2019)
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Kamugisha reads CLR James and Sylvia Wynter to glean from them ways to navigate the “beyond” of coloniality. In his new book Beyond Colonia...
Alberto Harambour, "Soberanías fronterizas: Estados y capital en la colonización de Patagonia" (EUAC, 2019)
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alberto Harambour's new book Soberanías Fronterizas. Estados y capital en la colonización de Patagonia (Argentina y Chile, 1840s-1920s) (Universidad...
Robert Nichols, "Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory" (Duke UP, 2019)
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Nichols, an associate professor of political theory at the University of Minnesota, has written an engaging and important examination of the cl...
Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the America: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs and Khipu" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his sixth thesis on the philosophy of history, Walter Benjamin wrote, “The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of h...
Fadi A. Bardawil, "Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2020)
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his Theses on Feuerbach, Marx famously claimed that philosophers had previously only attempted to interpret the world; the point, however, was to c...
Sam Han, "(Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty" (Routledge, 2020)
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out in the open, it now reside...
Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright, 2020)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State? Why and how is anti-Black racism differen...
Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam, "Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (s/t interviews Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam of University of Kentucky on the new book, Inconvenient Stran...
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S...
Elinor Carmi, "Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media" (Peter Lang, 2020)
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is spam? In Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media, Dr Elinor Carmi, a postdoctoral research asso...
Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War" (Harvard UP, 2016)
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
According to Viet Thanh Nguyen, all wars are fought twice: first on the field of battle, and then in the struggles over memory. In Nothing Ever Dies: ...
Thomas A. Discenna, "Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor" (Routledge, 2017)
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (they/she) interviews Thomas A. Discenna of Oakland University about the myriad ways that the lab...
Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers" (Verso, 2020)
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Lachmann’s First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (Verso, 2020) is a two-for-one deal. The...
Santiago Zabala, "Being at Large: Freedom in the Ago of Alternative Facts" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, questions around the nature of truth and facts have reentered public debate, often in discussions around journalistic bias, ...
Dana El Kurd, "Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What demobilizes a once mobilized society? How does international involvement amplify or suppress these dynamics? In Polarized and Demobilized: Legaci...
Yassir Morsi, “Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms and are forced to grapple ...
Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics" (Columbia UP, 2019)
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, alread...
James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politics of Reputation and Blame" (Oxford UP, 2020)
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encoura...
Nancy J. Chodorow, "The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye" (Routledge 2020)
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge 2020) Professor Nancy J. Chodorow gives name a...
John D. Caputo, "Hoping Against Hope" (Fortress Press, 2015)
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John D. Caputo has a long career as one of the preeminent postmodern philosophers in America. The author of such books as Radical Hermeneutics, The Pr...
Paul Harkins, "Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies" (Routledge, 2019)
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does technology shape music? In Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies (Routledge, 2019), Paul Harkins, a lecturer in music a...
Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy " (Northwestern UP, 2013)
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the contemporary philosophical landscape, a variety of materialist ontologies have appeared, all wrestling with various political and philosophical...
Richard Williams "Why Cities Look the Way They Do" (Polity, 2019)
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand our cities? In Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Polity, 2019), Richard Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures i...
Sheetal Chhabria, "Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay" (U Washington Press, 2019)
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1870s, as colonial India witnessed some of the worst famines in its history where 6-10 million perished, observers watched in astonishment as f...
Matthew McManus, "The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shocked and surprised a number of commentators, especially because his own attitudes seemed to be in conflict wit...
Danny Haiphong, "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence" (Skyhorse, 2019)
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. em...
Alexander Zevin, "Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist" (Verso, 2019)
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Economist is a curious publication. It always takes a point of view (as opposed to the all-the-news-that’s-fit-to-print approach). It maintains ...
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since the mid-1990s, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, with a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex m...
Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Technology has been instrumental in allowing audiences to encounter expressions of culture to which they may have no direct connection. The popular co...
Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety" (Policy Press, 2018)
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe goes largely unnoticed by the wom...
Jathan Sadowski, "Too Smart" (MIT Press, 2020)
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the ...
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. B...
Mark Sedgwick, "Key Thinkers of the Radical Right" (Oxford UP, 2019)
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are o...
Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City" (Manchester UP, 2019)
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does music help us to understand the contemporary city? In It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City (Manchest...
Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It seems easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that...
K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal" (Verso, 2019)
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as...
Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" (Verso, 2019)
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump (Verso, 2019), Max Blumenth...
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality. Rather than fall bac...
Matthew McManus and Marion Trejo, "Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson" (Zero Books, 2020)
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correc...
Anna Bull, "Class, Control, and Classical Music" (Oxford UP, 2019)
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between inequality and classical music? In Class, Control, and Classical Music (Oxford University Press, 2019), Anna Bull, a ...
Marco Z. Garrido, "The Patchwork City: Class, Space and Politics in Metro Manila" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the pri...
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide" (Columbia UP, 2020)
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relatio...
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat....
Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce" (Routledge, 2020)
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Has can the performing arts confront racial inequality? In Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce (Routledge, 2020), Tobie S. S...
Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment" (U California Press, 2020)
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all...
Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity" (Oxford UP, 2019)
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Foa Dienstag, Professor of Political Science and Law at UCLA, considers, in his new book, the interaction between our experiences in watching f...
Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The ...
Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame" (Indiana UP, 2019)
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her recently published Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame (Indiana University Press, 2019), Áine O'Healy explores how film...
Sukey Fontelieu, "The Archetypal Pan in America: Hypermasculinity and Terror" (Routledge, 2018)
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Relying on Carl Jung’s theory of the complex, as well as the archetypal narratives of the Greek character Pan, Sukey Fontelieu’s The Archetypal P...
Lewis Raven Wallace, “The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the New York Times to NPR, many major news organizations have strict policies about how reporters can conduct themselves in relation to the stori...
Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She" (Liveright, 2020)
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dennis Baron talks about his new book What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She (Liveright, 2020). Baron is professor emeritus in English at the Uni...
Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music" (Manchester UP, 2020)
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does music tell us about society? In Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music (Manchester University Press, 2020), Nick Crossley, Professor of...
Andrew Milner, "Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism" (Brill/Haymarket, 2018)
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism (Brill/Haymarket, 2018) brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew ...
Megan T. Neely and Ken Hou-Lin, "Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance" (Oxford UP, 2020)
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Tobias Neely and Ken Hou-Lin's new book Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance (Oxford University Press, 2020) explores the rise of finance ...
Salman Sayyid, "Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order" (Hurst, 2014)
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his paradigm shifting book, Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order (Hurst, 2014), which was recently translated into Arabic as Ist...
Jonathan Hopkin, "Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sander...
Richard Polt, "Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi par...
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, "Data Feminism" (MIT Press, 2020)
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The increased datafication our interactions and permeation of data science into more aspects of our lives requires analysis of the systems of power su...
matthew heinz, "Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse" (Intellect Books, 2016)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Published by intellect books in 2016, and currently distributed by The University of Chicago Press, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Di...
Phil Christman, "Midwest Futures" (Belt Publishing, 2020)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does the future hold for the Midwest? A vast stretch of fertile farmland bordering one of the largest concentrations of fresh water in the world,...
Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ariella Aisha Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history ...
Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), Megan Burke considers the relatio...
Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" (St. Martin's, 2018)
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system inter...
Iyko Day, "Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2016)
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our efforts to comprehend the systematic dispossession of indigenous peoples in settler colonies such as the United States, Canada, Australia, or I...
Shai M. Dromi, "Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand humanitarian NGOs? In Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector (University of Chicago Pres...
Chenyang Wang, "Subjectivity In-Between Times: Exploring the Notion of Time in Lacan's Work" (Palgrave, 2019)
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you thought Jacques Lacan’s essay on "Logical Time" was the psychoanalyst’s final word on the subject, then this interview has a lot to teach y...
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patriarchy Persist?" (Polity, 2018)
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Activists have been working to dismantle patriarchal structures since the feminist and civil rights movements of the last century, and yet we continue...
Kyle Devine, "Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music" (MIT Press, 2019)
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the human and environmental cost of music? In Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music (MIT Press, 2019),Kyle Devine, an Associate Professor...
Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2019)
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Jacobs, Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City. Jacobs is also the founder and editor of the acclaimed A...
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. How...
Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives" (Oxford UP, 2020)
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why and how is fiction important to women? In Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives (Oxford University Press, 2020), Helen Taylor, Emeritus...
William Callison and Zachary Manfredi, "Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture" (Fordham UP, 2020)
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The neoliberal consensus, once thought to be undefeatable, seems to have been broken both in the wake of the fiscal crisis of 2008, as well as a serie...
Tad DeLay, "Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?" (Cascade Book, 2019)
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does the white evangelical want? In our moment of crisis and rage, this question is everywhere. Scholars ask from where its desires emerged, pund...
Wendy Bottero, "A Sense of Inequality" (Roman and Littlefield, 2020)
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand inequality? In A Sense of Inequality (Roman and Littlefield, 2020), Wendy Bottero, a Reader in Sociology at the University of...
Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future" (MIT Press, 2019)
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars...
Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness" (U California Press, 2019)
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of th...
Gonzalo Lamana, "How 'Indians' Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, How “Indians” Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory (University of Arizona Press, 201...
Raj Patel, "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things" (U California Press, 2017)
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Award winning activist and researcher Raj Patel has teamed up with innovative environmental historian and historical geographer Jason W. Moore to prod...
H. Appel, S. Whitley, C. Kline, "The Power of Debt: Identity and Collective Action in the Age of Finance" (Institute on Inequality and Democracy, 2019)
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the upcoming 2020 U.S. election finally brings questions of economic justice center stage, this episode discusses the powerful short open-source bo...
Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History" (Duke UP, 2019)
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History (Duke University Press, 2019), University of Wash...
Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing" (Stanford Law Books, 2017)
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "ad...
M. Schneider-Mayerson and B. R. Bellamy, "An Ecotopian Lexicon" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
By choice or not, the catastrophes of global warming and mass extinction task young generations with reorienting human relationships with the earth’...
Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts" (Routledge, 2017)
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and...
Xiao Liu, "Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
International and transnational historiography has given us vivid glimpses of the development and impact of cybernetics on a national scale in such co...
Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America" (Sentinel, 2019)
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor? We spe...