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The Intellectual — 285 episodes
Science Fiction and the Far Right
Dadaism
Comyns, Murdoch, du Maurier, and the Gothic Podcast
How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? With author of The Crown’s Silence, Brooke Newman
Why Did The Salem Witch Trials Happen? (with Stacy Schiff)
The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” (Part 2)
Nicholas Fox Weber on Anni Albers
Paramount, Warner Bros. and How Monopolies Ruin Everything
Episode 134: Non-Boring History
S09E11 Performing Knowledge- Pedagogy, Institutions, and Speculative Frameworks PART 2
Areum Jeong, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Xica Manicongo
Is Culture Stuck?
Quantum History w/ Slavoj Žižek
127 | Hayden White's Forms of History
Episode 194: David Wiens - From the Best to the Rest
The Stiliagi
Ikarie XB-1: 1963 Communist Utopia in Space
Joana Vasconcelos: Mask of mirrors
Adam Przeworski Asks Who Decides What is Democratic
Producing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd
Indigenous filmmaking and futures
Surrealism and selfhood
Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
The Frankfurt Book Fair
José Miguel Palacios on Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973
EP. 797: WHY AMERICA STILL NEEDS PUNK ROCK ft. GRANT WONG
The rise of Indigenous cinema
POP LIFE EP. 53: A CRITIQUE OF DESIRE w/ RUSSELL SBRIGLIA
How a feminist flipped the colonial travelogue on its head
The Olmec: Mother of Mesoamerican Civilisations
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 17: I Have Friends Everywhere
PREVIEW - Accelerationism 2 w/ Michael Downs
Sladja Blažan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)
Revolution, with Volodymyr Ishchenko
Futuring & Science Fiction: a conversation with Dr. Martin Wählisch
Doyle D. Calhoun on The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
The Dandy: Dressing in Defiance
Coleman Collins on The Upper Room and Specular Fiction
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Part One: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope
Enough is Enuf
Episode 626: Horkheimer on Reason, Egoism, and Freedom
V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Gilles Deleuze - The Method of Dramatization
The Rise & Fall of The Moors in Spain
Bergson's Harmonic Theory of Consciousness - Dr. Jack Bagby, DemystifySci #327
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
"Jazz, Music and Technology: A Black Historical Perspective
"Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon" with Louise Siddons
Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Slavery, Empire, and John Locke (with Mark Goldie)
The Visual History of Panafricanism
“Autotheories” with Alex Brostoff
Woke Racism and the Language Police | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & John McWhorter
Fiona Smyth: Architecture and the history of acoustics.
“Trans Literature and Science Fiction” with Sabine Sharp
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
138b Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned
Episode 146: The Newspaper Axis
Psychoanalysis and the Working Through of a Vineyard's Slave History with Mark Solms, PhD (Cape Town)
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
Writing in the Conjuncture w/ Dayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst
The British Agent Who Tried to Kill Lenin
On Trans Philosophy and troubling a Western-dominant sense of trans.
Hermes' Historia: a Brief History of Ancient Theatre
Climate Fiction Origins: J.G. Ballard's Visionary Worlds
Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film w/ Sarah Jilani
Lessons in Decolonization From North Africa's Global Thinkers | Idriss Jebari
94 | Norman Geras' Ethics of Revolution
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 80: On Realism, World-Building, Violence, and Desire—Joseph Earl Thomas, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Vinson Cunningham, and Paige Sweet in Conversation
'A Harvest Of Death' And The Power Of Photography (1863) w/ Robert Sullivan
The Museum of Neoliberalism ft. Darren Cullen
Isabel Allende and her feminist life
Translating the post-exotic writer Antoine Volodine
Adam Berg, "The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth" (U Texas Press, 2023)
„A Precarious Happiness“ – Peter E. Gordon on the Sources of Normativity in Adorno
Bradley Mclean - Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity
Erik Davis on the Art of LSD
Modernist Novel
Sabina Andron: Graffiti, semiotics and the city
Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons
Aaron Betsky: Utopia, monster, city.
Why Is Climate Change Missing In Our Movies? (w/ Anna Jane Joyner and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson)
1776: The Antidote to Boring American History
The Sullivanians: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, & A Commune To Break The Traditional Family
Ajam Podcast #39: Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
Unruly Bodies | Matthew Beaumont & Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
Songs of the Moon
#306 - Heidegger's Culmination of German Idealism: A Dialogue with Robert Pippin
Novara FM: How To Be Honest About Empire w/ Sathnam Sanghera
PvI#70: Paramilitary Existentialism w/ Jonny Thomson
Secrets, Lies & Irish History
Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
Aniefiok Ekpoudom, "Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
The Op-Ed Novel - El País and Contemporary Spanish Literature
Jason Read, "The Politics of Transindividuality" (Haymarket Books, 2017)
HAP 136 - Civilization Reclaimed - African-Centered Thought
Remembering the rise and fall of Grenada's New Jewel Movement
Lorca
The Bravo Cinematic Universe
Lydia Zvyagintseva and Mary Greenshields, "Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education" (Library Juice Press, 2022)
S03E35: Affect as Contamination
Why We Should Stop Designing Things (And Start Designing Experiences)
Infrastructure, Public Policy, and the Anthropocene – Episode 88 – The Oxford Comment
How Canada Became a Nazi Haven
56 An intellectual history of the Haitian revolution, with Dr. Marlene Daut
The History of the Drum Machine
Hoax - The Planted Plants of Rum
The Transformations of Novelist Zadie Smith
Understanding Class Politics: Bourdieu with Marx feat. Lisa Mckenzie
EX.679 McKenzie Wark
Valerie Hébert ed., "Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Women who shaped the Roman empire
Gerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 36: The Reality of Desire
#256 - The Rigor of Angels: A Dialogue with William Egginton
Romeo and Juliet in Classical Music
Invading the past: Russia and science fiction
Isaac Vincent Joslin on Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions
#245 - Oppenheimer: A Dialogue with Kai Bird
Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Getting Romanced by Delacroix
Hegel, Revolution, and Historicism (Prof. Richard Bourke)
Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)
The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Coover
Paris 1968, French Theory and the Intellectual World War With Gabriel Rockhill
Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Selected Essays | Adam Shatz on James Baldwin
Mexico's Gothic Turn
28: NAZI BILLIONAIRES by David de Jong
New Currents in Marxism: From Degrowth Communism to Neo-Kautskyism feat. Richard Seymour
Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & The Good Life
To The Barricades
PX - Utopian thinking and Political Philosophy
On Bruno Latour with Joost van Loon
The history of dogs
Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression (1955-1972)
Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)
We are the stars w/ Sarah Hernandez
16.14: Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature
E72: Swing Kids and Edelweiss Pirates
Translation As Linguistical and Bodily Metamorphosis
Bob Dylan's America (w/ Will Epstein)
Listening for Silences: Michael Freeden on the Role of Silence in Political Thinking
Stephen Houlgate - Hegel On Being
A new feminist grammar in film - feminist practices and gaze theory
The Colonial Lives of Bourgeois Coldness
Film and the Political — with Nadia Shihab
Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History
Sociological Theory - The Problem of Infinite Regress: A Stopping Rules Approach
Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: On filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang
William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s with Ivana Zimbrek
EDWARD SAID AND ORIENTALISM - A CONVERSATION WITH NASSER JASSEM
#9 Planting empathy - with Janet Laurence
Mariam Khawar - What voices have been overlooked in Islamic economic philosophy?
Art and the Spatial Logics of Colonialism — with Marianne Nicolson
What Is Afrofuturism, and Why Is It So Relevant Today?
Episode 277: NEOM Moon (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)
A Deep History of Equality ~ Elizabeth Anderson
16.5: Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood
REWORLDING: Replaying
Episode 115, 'Intellectual Seemings' with Laura Gow (Part I - Everything is Clear)
Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus (encore)
WMC Live #397: Beyond Objectification. (Original Airdate 1/22/2023)
Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth
The Practice of Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World – Dr. Matthew Ichihashi Potts
The Irish Rebellion of 1798
Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Filth, Noise & Stench in England
Part II: Unsettling Liberal Hegemony with Jeannie Morefield | Ep. 134
92. Solarpunk, Indigenous & Afrofuturism, & Climate Fiction: Decolonizing Our Imaginations w. Tory Stephens (Imagine 2200)
Episode 22: Georgian and Soviet with Claire Kaiser
Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
"Creating an Entirely Different Kind of Human Material" - China Miéville's A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
Huygens: Europe’s Greatest Scientist
3.8 Radical Animism, with Rowan Deer
Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford on Lyotard and Critical Practice
Beatriz Colomina & Evangelos Kotsioris: Radical pedagogies
The World Cup: Sport, Politics, History, and Propaganda w/ Alexander Aviña
What is "Collapse?" Interview with Professor Guy Middleton
Isabel Millar - Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell
Robert Morrison on How Knowledge Travels
Episode 293: Brilliant Commodity
On the Politics of Images with Federica Chiocchetti
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
The Wines of Empire
Postmodernism in the dock | Julian Baggini, Mina Salami, Hilary Lawson and Julie Bindel
The Climate Imaginary: Beneath the Poetry, the Barricade — with Stephen Collis
"If We Must Die, Let It Not Be Like Hogs" - Winston James on Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (part 1)
Maggie Nelson and Eula Biss
Building Better - Season 3 - Black Voices in the Built Environment
Berlin’s turbulent 20th century
Howard Chiang, “Psychoanalysis in China”
The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history
Nietzsche and Friendship — with Willow Verkerk
Internationalist aesthetics: Kristin Engelhardt interviews Edward Tyerman
Genre: climate fiction, speculative fiction and blurring boundaries
Interview with Andrew McGregor, The Cinematic Legacy of French New Wave Director Jean-Luc Godard
Dangerous ideas & scandalous lives: Germany’s first Romantics
Simon Duffy - Deleuze and the History of Mathematics
On Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”
The Hidden History of Black Cinema
On Architecture with Graham Harman
Science Fiction, Emancipation and Yugoslavia with Darko Suvin
Hegel
Philipp Felsch, "The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990" (Polity Press, 2021)
Episode 107: Guido Parietti - On the Concept of Power
Simon Truwant, "Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Edward Said's "Culture and Imperialism" - A Discussion on "Collaboration, Independence, and Liberation" w/ Sina Rahmani of "The East is a Podcast"
Jon Roffe - Deleuze and Abstract Market Theory
Scholars on using fantasy to reimagine Blackness
The BBC at 100: scandals break
Futurism
Social Psychoanalysis
Kimono Style
Ep. 111 - “A Really Superb Novel and a Film That Should Probably Be Burned,” with Jack Zipes
Feature interview: Pascal Cotte
Episode 72: Chomsky’s Linguistics & Politics—Interview with David Golumbia
Episode 105: Terry Pinkard - Practice, Power, and Forms of Life
A Brief History of Weaponised Insects
Prehistoric Rock Art of Atlantic Europe
Bonus Episode: Craft in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, "Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Pragmatic Utopias
Long Reads: Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin's Messianic Marxism
The Popol Vuh: Central American epic that survived Spanish conquest
How the Ojibwe language survived the pandemic
Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. Smith
#389 Sheila Heti: Art is the Opposite of an Algorithm
Futureproof Extra: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life
S2E03 Literature Must Be an Unsettling Force for Democracy w/ Elin Danielsen Huckerby
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 327: Laugh Lines w/ Carrie Conners
On Nehru, High Modernism and Chandigarh with Professor Taylor Sherman
Art, Luxury, and Power in Ancient Iran
The ”Lush Garden” of Andalusian Music
Episode 71: Kale B. Fajarado, Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
515 Rosemary Salomone: How English became the Worlds common language
A Look at Jazz Criticism
The architectural history of Queer Spaces: "Flowers blossoming in the desert of Modernity"
Migration, Ancient DNA, and European Prehistory: Interview with Kristian Kristiansen
Dhanveer Singh Brar, "Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century" (Goldsmiths Press, 2021)
8 | Opera and Society with Dr. Nick Stevens
Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Miranda France: Rethinking Picasso
Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier
S4 E6- Deaf Harmonies
Inequality, White Ignorance, and Public Sociology (Jennifer Mueller)
Sociologist Harry Edwards on sport in society
Kenneth Partridge, "Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
E43. Kenturah Davis: The Limits of Language.
G. S. Sahota, "Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
Episode 259: In Praise of Good Bookstores
Languages of the World in 1200 BC
Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Scholarly Salons in 16th-Century Damascus
Abigail Susik, "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Clergy, Foreign Lands, and Apocalypse: Medieval Perception of the World
Interregnum - The cruelties of self-help culture
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 255: From Politics to Hyper Politics w/ Anton Jäger and the Saturday Crüe
Beatrice Adler-Bolton: The Sociological Production Of The "End Of The Pandemic"
Ep 21: Exploring Post War & Contemporary Architecture ft. John Grindrod
What is anarchism? with Zoe Baker
Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space: A Place to Dream
Series 6 Episode 3: Tessa Xuan & Dr. Suparna Bhaskaran, Socially Constructing "The Other"
Exploring Spanish Language Opera - El retablo de Maese Pedro with Dr. Mitchell Morris
Episode 70: The intersection of art and social justice
Episode 176: New Materialism and Social Studies with Peter Nelson & Scott Durham
Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Heather L. Dichter, "Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
160: Museums and Memory
120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. Curtis
61. Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Maxine Clarke
43 – Schüll – Addiction By Design
182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory
James Hannaham : Pilot Impostor