Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Today I talked to Mark Neocleous about his new book Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police
In his new book, Nathan K. Hensley describes a mood or a vibe or an intuitive response to the contem
Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies (University of Chicago Press, 2025) by D
How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain?
Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is t
What is the future of reading? In Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Digital Age (Bloomb
Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, t
Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so un
Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization (University of California Press, 202
Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. A
My guest today Sam Srauy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism, a
White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wan-Chuan
Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees con
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, sin
Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking c
Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism (SUNY Press, 2024) argue
The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England (Hurst, 2025
In this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges i
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previou
How does time figure in racial domination? What is the relationship between the capitalist organizat
