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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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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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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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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Lyndsey Stonebridge on Hannah Arendt's Lessons on Love and Disobedience (JP)
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56:24An Arendt expert has arrived at Arendt-obsessed Recall This Book. Lyndsey Stonebridge discusses her widely praised 2024 We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience. Lesley sees both radical evil and the banality of evil at work in Nazi Germany and in the causes of suffering and death in Gaza today. She compares…
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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 35); Kennedy vs. the CDC: Power, Purges, and Public Health
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45:56Amid mounting controversy over sweeping changes in public health oversight, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing the Senate Finance Committee today (September 4, 2025) to defend his actions—and policies dubbed “Make America Healthy Again.” Senators are already grilling him sharply on a string of unsettling developments at the CDC.…
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Rewarded Recklessness: The Making of a Gryffindor
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1:12:03In this episode of Critical Magic Theory, Professor Julian Wamble turns to the final Hogwarts house: Gryffindor. Often celebrated as the house of heroes, Gryffindor’s signature trait of bravery carries both brilliance and danger. Julian digs into how courage so often slides into recklessness, how Hogwarts rewards children for risk-taking, and how t…
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We wanted to review some Lacan because everybody's still desiring, and Bruce Fink's Lacanian Subject (1995) is quite often touted as the best unofficial intro, and we can see why. Get this and all our eps at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills This is the book: https://amzn.to/4oubPxQ저자 Plasticpills
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Santiago Zabala, "Signs from the Future: Philosophy of Warnings" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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53:45Returning to NBN is the philosopher Santiago Zabala, here to introduce his new book Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings (Columbia University Press, 2025). Warnings, for Zabala, are not synonymous with predictions. They are instead as much about the present as the future. They point towards already present crisis and contradictions. They…
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David McNally, "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (U California Press, 2025)
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43:05David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History (U California Press, 2025)presents the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. McNally argues that enslaved labour within the plantation system constituted capitalist commodity production, and crucially, reframes the resistance of enslaved people…
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🎙️CWT528🎶: 'Money (That’s What I Want)' – Motown’s First Hit...and Beyond
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6:38Today, we’re talking about a track that put Motown Records on the map: Barrett Strong’s 1959 hit, “Money (That’s What I Want).”
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🎙️CWT527: Composer vs. Arranger — What’s the Difference?
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12:50What’s the difference between a composer and an arranger?
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Maddalena Cerrato, "Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
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54:25Michel Foucault's thought, Maddalena Cerrato writes, may be understood as practical philosophy. In this perspective, political analysis, philosophy of history, epistemology, and ethics appear as necessarily cast together in a philosophical project that aims to rethink freedom and emancipation from domination of all kinds. The idea of practical phil…
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🎙️CWT526🕰️: Georg Koszulinski's 'Archeopsychic Time Zones' [EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM REVIEW]
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7:59This episode is a journey through a five-minute film that folds centuries into seconds, where ancient voices and futures collide in the desert heat. The film is called — Archeopsychic Time Zones. If Archeopsychic Time Zones piqued your interest, you can explore more of Georg Koszulinski’s work at georgkoszulinski.com.…
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David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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55:30Imagine this: You’re walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there. You’re the only person who can save her and you must act immediately. But as you approach the pond you remember that you’re wearing your most expensive shoes. Wading …
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Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
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1:09:31Inequality in the workplace impacts all areas of our lives, from health and self-development to economic security and family life. But, despite the world's richest countries' long-avowed commitments to gender equality, there is still so much to fix - and so much we don't see. With perceptive and razor-sharp insight, in Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get …
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🎙️CWT525: 'Speech' – Speech's Solo Debut Album Post-Arrested Development
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9:53Today, we’re talking about 'Speech' — the debut solo album by Speech, the rapper and frontman of Arrested Development.
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Today we’re tackling a hard but urgent question: What happens when the role of the state is reduced to one thing — deciding who gets to live and who is left to die?
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Pauwke Berkers and Yosha Wijngaarden, "A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
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33:43How does sociology help to explain modern life? In A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong (Routledge, 2025)Pauwke Berkers, a full professor Sociology of Popular Music at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Yosha Wijngaarden, an assistant professor of Media and Creative Industries at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, examin…
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CWT523🎄:'A Christmas Story' (1983) — Far Out-of-Season Review 🎅
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27:25Every Christmas Eve, millions of families across the U.S. flip on the TV, and there it is — A Christmas Story. Running on a 24-hour loop. For some, it’s background noise. For others, it’s as essential to the holiday as eggnog, stockings, or arguing over who gets the last piece of pie.
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Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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1:19:39In Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence (Stanford UP, 2025) Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural predicaments facing Blackness in the present. Douglass contends that the sexual violabi…
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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 34); Kim Jong Un, Putin, and Xi Bukkake the World
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25:19Chine throws a military parade with dictatorial guests of honor. Also, I look at North Korea's failed-successful leadership. . (Photo credit: Nikkei montage/Photos from Reuters)
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Ian Scoones, "Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World" (Polity, 2024)
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1:04:00Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential and, as the book explores, this is much more than just managing risk. But …
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Prof Responds: Snakes, Supremacy, and the Slytherin Stigma
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56:42In this Prof Responds episode on Slytherin House, Professor Wamble takes on the accusations that he went too easy on the snakes. Drawing on listener comments, he dives deep into the complicated ways ambition, loyalty, and reputation shape our understanding of Slytherins. From reframing ambition as neutral rather than evil, to recognizing the pack-l…
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CWT522🎙️: White Lion – The Rise, Roar, Collapse of a Glam Metal Band
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18:51White Lion’s story is one of triumph and tension—an ascent to glam-metal glory in the late ‘80s, followed by a rapid unraveling. Today, we’re tracing their rise, their roar, and their sudden silence.
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TransGenre (Cambridge UP, 2025) is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. Using four genre sites (the road novel, the mourning novel, the chosen family novel, and the archival novel), this Element considers how the minoritized becomes the minoritarian through deterritorializ…
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Today, we’re talking about a song that’s been quoted, misquoted, referenced, parodied, misunderstood — and still hits harder than most: Jay-Z’s “99 Problems.”
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Michelle P. Brown, "Bede and the Theory of Everything" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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1:14:55Bede and the Theory of Everything (Reaktion Books, 2023) investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673–735), foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and ‘the father of English history’. It examines his notable feats, including calculating the first tide-tables; playing a role in the creation of the Ceolfrith Bibles and the Lindisfarne Gospels; …
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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 33); Gerrymandering / Trump's Saudi Ties
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37:04I talk about Gerrymandering and what Trump's Saudi ties mean about him and the nature of authoritarian power.
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Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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55:38Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? In Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833 (Cambridge UP, 2022), Dr. Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire in the lo…
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