Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCorinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 89
In this episode, I talked to Corinne Sugino, whose book Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (Rutgers UP, 2024) examines how mainstr…
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Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Episode 756
Political Theorist Davide Panagia (UCLA) has two new books out focusing on the broader themes and ideas of film, aesthetics, and political theory. Se…
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Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
Episode 143
Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB's Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on lon…
1 year, 1 month ago
Silvia Vong, "Critical Management Studies and Librarianship" (Library Juice Press, 2024)
Episode 83
Critical Management Studies and Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on Library Management Education and Practice (Library Juice Press, November 2024…
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Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 28
With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common, AI and big data are…
1 year, 1 month ago
James Fenwick, "Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
Episode 510
What can archives tell us about the film industry? In Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive (Liverpool UP, 2024), James Fe…
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Wilton S. Wright, "Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Episode 79
Resistance to feminist, queer, and antiracist pedagogies can take many forms in the composition class: silence during class discussion; tepid, bland …
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Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 236
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author wh…
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Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 508
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 234
In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, a…
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