Episodes
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Stephen Duncombe, Peter Bloom, and Stevphen Shukaitis on post-capitalist societies, realizing utopias, self-management in sports, radicalism in business schools, running organizations, students, and artificial intelligence
You can read about their work here:
https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/stephen-duncombe
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/shuka90902/stevphen-shukaitis
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/bloom09008/peter-bloom
https://www.catalyticsound.com/
https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/commons-organising-values-equalities-and-resilience
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Stacey Sowards on critical race theory, Dolores Huerta, the United Farm Workers, Indonesia, reproductive justice, environmental communication, PETA, and joy
You can read about Stacey’s work at:
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
David Lloyd on settler colonialism in Palestine and Ireland, Gaza and US universities, Césaire, Beckett, Kant, Schiller, aesthetics, creativity, Cabral, and affirmative action
You can read about David’s work at:
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Catherine Benamou on US and Madrid Spanish- and Portuguese-language TV, news, telenovelas, African community media, Orson Welles, fieldwork, and It’s All True
You can read about Catherine’s work here:
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Chris Robé on reactionary populism, progressive Hollywood, Eisenstein, anarchism, surveillance, and social movements
You can read about Chris’ work here:
https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/faculty/robe/
https://blog.pmpress.org/authors-artists-comrades/chris-robe/
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
William Mazzarella on advertising, magic, disenchantment, charisma, affect, media, religion, Indian film censorship, mass society, liberalism, and populism
You can read about William’s work here:
https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Willliam-T-S-Mazzarella
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
LS Kim on Asian Americans in media culture, stereotypes, Maid for Television, whiteness, cross-racial coalitions, and ceilings for Asian Americans in Hollywood
You can read about her work here:
https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/ls_kim
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Katherine Johnston on surveillance, Profiles and Plotlines, New Mexico, Serena Williams, Amazon, the International Spy Museum, and big data as storytelling
You can read about Katherine’s work and interests here:
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/english/people/JohnstonK#Biography
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/profiles-and-plotlines
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Claire Parkinson on the Dangerous Dogs Act, gender, class, activism, critical animal studies, media coverage, and anthropomorphism
You can read about Claire here:
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/person/claire-parkinson/staff/
https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
William Robinson on global capitalism, the transnational capitalist class, Latin America, neoliberalism, European versus US and Chinese imperialism, the global police state, absence of an organized global left, journalism, and future crises
You can read about William’s work here:
https://robinson.faculty.soc.ucsb.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/WilliamIRobinsonSociologist/