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A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must contin
At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-rest
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In this episode Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Professor Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Pos
We are coming up on the centenary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, a text that radically reshaped the
Ian Fleishman develops the concept of failed passing in his new book Flamboyant Fictions, which reim
In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas interviews Houria Bouteldja on decolonial activism and Islamophobi
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We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus
Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023)
If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, Se
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In this episode, I talked to Corinne Sugino, whose book Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian
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Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majo
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