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New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

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Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)

Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)

How did Foucault become a public, political intellectual? In Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity Press, 2017), Stuart E... Read more

6 Nov 2017

45mins

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Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

Steven Shaviro‘s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, and the ways in which... Read more

16 Jan 2015

1hr 3mins

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Eugene Thacker, “Horror of Philosophy” (Zero Book, 2011-2015)

Eugene Thacker, “Horror of Philosophy” (Zero Book, 2011-2015)

Eugene Thacker‘s wonderful Horror of Philosophy series includes three books – In the Dust of this Planet (Zero Books, 20... Read more

28 Sep 2015

1hr 8mins

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Stacy Alaimo, “Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)

Stacy Alaimo, “Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)

Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) is... Read more

21 Feb 2017

36mins

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Bill V. Mullen, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line,” (Pluto Press, 2016)

Bill V. Mullen, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line,” (Pluto Press, 2016)

Born just five years after the abolition of slavery, W. E. B. Du Bois died the night before Martin Luther King, Jr. deli... Read more

17 Dec 2016

52mins

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

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

Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly emplo... Read more

19 Mar 2017

59mins

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NBN Classic: Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek and Dialectical Materialism" (Columbia UP, 2018)

NBN Classic: Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek and Dialectical Materialism" (Columbia UP, 2018)

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.I... Read more

24 Sep 2022

1hr 58mins

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Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)

It seems easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of... Read more

21 Apr 2020

36mins

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Timothy Morton, “Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

Timothy Morton, “Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

So much of Science Studies, of STS as a field or a point of engagement, is deeply concerned with objects. We create soci... Read more

23 Feb 2014

1hr 11mins

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Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2018)

Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2018)

In his most new book Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City (NYU P... Read more

18 Jan 2019

42mins

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Marshall Poe, “How to Read a History Book: The Hidden History of History” (Zero Books, 2018)

Marshall Poe, “How to Read a History Book: The Hidden History of History” (Zero Books, 2018)

What is the history of a “history book”? In How to Read a History Book: The Hidden History Of History (Zero Books, 2018)... Read more

28 Feb 2018

46mins

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Ivan Ascher, “Portfolio Society: A Capitalist Mode of Prediction” (Zone Books, 2016)

Ivan Ascher, “Portfolio Society: A Capitalist Mode of Prediction” (Zone Books, 2016)

Is Marx still relevant? Any social scientist will answer with a resounding yes! In what he refers to as a thought experi... Read more

12 Aug 2017

29mins

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Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

In The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Jack Jacobs, Professor of Po... Read more

2 Aug 2016

47mins

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Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone. Wendy Brown is one of the world... Read more

14 Oct 2019

42mins

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Jason W. Moore, “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” (Verso, 2015)

Jason W. Moore, “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” (Verso, 2015)

In Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), author Jason W. Moore seeks to ... Read more

3 Dec 2015

51mins

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Ayten Gundogdu, “Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Ayten Gundogdu, “Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants” (Oxford UP, 2015)

How does one “rethink and revise the key concepts of Hannah Arendt’s political theory in light of the struggles of asylu... Read more

26 Jun 2016

1hr 11mins

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Bruno Perreau, “Queer Theory: The French Response” (Stanford UP, 2016)

Bruno Perreau, “Queer Theory: The French Response” (Stanford UP, 2016)

At once wonderfully clear and bursting with complexity, the title of Bruno Perreau‘s book, Queer Theory: The French Resp... Read more

2 Jun 2017

1hr 1min

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Malcolm Harris, “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials” (Little, Brown and Co, 2017)

Malcolm Harris, “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials” (Little, Brown and Co, 2017)

Every young generation inspires a host of comparisons—usually negative ones—with older generations. Whether preceding a ... Read more

11 Jan 2018

44mins

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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New Yor... Read more

21 Jun 2019

1hr 7mins

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Tommy J. Curry, “The Man-Not: Race, Class, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood” (Temple UP, 2017)

Tommy J. Curry, “The Man-Not: Race, Class, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood” (Temple UP, 2017)

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press, 2017) is a book-length just... Read more

25 Jul 2017

1hr 2mins

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