Episodes
Friday Jun 28, 2024
Friday Jun 28, 2024
Henry Giroux on the rise of fascism, the political role of education, counter-revolution, neoliberalism, mistrust, tenure, manufactured ignorance, class, solidarity, and passion
You can read about his work here:
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Gregory Currie on UK universities, the humanities, philosophy, logic, science, Popper, Frege, aesthetics, Wittgenstein, Kendall Walton, analytic and continental traditions, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, imagination, fiction, and fantasy
You can read about his work here:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/gregory-currie-FBA/
https://www.york.ac.uk/philosophy/people/emeritus-honorary-visiting-staff/greg-currie/
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Lawrence Grossberg on retirement, the 14th draft, mistrust, affect, left and right, cultural studies, modernity, slow thinking, and US politics
You can read about his work here:
https://comm.unc.edu/people/department-faculty/lawrence-grossberg/
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Fred Turner on the counterculture, Silicon Valley, platform authoritarianism, masculinity, Mary Beth Meehan, and US soldiers in Vietnam
You can read about Fred’s work here:
https://fredturner.stanford.edu/
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Mehdi Semati on Iran, the media, higher education, and his experience of revolution and war
You can read about his work here:
https://www.niu.edu/clas/comm/contact-us/directory/semati-mehdi.shtml
https://niu.academia.edu/MehdiSemati
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Antonio Lopez on US and Italian politics, Native American cosmology, media literacy, the environment, youth activism, and LA punk
You can read about his work here:
https://ecomedialiteracy.org/
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
MaryEllen Higgins on adoption and reunion, surfing, colonial trauma, justice, reparations, Frantz Fanon, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Judith Lewis Herman, African cinema, Yamina Bachir, Rachida, Judy Kibinge, being a film producer, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Kivu Ruhorahoza, and JM Coetzee
You can read about her work here:
https://rockethics.psu.edu/people/maryellen-ellie-higgins/
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Rolien Hoyng on technological breakdown, populism, Istanbul, Hong Kong, electronic waste, climate crisis, quantification, the circular economy, and ecofeminism
You can read about her work here:
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Mark Banks on the British election, creative/cultural industries, labor, justice, the environment, and popular culture
You can read about his work here:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/markbanks/#researchinterests,publications
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/09548963.2024.2344468?needAccess=true
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2058059
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Kay Dickinson on colonialism, socialism, the Arab world, secular cinema, labor, tax breaks, offshore filmmaking, and Abba
You can read about Kay’s work here:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/kaydickinson/