Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEric A. Stanley, "Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 42
Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black violence
Advances in LGBTQ righ…
3 years, 4 months ago
On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)
Episode 268
Today I talked to Steven Lukes about Émile Durkheim's classic The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). Lukes is the author of Emile Durkheim: H…
3 years, 4 months ago
Carwil Bjork-James, "The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
Episode 177
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politi…
3 years, 4 months ago
Chris Bilton et al., "Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
Episode 348
How does creativity work? In Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process (Edward Elgar, 2022), Chris Bilton, a Reader at …
3 years, 4 months ago
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 50
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was original…
3 years, 4 months ago
Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 118
In The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2022), Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, one of In…
3 years, 4 months ago
Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Episode 101
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (Beacon Press, 2022) will challenge what you thought about racism an…
3 years, 4 months ago
Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA
Season 1 Episode 17
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in East LA, the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention and rehabilitatio…
3 years, 4 months ago
Consumed: The Myth and Reality of Cannibalism
Episode 13
Cannibalism has been used for centuries to define the lowest form of humanity, but the story isn't as straightforward as it may seem. Turns out, ther…
3 years, 4 months ago
Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)
Episode 64
What needs are satisfied in digital gaming? And what does the shift of these need satisfactions into the digital space say about the social realities…
3 years, 4 months ago