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High Theory May 16, 2022

Witnessing

A Discussion with Ulrich Baer

Ulrich Baer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ulrich Baer talks to Kim about the process and phenomenon of witnessing, which creates collective acknowledgement, understanding, and responsibility for trauma. Among other works, he talks about Shoshana Felman and …
High Theory May 13, 2022

Heterotopia

A Discussion with Amanda Caleb

Amanda Caleb

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim speaks with Amanda Caleb about Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. Amanda says that the classic definition of “heterotopia” is found in Foucault’s article “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” …
High Theory May 12, 2022

9/11 Family Novel

A Discussion with Jay Shelat

Jay Shelat

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik chats with Jay Shelat about the 9/11 family novel. They discuss how the attacks (re)dynamized constructions and perceptions of family. Jay refers to a few 9/11 family novels, including …
High Theory May 11, 2022

Dissensus

A Discussion with Gina Dominick

Gina Dominick

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Gina about Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus. Gina refers to several major works of philosophy including: Jacques Rancière’s Dissensus Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement Jacques Derrida’s The …
High Theory May 10, 2022

Deterritorialization

A Discussion with Shweta Krishnan

Shweta Krishnan

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks to Shweta Krishnan, doctoral candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. She speaks about how she uses Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization in her work …
High Theory May 9, 2022

Eugenics

A Discussion with Mercedes Trigos

Mercedes Trigos

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Mercedes Trigos about eugenics. Mercedes references Francis Galton, who coined the term, preimplantation genetic profiling, and the failures of our ordinary progress narratives. If you are interested …
High Theory May 6, 2022

Computational Creativity

A Discussion with Tuhin Chakrabarty

Tuhin Chakrabarty

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks to Tuhin Chakrabarty about the creative processes of Artificial Intelligence, what we can expect from it, and how to keep the results fair. (Saronik messes up the word …
High Theory May 5, 2022

Institutions

A Discussion with Chad Hegelmeyer

Chad Hegelmeyer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Chad Hegelmeyer about the institutional turn in literary studies. Chad references Jeremy Rosen’s article “The Institutional Turn” from the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. We also talk …
High Theory May 4, 2022

Mimesis

A Discussion with Alliya Dagman

Alliya Dagman

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim interviews Alliya Dagman about mimesis. Alliya references Plato’s Republic and various internet memes, including a John Oliver meme about how Xi Jinping hates being compared to Winnie the Pooh …
High Theory May 2, 2022

Outdated Futures

A Discussion with Manish Melwani

Manish Melwani

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks with Manish Melwani about outdated visions of the future and stale science fiction ideas that just won’t die. Manish is a Singaporean writer of science fiction, fantasy, and …
High Theory April 29, 2022

Intersectionality

A Discussion with Kim Adams

Kim Adams

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik interviews Kim about intersectionality, a concept developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw. Kim references two essays by Crenshaw in the episode: one that she read, and one that our previous podcast …
High Theory April 28, 2022

Hurricanes

A Discussion with Sonya Posmentier

Sonya Posmentier

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Sonya Posmentier about hurricanes. Sonya writes about hurricanes and diaspora in her book, Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press …
High Theory April 28, 2022

Hurricanes

A Discussion with Sonya Posmentier

Sonya Posmentier

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Sonya Posmentier about hurricanes. Sonya writes about hurricanes and diaspora in her book, Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press …
High Theory April 27, 2022

Border as Method

A Discussion with Kim Adams

Kim Adams

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks to Kim about Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson’s seminal 2013 book Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor, where they use the concept and ubiquity of border …
High Theory April 26, 2022

Settler Colonialism

A Discussion with Margaret Nash

Margaret Nash

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Margaret Nash about settler colonialism. Margaret Nash is an Emeritus Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California Riverside. You can watch her …
High Theory April 25, 2022

Death Drive

A Discussion with Michelle Rada

Michelle Rada

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Michelle Rada about the death drive in psychoanalysis. Michelle references Todd McGowan’s Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis, University of Nebraska Press, 2013. She …
High Theory April 22, 2022

Hoarding

A Discussion with Rebecca Falkoff

Rebecca Falkoff

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks to Rebecca Falkoff about hoarding. Her book on hoarding, Possessed, will be coming out with Cornell University press in April of 2021. In the episode, she references Giorgio …
High Theory April 21, 2022

JVN

A Discussion with Angelina Eimannsberger

Angelina Eimannsberger

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Angelina Eimannsberger talks to Saronik about cultural phenomenon Jonathan Van Ness, and movements in queer femininity that they represent. They touch briefly on Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Jean …
High Theory April 20, 2022

Commodity Fetishism B-Side

A Discussion with Elaine Freedgood

Elaine Freedgood

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
An excerpt from Kim’s conversation with Elaine Freedgood on commodity fetishism that didn’t make it into the original episode. Elaine references Louis Althusser and Slavoj Žižek on ideology; Fredric Jameson …
High Theory April 19, 2022

Commodity Fetishism

A Discussion with Elaine Freedgood

Elaine Freedgood

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Elaine Freedgood about Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism. The concept comes from: Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1, translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, edited by …
High Theory April 18, 2022

Debt

A Discussion with Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi talks about the idea of debt, mainly with respect to the book by David Graeber on its history. This episode is dedicated to his memory. Huzaifa is …
High Theory April 15, 2022

Intertextuality

A Discussion with Chad Hegelmeyer

Chad Hegelmeyer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode Kim and Chad talk about Julia Kristeva’s theory of “intertextuality.” Chad references Chapter 3 of Kristeva’s book Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art …
High Theory April 14, 2022

Death of the Author

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode, Kim and Saronik discuss Roland Barthes’ essay “The Death of the Author” printed in Image Music Text, translated by Stephen Heath, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977 …
High Theory April 13, 2022

Ecosphere

A Discussion with John Linstrom

John Linstrom

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
John Linstrom talks about the ecosphere, a way of understanding the world deriving principally from the work of ecologist and philosopher Stan Rowe. We also refer briefly to James Lovelock’s …