Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchProfessor Priyamvada Gopal on Anticolonial Resistance
Episode 92
In this episode Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Professor Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.…
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Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 240
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of da…
1 year, 1 month ago
Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 238
We are coming up on the centenary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, a text that radically reshaped the intellectual landscape. One of its most central t…
1 year, 1 month ago
In Conversation: Decolonial Activism and Islamophobia in France
Season 3 Episode 36
In this episode, Amina Easat-Daas interviews Houria Bouteldja on decolonial activism and Islamophobia in France.
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Failed Passing
Episode 153
Ian Fleishman develops the concept of failed passing in his new book Flamboyant Fictions, which reimagines free will in queer lives as an accidental …
1 year, 1 month ago
Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
Episode 346
In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the myth of…
1 year, 1 month ago
"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024)
Episode 121
We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social…
1 year, 1 month ago
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 510
Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023), a book of Richard Rorty's writings he co-edited…
1 year, 1 month ago
Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 510
The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (Bloomsbury 2024) argues for ressentiment's generative negativity, prompting a shift fro…
1 year, 1 month ago
Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 227
If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, Seung-hoon Jeong’s global frame highlights two conf…
1 year, 1 month ago