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Back to SearchYehudah Halper, "Averroes on Pathways to Divine Knowledge" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
Today we will be talking to Yehudah Halper about his new book, Averroes on Pathways to Divine Knowledge (Academic Studies Press, 2025).
The twelfth-…
4 months ago
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
Today I’m speaking with Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about Democracy and Bullshit, with a special focus on he…
4 months ago
Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 94
Jemma Deer’s Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020) invites the reader to take a moment and to ponder on…
4 months, 1 week ago
Rizvana Bradley, "Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form" (Stanford UP, 2023)
In Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford UP, 2023), Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot b…
4 months, 1 week ago
Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)
How are influencers changing the arts? In Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture (U Californi…
4 months, 1 week ago
Dag Nikolaus Hasse, "What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European? On Overcoming Colonial and …
4 months, 1 week ago
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
In Neoliberalism and Race (Stanford UP, 2025) Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal i…
4 months, 1 week ago
Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 572
Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Pea…
4 months, 1 week ago
Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 110
We are not what we think we are. Our self-image as natural individuated subjects is determined behind our backs: historically by political forces, co…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025)
Episode 32
Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did “modern policing” as we know it today come to be? What about the capitalist state necessitates p…
4 months, 2 weeks ago