New Books in Critical Theory
Episodes
"Queer Jews, Queer Muslims" with Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward spoke to Adi Saleem and Shanon Shah. They discussed the recent publication of the b...
Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World (Verso, 2024), Ståle Holgersen develops a conceptualization of 'crisis' that moves b...
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does the history of Liverpool tell us about the future of Britain? In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain (Bloomsbury, 2025), Sam Wetherall,...
What it Means to Forget
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The recent removal of information about Black, Indigenous, and female military personnel from the Arlington National Cemetery’s website exemplifies ...
Bruno Leipold, "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2024)
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought (Princeton UP, 2024), Bruno Leipold argues that, cont...
Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Atiya Husain’s No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge and Terrorism (Duke University Press, 2025) uses the FBI Most Wanted lists to rethink theoretica...
Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What explains the growing divide between elites and the broader public in democracies across Europe and the United States? In this episode of Internat...
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does occupation reliably predict political leanings? What is social capitalism, and how does it span income classes? If social capitalists are sin...
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities across the United States. In ...
Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to the loggers of America’s past when lumbermen moved west and south in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did the...
William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Enlightenment Biopolitics (U Chicago Press, 2024), historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopol...
Alisha Ali et al., "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health" (Routledge, 2024)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructive e...
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (University of California Press, 2025) illuminates the throughline betwe...
Peter Sloterdijk Knows it All
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Dr Thomas Sutherland, author of the Bloomsbury title, Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason ...
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance indus...
Amanda M. Greenwell, "The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature (UP of Mississippi, 2024) theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social cr...
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. The P...
Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (U Chicago Press, 2024) offers a prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theo...
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. Prison Capit...
Mark Neocleous, "Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police" (Verso, 2025)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Mark Neocleous about his new book Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police (Verso, 2025). For more than two decades, Neoc...
Action Without Hope
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Nathan K. Hensley describes a mood or a vibe or an intuitive response to the contemporary moment when one feels powerless in the face...
Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies (University of Chicago Press, 2025) by Dr. Maggie Cao is the first book to offer a synthe...
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions were t...
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is the author of the award-winning Imagining Palestin...
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of reading? In Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Digital Age (Bloombury, 2024), Karl Berglund, Assistant Professor ...
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against...
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Ma...
Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Maria Kaika & Dr. Luca Ruggiero reveals...
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and i...
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today Sam Srauy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations at Oakland University, Her res...
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wan-Chuan Kao analyses premodern whiteness as operations of...
Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its c...
Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘...
Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a mode...
Adnan Husain on Reorienting History
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. We spoke about the...
Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England (Hurst, 2025) by Dr. Martyn Percy offers a bold and unsettlin...
Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism (SUNY Press, 2024) argues that capitalism fosters sadism and masochism--...
Jamieson Webster, "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe" (Catapult, 2025)
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And alth...
William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does time figure in racial domination? What is the relationship between the capitalist organization of time and racial domination? Could utopian t...
Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as ...
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are inaccessible to all but the very wealthy. But, in America, t...
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over s...
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the connection between fan culture and feminism? In Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury, 2023), Briony Hannell, a lec...
Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of dar...
Professor Priyamvada Gopal on Anticolonial Resistance
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Professor Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge. ...
Failed Passing
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Fleishman develops the concept of failed passing in his new book Flamboyant Fictions, which reimagines free will in queer lives as an accidental ...
In Conversation: Decolonial Activism and Islamophobia in France
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas interviews Houria Bouteldja on decolonial activism and Islamophobia in France. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are coming up on the centenary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, a text that radically reshaped the intellectual landscape. One of its most central...
Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the myth of...
"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024)
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social ...
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023), a book of Richard Rorty's writings he co-edit...
Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked to Corinne Sugino, whose book Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (Rutgers UP, 2024) examines how mains...
Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, Seung-hoon Jeong’s global frame highlights two con...
Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (Bloomsbury 2024) argues for ressentiment's generative negativity, prompting a shift fro...
Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Davide Panagia (UCLA) has two new books out focusing on the broader themes and ideas of film, aesthetics, and political theory. Se...
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes o...
Silvia Vong, "Critical Management Studies and Librarianship" (Library Juice Press, 2024)
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Critical Management Studies and Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on Library Management Education and Practice (Library Juice Press, November 2024...
Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common, AI and big data are ...
James Fenwick, "Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can archives tell us about the film industry? In Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive (Liverpool UP, 2024), James ...
Wilton S. Wright, "Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies" (Lexington Books, 2024)
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Resistance to feminist, queer, and antiracist pedagogies can take many forms in the composition class: silence during class discussion; tepid, bland w...
Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author who...
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across th...
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, ab...
Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesth...
Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sociologists have had surprisingly little to say about poetry as a topic while sometimes also making grandiose claims that sociology is/should be like...
Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been distilled from ancient algae and marine life to tu...
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s cultural and political climate of relative LGBTQ+ inclusion, Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West (Texas Tec...
August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards, "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution" (Brill, 2024)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest and urgency to questions of racial oppression and emancipation. We’ve now had about a decade of ac...
Alva Gotby, "Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing" (Verso, 2025)
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest,...
Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Columbia University Press, 2024) explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in mode...
James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as well as a critique of the platform studie...
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human development. According to this overly familiar story,...
Matthew McManus, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" (Routledge, 2024)
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (Routledge, 2024), McManus presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretchi...
Jennifer Greenburg, "At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Jennifer Greenburg r...
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic valu...
In Conversation: Epistemology, Critical Race Theory and Critical Muslim Studies
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Uzma Jamil is speaking to Stephen Sheehi on epistemology, critical race theory and critical Muslim studies. Learn more about your ad ...
Negative Life
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of individual and species survival, as a condition of...
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester UP, 2021) details the activism that made ...
Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)
07 Jan 2025
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: ...
Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2017). Dr. Whitebook w...
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did public demand shape education in the 20th century? In The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Secon...
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Le...
Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Polity Press, 2021), Stuart Elden, Professor of...
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical...
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke UP, 2023), I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and me...
In Conversation: The Antinomies of Afropessimism
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, S. Sayyid talks with Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University) on the Antimonies of Afropessimism. Professor Barnor Hesse teaches in the...
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studies...
Loneliness
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Loneliness is what results when a person is cut off from the living world. Ecological loneliness, in particular, is reciprocal - what we mete out alwa...
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influentia...
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) is the first English-language biography of Henri B...
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
28 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right,...
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new play...
Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do ordinary people write the stories of their lives? In A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), Rebecca Ba...
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commer...
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow...
Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent...
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can Black Atlantic literature challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarship? Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice (U Min...
Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s med...
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is human solidarity achievable in a world dominated by continuous digital connectivity and commercially managed platforms? And what if it’s not? Pro...
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The recent retreat from globalization has been triggered by a perception that increased competition from global trade is not fair and leads to increas...