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Critical Theory
Interviews with scholars of critical theory about their new books.
November 23, 2024
Negative Life
In Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024), Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay enact a dialogue between cinema, philoso…
November 23, 2024
Curricular Injustice
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathet…
November 22, 2024
Speculative Whiteness
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hig…
November 21, 2024
Faux Feminism
After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism: Why We Fall…
November 19, 2024
Complicit Participation
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complic…
November 18, 2024
Higher Education for All
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college edu…
November 18, 2024
Fictions of Financialization
Since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the role of the financial sector in contemporary capitalism has come under increasing scrutiny. …
November 15, 2024
Contested Spaces
Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020 (Library Juice Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive …
November 14, 2024
The Ethnographic Optic
The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema (Indiana UP, 2024) traces the surprising r…
November 11, 2024
Dual Justice
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and di…
November 9, 2024
Non-literary Fiction
In this episode of High Theory, Esther Gabara talks with us about Non-Literary Fiction, that is, works of fiction that belong to the world of contempo…
November 9, 2024
Exotic Cinema
Daniela Berghahn's award-winning monograph Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film (Edinburgh UP, 2023) …
November 9, 2024
Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire
How did the Algerian war of independence shape contemporary sociology? In Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggl…
November 6, 2024
The Suicide Archive
A note about content: This episode involves discussion of suicide, specifically in the contexts of slavery, colonization and empire. Please use your…
November 3, 2024
Living Off the Government?
Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massi…
November 2, 2024
The Return of Resentment
The term “resentment,” often casually paired with words like “hatred,” “rage,” and “fear,” has dominated US news analysis since November 2016. Despi…
November 2, 2024
The Sound of Difference
What happens when the elitist space of 'Western' classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity d…
November 2, 2024
Crude Capitalism
Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consumer…
November 1, 2024
Ghosts In Our Fields
High Theory returns with a series of haunting concepts, places, and figures from our former guests. We asked folks to call in with something spookwort…
November 1, 2024
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the cr…