The Podcast for Social Research
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Podcast for Social Research, Episode 94.5: B.F. Skinner Plays Himself — a Brief Film Guide
47 mins; April 03, 2026
Political Humiliation, Collective Struggle: A Conversation with Roxanne Euben
89 hours 23 mins; December 19, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 93: Nature's Value — Alyssa Battistoni in Conversation with Nafis Hasan and Ajay Singh Chaudhary
99 hours 21 mins; November 26, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei - A Specter is Haunting Ezo
171 hours 45 mins; October 31, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 92.5: Hangmen Also Die! — a Brief Film Guide
53 mins; October 24, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 18: I Don't Know What You Did Last Summer
150 hours 2 mins; September 19, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 92: No Borders: Folk, Fusion, and Tradition — Ghost Peppers in Concert
100 hours 37 mins; August 29, 2025
Faculty Spotlight: Alfred Lee and Xafsa Ciise on AI, Big Tech, Race, and Histories of Trauma
71 hours 40 mins; August 21, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 91: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 Years Later
88 hours 16 mins; August 15, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 90: TRANSgressions — Rights, Wrongs, and Liberal Pieties
108 hours 41 mins; July 25, 2025
Practical Criticism No. 72: Brian Wilson (God Only Knows What We'll do Without You...)
79 hours 49 mins; July 04, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 17: I Have Friends Everywhere
122 hours 19 mins; June 27, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 89: Eyes Wide Shut — a Film Guide
81 hours 49 mins; May 02, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 16: Shine Bright Like a TIE Fighter
112 hours 47 mins; April 25, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 88: The Sound of Lispector
75 hours 31 mins; April 18, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 87: Deviant Matter
90 hours 25 mins; April 03, 2025
Practical Criticism No. 71: Neko Case
93 hours 18 mins; March 28, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 15: Vampires!
150 hours 38 mins; March 21, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 86: The Cancer-Industrial Complex: a Book Launch and Conversation with Nafis Hasan
139 hours 24 mins; March 14, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 85.5: Mulholland Drive — a Brief Film Guide
39 mins; February 28, 2025
Practical Criticism, No. 70: Roy Hargrove and the RH Factor
68 hours 27 mins; February 21, 2025
Faculty Spotlight: Nazism is Not the Past — Hannah Leffingwell on Dagmar Herzog, Sex After Fascism, and Why Donald Trump is Not Camp
63 hours 43 mins; February 14, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 85: Assessing the Aftermath — Gaza, the Ceasefire, and Beyond
165 hours 55 mins; February 13, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 14: Things of the Year 2024 — Part II
109 hours 24 mins; February 07, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 13: Things of the Year 2024 — Part I
109 hours 42 mins; December 31, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 84: Paradise Lost and Its Revolutionary Afterlives — Orlando Reade in Conversation
71 hours 46 mins; December 27, 2024
Practical Criticism No. 69 — 2024 Algorithmically "Wrapped"
129 hours 47 mins; December 20, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 83: Big Bend in Concert
70 hours 19 mins; December 13, 2024
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 12: Megalopolis — or, the Decline and Miraculous Resurrection of American Empire
88 hours 15 mins; November 15, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 82: The Worst Laid Plans — Initial Reflections on the U.S. 2024 Election
145 hours 12 mins; November 08, 2024
Faculty Spotlight: Bohemia Is An Imaginary City — Jude Webre on Dawn Powell, the Lady Wit, and the American Mid-Century
52 mins; October 25, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81.5: Romeo + Juliet — a Brief Film Guide
36 mins; September 26, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81: Medium Cool — or, "Jesus, I Love to Shoot Film"
61 hours 25 mins; August 23, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 80: On Realism, World-Building, Violence, and Desire—Joseph Earl Thomas, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Vinson Cunningham, and Paige Sweet in Conversation
98 hours 16 mins; July 24, 2024
Faculty Spotlight: Jenny Logan on the Supreme Court and the Crime of Being Homeless
47 mins; July 12, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79.5: My Beautiful Laundrette — a Brief Film Guide
20 mins; June 21, 2024
Practical Criticism No. 68—Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter
75 hours 10 mins; June 14, 2024
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 11: Civil War
75 hours 45 mins; May 21, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79: CYBORG — A Conversation on Technology, Feminism, and the Future of a Concept
72 hours 44 mins; May 17, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 78: Student Protests, Faculty Solidarity
79 hours 9 mins; May 10, 2024
Faculty Spotlight: Danielle Drori on Exile, Erich Auerbach, and Returning to Tel Aviv
44 mins; May 03, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 77: Revolution and Counterrevolution — Klee's Angelus Novus and Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History
45 mins; April 25, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 76: Translation is Art — A Conversation on Autonomy, Power, Responsibility, and Making Meaning
108 hours 15 mins; April 12, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 75: The Piano Teacher
45 mins; March 15, 2024
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 10: It's Not Easy Being Green (Under Capitalism)
154 hours 9 mins; March 09, 2024
The Exhausted of the Earth - A Conversation
61 hours 14 mins; March 01, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 73: How to Blow Up a Pipeline – Extractive Capitalism, Political Violence, and Eco-Thriller Cinema
61 hours 16 mins; January 03, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 72: At Year's End with the Angel of History — 2023 in Review
125 hours 21 mins; December 29, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 9: Things of the Year 2023
178 hours 49 mins; December 22, 2023
Practical Criticism, No. 67: 2023 Algorithmically "Wrapped"
177 hours 43 mins; December 15, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 71: Cooking is Thinking — Rebecca May Johnson in Conversation
79 hours 46 mins; December 08, 2023
Practical Criticism No. 66/(Pop) Cultural Marxism Ep. 8: This Must Be The PC/PCM Crossover
136 hours 30 mins; November 22, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: Sophie Lewis on Second Wave Feminism, Incipient Queerness, Auto-Analysis, and the Life of the Critic (ft. Paige Sweet)
59 mins; November 17, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library Dystopia
49 mins; October 13, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 70.5: But I'm a Cheerleader—A Brief Film Guide
40 mins; September 22, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 70: Critical Theory and the 21st Century
138 hours 18 mins; August 18, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 69: The Worst of Times? The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Culture
117 hours 35 mins; August 11, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 68: Critical Theory from Below—Race, Gender, and the Frankfurt School
107 hours 2 mins; August 04, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 67: What is Critical Theory?
118 hours 7 mins; July 28, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 7: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — Baroque Beauty and Mourning Play
148 hours 20 mins; July 21, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 66: Dear Prudence—Danny Lavery on the Art and Ethics of Advice-Giving
99 hours 46 mins; July 07, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 65: Wendy Eisenberg—Process, Performance, and Musical Power from Below
90 hours 2 mins; June 23, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: Joseph Earl Thomas on Memoir, Realism, Gayl Jones, and the Philadelphia Difference
48 mins; May 26, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 64: Lucy Dhegrae—Music and Trauma
88 hours 3 mins; May 19, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 63: What is Cop City?
91 hours 55 mins; May 12, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 62.5, Shortcast: Fellini Satyricon Brief Film Guide
18 mins; May 05, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 62: On Weak Writing—Lucy Ives's "Life Is Everywhere"
89 hours 45 mins; April 13, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 6: Everyone Enjoying Everything All the Time
108 hours 44 mins; March 31, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: Andy Battle on Capitalism and Urbanization, Eric Adams, Cop City, and the Right to the City
54 mins; March 24, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 61.5, Shortcast: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
16 mins; March 17, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 61: Narrating Black Life—Joseph Earl Thomas's "Sink"
51 mins; March 03, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 5: Avatar: Cinema's Watery Grave
130 hours 6 mins; February 24, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 60: Tangled Legacies—Jünger's Marble Cliffs
100 hours 5 mins; February 17, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 59: BISR Buddies
68 hours 20 mins; February 11, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 58: The Kafka Diaries—A Reading and Conversation with Translator Ross Benjamin
106 hours 24 mins; February 03, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: Bruce King
77 hours 25 mins; January 27, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 4: 2022 Cultural Year in Review
194 hours 28 mins; January 20, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 57: At Year's End with the Angel of History—2022 in Review
128 hours 13 mins; December 30, 2022
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 3: Elden Ring: Endless Purgatorio
162 hours 37 mins; December 09, 2022
Practical Criticism No. 65—Dark Side of the Moon
134 hours 4 mins; November 22, 2022
Faculty Spotlight: Paige Sweet
45 mins; November 11, 2022
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 2: Stellan SkarsgĂĄrdian
76 hours 6 mins; November 04, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 56: Virology—A Reading, Conversation, and Celebration with Joseph Osmundson
75 hours 31 mins; October 27, 2022
Faculty Spotlight: TĂĽrkan Pilavci
51 mins; October 14, 2022
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 1: Elves and Dragons
111 hours 0 mins; September 30, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 55.5, Shortcast: Heathers
20 mins; September 23, 2022
Practical Criticism No. 26—György Ligeti
76 hours 21 mins; August 29, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 55: The Last Emperor
82 hours 32 mins; July 29, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 54: Night of Ideas—Security Hoarding: Moving Beyond the Culture of Constant Vigilance
23 mins; July 15, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 53: Night of Ideas—Against Resilience: Exhaustion, Ecology, and Emancipation
35 mins; June 10, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 52: the End of Abortion
113 hours 17 mins; May 27, 2022
Practical Criticism No. 60—Lingua Ignota
98 hours 45 mins; April 22, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 51: Dream of the Divided Field
51 mins; April 08, 2022
Practical Criticism No. 63—Waltzing to War
124 hours 41 mins; March 04, 2022
Practical Criticism No.58—Pavement
90 hours 32 mins; February 18, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 59: At Year's End with the Angel of History—2021 in Review
108 hours 14 mins; December 26, 2021
Practical Criticism No.57—Nala Sinephro + Pharoah Sanders/Floating Points
77 hours 35 mins; October 15, 2021
Practical Criticism No.47—Nirvana
153 hours 21 mins; August 27, 2021
Practical Criticism No. 48—Björk
115 hours 58 mins; May 18, 2021
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 48: Christine Smallwood's The Life of the Mind
122 hours 7 mins; May 13, 2021