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Biological existence and its theoretical complexities.
Naza and the Function of Perpetrator Cinema
Episode 218: Peter Verovsek - Juergen Habermas
What’s the point of literary criticism?
Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)
The Rise & Fall of Babylon
Clare Follman on Humans in Nature and How We Imagine Belonging
Raiders of the lost art
Corn Syrup: Brian Leech does local history, regional history, labor history, technological history, environmental history, and food history
“Cisgender” with Perry Zurn
The Ethics of Knowledge
Rachel Silveri, "The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Design for the Ineffable: Crafting a Flourishing world with Dr Jenna Mikus
How Egypt Used Theater to Fight British Occupation | Prof. Carmen Gitre
Karl Whittington, "Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)
Do plants have personalities?
Abbas Akhavan – Season 9, Episode 5
Conquistadors and Culture Wars
Nayantara Srinivasan, "The Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
The slow cancellation of the future: A Mark Fisher primer
The 1990s Golden Era of Black Sitcoms
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