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Critical Theory
Interviews with scholars of critical theory about their new books.
March 30, 2026
Pre-Reading
In this episode of High Theory, Milan Terlunen talks to Kim about Pre-Reading. There are many books we will never read and films we will never watch, …
March 30, 2026
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy
This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucaul…
March 29, 2026
Forest Imaginaries
Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the fo…
March 29, 2026
Ìwà: the Process-Relational Dimension to African Metaphysics
Correction: In the interview, the host mistakenly mentioned that Prof. Ofuasia is teaching the University of Pretoria. In reality, Prof Ofuasia is cur…
March 28, 2026
Fight, Flight, Mimic
Time spent and words spent—what does each signal? Deceptive mimicry—the manipulation of individual or group identity—includes passing off as a differ…
March 26, 2026
The Criminal Record Complex
Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and th…
March 24, 2026
Olfactory Worldmaking
Smell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. In Olfactory Worldmaking (University of Minnesota Press,…
March 23, 2026
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods An engaging biography of one of the most influenti…
March 23, 2026
Prolepsis
In this episode of High Theory, Gloria Fisk talks to Kim about Prolepsis. Defined by Gerard Genette in the 1970s, prolepsis is a flash forward, the op…
March 21, 2026
Noah and the Flood in Western Thought
In a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha mal…
March 21, 2026
Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction
Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of so…
March 20, 2026
Plots and Deeds
The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland. Peasant farming was once an inte…
March 20, 2026
The Futures of Reparations in Latin America
Over the last thirty years, Latin America has undergone an unprecedented wave of reparations targeting victims of political violence during military r…
March 19, 2026
Against Innocence
In this timely and bold book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World (U Chicago Press, 2025), Miriam Ticktin explores how a concept that co…
March 17, 2026
Liberal Worlds
James Bryce (1838–1922) was a leading figure in Britain’s Liberal Party and a distinguished historian, a versatile scholar-politician who moved seamle…
March 15, 2026
Hypochondria
Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026) proposes a bold reimagining of a frequently dismissed condition. Dr. Susannah B. Mintz reframe…
March 15, 2026
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis—and where it might take us. We live in an…
March 14, 2026
Conservatism, Past and Present
In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2025), Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservatism is a coher…
March 14, 2026
Creative Belonging
China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain un…
March 12, 2026
What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life
Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered di…