Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKate Maclean, "Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia's Pluri-economy" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 455
How do alternative economic ideas and practices develop? In Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy (U Minnesota…
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Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 453
What are the tactics needed for a world of platforms and algorithms? In Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power (MIT Pres…
2 years ago
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
Episode 133
While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, Woman Up…
2 years, 1 month ago
Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 267
In Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2023), Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside…
2 years, 1 month ago
Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 453
In many countries, property law grants equal rights to men and women. Why, then, do women still accumulate less wealth than men? Combining quantitati…
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Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis
Episode 135
What would Nietzsche say… about today’s divisive issues and debates? I spoke with Glenn Wallis, author of the new book, Nietzsche Now!, on how the Gr…
2 years, 1 month ago
Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 353
According to Dr. Justin O’Connor, culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded a…
2 years, 1 month ago
Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
Episode 352
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to ad…
2 years, 1 month ago
Andil Gosine, "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 109
In Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (Duke UP, 2021), Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Karyne Messina, "Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy" (Pi Press, 2024)
Episode 223
Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis (Pi Press, 2024) is not merely a book but a call to action-a rallying cry for societal introspection an…
2 years, 1 month ago