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What happens when the elitist space of 'Western' classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what
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High Theory returns with a series of haunting concepts, places, and figures from our former guests.
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A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for
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Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers d
In early June 2020, Christina Gessler and Zerlina Maxwell met remotely to discuss Maxwell’s soon-to-
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America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial d
Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal
