Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, "Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice" (Atria Books, 2023)
Episode 105
In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like cr…
2 years, 9 months ago
Scott Timcke, "The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune: Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 290
Luck greatly influences a person's quality of life. Yet little of our politics looks at how institutions can amplify good or bad luck that widens soc…
2 years, 9 months ago
Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe Meleo Erwin, "Decolonize Self-Care" (OR Books, 2022)
Episode 289
For twentieth-century feminists, it was a rallying cry for bodily autonomy and political power. For influencers and lifestyle brands, it’s buying fan…
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Party
Episode 118
Sheila Liming talks about the party, social gatherings that occasion joy and dread and various emotions in between. The party is both a pause and an …
2 years, 9 months ago
Jonathan Adeyemi, "Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets: Trending in the Margins" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 379
How does the art market work? In Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets: Trending in the Margins (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Jonathan Ad…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth
Episode 84
The philosopher Bruno Latour (We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, Science in Action) and Eugene Richardson, physician, anthropologist, and au…
2 years, 10 months ago
Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure
Episode 83
Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure deter…
2 years, 10 months ago
Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory
Episode 81
An extended conversation between Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing,…
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Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Episode 80
Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism discusses her fort…
2 years, 10 months ago
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 152
Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life's necessities, those basic cond…
2 years, 10 months ago