Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
Historically ubiquitous at least since the 15th century and integral to the rise and consolidation o
As you’ll hear in this interview with Steven Stoll, his latest book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appal
This week we met Prof. Kurt Dopfer (Universität St Gallen, Switzerland) to talk about Modern Evoluti
How should we understand disability? In Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (University o
‘Create two, three—many Freuds!’ That, Dagmar Herzog shows, was the forgotten slogan of the Cold War
What is class? In Class Matters: Inequality and Exploitation in 21st-Century Britain (Pluto Press, 2
What does Kant have to tell us about International Relations? In Kant’s International Relations: The
In her new book, Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt (Indiana University Press, 2
We are arguably living in the midst of a form of economy where attention has become a key resource a
What could the communism of the future be? In Now (Semiotext(e), 2017), The Invisible Committee exp
Why is the artist’s voice missing from cultural policy? In Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy: Caree
How should we understand our new golden age of television? In New Television: The Aesthetics and Pol
Ari Larissa Heinrich’s new book, Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodif
Psychoanalysis is a queer theory. That’s what Tim Dean said, according to Eve Watson in the afterwor
How do emotions affect participation in protests, and in politics more generally? In The Emotions of
How can art change the world? In Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism (Routledge, 2018),
Hongwei Bao’s book is a thoughtful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in China. This wor
How to theorize what goes without saying? In The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding
In The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina (University of Wales Press, 20
In this episode, I speak with Aaron M. Kuntz about his book, The Responsible Methodologist: Inquiry,
