Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
Episode 73
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023) is a groundbreaking work by bestselling authors D…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 377
How have platforms transforming the world of work? In Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organisation (Bristol UP, …
2 years, 10 months ago
Sita Balani, "Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 376
If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? In Deadly and Slick: Sexual…
2 years, 10 months ago
Eva Haifa Giraud, "What Comes After Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion" (Duke UP, 2019)
Episode 375
By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to mov…
2 years, 10 months ago
Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 382
The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it…
2 years, 10 months ago
Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Episode 221
Recent racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In White Bo…
2 years, 10 months ago
Semiotext(e): The Theory Press
Episode 66
Best known for its introduction of French theory to American readers, Semiotext(e) has been one of America's most influential independent presses sin…
2 years, 10 months ago
Philip Ewell, "On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 188
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023) by Philip Ewell is an unflinching look at white sup…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)
Episode 374
What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Prof…
2 years, 10 months ago
K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 186
Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar (Cambridge UP, 2023) investigates the transformations of caste practices in…
2 years, 10 months ago