Episodes
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
Larissa Buchholz on the commodification of art, growing up in East Germany, Christa Wolf, the sociology of art, and Pierre Bourdieu
You can read about her work here:
https://larissabuchholz.soc.northwestern.edu/
https://www.textezurkunst.de/de/articles/why-i-speak-global-art-field-and-not-global-art-world/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2059-7932.12001
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Todd McGowan on right-wing populism, capitalism’s death spiral, psychoanalysis, desire, Lacan, identification, identity, universality, and Hegel and Marx
You can read about Todd’s work here:
https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMku8U1zFKsBudd3BcgSAw
https://soundcloud.com/whytheory
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Ted Striphas on the success/decline of cultural studies, print culture, the book industry, and algorithms
You can read about Ted’s work here:
https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/college-leadership/ted-striphas
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Anthony Nocella on dismantling visible and invisible barriers, education beyond the classroom, hip hop, lowriders, anarchism, activism, animal liberation, and consumption
You can read about Anthony’s work and interests here:
https://www.anthonynocella.org/
https://houstonfoodnotbombs.org/
https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/
https://animalliberationfrontline.com/
https://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/about/
https://transformativejusticejournal.org/
https://peacestudiesjournal.org/
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Andy Opel on a Tallahassee tornado, climate grifters, Appalachian oystermen, climate witnesses, unseen forces, environmental communication, children’s books, video virtuality, and micro radio
You can read about Andy’s work and interests here:
https://wordofsouthfestival.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303536/believing-is-seeing-by-errol-morris/
https://www.rutgerbregman.com/
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tony Kashani and Joe Cronin on the humanities, administrative-capitalist priorities, DuBois, Washington, activism, Tagore, Dewey, and critical thought
You can read about them here:
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
Alicia Dara on women thriving professionally, patriarchal employment, speech skills for women executives, perimenopausal social issues, the right to choose, women’s power, music, Womancake magazine, intergenerational feminism, and golf weekends
You can read about Alicia’s work and interests here:
https://www.womancake.com/about
https://shoutyourabortion.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/women-sexism-work-huffington-kamala-harris.html
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
Marwan Kraidy on swimming, the Arab world, Turkish and reality TV, the Arab Spring, Lebanon, and experience and heterodoxy impelling research
You can read about Marwan’s work here:
https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/marwan-kraidy.html
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
Lisa Henderson on encampments, room to move, being a Dean during a pandemic, autocracy, queerness and class, pedagogy, ethnography, the avant garde, Canada, indigenous issues, and language politics
You can read about Lisa’s work here:
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Mary Beltrán on democracy, student protests, Orange is the New Black, Latin@ screen representation, Paul Rodríguez, Freddie Prinze Sr, and Tanya Saracho
You can read about her work and interests here:
https://moody.utexas.edu/faculty/mary-beltran
https://untitledlatinxproject.com/
https://blcklst.com/programs/2024-latine-list