Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchExtraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism with Thea Riofrancos
Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutio…
5 months ago
Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 183
How can we—jazz fans, musicians, writers, and historians—understand the legacy and impact of a musician like Dave Brubeck? It is undeniable that Brub…
5 months ago
Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, "Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 305
Screening Precarity integrates a cultural analysis of film texts and history, industry transformations, and the violence and crises of political econ…
5 months ago
Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 395
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2025) by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis …
5 months ago
Deana Heath and Jinee Lokaneeta, "Policing and Violence in India: Colonial Origins and Contemporary Realities" (Speaking Tiger, 2025)
Episode 304
Why does Indias police force, created under British rule, still echo the priorities of a bygone empire? And what is it about this institution, tasked…
5 months ago
Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 129
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important p…
5 months ago
Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 15
"Today’s 'pro-Europeans' would be horrified at the suggestion that their idea of Europe had anything to do with whiteness. In fact, many would find t…
5 months ago
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 181
What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, …
5 months, 1 week ago
Russell T. McCutcheon, "Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 314
Russell T. McCutcheon's essay collection Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (Routledge, 2023) argues that the study of…
5 months, 1 week ago
Henrike Kohpeiß, "Bourgeois Coldness" (Divided Publishing, 2025)
Bourgeois Coldness (Divided Publishing, 2025) refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois…
5 months, 1 week ago