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New Books in Critical Theory
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Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 7 mins; March 06, 2025
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2025
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; March 01, 2025
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)
71 hours 14 mins; February 28, 2025
Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
92 hours 23 mins; February 26, 2025
Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024)
24 mins; February 25, 2025
Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
78 hours 51 mins; February 22, 2025
Adnan Husain on Reorienting History
79 hours 5 mins; February 21, 2025
Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)
109 hours 29 mins; February 21, 2025
Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)
49 mins; February 21, 2025
Jamieson Webster, "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe" (Catapult, 2025)
50 mins; February 20, 2025
William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
72 hours 17 mins; February 20, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
56 mins; February 20, 2025
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
28 mins; February 18, 2025
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
82 hours 24 mins; February 18, 2025
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
41 mins; February 15, 2025
Professor Priyamvada Gopal on Anticolonial Resistance
58 mins; February 14, 2025
Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
45 mins; February 14, 2025
Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
93 hours 37 mins; February 12, 2025
In Conversation: Decolonial Activism and Islamophobia in France
45 mins; February 12, 2025
Failed Passing
19 mins; February 12, 2025
Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
64 hours 2 mins; February 10, 2025
"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024)
53 mins; February 09, 2025
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
62 hours 20 mins; February 08, 2025
Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
41 mins; February 07, 2025
Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)
84 hours 8 mins; February 07, 2025
Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
47 mins; February 07, 2025
Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)
65 hours 43 mins; February 06, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
56 mins; February 06, 2025
Silvia Vong, "Critical Management Studies and Librarianship" (Library Juice Press, 2024)
38 mins; February 02, 2025
Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
65 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2025
James Fenwick, "Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
36 mins; February 01, 2025
Wilton S. Wright, "Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies" (Lexington Books, 2024)
49 mins; January 30, 2025
Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 39 mins; January 29, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 28, 2025
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
70 hours 22 mins; January 26, 2025
Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)
70 hours 4 mins; January 25, 2025
Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
72 hours 36 mins; January 24, 2025
Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
45 mins; January 23, 2025
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
70 hours 7 mins; January 23, 2025
August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards, "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution" (Brill, 2024)
102 hours 19 mins; January 17, 2025
Alva Gotby, "Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing" (Verso, 2025)
54 mins; January 16, 2025
Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
57 mins; January 15, 2025
James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; January 12, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
75 hours 44 mins; January 11, 2025
Jennifer Greenburg, "At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
46 mins; January 11, 2025
Matthew McManus, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" (Routledge, 2024)
87 hours 42 mins; January 11, 2025
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 7 mins; January 09, 2025
In Conversation: Epistemology, Critical Race Theory and Critical Muslim Studies
39 mins; January 08, 2025
Negative Life
22 mins; January 08, 2025
Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
57 mins; January 07, 2025
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
62 hours 13 mins; January 07, 2025
Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)
76 hours 10 mins; January 07, 2025
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; January 06, 2025
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
65 hours 25 mins; January 04, 2025
Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
53 mins; January 03, 2025
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
72 hours 37 mins; January 02, 2025
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
64 hours 45 mins; January 02, 2025
In Conversation: The Antinomies of Afropessimism
63 hours 30 mins; January 01, 2025
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
62 hours 8 mins; December 31, 2024
Loneliness
20 mins; December 30, 2024
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
66 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
74 hours 53 mins; December 29, 2024
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
79 hours 10 mins; December 28, 2024
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)
47 mins; December 27, 2024
Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
35 mins; December 26, 2024
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
52 mins; December 26, 2024
Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)
99 hours 48 mins; December 25, 2024
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
41 mins; December 25, 2024
Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media
71 hours 25 mins; December 24, 2024
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
78 hours 2 mins; December 24, 2024
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
38 mins; December 23, 2024
Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024)
60 hours 24 mins; December 22, 2024
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
51 mins; December 22, 2024
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
62 hours 57 mins; December 21, 2024
Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
48 mins; December 21, 2024
Neil Atkinson, "Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture" (Canongate, 2024)
45 mins; December 20, 2024
In Conversation: Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter
43 mins; December 18, 2024
Jarrett Zigon, "How Is It Between Us?: Relational Ethics and Care for the World" (HAU Books, 2023)
84 hours 40 mins; December 17, 2024
Sara Cantillon et al., "Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective" (Agenda, 2023)
32 mins; December 16, 2024
Toby Manning, "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" (Repeater, 2024)
21 mins; December 13, 2024
Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
48 mins; December 13, 2024
In Conversation: Palestine and Decoloniality
42 mins; December 11, 2024
Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
29 mins; December 10, 2024
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
72 hours 53 mins; December 09, 2024
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
57 mins; December 08, 2024
Andy Hines, "Imagining After Capitalism" (Triarchy Press, 2025)
50 mins; December 07, 2024
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
70 hours 4 mins; December 06, 2024
Eric Drott, "Streaming Music, Streaming Capital" (Duke UP, 2024)
94 hours 12 mins; December 06, 2024
Simin Fadaee, "Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics" (Manchester UP, 2024)
49 mins; December 05, 2024
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
78 hours 52 mins; December 05, 2024
J. Mijin Cha, "A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future" (MIT Press, 2024)
27 mins; December 05, 2024
Toby Bennett, "Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
49 mins; December 05, 2024
Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
52 mins; December 04, 2024
Joy White, "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" (Repeater, 2024)
35 mins; December 04, 2024
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
80 hours 14 mins; December 04, 2024
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
41 mins; December 03, 2024
Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
88 hours 49 mins; December 01, 2024
How Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense Affected the 2024 Presidential Campaign and Election
39 mins; December 01, 2024
Too Black and Rasul A. Mowatt, "Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits" (Routledge, 2024)
106 hours 52 mins; November 29, 2024
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