Ranked #1
Nancy Wang Yuen: Reel Inequality
Nancy Wang Yuen: Reel Inequality
"It’s hard to deny stories. And I think that’s why stories are so important. And that’s why qualitative research is so i... Read more
7 Dec 2017
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58mins
Ranked #2
Jeff Scheible: Digital Shift
Jeff Scheible: Digital Shift
"I really enjoyed adopting this position of the medium, where I was searching for these voices that had been forgotten o... Read more
3 May 2018
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40mins
Ranked #3
Catherine M. Soussloff: Foucault On Painting
Catherine M. Soussloff: Foucault On Painting
"[Foucault] has something to say to almost every field in the arts, humanities, and social sciences."
25 Apr 2019
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51mins
Ranked #4
Jennifer E. Cobbina: Hands Up, Don't Shoot
Jennifer E. Cobbina: Hands Up, Don't Shoot
"Many people are obviously aware that this nation was founded on a system of slavery, but what many people don't know is... Read more
7 Nov 2019
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #5
Trevor G. Smith: Politicizing Digital Space
Trevor G. Smith: Politicizing Digital Space
"This goes back to why Arendt argued that we needed 'public' and 'private.' The 'private' is kind of a refuge from polit... Read more
25 Jan 2018
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53mins
Ranked #6
Andrew Ferguson: The Rise of Big Data Policing
Andrew Ferguson: The Rise of Big Data Policing
"You have to take into account the history of race and surveillance when you're talking about any new predictive policin... Read more
28 Mar 2019
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49mins
Ranked #7
Todd May: A Fragile Life
Todd May: A Fragile Life
"It doesn't seem to me to require any obscurity to challenge people and to put them in new positions."
23 Nov 2017
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47mins
Ranked #8
Alexis Shotwell: Against Purity
Alexis Shotwell: Against Purity
"Something there feels important to me about...doing what we can from where we are, building our capacity to do more, an... Read more
12 Oct 2017
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45mins
Ranked #9
Suzanne Scott: Fake Geek Girls
Suzanne Scott: Fake Geek Girls
"Those kinds of neat categories seem to be breaking down quite a bit. We see more and more industry reaching out to crea... Read more
12 Dec 2019
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56mins
Ranked #10
Stacy Alaimo: Exposed
Stacy Alaimo: Exposed
"We're always immersed in the material world. It's never somewhere else and it cannot be contained in ways that we can c... Read more
8 Mar 2018
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52mins
Ranked #11
Lawrence Grossberg: Under the Cover of Chaos
Lawrence Grossberg: Under the Cover of Chaos
"We treated Reagan, we treated Bush, and we treat Trump too often as if they're idiots. I have no idea whether they are ... Read more
29 Aug 2019
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1hr 34mins
Ranked #12
Ken Krimstein: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
Ken Krimstein: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
"One of the quotes that Hannah Arendt said that I kept over my desk as I was writing is "Storytelling reveals meaning wi... Read more
15 Aug 2019
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49mins
Ranked #13
Rachel Plotnick: Power Button
Rachel Plotnick: Power Button
"There is a whole host of things that have to happen after that button gets pushed. And I think it's extremely desirable... Read more
26 Sep 2019
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48mins
Ranked #14
Domino Renee Perez and Rachel González-Martin: Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture
Domino Renee Perez and Rachel González-Martin: Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture
"My decision to take on that labor had everything to do with the fact that I didn't have someone like me available. I di... Read more
5 Dec 2019
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #15
Marcus Gilroy-Ware: Filling the Void
Marcus Gilroy-Ware: Filling the Void
"Learning conventional journalism is not a bad thing to do, but it's like learning how to restore antique furniture when... Read more
10 Oct 2019
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53mins
Ranked #16
David Fancy and Hans Skott-Myhre: Art as Revolt
David Fancy and Hans Skott-Myhre: Art as Revolt
"Even if you're working against the cliff face of some of the darkest and most devastating genocidal movements in capita... Read more
24 Oct 2019
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54mins
Ranked #17
Marc Steinberg: The Platform Economy
Marc Steinberg: The Platform Economy
"This is one of the paradigmatic examples where the 'worlds' and 'words' come together and impact each other."
28 Nov 2019
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46mins
Ranked #18
Ethan Miller: Reimagining Livelihoods
Ethan Miller: Reimagining Livelihoods
"A language around livelihoods has the possibility of helping people to see their own lives differently and to appreciat... Read more
26 Dec 2019
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53mins
Ranked #19
Heather Ann Thompson: Blood in the Water
Heather Ann Thompson: Blood in the Water
"People can do terrible things. But you don't really appreciate the impact of what they've done unless you fully underst... Read more
23 May 2019
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47mins
Ranked #20
Jesper Juul: The Art of Failure
Jesper Juul: The Art of Failure
"If somebody dies in the game because of your actions, in a way, there is a sense of responsibility...even if it's just ... Read more
11 Apr 2019
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52mins