Podcast Episodes

Epistemic Injustice

Was Marx wrong when he said that philosophers can only interpret the world in various ways, and contrasted that with actually changing it?

Epistemolog…

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New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers

The First Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris 1956 staged debates about colonial history which are still playing out in the protests of th…

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New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds

Gold fob seals, Sheffield silver, Mesolithic stone tools - these were some of the discoveries detailed in the 28 papers, books and pamphlets publishe…

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New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far

Chinatown, New York, in 1890 was described by photo-journalist Jacob Riis as "disappointing." He focused only on images of opium dens and gambling an…

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New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?

Vivian Maier left over 150,000 negatives when she died in 2009. Her boxes and boxes of unprinted street photographs were stacked alongside shoulder-h…

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Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future

Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.

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New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup

The potato famine saw a Dublin barracks turned into place where starving people were given six minutes to eat their soup in silence. Tom Scott-Smith …

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New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons

Friendship, domestic violence, power dynamics in the home, and debates about the ethics of war - all topics we can find in the dramas of Shakespeare.…

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The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress

Blousy chrysanthemums pattern the cotton dress, designed for wearing indoors, that a pregnant Sophie Oliver found herself owning. It helped her come …

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Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan

Shahida Bari reads I Tituba, the story of the West Indian slave accused in Salem.

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