About Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

NBN Episodes hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu:

Close Reading

March 2, 2024

Close Reading

Jonathan Kramnick

In this episode of High Theory, Jonathan Kramnick talks about Close Reading. Contrary to the name, it is less a form of slow or focused reading than a…

Criticism

February 15, 2024

Criticism

Matt Seybold

In this episode of High Theory, Matt Seybold tells us about Criticism, the glue that holds the bricks of culture together. Cultural critics are a nece…

Teaching

January 12, 2024

Teaching

Ramsés Martínez Barquero, Abigail Cowan et al.

In this special episode of High Theory, Ramsés Martínez Barquero and Abigail Cowan interview their graduate student colleagues about teaching. They tu…

Plot

January 4, 2024

Plot

Pardis Dabashi

In this episode of High Theory, Pardis Dabashi tells us about plot. A plot consists of a change with stakes that establish norms. This seemingly simpl…

Nature-Study: A Discussion with John Linstrom

December 29, 2023

Nature-Study

John Linstrom

In this episode, John Linstrom tells us about Nature-Study, an educational movement that began in the rural classrooms of American Progressive Era. It…

Sisterhood

December 16, 2023

Sisterhood

Katherine Turk

In this episode of High Theory, Katherine Turk tells us about Sisterhood, a familial metaphor used to evoke gendered solidarity in women’s movement of…

Self Help

December 7, 2023

Self Help

Angela Hume

In this episode of High Theory, Angela Hume tells us about Self Help, not the neoliberal strategy of self-actualization through consumer choices, but …

Plagiarism

November 28, 2023

Plagiarism

Geoffrey Sanborn
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In this episode of High Theory, Geoffrey Sanborn tells us about Plagiarism. A concept emerged with the idea of originality, plagiarism challenges some…

Economic Enchantments

November 22, 2023

Economic Enchantments

Anat Rosenberg

Anat Rosenberg, Kristof Smeyers, and Astrid Van den Bossche discuss the fresh historiographies of capitalism offered by studies of enchantment and mag…

Plantationocene: A Discussion with Neil Safier

November 17, 2023

Plantationocene

Neil Safier

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to t…

Decolonizing Praxis

October 23, 2023

Decolonizing Praxis

Erin R. Pineda
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In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil …

Txt

October 13, 2023

Txt

Matthew Kirschenbaum

In this episode of High Theory, Matthew Kirschenbaum talks about txt, or text. Not texting, or textbooks, but text as a form of data that is feeding l…

Polyphony

August 24, 2023

Polyphony

Brian Fairley
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In this episode of High Theory, Brian Fairley tells us about Polyphony, a concept from music that describes multiple melodic lines sounding at once. T…

Horses

August 7, 2023

Horses

In our new summer series of “Sillies,” Saronik and Kim ask each other how simple things will achieve the grandiose task of saving the world. In this e…

Bombay Talkies

July 20, 2023

Bombay Talkies

Debashree Mukherjee
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Debashree Mukherjee talks about the pioneering film studio founded in 1934 in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai) by Himansu Rai and Devika Rani. Its cast…

Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side

July 20, 2023

Wirschig

Debashree Mukherjee
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In this episode of High Theory, we continue our conversation with Debashree Mukherjee about the pioneering film studio Bombay Talkies, founded in 1934…

Shortage

July 7, 2023

Shortage

Eram Alam
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In this episode of High Theory, Eram Alam talks with us about shortage. A political tool, rather than a natural lack, the concept of a shortage change…

Queer Mysticism

June 29, 2023

Queer Mysticism

Jamie Staples
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We close Pride Month of 2023 with Jamie Staples talking about queer mysticism. This includes instances in medieval Christianity where an embodied and…

The Environmental Unconscious

June 20, 2023

The Environmental Unconscious

Steven Swarbrick

Steven Swarbrick talks about poetic engagement with nature in the work of early modern poets ​​Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell, and John…

The Rhetoric of Decline: A Conversation with Jed Esty

June 15, 2023

The Rhetoric of Decline

Jed Esty
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In this episode of High Theory, Jed Esty talks about the Rhetoric of Decline. Declinism names the contradictory political narrative that America will …

Sillies: Jeans

June 2, 2023

Jeans

Warning: this episode of High Theory is very silly. In our new summer series of “Sillies,” Saronik and Kim ask each other how simple things will achi…

Party

May 23, 2023

Party

Sheila Liming

Sheila Liming talks about the party, social gatherings that occasion joy and dread and various emotions in between. The party is both a pause and an …

Computer Graphics

April 27, 2023

Computer Graphics

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

In this episode of High Theory, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan talks with us about computer graphics. Emerging from tools for sailing and warmaking, like…

Reading

April 20, 2023

Reading

Swati Moitra

Swati Moitra explains how reading can be a subversive and even revolutionary act in certain socio-historical contexts. She draws especially from her o…