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About Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
NBN Episodes hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu:
High Theory
March 23, 2023
ACLA 2023
How Will Critique Save the World?: Popular Theory and Public Humanities
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
This episode of High Theory is based upon a conference paper Saronik and Kim wrote for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in 2023. It departs from our usual conversational …
High Theory
March 7, 2023
Choice Architecture
A Discussion with Eli Cook
Eli Cook
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Eli Cook tells us about choice architecture. The term was invented by behavioral economists in 2008 who proposed it as a soft-power model of …
High Theory
February 27, 2023
Affective Masculinities
A Discussion with Amrita De
Amrita De
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Amrita De talks about affective masculinities, aspirational linkages with dominant scripts of masculinities, socially organized. As she expands her work beyond her study of South Asian masculinities, she talks about …
High Theory
February 6, 2023
Index
A Discussion with Dennis Duncan
Dennis Duncan
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Dennis Duncan tells us about the history of the index. At it’s simplest, an index is a table with columns that allow you to …
High Theory
January 30, 2023
Queer Space
A Discussion with Jack Jen Gieseking
Jack Jen Gieseking
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s …
High Theory
January 23, 2023
Near Death Experience
A Discussion with Laura Wittman
Laura Wittman
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Wittman tells us about near death experiences. The central feature of these experiences is a vision and a story, which it turns out …
High Theory
January 13, 2023
Criticism Amplified
New Media and the Podcast Form
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
This episode is a recording of a short paper presented by Kim and Saronik in the panel “Literary Criticism: New Platforms” organized by Anna Kornbluh at the 2023 Convention of …
High Theory
December 23, 2022
Neurasthenia
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Kim talks with Saronik about neurasthenia. A disease that no longer exists, neurasthenia was a nineteenth century American epidemic of energy depletion. Thinking about …
High Theory
December 16, 2022
Off-Shore Aesthetics
A Discussion with Sritama Chatterjee
Sritama Chatterjee
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Sritama Chatterjee talks about a model of literary criticism that she developed in the process of writing her new essay on shipbreaking in Bangladesh. It is a form of materialist …
High Theory
December 2, 2022
Civil Disobedience
A Discussion with Eraldo Souza dos Santos
Eraldo Souza dos Santos
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Eraldo Souza dos Santos talks about the invention of civil disobedience as a form of political action around the world, and the need for its redefinition to describe activism present …
High Theory
November 22, 2022
Probability
A Discussion with Justin Joque and Júlia Irion Martins
Justin Joque and Júlia Irion Martins
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Justin Joque talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Probability. This conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in …
High Theory
November 15, 2022
Melancholy
A Discussion with Laura Stokes
Laura Stokes
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Stokes talks about melancholy. One of the four humors in ancient humoral medicine, melancholy, or black bile, is a fluid substance and spiritual …
High Theory
November 15, 2022
Melancholy
A Discussion with Laura Stokes
Laura Stokes
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Stokes talks about melancholy. One of the four humors in ancient humoral medicine, melancholy, or black bile, is a fluid substance and spiritual …
High Theory
November 11, 2022
100th Episode: Public Humanities
Saronik Bosu
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik Bosu talks about humanities work engaging diverse communities and publics, misconceptions about what the ‘public’ in public humanities might mean as well as the recent attention paid to it …
High Theory
October 31, 2022
Red Cat
A Conversation with Leigh Claire La Berge
Leigh Claire La Berge
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Leigh Claire La Berge talks about red cats: communist cats, revolutionary tigers, radical felines of all stripes. The red cat is a provocation, and …
High Theory
October 28, 2022
Halloween Special: Alice Walker’s Cat
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik tells Kim about Alice Walker’s book Anything We Love Can Be Saved, where she talks about her many cats over the years, and how they represented her connection with …
High Theory
October 27, 2022
Halloween Special: Jacques Derrida’s Cat
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks with Kim about Jacques Derrida’s cat. Derrida writes about his cat, who makes him rather anxious, in “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)” trans. David …
High Theory
October 26, 2022
Halloween Special: Schrödinger’s Cat Redux
A Discussion with Gina Dominick
Gina Dominick
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Gina Dominick about Ursula Le Guin’s short story “Schrödinger’s Cat” and the philosophical stakes of Schrödinger’s thought experiment. Le Guin’s story was published in her collection, The …
High Theory
October 25, 2022
Halloween Special: Schrödinger’s Cat
A Discussion with George Gibson
George Gibson
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with George Gibson about Schrödinger’s cat. This cat is a thought experiment proposed by Erwin Schrödinger, and taken up in correspondence with Albert Einstein, in the 1930s. Schrödinger’s …
High Theory
October 24, 2022
Halloween Special: Michel de Montaigne’s Cat
A Discussion with John Guilliory
John Guilliory
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In part one of our Halloween Special on Cats, Kim talks with John Guilliory about Montaigne’s essay “An Apology for Raymond Sebond.” Montaigne asks us: “When I play with my …
High Theory
October 12, 2022
On Not Knowing
How to Love and Other Essays
Emily Ogden
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
This episode of High Theory is an edited recording of a book launch event with Emily Ogden for her new book On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays …
High Theory
October 4, 2022
Standpoint Theory
A Discussion with Soham Sen
Soham Sen
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Soham Sen talks about standpoint theory, a method of understanding the ways in which individual and collective experience influence public discourses. He begins from its origins in the civil rights …
High Theory
September 27, 2022
Digital Lethargy
A Discussion with Tung-Hui Hu and Júlia Irion
Tung-Hui Hu and Júlia Irion
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Tung-Hui Hu talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Digital Lethargy, as part of our High Theory in STEM series. As a modern ailment, digital …
High Theory
September 21, 2022
Echo
A Discussion with Amit Pinchevski
Amit Pinchevski
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Amit Pinchevski tells us about echoes. An echo is a sonic reflection of an emission bouncing back to its origin, which if delayed long …
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