Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMukti Lakhi Mangharam, "Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 253
While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the In…
2 years, 7 months ago
Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 71
Margaret Hillenbrand’s On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia UP, 2023) examines the negative cultural forms that have emerged in respons…
2 years, 7 months ago
Txt
Episode 129
In this episode of High Theory, Matthew Kirschenbaum talks about txt, or text. Not texting, or textbooks, but text as a form of data that is feeding …
2 years, 7 months ago
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 236
Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black libe…
2 years, 7 months ago
Mutual Aid and the Anarchist Radical Imagination
Episode 61
This episode of Darts and Letters examines the theory and practice of anti-statist organizing.
There’s a story you can tell about the post-Occupy left…
2 years, 7 months ago
Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 11
Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprising…
2 years, 7 months ago
Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 1369
The Republic Will Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (University of Illinois Press, 2023) by Dr. Tariq D. Khan e…
2 years, 7 months ago
John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 220
Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores th…
2 years, 7 months ago
Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Episode 416
What it feels like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture (Penn State Press, 2021) by Dr. Stephanie Larson interrogates an underexamined…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rachel O'Dwyer, "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 140
Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket. Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new …
2 years, 7 months ago