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New Books in Critical Theory

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Robin James, “Resistance and Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism and Neo-Liberalism” (Zero Books, 2015)

2015/6/2

How are contemporary pop culture ideas about resilience used by Neoliberal capitalism? Robin James a

Nick Crossley, “Networks of Sound, Style, and Subversion” (Manchester UP, 2015)

2015/5/18

Can sociology explain punk? In a new book, Networks of Sound, Style, and Subversion: The Punk and Po

Deborah Cowen, “The Deadly Life of Logistics” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

2015/5/9

Our guest today tells us that the seemingly straightforward field of logistics lies at the heart of

Timothy Jordan, “Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society” (Pluto Press, 2015)

2015/5/5

Struggles over information in the digital era are central to Tim Jordan‘s new book, Information Poli

Zoe Thompson, ‘Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-industrial Britain’ Ashgate 2015

2015/4/11

What is the fate of culture and urban regeneration in the era of austerity? In Urban Constellations:

Amanda Rogers, “Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity and the Geographies of Performance” (Routledge, 2015)

2015/3/25

Identity, performance and globalisation are at the heart of the cultural practices interrogated by A

Helena Gurfinkel, “Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature” (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2014)

2015/3/16

What is a father? In Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy

Nick Turnbull, ‘Michel Meyer’s Problematology: Questioning and Society” (Bloomsbury, 2014)

2015/3/7

To be human is to question. This act of questioning is the essence of philosophy, as it allows ontol

Victoria Hesford, “Feeling Women’s Liberation” (Duke University Press, 2013).

2015/3/6

Victoria Hesford is an associated professor of Women and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University in

Jen Harvie, “Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism” (Palgrave, 2013)

2015/2/9

Arts and culture are under threat in the age of austerity. This threat is underpinned by the misuse

Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch, “The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire” (Verso, 2013)

2015/2/9

Two Canadian socialist thinkers have published a new book on the successes and failures, the crises,

Martin Shuster, “Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism and Modernity” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)

2015/2/2

The work of Theodore Adorno is well established as a crucial resource for understanding the complexi

Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

2015/1/16

Steven Shaviro‘s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, a

Robert Hewison, “Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain” (Verso, 2014)

2014/12/19

How did a golden age of cultural funding in UK turn to lead? This is the subject of a new cultural h

Steven Fielding, “A State of Play” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)

2014/12/12

To understand contemporary politics we must understand how it is represented in fiction. This is the

Beth Driscoll, “The New Literary Middlebrow: Readers and Tastemaking in the Twenty-First Century” (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2014)

2014/12/3

It is a cliche to suggest we are what we read, but it is also an important insight. In The New Liter