Theory's Worldbuilding Possibilities: Jay Forth

Housing and tenants rights advocate Jay Forth comes on to talk about why reading both critical theory and poetry are so helpful in thinking about and interacting with the world around you. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Frantz Fanon at a press conference during a writers' conference in Tunis, 1959 (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!   Grace Lee Boggs Hélène Cixous Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, & Stephen Merchant The Office Jacques Derrida Rikki Ducornet                                                         The Fountains of Neptune Frantz Fanon Julian Forth                                                              "Jean-Luc Nancy" Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm                                       Rumepstiltskin Richard Hofstadter                                                   Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno                        Dialectic of Enlightenment Henri Lefebvre                                                         Hegel, Marx, Nietszsche: or the Realm of Shadows Herman Melville                                                       Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street Jean-Luc Nancy                                                       Sexistence Patrick Radden Keefe                                              Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Slavoj Žižek                                                              On Belief