Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoshua 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 383
In What's the Use of Philosophy? (Oxford UP, 2023), Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosop…
3 years ago
Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 382
What is the future of education? In Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies (Routledge, 2022), Jen Ross, a senior lecturer i…
3 years ago
Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 386
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costag…
3 years ago
The Future of Big Finance: A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
Episode 64
How common is financial malpractice in big, well known financial companies? Is it so common that it should really be seen as a business model more th…
3 years ago
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 381
If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this t…
3 years ago
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Episode 192
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham UP, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonia…
3 years ago
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
Episode 69
The fear of algorithmic decision-making and surveillance capitalism dominate today's tech policy discussions. But instead of simply criticizing big d…
3 years ago