Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)
Episode 145
Then let the story really begin in 1968, though it has little to do with May. By chance it opens in January of that year, and it really concerns me r…
2 years, 8 months ago
Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?
Episode 57
Darts and Letters is creating a new podcast, Academic Edgelords.
This is a scholarly podcast about scholarly provocateurs. This is a leftist podcast t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 389
Who are the English upper class? In The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945 (Manchester UP, 2023) Daniel…
2 years, 8 months ago
Michael Muhammad Knight, "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Episode 386
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their clai…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 153
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (NYU Press, 2023) argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinqui…
2 years, 8 months ago
Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Episode 187
In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions-studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal form…
2 years, 8 months ago
Yvette Taylor, "Working-Class Queers: Time, Place, and Politics" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 388
What is the relationship between class and sexuality? In Working-Class Queers: Time, Place and Politics (Pluto Press, 2023), Yvette Taylor, Professor…
2 years, 8 months ago
Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 7
Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines the …
2 years, 9 months ago
Deborah Stevenson, "Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Value, Work and the Social" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
Episode 385
What is the future for cultural policy? In Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value, and the Social (Edward Elgar, 2023), Deborah Stevenson, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 121
Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines (Duke UP, 2022) investigates the ways in which racial and cl…
2 years, 9 months ago