Podcast

New Books in Critical Theory

Author: New Books Network
Feed episode count: 2340
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Summary

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Episodes

Sep 15, 2026 · not_requested

Catherine A John, "Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice" (Duke UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2524
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Sep 12, 2026 · not_requested

John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian, "Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4070
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5440618362.mp3

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Sep 10, 2026 · not_requested

Robert A. Wilson, "Kin Matters: Relational Beings in the Fragile Sciences" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4247
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9207631435.mp3

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Sep 9, 2026 · not_requested

Leonhard Emmerling, "The Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus" (Seagull Books, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3502
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4506381558.mp3

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Sep 7, 2026 · not_requested

Kevin Van Meter and Robert Ovetz eds. "Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: the Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver" (Common Notions, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4163
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7617312151.mp3

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Sep 5, 2026 · not_requested

Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3778
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Sep 4, 2026 · not_requested

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, "Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3527
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7797775213.mp3

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Sep 4, 2026 · not_requested

Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3339
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7765714705.mp3

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Sep 3, 2026 · not_requested

Michael Diniscia and Ellyn M Toscano eds. "Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value" (NYU Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3744
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9759936188.mp3

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Sep 3, 2026 · not_requested

Jonathan Quong, "Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3712
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2936785474.mp3

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Sep 1, 2026 · not_requested

Duty, Banality, and Hopefulness with Alex Cain

Duration seconds: 1904
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Aug 31, 2026 · not_requested

Raf de Bont et al eds., "Globalizing Wildlife" (UNC Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2819
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7366365570.mp3

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Aug 31, 2026 · not_requested

Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering

Duration seconds: 2209
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Aug 30, 2026 · not_requested

María Angélica Thumala Olave, "The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object" (Manchester UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2506
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Aug 30, 2026 · not_requested

Prakash Kashwan, "Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Duration seconds: 4125
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Aug 29, 2026 · not_requested

Stefan Collini, "Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 4535
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1708087852.mp3

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Aug 26, 2026 · not_requested

Paul Johnson, "Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3051
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5634989353.mp3

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Aug 25, 2026 · not_requested

Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3448
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8713750276.mp3

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Aug 24, 2026 · not_requested

A.J.A. Woods, "The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West" (Verso, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3220
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2921284602.mp3

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Aug 23, 2026 · not_requested

Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Duration seconds: 5039
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2800839875.mp3

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Aug 22, 2026 · not_requested

Beth Weinstein, "Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time" (Routledge, 2024)

Duration seconds: 3216
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5059189617.mp3

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Aug 22, 2026 · not_requested

Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2624
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6210305566.mp3

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Aug 21, 2026 · not_requested

Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 5630
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Aug 19, 2026 · not_requested

A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin

Duration seconds: 3391
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9469731131.mp3

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Aug 19, 2026 · not_requested

Roderick Beaton, "Europe: A New History" (Allen Lane, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3883
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3313950332.mp3

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Aug 19, 2026 · not_requested

Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3590
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2183655605.mp3

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Aug 17, 2026 · not_requested

Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3830
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7971754853.mp3

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Aug 16, 2026 · not_requested

Gregorio Astengo and Davide Spina eds.,"Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital" (gta Verlag, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2834
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Aug 15, 2026 · not_requested

Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3734
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6924788069.mp3

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Aug 15, 2026 · not_requested

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology" (T&T Clark, 2021)

Duration seconds: 2169
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May 23, 2026 · not_requested

Thomas Xavier Sarmiento, "The Heartland of US Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest" (Temple UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3823
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7545243487.mp3

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May 21, 2026 · not_requested

Shyam Ranganathan, "Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3208
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2630800926.mp3

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May 21, 2026 · not_requested

Utku Balaban, "Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers" (U California Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 4848
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8735594537.mp3

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May 21, 2026 · not_requested

Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3852
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7713108087.mp3

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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 5533
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5948272163.mp3

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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

Brett Neilson, "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" (Verso, 2024)

Duration seconds: 3415
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1996692416.mp3

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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 5386
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9998706254.mp3

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May 17, 2026 · not_requested

Drew M. Dalton, "The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

Duration seconds: 4363
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2042128884.mp3

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May 12, 2026 · not_requested

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2626
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9258355907.mp3?updated=1778467864

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May 8, 2026 · not_requested

Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2339
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6484864372.mp3?updated=1778044821

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May 6, 2026 · not_requested

Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2474
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7337188958.mp3?updated=1777953779

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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

Alana Lentin, "The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy" (Pluto Books, 2025)

Duration seconds: 4882
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK4020585687.mp3?updated=1777761428

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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

James Q. Whitman, "Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3261
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8379046752.mp3?updated=1777832570

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May 3, 2026 · not_requested

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4639
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8374209342.mp3?updated=1777616884

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May 2, 2026 · not_requested

D. Vance Smith, "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 4230
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3088908721.mp3?updated=1777538363

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May 2, 2026 · not_requested

Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)

Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5239406242.mp3

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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 5521
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6800736321.mp3?updated=1777532636

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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

Mapping Out Food and Philosophy

Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6298571855.mp3

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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Francisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3293
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3424741971.mp3?updated=1777348941

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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

Rugged Individualism

Duration seconds: 1131
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2992908179.mp3

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Apr 22, 2026 · not_requested

Sarah Jaffe, "From the Ashes: Grief and Transformation in a World on Fire" (Bold Type Books, 2024)

Duration seconds: 4059
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1716153952.mp3

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Apr 18, 2026 · not_requested

169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)

Duration seconds: 1879
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK8636684603.mp3?updated=1776313987

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Apr 18, 2026 · not_requested

Manuel Barcia, "Pirate Imperialism: Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825–1870" (Yale UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2332
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6626099755.mp3?updated=1776326455

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Apr 17, 2026 · not_requested

Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3671
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9326311214.mp3?updated=1776230972

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Apr 17, 2026 · not_requested

Amanda Anderson and Simon During, "Humanities Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4106
Source: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6687501213.mp3?updated=1776248167

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