Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
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The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
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A series of podcasts on the Caribbean critical theory tradition, from Suzanne Césaire through the creolist movement.
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Podcasted conversation on critical and literary theory, drawing on a range of theorists from Europe, the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. Our title is drawn from Audre Lorde's essay "Poetry Is Not a Luxury," where she writes that poetry fashions a language where words do not yet exist. How does theory make words and world new, attuned, and embedded within inventive and inventing lived-experience, tradition, and cultural production?
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What are the crucial conflicts of our time? What hopes and wishes for a better future are expressed within these conflicts? The podcast Critical Theory in Context combines analysis of the present with perspectives on societal transformation. We host conversations with theorists and activists about social crises and the possibilities of their emancipatory overcoming.
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Tune in to the Always Already Podcast for indulgent conversations about critical theory (in the broadest read of the term!). Our podcast consists of two episode streams. The first is a discussion of texts spanning critical theory, political theory, social theory, and philosophy. We work through and analyze main ideas, underlying assumptions, connections with other texts and theories, and occasionally delve into the great abyss of free association, ad hoc theory jokes, and makeshift puns. The ...
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I'll talk about everything from politics to entertainment and philosophy. I'm also a part-time entertainment writer and working-class from the UP of Michigan, so that might come up occasionally. Oh, and I make weird experimental music and sometimes host a college radio show.
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Writers, anime fans, communists, and childhood friends Mo Black and Rag talk about anime, weeb culture, and leftism!
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Natalie Cline, member of the Utah State School Board explains how she became a target of the BLM when she denounced Critical Race Theory implementation in the Utah School System. She goes on to explain the evil designs of these tenets and how it is positioned to indoctrinate our children into hating the foundational principles of this country and making them vindictive activists for the cause of the left.
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CWT376: Betrayed By an Ogre, pt. 1: The Political and Personal Reckoning
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17:05Welcome to today’s episode, where we dive into the controversial statement made by Senator John Fetterman, the shifting political landscape, and a reflection on emotional well-being.
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Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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41:38What is the connection between fan culture and feminism? In Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury, 2023), Briony Hannell, a lecturer in sociology at the University of Manchester, explores the intersection of fandom, in a variety of forms, and feminist discourses on social media. Using an in-depth case study of Tumblr, the book cha…
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Pill Pod 200 - Why has America Gone Insane?
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1:32:11A panel discussion on how a once great simulation become, almost overnight, the most schizophrenic spectacle in the history of human society. Is it mere distraction? Is it a war to control our extended nervous system. Should we be worried? Find our hidden episodes at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills…
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CWT375: Exploring I Am Legend (2007)
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19:24Today, we’re breaking down I Am Legend (2007), a post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. This film, based on Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel of the same name, takes significant creative liberties, turning what was originally a vampire story into a tale of survival against mutated, light-sensitive crea…
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Professor Priyamvada Gopal on Anticolonial Resistance
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58:52In this episode Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Professor Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge. We talked about her important work on anticolonial resistance, about the importance of the literary in imagining liberation, and about the relationship between the Muslim and the decolonial – and also…
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Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
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45:47Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the “giant” of ignorance, and in today’s hyperconnected world seemingly limitless in…
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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (Ep. 7); Pete Hegseth Caves to Putin
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32:05U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (or Hogsbreath) has been attempting to refute claims that the United States is betraying Ukraine by initiating peace talks with Russia without Kyiv's direct involvement. After discussions with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump announced plans…
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Ian Fleishman develops the concept of failed passing in his new book Flamboyant Fictions, which reimagines free will in queer lives as an accidental affirmation of identity despite efforts towards adherence to standards and norms. In this, he works with his predecessors in queer theory like Judith Butler, José Muñoz, Leo Barsani, Lee Edelman and ot…
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In Conversation: Decolonial Activism and Islamophobia in France
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45:37In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas interviews Houria Bouteldja on decolonial activism and Islamophobia in France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theoryMarshall Poe tarafından oluşturuldu
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Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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1:33:37We are coming up on the centenary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, a text that radically reshaped the intellectual landscape. One of its most central themes, death, remains one of its most difficult to understand, puzzling readers and scholars with language that at times can feel obscure and ethereal. This has generated a plethora of opinions on the …
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CWT374:'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' (1982) Review; James Baldwin & Civil Rights History
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18:54Today, we’re exploring a powerful and deeply personal documentary, I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982). Directed by Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley, this film follows the legendary writer and activist James Baldwin as he retraces the steps of the civil rights movement and confronts the progress—or lack thereof—since the 1960s.…
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CWT373: The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1992–1996) Valentine's Day Massacre [REVIEW!]
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19:48"Valentine's Day Massacre" is a pretty solid episode of The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Check it out!
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Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
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1:04:02In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the myth of paradise, the Caribbean and its people would come to pay the price of relentless Western exploitation and abuse. In Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis (…
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CWT372: Why I Donated to the ACLU, and You Should, Too
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10:56Many political groups and organizations strive to balance progressive ideals with foundational civil liberties. A prime example is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). While often associated with progressive causes, the ACLU is deeply committed to protecting due process, free speech, and the right to a fair trial.…
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"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024)
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53:22We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social and ecological catastrophe and that everything needs to change, and fast. Thankfully, radical environmental movements have forced the question of “system change” to the centre of the political agenda …
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“I summon thee, Renegade Ninja Frog Fighters,” he whispered, his voice low and reverent, “keepers of the swamp, defenders of the forgotten dawn…”
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CWT370: How the Band R.E.M. Got Its Name
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Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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1:02:20Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023), a book of Richard Rorty's writings he co-edited with W. P. Malecki. Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost two decades before the 2016 U.S. presidential…
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CWT369: The Myth of Musical Originality
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18:13How original is your favorite musical artists (even if they are considered musical revolutionaries)? Image: Original photographer unknown - e24.se, attributed to Scanpixtrelleborgsallehanda.se, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152962778
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Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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41:08The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (Bloomsbury 2024) argues for ressentiment's generative negativity, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective “No”. Inspired by Kant and Nietzsche's philosophy, Zalloua identifies two modes of deploying ressentiment – privat…
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Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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47:29In this episode, I talked to Corinne Sugino, whose book Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (Rutgers UP, 2024) examines how mainstream stories about Asian American success have come to serve harmful ideas about progress. At the turn of the century, Asian Americans have come to embody meritocracy and heteronormative family values, …
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Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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1:24:08If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, Seung-hoon Jeong’s global frame highlights two conflicting ethical facets of globalization: the ‘soft-ethical’ inclusion of differences in multicultural, neoliberal systems and their ‘hard-ethical’ symptoms of fundamentalist exclusion and terror. Refle…
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Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
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1:05:43Political Theorist Davide Panagia (UCLA) has two new books out focusing on the broader themes and ideas of film, aesthetics, and political theory. Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France (Fordham University Press) interrogates French history and educational traditions from the Revolution through the postwar per…
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Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
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56:50Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York) about his just-rel…
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