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About Sarah Tyson
Sarah Tyson is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sarah:
August 20, 2024
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
What can philosophy do? By taking up Black American cultural practices, Devonya N. Havis suggests that academic philosophy has been too narrow in its …
June 20, 2024
Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in ways…
April 20, 2024
A Phenomenology for Women of Color
How can we understand the changing power of race and gender to shape our reality? How shared is reality? Can narratives of experience help us develop …
February 20, 2024
For F*ck's Sake
Swearing can be a powerful communicative act, for good or ill. The same word can incite violence or increase intimacy. How is swearing so multivalent …
January 20, 2023
Side Affects
Fatigue, disorientation, numbness, envy, rage, burnout. What good could come from thinking about trans experience and these bad feelings? In Side Affe…
September 20, 2022
Queering Philosophy
Why isn’t there a queer subfield in philosophy? How has institutionalized philosophy continued to develop without a recognized specialization in queer…
July 20, 2022
Animal Crisis
As we lose more individual animals and entire species to catastrophic climate change, habitat destruction, toxic dumping, and other human activities, …
May 13, 2022
Entropic Philosophy
Everything is breaking down. Chaos is increasing. Entropy is not just a metaphor, although it also that. In Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and…
March 21, 2022
Seen and Not Heard
What happens when we take children seriously as philosophical thinkers? What if we try to hear them about topics such as climate change, solitude, and…
January 10, 2022
Creolizing the Nation
Can the concept of the nation be a resource for liberatory political struggle? Are the dangers of nationalism simply too great? In Creolizing the Nati…
October 20, 2021
The Politics of Black Joy
What can southern Black joy teach us about agency? What role does refusal have in liberation? What more might there be to root work than resistance? I…
August 20, 2021
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance
How can we think together multiplicity and agency? How can we resist oppression and build transformative political coalitions while attending to the a…
June 24, 2021
Colonial Debts
What can debt reveal to us about coloniality and its undoing? In Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Rocío Zambrana…
April 20, 2021
Curiosity and Power
Is curiosity political? Does it have a philosophical lineage? In Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), P…
February 19, 2021
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guidin…
January 20, 2021
Revolutionary Time
What is the relationship between time and sexual difference? Are the categories of linearity and circularity that have so dominated conceptions of tim…
October 20, 2020
Universal Emancipation
What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference? In Universal …
August 20, 2020
Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology
In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan), Beata Stawarska g…
June 22, 2020
Anaesthetics of Existence
How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience? In Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge (Duke U…
March 20, 2020
Socially Undocumented
In Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (Oxford University Press, 2020), Amy Reed-Sandoval reframes the question of immigration jus…
February 20, 2020
When Time Warps
In When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), Megan Burke considers the relatio…
December 20, 2019
Aristotle on the Matter of Form
In Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Adriel M. Trott argues for understanding …
October 21, 2019
Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics
In Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics (Northwestern University Press, 2019), Dilek Huseyinzadegan analyzes Kant’s political writings by attending to t…
August 20, 2019
Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought
What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought? How is a writer’s thinking shaped by form? How is a reader’s? Does this …