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American West
February 24, 2021
Cinematic Settlers
The Settler Colonial World in Film
Janne Lahti and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The medium of cinema emerged during the height of Victorian-era European empires, and as a result, settler colonial imperialism has thematically suffused film for well over a century. In Cinematic …
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Critical Theory
February 24, 2021
Penguin Books and Political Change
Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988
Dean Blackburn
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Why do books and publishing matter to the contemporary history of Britain? In Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988 (Manchester UP, 2020), Dean Blackburn, a Lecturer in Modern …
Philosophy
February 19, 2021
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Patricia Hill Collins
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guiding normative principle? And what does or …
Latino Studies
February 18, 2021
Decolonizing Diasporas
Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez
Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020), uses peripheralized (5) novels, visual/sonic works, poetry, essays …
Literary Studies
February 15, 2021
The Phenomenology of Love and Reading
Cassandra Falke
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Cassandra Falke, professor of English Literature ad UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, about her book The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016). In …
Christian Studies
February 10, 2021
Rhythm
A Theological Category
Lexi Eikelboom
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Philosophers have long approached the concept of rhythm as a significant tool for understanding the human experience, metaphysics, language, and the arts. In her new study Rhythm: A Theological Category (Oxford …
Middle Eastern Studies
February 9, 2021
Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt
The Politics of Hegemony
Sara Salem
Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
In this conversation, Sara Salem, author of Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (Cambridge University Press, 2020), talks to host Yi Ning Chang about temporality, capitalism, and hegemony …
Economics
February 8, 2021
Neoliberalism
A Very Short Introduction
Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy
Hosted by Tim Jones
George Orwell once said that “the word ‘fascism’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’”. The word ‘neoliberalism’ knows exactly how it feels …
Art
February 4, 2021
Propaganda Art in the 21st Century
Jonas Staal
Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
How to understand propaganda art in the post-truth era—and how to create a new kind of emancipatory propaganda art. Propaganda art — whether a depiction of joyous workers in the style of …
History
February 2, 2021
First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship
Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
Richard Lachmann
Hosted by Zeb Larson
Being a great power almost seems to invite discussion of decline: whether you are declining, what can be done to prevent or arrest it, and what the consequences of …
Critical Theory
January 29, 2021
Access All Areas
The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond
Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can we create a more equal media industry? In Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond, Marcus Ryder and Sir Lenny Henry, both founder members of …
Critical Theory
January 29, 2021
A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks
Middle Class Kingdoms
Sabrina Mittermeier
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How should we understand the theme park in our globalised world? In A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms (Intellect, 2020), Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier, a postdoctoral researcher and …
Critical Theory
January 28, 2021
Wages Against Artwork
Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art
Leigh Claire La Berge
Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. Leigh …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 26, 2021
Black Queer Freedom
Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire
GerShun Avilez
Hosted by John Marszalek
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic …
Critical Theory
January 26, 2021
Migrants in the Profane
Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization
Peter E. Gordon
Hosted by Ryan Tripp
A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory, Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization (Yale University …
Critical Theory
January 15, 2021
A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights
Matthew McManus
Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The tradition of political liberalism has a long and complicated history, filled with twists, turns, critiques and responses that have filled books, essays and lectures for several centuries now. Questions …
Critical Theory
January 13, 2021
Critique of Rights
Christoph Menke
Hosted by Dominik Finkelde
Christoph Menke, who is professor of philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Germany and considered the most important representative of the third generation of the "Frankfurt School of Critical …
Art
January 12, 2021
Knowledge Beside Itself
Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics
Tom Holert
Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
What is the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect? Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics (Sternberg Press, 2020) delves into …
Education
January 11, 2021
Walking with Strangers
Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise
Barbara Dennis
Hosted by Pengfei Zhao
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise, published in 2020 by Peter Lang …
Literary Studies
January 8, 2021
Radical Animism
Reading for the End of the World
Jemma Deer
Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Jemma Deer’s Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020) invites the reader to take a moment and to ponder on the way of reading …
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