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Episode 320
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the c…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ghosts In Our Fields
Episode 144
High Theory returns with a series of haunting concepts, places, and figures from our former guests. We asked folks to call in with something spookwor…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 192
For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dicke…
1 year, 4 months ago
Anuradha Sajjanhar, "The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 492
How are technocratic experts supporting populist politics? In The New Experts Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India (Cambridge UP…
1 year, 4 months ago
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 491
A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism.
The 1970s was a decade of "subv…
1 year, 4 months ago
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 139
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 490
Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essenti…
1 year, 4 months ago
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 390
Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is and how it performs its main functions in the co…
1 year, 5 months ago
Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 119
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed co…
1 year, 5 months ago
Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 229
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and env…
1 year, 5 months ago