New Books in Critical Theory
Episodes
Aled Davies, “The City of London and Social Democracy: The Political Economy of Finance in Post-war Britain” (Oxford UP, 2017)
12 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the decades following the end of the Second World War, the British economy evolved from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by service indu...
Rosemary Lucy Hill, “Gender, Metal and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music” (Palgrave Macmillan 2016)
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do women experience and participate in Metal? This question forms the core of Gender, Metal and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience...
Brooke Erin Duffy “(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media and Aspirational Work” (Yale UP, 2017)
16 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is life like in the aspirational economy? In (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media and Aspirational Work (Yale University...
Ivan Ascher, “Portfolio Society: A Capitalist Mode of Prediction” (Zone Books, 2016)
12 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is Marx still relevant? Any social scientist will answer with a resounding yes! In what he refers to as a thought experiment, Ivan Ascher uses Marx to...
Ilana Gershon, “Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
06 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Labor markets are not what they used to be, as Ilana Gershon argues in Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today (...
David Beer, “Metric Power” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
02 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do metrics rule the social world? In Metric Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) David Beer, Reader in Sociology at the University of York, outlines t...
Tommy J. Curry, “The Man-Not: Race, Class, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood” (Temple UP, 2017)
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press, 2017) is a book-length justification for the burgeoning f...
Jacob Emery, “Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism” (Northern Illinois U. Press, 2017)
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism (Northern Illinois University Press, 2017), Jacob Emery presents literary texts as in...
Franck Cochoy, et al. eds., “Markets and the Arts of Attachment’ (Routledge, 2017)
19 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand markets? In Markets and the Arts of Attachment (Routledge, 2017) Franck Cochoy, Liz McFall, and Joe Deville (from University ...
Jon Dean, “Doing Reflexivity: An Introduction” (Policy Press, 2017)
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Doing Reflexivity: An Introduction (Policy Press, 2017) by Jon Dean, a senior lecturer in politics and sociology at Sheffield Hallam University, explo...
Michael Youngblood, “Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization” (South Asian Studies Press, 2016)
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization by Michael Youngblood, a cultural anthropologist based in Sa...
Michelle D. Commander, “Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic” (Duke UP, 2017)
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (Duke University Press, 2017), Michelle D. Commander examines the (im)possibility...
Mark Banks, “Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How can we address inequity and injustice in cultural and creative industries? In Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality (Rowman a...
Bruno Perreau, “Queer Theory: The French Response” (Stanford UP, 2016)
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At once wonderfully clear and bursting with complexity, the title of Bruno Perreau‘s book, Queer Theory: The French Response (Stanford University Pr...
Michael J. Turner” Radicalism and Reputation: The Career of Bronterre O’Brien” (Michigan State UP, 2017)
31 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
From humble beginnings James Bronterre O’Brien became one of the leading figures in British radical politics in the first half of the 19th century, ...
Ashon T. Crawley, “Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility” (Fordham UP, 2016)
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2016) is innovative and lyrical, challenging and beautiful. Ashon Cr...
Ralph Young, “Dissent: The History of an American Idea” (NYU Press, 2015)
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Young is a professor of history at Temple University. His book Dissent: The History of an American Idea (New York University Press, 2015) provid...
Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sharrona Pearl‘s new book is an absolute pleasure to read. Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other (The University of Chicago Press, 2...
Stanley Corkin, “Connecting the Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore” (U. Texas Press, 2017)
16 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002-2008) is a landmark event in television history,...
Clea Bourne, “Trust, Power and Public Relations in Financial Markets” (Routledge, 2017)
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Almost 10 years after the great financial crisis, how has the finance industry regained its preeminent social position? In Trust, Power and Public Rel...
Lizabeth Cohen, “Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lizabeth Cohen‘s Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 was originally published in 1990, and recently re-published in 2014. In...
Benjamin Fondane, “Existential Monday” (NYRB Classics, 2016)
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Fondane, a Franco-Romanian writer and contributor to the development of existential philosophy in the 1930s and 40s, is in the process of bei...
Marie Hicks, “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing” (MIT Press, 2017)
28 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the world to having an all but extinct computer industry...
Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)
19 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking t...
Emily K. Hobson, “Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left” (U. Cal Press, 2016)
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (University of California Press, 2016), Emily K. Hobson challenges concepti...
Nancy Wang Yuen, “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
14 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How can we challenge the way film and television represents the world around us? In Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (Rutgers University P...
Christopher Lowen Agee, “The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972” (U. Chicago Press, 2014)
09 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Policing tactics have recently been the subject of lively political debates and the target of protest groups like the Black Lives Matter movement. Pol...
Andre Carrington, “Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever watched a futuristic movie and wondered if there will actually be any black people in the future? Have you ever been surprised, disappoi...
Leilah Danielson, “American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century” (U. Penn Press, 2014)
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
During a life that stretched from the Progressive era to the 1960s, A. J. Muste dedicated himself to fighting against war and the exploitation of work...
Ryan Vieira, “Time and Politics: Parliament and the Culture of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the British World” (Oxford UP, 2015)
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How did the idea of time change during the nineteenth century? In Time and Politics: Parliament and the Culture of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Bri...
Amy Brown, “A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School (U. Minnesota Press, 2015)
23 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There has been much talk in the news recently about funding for public education, the emergence of charter schools, and the potential of school vouche...
Raphael Dalleo, “American Imperialisms Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anti-colonialism” (UVa Press, 2016)
23 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As Raphael Dalleo demonstrates in his wide-ranging and compelling American Imperialism Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anti-...
Stacy Alaimo, “Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) is a provocative reflection on...
Helen Glew, “Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation: Women’s Work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-1955” (Manchester UP, 2016)
18 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What role has gender played in government institutions? In Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation: Women’s Work in the Civil Service and the London County ...
David Rosen and Aaron Santesso, “The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood” (Yale UP, 2013)
09 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Surveillance and literature, as kindred practices, have light to shed on each other.” When David Rosen and Aaron Santesso considered the discipl...
Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, eds “Digital Sociologies” (Policy Press, 2016)
09 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do we do sociology in the digital era? In Digital Sociologies (Policy Press, 2016) Jessie Daniels, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and Th...
Robyn C. Spencer, “The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland” (Duke UP, 2016)
01 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender...
Justin Parkhurst, “The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence” (Routledge, 2016)
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of evidence in the policy process? In The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence (Routle...
Manisha Sinha, “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition” (Yale UP, 2016).
06 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She was born in India and received her Ph.D from Columbia Univ...
Matt Houlbrook, “Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook” (U. of Chicago Press 2016)
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the interwar years in Britain? In Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook (Universit...
Bill V. Mullen, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line,” (Pluto Press, 2016)
17 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Born just five years after the abolition of slavery, W. E. B. Du Bois died the night before Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speec...
Paul Benneworth et al., “The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research” (Palgrave, 2016)
13 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future for Arts and Humanities in Europe? The podcast discusses these questions with Paul Benneworth, one of the authors, along with Magnu...
Banu Bargu, “Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons” (Columbia UP, 2016)
10 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Pol...
Sarah Jaffe, “Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt” (Nation Books, 2016)
07 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Jaffe has written Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt (Nation Books, 2016). Jaffe is a Nation Institute fellow and an independent journalist....
Tom Mills, “The BBC: Myth of a Public Service” (Verso, 2016)
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The BBC is often thought to be a great, impartial, defender of British values and society. In The BBC: Myth of a Public Service (Verso, 2016), Tom Mil...
Kirsty Sedgman, “Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales” (Intellect Books 2016)
19 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The value of the arts is a constant and vital question in contemporary culture. In Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre W...
Paul C. Taylor, “Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics” (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it controversial to cast light-skinned actress Zoe Saldana as the lead character in a film about the performer Nina Simone? How should we under...
Patrick Wolfe, “Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race” (Verso, 2016)
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, “a st...
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, “Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
06 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How did the preeminent theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault experience and observe the Iranian revolution? How did he find the revolution disrupti...
Charlotte Mathieson, ed. “Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present” (Palgrave, 2016)
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between the sea and culture? In Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present (Palgrave, 2016) , Charlotte Math...
Andrew Cole, “The Birth of Theory” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Was Hegel a medieval thinker? In The Birth of Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Andrew Cole puts forward a reexamination of Hegelian dialec...
Matthew MacWilliams, “The Rise of Trump: America’s Authoritarian Spring” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
22 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
NB: Because Amherst College Press is open-access, this book is available free for download here. Just when I thought I had a pretty good handle on th...
McKenzie Wark, “Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene” (Verso, 2015)
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
McKenzie Wark’s new book begins and ends with a playful call: “Workings of the world untie! You have a win to world!” Molecular Red: Theory for ...
Stevphen Shukaitis, “The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labor after the Avant-Garde” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
05 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How is the notion of the avant-garde in art relevant today? What can contemporary social movements learn from the Situationists? What is the meaning o...
Stuart Elden “Foucault’s Last Decade” (Polity Press, 2016)
21 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why did Michel Foucault radically recast the project of The History of Sexuality? How did he work collaboratively? What was the influence of Antiquity...
Mary Hawkesworth, “Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics” (Routledge, 2016)
16 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How can we explain the “occlusion of embodied power” and “lack of attention to race, gender, and sexuality” in the discipline of political sci...
Darian M. Parker, “Sartre and New Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling” (Lexington, 2015)
12 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Darian M. Parker joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic An...
Matt Dawson “Social Theory for Alternative Societies” (Palgrave, 2016)
09 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What can social theory offer to visions of an alternative society? In his new book, Social Theory for Alternative Societies (Palgrave, 2016), Dr Matt ...
Ibram X. Kendi, “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” (Nation Books, 2016)
08 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ibram X. Kendi is an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History ...
John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco, “Cuba, the United States, and the Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
29 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco’s new book, Cuba, the United States, and the Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 201...
Jean Chalaby, “The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution” (Polity, 2015)
29 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Television had been transformed by the rise of the format. In The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution Jean Chalaby, Professor of Inter...
Peter Trawny, “Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
15 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Peter Trawny, professor of philosophy and founder and dire...
Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
02 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Jack Jacobs, Professor of Political Science at John Jay Co...
Eric Schickler, “Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965” (Princeton UP, 2016)
01 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Schickler is the author of Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965 (Princeton University Press, 2016). Schickler...
Russell Rickford, “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power and the Radical Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2016)
31 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Rickford is an assistant professor of history at Cornell University. We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power and the Radi...
Susan Cahan, “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” (Duke UP, 2016)
21 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The struggle for representation within the art museum is the focus of a timely and important new book by Susan Cahan, Associate Dean for the Arts at Y...
Ayten Gundogdu, “Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants” (Oxford UP, 2015)
26 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How does one “rethink and revise the key concepts of Hannah Arendt’s political theory in light of the struggles of asylum seekers, refugees, and u...
Les Back, “Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters” (Goldsmiths Press, 2016)
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why does higher education still matter? In Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters, Les Back, a professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths’...
Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman, “The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada” (Fernwood, 2015)
15 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Two Canadian political science professors contend that the grotesque inequities of the capitalist system feed hatred, nourish misogyny, promote chroni...
Jeremy Ahearne, “Government through Culture and the Contemporary French Right” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
08 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How did two right wing presidents use culture to govern France? In Government through Culture and the Contemporary French Right (Palgrave Macmillan, 2...
Alfred Frankowski, “The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Towards a Political Sense of Mourning” (Lexington Press, 2015)
02 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How are cultural practices that suggest social inclusion at the root of marginalizing social suffering? In The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: ...
Katie Gentile, ed., “The Business of Being Made” (Routledge, 2015)
28 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Dr. Katie Gentile discusses the research, writing and creative thinking about compulsory parenthood and Assisted Reproductive Techn...
Nicholas Vrousalis, “The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen: Back to Socialist Basics” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In his book The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen: Back to Socialist Basics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) provi...
Bernard Harcourt, “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age” (Harvard UP, 2015)
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The landscape described in Bernard Harcourt‘s new book is a dystopia saturated by pleasure. We do not live in a drab Orwellian world, he writes. We ...
Malcolm James, “Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Transformations in a Global City” (Palgrave, 2015)
16 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How is youth culture changing in a globalised city? In Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Transformations in a Global City Malcolm James, a lectu...
Garrett M. Broad, “More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change” (U of California Press, 2016)
13 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Resistance to the industrial food system has, over the past decades, led to the rise of alternative food movements. Debate about genetically modified ...
Lynne Pettinger, “Work, Consumption and Capitalism” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
04 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What do jeans tell us about the contemporary world? They provide the starting point for Lynne Pettinger‘s Work, Consumption and Capitalism (Palgrave...
Linsey McGoey, “No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy” (Verso, 2015)
04 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Verso Books, 2015), Linsey McGoey proposes a new way of discussin...
Mark Schuller, “Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
28 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The earthquake that shook Haiti on January 12, 2010 killed and destroyed the homes of hundreds of thousands of people. Mark Schuller‘s book Humanita...
Mark Carrigan, “Social Media for Academics” (Sage, 2016)
27 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How can academics respond to the rise of social media? Or should they respond at all? In Social Media for Academics (Sage, 2016), Mark Carrigan, from ...
Eben Kirksey, “Emergent Ecologies” (Duke UP, 2015)
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Eben Kirksey new book asks and explores a series of timely, important, and fascinating questions: How do certain plants, animals, and fungi move among...
Alfie Bown, “Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism” (Zero Books, 2015)
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is enjoyment and what can contemporary critical theory tell us about it? In Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism (Zero Books, 2015), Alfie Bow...
Emma Jackson, “Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility” (Routledge, 2015)
08 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is the experience of young homeless people? What does this experience tell us about space, place and society? In Young Homeless People and Urban ...
Roshanak Kheshti, “Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music” (NYU Press, 2015)
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The origins of world music can be found in early ethnographic recordings as anthropologists and ethnomusicologists sought to record the songs of lost ...
Lisa McCormick, “Performing Civility: International Competitions in Classical Music” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
18 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The competition seems to be a crucial part of the classical music world. In Performing Civility: International Competitions in Classical Music (Cambr...
Colette Soler, “Lacanian Affects: The Function of Affect in Lacan’s Work”, trans. Bruce Fink (Routledge, 2016)
14 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Affect is a weighty and consequential problem in psychoanalysis. People enter treatment hoping for relief from symptoms and their attendant unbearable...
John M. Chamberlain, “Medical Regulation, Fitness to Practice and Revalidation: A Critical Introduction” (Policy Press, 2015)
10 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How is the medical profession regulated in a ‘risk society’. This is the core question of John M. Chamberlain‘s Medical Regulation, Fitness to ...
Amy Allen, “The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory” (Columbia UP, 2016)
07 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How can we de-colonize critical theory from within, and reimagine the way it grounds its normative claims as well as the way it relates to post- and d...
Nadim Bakhshov, “Against Capitalist Education: What is Education for?” (Zero Books, 2015)
02 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nadim Bakhshov joins the New Books in Network to discuss his book Against Capitalist Education: What is Education for? (Zero Books, 2015). The book po...
David R. Brake, “Sharing our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
29 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With the growth of social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, we are increasingly heading toward a radically open society. In Shari...
Nicola Rollock et al. “The Colour of Class: The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes” (Routledge, 2014)
22 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The experience of the African American middle class has been an important area of research in the USA. However, the British experience has, by compari...
Finn Brunton, “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet” (MIT Press, 2013)
16 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Finn Brunton‘s Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (MIT Press, 2013) is a cultural history of those communications that seek to capture our atten...
David Wright, “Understanding Cultural Taste: Sensation, Skill and Sensibility,” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
03 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is cultural taste? How is it formed, imagined and patterned? In Understanding Cultural Taste: Sensation, Skill and Sensibility (Palgrave MacMilla...
Leigh Claire La Berge, “Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s” (Oxford UP, 2014)
27 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What stories do we tell about finance? How does financial print culture shape our lives? Our guest today explores the narratives we have been told, an...
Oli Mould, “Urban Subversion and the Creative City” (Routledge, 2015)
21 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Every city seems to be ‘creative’, whether because it has a creative brand, a creative quarter or is home to creative industries. In his new book ...
Neil Roberts, “Freedom as Marronage” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be free? How can paying attention to the relationship between freedom and slavery help construct a concept and practice of freedo...
Jason W. Moore, “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” (Verso, 2015)
03 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), author Jason W. Moore seeks to undermine popular understandin...
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015)
01 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What are the alternatives to the current neo-liberal cultural settlement prevailing in much of the global north? In To Defend the Revolution is to Def...
Philip Roscoe, “A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel” (Penguin, 2015)
19 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
So many of our social questions are now the subject of analysis from economics. In A Richer Life: How Economics can Change the Way We Think and Feel (...
Katie Ellis, “Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance” (Ashgate, 2015)
08 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Popular culture has been transformed in its attitudes towards disability, as representations across media forms continues to respond to the contempora...