Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPrehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
Episode 109
Prehension is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we ta…
2 years, 11 months ago
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Episode 111
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some c…
2 years, 11 months ago
Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 253
Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fol…
2 years, 11 months ago
Daniel E Agbiboa, "Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Episode 160
In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (U Michigan Press, 2022), Daniel Agbiboa takes African …
2 years, 11 months ago
Leela Fernandes, "Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Episode 157
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. …
2 years, 11 months ago
Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 66
Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2022) explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term rese…
3 years ago
Daniel E. Agbiboa, "They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 295
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) co…
3 years ago
Francis Cody, "The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 235
Not merely the act of representing events with words or images, a "news event" is the reciprocal relationship between the events being reported in th…
3 years ago
Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 193
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell UP, 2023) illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global sto…
3 years ago
Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
Episode 293
We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further com…
3 years ago