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New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre

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Total: 2000

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015)

2015/12/1

What are the alternatives to the current neo-liberal cultural settlement prevailing in much of the g

Philip Roscoe, “A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel” (Penguin, 2015)

2015/11/19

So many of our social questions are now the subject of analysis from economics. In A Richer Life: Ho

Katie Ellis, “Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance” (Ashgate, 2015)

2015/11/8

Popular culture has been transformed in its attitudes towards disability, as representations across

Am Johal, “Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene” (Atropos Press, 2015)

2015/11/8

The French philosopher Alain Badiou is not best known for his engagement with ecological matters per

Hilary Neroni, “The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film” (Columbia UP, 2015)

2015/10/27

Did you notice that after 9/11, the depiction of torture on prime-time television went up nearly sev

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, “The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)

2015/10/22

Owning property. Being property. Becoming propertyless. These are three themes of white possession t

Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, “Performing Policy” (Palgrave, 2014)

2015/10/20

How has American cultural and artistic policy changed over the last 25 years? Performing Policy: How

Kate Pahl, “Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited” (Bloomsbury, 2014)

2015/10/6

Literary practices are often associated with specific social groups in particular social settings. K

Eugene Thacker, “Horror of Philosophy” (Zero Book, 2011-2015)

2015/9/28

Eugene Thacker‘s wonderful Horror of Philosophy series includes three books – In the Dust of this Pl

Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/9/26

Valuation is a central question in contemporary social science. Indeed the question of value has a r

Lois Lee, “Recognizing the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/9/14

What does non-religion mean? In a new book Recognizing the Non-Religious: Reimagining the Secular (O

Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy, “New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India” (Oxford UPs 2015)

2015/9/8

New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India (Oxford Univ

New Books in Critical Theory

Episodes

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015)

Philip Roscoe, “A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel” (Penguin, 2015)

Katie Ellis, “Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance” (Ashgate, 2015)

Am Johal, “Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene” (Atropos Press, 2015)

Hilary Neroni, “The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film” (Columbia UP, 2015)

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, “The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)

Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, “Performing Policy” (Palgrave, 2014)

Kate Pahl, “Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited” (Bloomsbury, 2014)

Eugene Thacker, “Horror of Philosophy” (Zero Book, 2011-2015)

Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Lois Lee, “Recognizing the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy, “New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India” (Oxford UPs 2015)

Liz McFall, “Devising Consumption Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending” (Routledge, 2014)

William Davies, “The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being” (Verso, 2015)

Christopher Vitale, “Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age” (Zero Books, 2014)

Craig Martin, “Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie” (Bloomsbury, 2014)

Alexander Etkind, “Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied” (Stanford UP, 2013)

Joe Deville, “Lived Economies of Default: Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect” (Routledge, 2015)

Nancy Fraser, “Transnationalizing the Public Sphere” (Polity, 2014)

Christian Fuchs, “Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media” (Routledge, 2015)