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High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …

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High Theory is a produced and edited by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu, two tired academics trying to save critique from itself, along with two amazing collaborators, Júlia Irion Martins and Nathan Kim. In this podcast, we get high on the substance of theory, and we try to explain difficult ideas from the academy with irreverence. You can learn more about us on our website, or find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

High Theory March 23, 2023

ACLA 2023

How Will Critique Save the World?: Popular Theory and Public Humanities

Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
This episode of High Theory is based upon a conference paper Saronik and Kim wrote for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in 2023. It departs from our usual conversational …
High Theory March 7, 2023

Choice Architecture

A Discussion with Eli Cook

Eli Cook

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Eli Cook tells us about choice architecture. The term was invented by behavioral economists in 2008 who proposed it as a soft-power model of …
High Theory February 27, 2023

Affective Masculinities

A Discussion with Amrita De

Amrita De

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Amrita De talks about affective masculinities, aspirational linkages with dominant scripts of masculinities, socially organized. As she expands her work beyond her study of South Asian masculinities, she talks about …
High Theory February 6, 2023

Index

A Discussion with Dennis Duncan

Dennis Duncan

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Dennis Duncan tells us about the history of the index. At it’s simplest, an index is a table with columns that allow you to …
High Theory January 30, 2023

Queer Space

A Discussion with Jack Jen Gieseking

Jack Jen Gieseking

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s …
High Theory January 23, 2023

Near Death Experience

A Discussion with Laura Wittman

Laura Wittman

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Wittman tells us about near death experiences. The central feature of these experiences is a vision and a story, which it turns out …
High Theory January 13, 2023

Criticism Amplified

New Media and the Podcast Form

Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
This episode is a recording of a short paper presented by Kim and Saronik in the panel “Literary Criticism: New Platforms” organized by Anna Kornbluh at the 2023 Convention of …
High Theory December 30, 2022

Ethical AI

A Discussion with Alex Hanna

Alex Hanna

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Alex Hanna talks with Nathan Kim about Ethical AI. Their conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in …
High Theory December 23, 2022

Neurasthenia

Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Kim talks with Saronik about neurasthenia. A disease that no longer exists, neurasthenia was a nineteenth century American epidemic of energy depletion. Thinking about …
High Theory December 16, 2022

Off-Shore Aesthetics

A Discussion with Sritama Chatterjee

Sritama Chatterjee

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Sritama Chatterjee talks about a model of literary criticism that she developed in the process of writing her new essay on shipbreaking in Bangladesh. It is a form of materialist …
High Theory December 2, 2022

Civil Disobedience

A Discussion with Eraldo Souza dos Santos

Eraldo Souza dos Santos

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Eraldo Souza dos Santos talks about the invention of civil disobedience as a form of political action around the world, and the need for its redefinition to describe activism present …
High Theory November 22, 2022

Probability

A Discussion with Justin Joque and Júlia Irion Martins

Justin Joque and Júlia Irion Martins

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Justin Joque talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Probability. This conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in …
High Theory November 15, 2022

Melancholy

A Discussion with Laura Stokes

Laura Stokes

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Stokes talks about melancholy. One of the four humors in ancient humoral medicine, melancholy, or black bile, is a fluid substance and spiritual …
High Theory November 11, 2022

100th Episode: Public Humanities

Saronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik Bosu talks about humanities work engaging diverse communities and publics, misconceptions about what the ‘public’ in public humanities might mean as well as the recent attention paid to it …
High Theory October 31, 2022

Red Cat

A Conversation with Leigh Claire La Berge

Leigh Claire La Berge

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Leigh Claire La Berge talks about red cats: communist cats, revolutionary tigers, radical felines of all stripes. The red cat is a provocation, and …
High Theory October 28, 2022

Halloween Special: Alice Walker’s Cat

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik tells Kim about Alice Walker’s book Anything We Love Can Be Saved, where she talks about her many cats over the years, and how they represented her connection with …
High Theory October 27, 2022

Halloween Special: Jacques Derrida’s Cat

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks with Kim about Jacques Derrida’s cat. Derrida writes about his cat, who makes him rather anxious, in “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)” trans. David …
High Theory October 26, 2022

Halloween Special: Schrödinger’s Cat Redux

A Discussion with Gina Dominick

Gina Dominick

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Gina Dominick about Ursula Le Guin’s short story “Schrödinger’s Cat” and the philosophical stakes of Schrödinger’s thought experiment. Le Guin’s story was published in her collection, The …
High Theory October 25, 2022

Halloween Special: Schrödinger’s Cat

A Discussion with George Gibson

George Gibson

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with George Gibson about Schrödinger’s cat. This cat is a thought experiment proposed by Erwin Schrödinger, and taken up in correspondence with Albert Einstein, in the 1930s. Schrödinger’s …