Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
What would a truly ‘social’ social media look like? This is the core question of From Corporate to S
Kathrin Yacavone‘s Benjamin, Barthes, and the Singularity of Photography (Bloomsbury, 2013) is an en
What is waste? William Viney‘s Waste: A Philosophy of Things (Bloomsbury, 2014) explores the meaning
Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez‘s Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai’i and the Philippine
Our taken for granted assumptions are questioned in a new book by Karl Spracklen, a professor of lei
Right now, humanists across very different disciplinary fields are trying to create the kinds of cro
Helene Snee, a researcher at the University of Manchester, has written an excellent new book that sh
Bill Connolly‘s new book proposes a way to think about the world as a gathering of self-organizing
What is the value of music and why does it matter? These are the core questions in David Hesmondhal
In his new book, The Limits of Neo-Liberalism: Authority, Sovereignty, and the Logic of Competition
When we watch film various visual elements direct our understanding of the narrative and its meaning
Brett Scott is the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (Plu
Culture is inescapably linked to questions of political economy. In Neoliberal Culture: Living With
In her fourth book, Lynne Huffer argues for a restored queer feminism to find new ways of thinking a
More and more of the world is living in cities, yet we rarely stop to examine how our spaces are org
Sarah Franklin‘s new book is an exceptionally rich, focused yet wide-ranging, insightful account of
So much of Science Studies, of STS as a field or a point of engagement, is deeply concerned with obj
The British Marxist economist Maurice Dobb is now largely forgotten. That’s too bad for a number of
Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World (Ashga
The intersection of empirical research and critical theory is the basis for Anastasia Karandinou‘s n
