Episodes

Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Juan Cole on Gaza, white nationalism, US foreign policy, Israeli colonialism, 19th-century European nationalism, race, the Quran, peace studies and Islam, public intellectuals, and area studies
You can read about Juan’s work here:

Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Phaedra Pezzullo on plastics and crisis, impure politics, toxic tourism, climate justice, colonialism, conjunctural analysis, and gender
You can read about Phaedra’s work and interests here:
https://twitter.com/ecorethink?lang=en

Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Jo Caust on local political funding of sports, arts funding, cultural policy, creative industries, cultural work, management, gender, and ethnicity
You can read about Jo’s work here:

Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Karen Lee Ashcraft on the global rise of the far right and the role of gender, aggrieved manhood, affect, communication, organization, work, race, trans issues, evangelical families
You can read about her work here:
https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/communication/karen-ashcraft

Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Gabriella Coleman on x/Twitter, Palestine, US politics, group chats, hacking, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, and ethnography
You can read about her work here:
https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/gabriella-coleman

Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Jara Fernández Meneses sobre el cine Español, las políticas fílmicas y genero, el intento de crear un nuevo cine post-dictadura, los lenguajes nacionales, y la exportación
Se puede leer sobre su obra aquí:
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/629p5t/doctor-jara-fernandez-meneses

Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
John Quiggin on the threat of US dictatorship, the end of neoliberalism, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, financial markets, privatization, economics, Australia, the environment and technology, the state, the positive future, and cultural struggles
You can read about John’s work here:

Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Wendy Su on China and the US, Chinese youth culture, nationalism, interviewing as a journalist versus scholar, China and Hollywood, co-production, US racism, and cultural studies
You can read about Wendy’s work here:
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wendysu

Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Kelly Gates on artificial intelligence, data centers, drone photography, facial recognition, communications and energy and water use, police video, media forensics, and personal history
You can read about Kelly’s work here:
https://communication.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/gates-kelly.html

Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Ned Randolph on Louisiana petro-politics, the environment, New Orleans, the Mississippi River, mud and capitalist extraction, and grassroots movements
You can read about his work and interests here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/search.php?q=Ned+Randolph#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Ned%20Randolph&gsc.page=1