Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMoon-Ho Jung, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 133
As the American imperial project in the Pacific World grew at the end of the nineteenth century, so too did the American security and intelligence st…
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The Rhetoric of Decline
Episode 120
In this episode of High Theory, Jed Esty talks about the Rhetoric of Decline. Declinism names the contradictory political narrative that America will…
2 years, 9 months ago
Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 193
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell UP, 2023) illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global sto…
2 years, 9 months ago
Samuel J. Redman, "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 144
On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as th…
2 years, 9 months ago
Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
Episode 293
We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further com…
2 years, 9 months ago
Arturo Rodríguez Morató and Alvaro Santana-Acuña, "Sociology of the Arts in Action: New Perspectives on Creation, Production, and Reception" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Episode 384
What are the latest developments in the sociology of the arts? In Sociology of the Arts in Action: New Perspectives on Creation, Production, and Rece…
2 years, 9 months ago
Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 17
Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the arc…
2 years, 9 months ago
Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
Episode 21
In Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication (U Michigan Press, 2022), Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability,…
2 years, 9 months ago
Doug Enaa Greene, "Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union" (Lexington, 2023)
Episode 172
As capitalism’s popularity wanes and socialism’s popularity increases, there remains a massive shadow cast by the history of actually existing social…
2 years, 9 months ago
Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 199
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipelin…
2 years, 9 months ago