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The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times

69 hours 9 mins; October 21, 2023

Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)

77 hours 11 mins; October 21, 2023

Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)

70 hours 13 mins; October 20, 2023

The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren

43 mins; October 18, 2023

Orisanmi Burton, "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" (U California Press, 2023)

52 mins; October 17, 2023

Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, "Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

64 hours 31 mins; October 17, 2023

Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

46 mins; October 14, 2023

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19 mins; October 13, 2023

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)

42 mins; October 11, 2023

Mutual Aid and the Anarchist Radical Imagination

70 hours 51 mins; October 11, 2023

Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

33 mins; October 09, 2023

Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

51 mins; October 09, 2023

John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 09, 2023

Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

47 mins; October 08, 2023

Rachel O'Dwyer, "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" (Verso, 2023)

48 mins; October 08, 2023

Sharon Patricia Holland, "an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life" (Duke UP, 2023)

69 hours 37 mins; October 07, 2023

Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; October 07, 2023

S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)

56 mins; October 06, 2023

Visibility

16 mins; October 06, 2023

John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)

41 mins; October 05, 2023

Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)

98 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023

Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)

86 hours 23 mins; October 03, 2023

Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023)

72 hours 38 mins; October 02, 2023

Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes, "When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America" (North Atlantic Books, 2023)

32 mins; October 01, 2023

Melanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

38 mins; October 01, 2023

Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)

50 mins; September 29, 2023

Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)

62 hours 30 mins; September 29, 2023

Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

67 hours 42 mins; September 27, 2023

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

41 mins; September 25, 2023

C. J. Pascoe, "Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High" (U California Press, 2023)

56 mins; September 21, 2023

Kathrin Eitel, "Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh" (Routledge, 2022)

47 mins; September 21, 2023

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)

48 mins; September 19, 2023

Takeo Rivera, "Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2022)

62 hours 5 mins; September 19, 2023

Global Inequality: Are We Really Measuring What We Should Be Measuring?

43 mins; September 18, 2023

Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)

69 hours 45 mins; September 18, 2023

Margaret Galvan, "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

54 mins; September 16, 2023

The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna

37 mins; September 16, 2023

Charlotte Lydia Riley, "Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain " (Penguin, 2023)

46 mins; September 15, 2023

Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)

33 mins; September 15, 2023

Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)

79 hours 4 mins; September 14, 2023

Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)

30 mins; September 13, 2023

Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)

36 mins; September 13, 2023

William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)

37 mins; September 12, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)

63 hours 5 mins; September 09, 2023

Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, "Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

50 mins; September 08, 2023

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, "After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time" (Verso, 2023)

48 mins; September 06, 2023

Kenneth J. Saltman, "The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers" (MIT Press, 2022)

40 mins; September 06, 2023

Al Davidoff, "Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage" (ILR Press, 2023)

60 hours 46 mins; September 04, 2023

Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

47 mins; August 26, 2023

Juliana Hu Pegues, "Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements" (UNC Press, 2021)

56 mins; August 25, 2023

Christina Heatherton, "Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution" (U California Press, 2022)

64 hours 23 mins; August 25, 2023

Travis Holloway, "How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene" (Stanford UP, 2022)

51 mins; August 23, 2023

Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

107 hours 46 mins; August 18, 2023

Renyi Hong, "Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life" (Duke UP, 2022)

51 mins; August 18, 2023

Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)

86 hours 43 mins; August 17, 2023

Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Hurst, 2023)

48 mins; August 17, 2023

Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

22 mins; August 16, 2023

Robert T. Tally, Jr., "For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism" (Zero Books, 2022)

113 hours 44 mins; August 14, 2023

Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

58 mins; August 13, 2023

Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

63 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2023

Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)

68 hours 38 mins; August 11, 2023

Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)

43 mins; August 09, 2023

Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

44 mins; August 09, 2023

Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)

64 hours 24 mins; August 09, 2023

Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)

40 mins; August 08, 2023

Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)

40 mins; August 07, 2023

Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab" (Oxford UP, 2022)

43 mins; August 04, 2023

James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" (Zero Books, 2023)

98 hours 37 mins; August 02, 2023

Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)

43 mins; July 31, 2023

Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

45 mins; July 31, 2023

Jade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)

48 mins; July 30, 2023

Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)

66 hours 49 mins; July 30, 2023

Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)

75 hours 2 mins; July 29, 2023

Marzia Milazzo, "Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

52 mins; July 29, 2023

Benjamin Studebaker, "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

67 hours 22 mins; July 28, 2023

Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

55 mins; July 26, 2023

Melissa Shew and Kimberly Garchar, "Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought" (Oxford UP, 2020)

71 hours 58 mins; July 25, 2023

Ismay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

52 mins; July 25, 2023

50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"

113 hours 8 mins; July 24, 2023

Cathy-Mae Karelse, "Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry" (Manchester UP, 2023)

95 hours 23 mins; July 23, 2023

Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)

35 mins; July 23, 2023

Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)

50 mins; July 20, 2023

Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)

87 hours 26 mins; July 19, 2023

Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, "Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum" (Archive Books, 2022)

50 mins; July 18, 2023

Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)

58 mins; July 18, 2023

Jessica D. Klanderud, "Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh" (UNC Press, 2023)

62 hours 7 mins; July 17, 2023

Samuel Issacharoff, "Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; July 15, 2023

Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)

46 mins; July 15, 2023

Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

39 mins; July 13, 2023

J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)

57 mins; July 12, 2023

Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)

57 mins; July 11, 2023

Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)

43 mins; July 08, 2023

Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)

38 mins; July 08, 2023

Maxwell Kennel, "Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement" (Brill, 2023)

32 mins; July 06, 2023

Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)

37 mins; July 06, 2023

Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)

52 mins; July 05, 2023

Jack Metzgar, "Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society" (ILR Press, 2021)

59 mins; July 03, 2023

Ricardo Tranjan, "The Tenant Class" (Between the Lines, 2023)

67 hours 36 mins; July 02, 2023

Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)

80 hours 18 mins; July 02, 2023

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