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Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?

76 hours 2 mins; June 30, 2023

Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)

48 mins; June 28, 2023

Michael Muhammad Knight, "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism" (Fordham UP, 2023)

39 mins; June 28, 2023

Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)

57 mins; June 27, 2023

Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)

127 hours 34 mins; June 25, 2023

Yvette Taylor, "Working-Class Queers: Time, Place, and Politics" (Pluto Press, 2022)

41 mins; June 24, 2023

Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

36 mins; June 17, 2023

Deborah Stevenson, "Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Value, Work and the Social" (Edward Elgar, 2023)

44 mins; June 16, 2023

Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)

42 mins; June 15, 2023

Moon-Ho Jung, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" (U California Press, 2022)

43 mins; June 14, 2023

The Rhetoric of Decline

19 mins; June 13, 2023

Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)

80 hours 17 mins; June 13, 2023

Samuel J. Redman, "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2022)

61 hours 56 mins; June 13, 2023

Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)

45 mins; June 11, 2023

Arturo Rodríguez Morató and Alvaro Santana-Acuña, "Sociology of the Arts in Action: New Perspectives on Creation, Production, and Reception" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

63 hours 44 mins; June 11, 2023

Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)

64 hours 18 mins; June 10, 2023

Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)

43 mins; June 09, 2023

Doug Enaa Greene, "Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union" (Lexington, 2023)

59 mins; June 09, 2023

Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)

37 mins; June 07, 2023

Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)

51 mins; June 05, 2023

Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)

38 mins; June 04, 2023

Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

52 mins; June 03, 2023

The Future of Big Finance: A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova

46 mins; June 03, 2023

Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)

55 mins; May 31, 2023

J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)

58 mins; May 31, 2023

Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)

55 mins; May 31, 2023

Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)

36 mins; May 30, 2023

Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire

65 hours 30 mins; May 29, 2023

Lisa McCormick, "The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

45 mins; May 28, 2023

Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, "Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice" (Atria Books, 2023)

34 mins; May 28, 2023

Scott Timcke, "The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune: Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times" (Bristol UP, 2023)

36 mins; May 25, 2023

Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe Meleo Erwin, "Decolonize Self-Care" (OR Books, 2022)

48 mins; May 24, 2023

Party

17 mins; May 24, 2023

Jonathan Adeyemi, "Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets: Trending in the Margins" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

35 mins; May 21, 2023

The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

56 mins; May 21, 2023

Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

48 mins; May 20, 2023

Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

95 hours 28 mins; May 20, 2023

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

44 mins; May 19, 2023

Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

53 mins; May 18, 2023

Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

44 mins; May 17, 2023

Ailton Krenak, "Life Is Not Useful" (Polity Press, 2023)

55 mins; May 17, 2023

Ma Vang, "History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies" (Duke UP, 2021)

55 mins; May 14, 2023

Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy, "Secret Cinema and the Immersive Experience Industry" (Manchester UP, 2022)

49 mins; May 13, 2023

Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, "Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

61 hours 19 mins; May 13, 2023

Global Asia

18 mins; May 11, 2023

Jacqueline Mondros and Joan Minieri, "Organizing for Power and Empowerment: The Fight for Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2023)

35 mins; May 11, 2023

Laurie Parsons, "Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown" (Manchester UP, 2023)

44 mins; May 10, 2023

Carceral Capitalism

24 mins; May 09, 2023

Elisabeth B. Armstrong, "Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949" (U California Press, 2023)

52 mins; May 08, 2023

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

46 mins; May 07, 2023

Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)

46 mins; May 06, 2023

Sita Balani, "Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race" (Verso, 2023)

48 mins; May 05, 2023

Eva Haifa Giraud, "What Comes After Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion" (Duke UP, 2019)

38 mins; May 05, 2023

Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)

66 hours 0 mins; May 04, 2023

Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)

61 hours 43 mins; May 04, 2023

Semiotext(e): The Theory Press

46 mins; May 04, 2023

Philip Ewell, "On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

59 mins; May 03, 2023

Jo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)

34 mins; May 01, 2023

K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; April 30, 2023

Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)

54 mins; April 29, 2023

Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)

67 hours 12 mins; April 29, 2023

Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

48 mins; April 27, 2023

Computer Graphics

17 mins; April 27, 2023

Wendy Lynne Lee, "This is Environmental Ethics: An Introduction" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)

39 mins; April 26, 2023

Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)

74 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2023

Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, "The Transgender Studies Reader Remix" (Routledge, 2022)

59 mins; April 24, 2023

Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; April 21, 2023

Graham Harman, "The Graham Harman Reader" (Zero Books, 2023)

59 mins; April 18, 2023

Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)

57 mins; April 14, 2023

Simon(e) van Saarloos, "Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto" (Emily Carr UP, 2023)

80 hours 24 mins; April 13, 2023

Amy Edwards, "Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain" (U California Press, 2022)

34 mins; April 12, 2023

Todd McGowan, "Enjoyment Right & Left" (Sublation Media, 2022)

66 hours 13 mins; April 11, 2023

Helen Small, "The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time" (Oxford UP, 2020)

58 mins; April 07, 2023

Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)

49 mins; April 05, 2023

Scott Branson, "Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life" (Pluto Press, 2022)

67 hours 39 mins; April 05, 2023

Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

74 hours 58 mins; April 04, 2023

Foluke Adebisi, "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" (Bristol UP, 2023)

59 mins; April 02, 2023

Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

112 hours 4 mins; March 31, 2023

The Good Enough Life

70 hours 10 mins; March 30, 2023

Jacob A. C. Remes and Andy Horowitz, "Critical Disaster Studies" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

64 hours 52 mins; March 29, 2023

Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, eds., "Class Warrior: The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley" (Athabasca UP, 2022)

55 mins; March 28, 2023

Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

65 hours 12 mins; March 27, 2023

Kristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)

64 hours 26 mins; March 26, 2023

Jill Jarvis, "Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony" (Duke UP, 2021)

66 hours 40 mins; March 26, 2023

E. Cram, "Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West" (U California Press, 2022)

86 hours 30 mins; March 25, 2023

Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)

43 mins; March 23, 2023

ACLA 2023

17 mins; March 23, 2023

Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)

59 mins; March 22, 2023

David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)

68 hours 50 mins; March 22, 2023

Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

84 hours 44 mins; March 21, 2023

Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)

79 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2023

Gediminas Lesutis, "The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering" (Routledge, 2021)

87 hours 19 mins; March 21, 2023

Daniel L. Hatcher, "Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)

63 hours 52 mins; March 21, 2023

Chrisanthi Giotis, "Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War" (Oxford UP, 2022)

60 hours 36 mins; March 20, 2023

Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)

69 hours 24 mins; March 19, 2023

Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)

52 mins; March 18, 2023

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)

47 mins; March 17, 2023

Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman

64 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2023

Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)

59 mins; March 17, 2023

Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, "Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games" (MIT Press, 2023)

49 mins; March 16, 2023

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