Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
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The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
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A series of podcasts on the Caribbean critical theory tradition, from Suzanne Césaire through the creolist movement.
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Podcasted conversation on critical and literary theory, drawing on a range of theorists from Europe, the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. Our title is drawn from Audre Lorde's essay "Poetry Is Not a Luxury," where she writes that poetry fashions a language where words do not yet exist. How does theory make words and world new, attuned, and embedded within inventive and inventing lived-experience, tradition, and cultural production?
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What are the crucial conflicts of our time? What hopes and wishes for a better future are expressed within these conflicts? The podcast Critical Theory in Context combines analysis of the present with perspectives on societal transformation. We host conversations with theorists and activists about social crises and the possibilities of their emancipatory overcoming.
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Tune in to the Always Already Podcast for indulgent conversations about critical theory (in the broadest read of the term!). Our podcast consists of two episode streams. The first is a discussion of texts spanning critical theory, political theory, social theory, and philosophy. We work through and analyze main ideas, underlying assumptions, connections with other texts and theories, and occasionally delve into the great abyss of free association, ad hoc theory jokes, and makeshift puns. The ...
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Instead of seeing criticism as an indication of not liking something, Professor Julian Wamble invites listeners of Critical Magic Theory to explore the things about the characters, plot points, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter broadly that have always given them pause or made them smile without knowing why. It is in this navigation of the positive and the negative aspects of a world that we find true magic.
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I'll talk about everything from politics to entertainment and philosophy. I'm also a part-time entertainment writer and working-class from the UP of Michigan, so that might come up occasionally. Oh, and I make weird experimental music and sometimes host a college radio show.
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Writers, anime fans, communists, and childhood friends Mo Black and Rag talk about anime, weeb culture, and leftism!
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Natalie Cline, member of the Utah State School Board explains how she became a target of the BLM when she denounced Critical Race Theory implementation in the Utah School System. She goes on to explain the evil designs of these tenets and how it is positioned to indoctrinate our children into hating the foundational principles of this country and making them vindictive activists for the cause of the left.
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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 43); Trump's Nuclear Testing Revival
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10:17Trump is playing with nukes.
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Natasha Piano, "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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56:45Do competitive elections secure democracy, or might they undermine it by breeding popular disillusionment with liberal norms and procedures? The so-called Italian School of Elitism, comprising Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, and Robert Michels, voiced this very concern. They feared that defining democracy exclusively through representative practice…
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Pill Pod 229 - Theory of the Gooner: Baudrillard vs Lacan
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1:13:15Have a look at our exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills The Pill Pod reads Daniel Kolitz' anthropology of the gooners in Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ and we find it's all connected man Other sources cited included Lacan Seminar X, Freud Beyond the …
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What is Hogwarts actually for? Beyond floating candles and talking portraits lies a school with deeply entrenched ideologies—one that prepares students less for life and more for assimilation into magical bureaucracy. This episode of Critical Magic Theory critiques Hogwarts’ narrow curriculum, its implicit promotion of pure-blood supremacy, and its…
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🎃 CWT566: How to Enjoy 'Halloween: Resurrection' (2002) w/Guest Ryan Wainio
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39:35My brother Ryan joins me to discuss ways to better enjoy the much-maligned "Halloween: Resurrection." In the process, we also discuss plot holes in horror, multiverses, the iffy nature of Freddy and Pennywise's powers, gasoline in The Walking Dead, and the importance of suspension of disbelief.
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🎙️CWT565: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Granada, 1986) S1E1 – The Empty House REVIEW
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17:00Today we’re revisiting the Granada Television series The Return of Sherlock Holmes, beginning with Season 1, Episode 1: “The Empty House.”
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CWT564: 'Phantasm' (1979) REVIEW - You Play a Good Game, Boy!
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14:38Talking about Phantasm — the 1979 cult horror film that might be the strangest franchise starter of its era.
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Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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52:28The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged through contact with Europe alone, Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism (University of Texas Press, 2024) demonstrates how the cult…
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Pill Pod 228 - Lacan: Traversing the Fantasy $♢a
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1:35:57Full Ad-free Lacan series: https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills We conclude our Lacan series with what Fink says is the desired end of Lacanian psychoanalysis. And, the ends of psychoanalysis coincide with some valuable insights for Lacan's theorizing beyond psychoanalysis. Works cited are Fink's Lacanian Subject (ch. 5; https://amzn.to/4qz1Fgx) an…
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Elif Kalaycioglu, "The Politics of World Heritage: Visions, Custodians, and Futures of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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58:18What does it take to construct humanity's cultural history and what do these efforts produce in the world? In The Politics of World Heritage (Oxford UP, 2025), Elif Kalaycioglu analyzes UNESCO's flagship regime, which seeks to curate a cultural history of humanity, attached to "outstanding universal value" and tethered to goals of peace and solidar…
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Gavin Flood, "The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra" (Routledge, 2024)
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32:52The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra (Routledge, 2024) presents an account of the concept of mind in Hindu Tantra through a study of religious and philosophical texts in the medieval period. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of Religious Studies, Asian Religion, Hindu Studies, Indian philosophy and comparative philosophy. Learn more…
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CWT563: REVIEW: 'In the Heart of the Sea' (2015) AKA The Whale That Inspired Moby-Dick
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9:55In 1820, a whaling ship set sail from Nantucket, chasing profit and prestige into the far reaches of the South Pacific. What its crew found instead… was terror in the shape of a 90-foot monster from the deep. This is In the Heart of the Sea — the true story that inspired Moby-Dick, brought to the screen by Ron Howard in 2015.…
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Today we’re diving into one of the most well-known tales in the world — Little Red Riding Hood.
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Gilles Deleuze, "On Painting" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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1:39:48Charles J. Stivale (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University) and Dan Smith (Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University) join me to discuss: Deleuze, Gilles. 2025. On Painting. Edited by David Lapoujade, translated by Charles J. Stivale. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Although Charles is the translator of this New Book,…
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Michael Lazarus, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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1:07:03Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx by Michael Lazarus Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life provides crucial resources for understanding how…
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🎙️ CWT561: The Hook!🪝 — I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
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21:52It’s the Fourth of July. A dark coastal highway. Four friends, a secret, and a man with a hook. I apologize for veering off into so many tangents in this review, but this movie and nostalgia are such a winding road! Let me know if my rambling review is too confusing.
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Tim Beasley-Murray, "Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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42:00Which parts of life are serious, and which are a game? In Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life (Manchester UP, 2025) Tim Beasley-Murray, an Associate Professor of European Thought and Culture and Vice-Dean (Innovation and Enterprise) for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London, offers a se…
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🎙️ CWT560: REVIEW of 'I Care a Lot' (2023) — The Business of Exploiting Trust
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14:57You ever watch a movie that feels like it could actually happen — and that’s the scariest part? Today, we’re talking about I Care a Lot, a 2020 dark comedy thriller from J Blakeson, starring Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, and Dianne Wiest.
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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 42); Stephen Miller vs. Robert De Niro
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34:27(IMAGE: File photo of Stephen Miller...okay, it's actually from the movie "Salem's Lot," but still reminds me of Stephen Miller, even though Miller is nowhere near as cool as an actual vampire...) EPISODE PREMISE: Robert De Niro didn’t mince words when he said of Stephen Miller: “He’s a Nazi, yes he is, and he’s Jewish. He should be ashamed of hims…
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Joanna Woronkowicz, "Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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40:18What does it mean to be an artist? In Artists At Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers (Stanford UP, 2025) Joanna Woronkowicz, the co-founder of the Center for Cultural Affairs and co-director of the Arts, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab at Indiana University Bloomington and currently based at Copenhagen Business School, tells the story …
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What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
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1:04:41What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money, work for justice, run marathons, sing in a choir, have children, travel the world? The things we care about in life—family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals—often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Even worse, we don’t always know what we really wan…
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The Horizontal Arc of Severus Snape: Unpacking His Final Lessons
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55:52After six deep-dive episodes, Professor Julian Wamble closes our exploration of Severus Snape—one of the most complex figures in the Harry Potter series. This final Prof Responds examines the ethics of Snape’s teaching at Hogwarts, the tension between redemption and guilt, and what his story reveals about power, trauma, and morality in the Wizardin…
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🎙️ CWT559: ‘The Purged: The Vanished Voters of Trump’s America’ REVIEW
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9:18Today, we’re talking about The Purged: The Vanished Voters of Trump’s America, a 2020 short documentary directed by David Ambrose and narrated by Debra Messing. It’s just 14 minutes long, but it packs a punch—because it shows how millions of Americans, especially people of color and young voters, were wiped from voter rolls in key battleground stat…
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🎙️ CWT558: Operation Rising Lion: How War Rebuilt Netanyahu’s Power
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12:20On June 13th, 2025, Israel struck more than a hundred sites across Iran — nuclear facilities, missile bases, command centers. The operation had a name that sounded almost mythic: Rising Lion. Within hours, air raid sirens wailed over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as Iran fired back. Israel called it “its darkest day.” But for one man, it might have been a…
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Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Press, 2025)
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1:04:56Animals speak. Plants do too. Seas and mountains are not a mute background to human actions, but have interests and agency. Many more-than-human beings are political actors. All of us are part of a web of relations in which we affect others and are affected by them. To counter the current ecological destruction and find more just ways to co-exist, …
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Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action" (Haymarket, 2019)
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43:07What does it mean to be a political subject? This is one of the key questions asked by Massimo Modonesi in The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action (2019), published as part of the Historical Materialism book series from Brill and Haymarket books. The book takes on the theories of Marx and Gramsci to develop a philosophical triad …
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