Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJinying Li, "Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 516
With comics franchises getting turned into multi-billion dollar revenue opportunities and consumer technology companies dominating daily headlines — …
2 years, 3 months ago
Will Rollason and Eric Hirsch eds., "Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation" (Berghahn Books, 2023)
Episode 287
Compliance, namely everyday accommodations, is a practice allowing us to work and live with others. Exploring compliance from an anthropological pers…
2 years, 3 months ago
Poppy Wilde, "Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 8
Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively…
2 years, 3 months ago
Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 177
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 176
Empires are one of the most common forms of political structure in history—yet no empire is alike. We have our “standard” view of empire: perhaps the…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama, "The Play of the Feminine" (HASP, 2023)
Episode 318
In Tamil Nadu, the nine-night autumnal Navarātri festival can be viewed as a celebration of feminine powers in association with the goddess. Ina Mari…
2 years, 4 months ago
Steve Ferzacca, "Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore" (NUS Press, 2021)
Episode 7
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-pr…
2 years, 4 months ago
Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)
Episode 341
Today, being authentic has become an aspiration and an imperative. The notion of authenticity shapes the consumption habits of individuals in the mos…
2 years, 4 months ago
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
Episode 437
In Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Melville House, 2023), Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new economic era has begun.
I…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mai Corlin, "The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Episode 87
On the podcast today, I am joined by Mai Corlin, who is researcher at the department of cross-cultural and regional studies in the University of Cope…
2 years, 4 months ago