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Back to SearchSimon(e) van Saarloos, "Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto" (Emily Carr UP, 2023)
Episode 167
Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: it is not a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating “the elderly” as econom…
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Amy Edwards, "Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 371
How did British society become financialised? In Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain (U California Press, 20…
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Todd McGowan, "Enjoyment Right & Left" (Sublation Media, 2022)
Episode 370
Today I talked to Todd McGowan about his book Enjoyment Right & Left (Sublation Media, 2022).
While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure an…
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Helen Small, "The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 178
Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. Whe…
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Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)
Episode 368
How did Foucault’s thought develop in the 1960s? In The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2022) Stuart Elden, a professor of Political Theory and Geog…
2 years, 11 months ago
Scott Branson, "Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 369
You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From relationships to school, work, art, even the way y…
2 years, 11 months ago
Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 161
Traditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics. In contrast to this view, author Mauro Resmini …
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Foluke Adebisi, "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 367
Folúkẹ́ Adébísí’s Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility (Bristol UP, 2023) details the ways in which the law is he…
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Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 366
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon's edited volume After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge UP, 2022) demonst…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Good Enough Life
Episode 134
Today’s book is: The Good-Enough Life (Princeton UP, 2022) by Avram Alpert. We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compel…
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