About Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

NBN Episodes hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu:

March 16, 2026

Entrepreneurial Work Ethic

In this episode of High Theory, Saronik talks with Erik Baker about the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic. The dominant work ethic of our current moment, it …

May 5, 2025

Nothingism

Jason Schneiderman

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode of High Theory, Jason Schneiderman talks about Nothingism. A term of his own coinage, a tongue-in-cheek manifesto, nothingism is an in…

April 14, 2025

Brutalism

Nasser Mufti

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode of High Theory Nasser Mufti talks with us about Brutalism. A twentieth century architectural style featuring imposing structures made …

March 17, 2025

Action Without Hope

Nathan K. Hensley

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In his new book, Nathan K. Hensley describes a mood or a vibe or an intuitive response to the contemporary moment when one feels powerless in the face…

March 3, 2025

Alcohol

Nina Studer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode of High Theory, Nina Studer tells us about alcohol. The restrictions and prohibitions, medical and moral discourses surrounding alcoho…

February 20, 2025

Poetry

Ryan Ruby

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode of High Theory, Ryan Ruby talks to us about Poetry. Our standard definition of poetry today is an institutional one, much like contemp…

February 12, 2025

Failed Passing

Ian Fleishman

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Ian Fleishman develops the concept of failed passing in his new book Flamboyant Fictions, which reimagines free will in queer lives as an accidental a…

February 4, 2025

Chandigarh

Vikramaditya Prakash

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Chandigarh is the shared capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, built under the leadership of modernist and brutalist architect Le …

January 8, 2025

Negative Life

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of individual and species survival, as a condition of…

December 30, 2024

Loneliness

Laura Marris

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Loneliness is what results when a person is cut off from the living world. Ecological loneliness, in particular, is reciprocal - what we mete out alwa…

December 16, 2024

Aesthetic Conversions

Paloma Checa-Gismero

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Paloma Checa-Gismero talks about the many processes of re-evaluation, re-contextualization, and re-animation that designates an object as art. To illu…

December 7, 2024

Bug

Marcello Vitali-Rosati

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode of High Theory, Marcello Vitali-Rosati tells us about bugs! A bug can be a small insect, an illness, a spy device, or a digital malfun…

December 1, 2024

Biopic

Laura Stamm

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode of High Theory, Laura Stamm talks about the biopic. One of the oldest forms of narrative cinema, biographical pictures are a mainstay …

November 23, 2024

Required Reading

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay develops the concept of the functional archive of empire, consisting of texts ranging from licenses and other bureaucratic docum…

November 15, 2024

Risk

Faye Raquel Gleisser

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in economics, athletics, sociology, or healthcare, risk …

November 9, 2024

Non-literary Fiction

Esther Gabara

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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 1, 2024

Ghosts In Our Fields

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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…

May 14, 2024

Inhuman

Rasheed Tazudeen

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode of High Theory, Rasheed Tazudeen tells us about the inhuman. The inhuman offers a way of moving beyond the legacies of humanism and ac…

March 25, 2024

Melodrama

Gregory Vargo

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

We often misuse the word melodrama with abandon, especially to characterize other people’s behaviors, but Greg Vargo defines it for us once and for al…

March 2, 2024

Close Reading

Jonathan Kramnick

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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…

February 15, 2024

Criticism

Matt Seybold

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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…

January 12, 2024

Teaching

Ramsés Martínez Barquero, Abigail Cowan et al.

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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

January 4, 2024

Plot

Pardis Dabashi

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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…

December 29, 2023

Nature-Study

John Linstrom

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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