All Episodes

Faculty Spotlight: Lauren Wolfe, Paige Sweet, and Miranda Trimmier on Writing, Translation, and the Uses of Theory

Episode 98: Sophie Lewis's Femmephilia, Gender, Pleasure, and the Politics of Girly Things

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 97: Slop Machine Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner on the Aesthetics of Contemporary Fascism

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 96: Here Where We Live Is Our Country, An Evening with Molly Crabapple

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 95: On Crisis and the Origins of Modern Iran

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 94.5: B.F. Skinner Plays Himself — a Brief Film Guide

Political Humiliation, Collective Struggle: A Conversation with Roxanne Euben

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 93: Nature's Value — Alyssa Battistoni in Conversation with Nafis Hasan and Ajay Singh Chaudhary

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei - A Specter is Haunting Ezo

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 92.5: Hangmen Also Die! — a Brief Film Guide

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 18: I Don't Know What You Did Last Summer

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 92: No Borders: Folk, Fusion, and Tradition — Ghost Peppers in Concert

Faculty Spotlight: Alfred Lee and Xafsa Ciise on AI, Big Tech, Race, and Histories of Trauma

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 91: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 Years Later

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 90: TRANSgressions — Rights, Wrongs, and Liberal Pieties

Practical Criticism No. 72: Brian Wilson (God Only Knows What We'll do Without You...)

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 17: I Have Friends Everywhere

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 89: Eyes Wide Shut — a Film Guide

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 16: Shine Bright Like a TIE Fighter

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 88: The Sound of Lispector

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 87: Deviant Matter

Practical Criticism No. 71: Neko Case

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 15: Vampires!

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 86: The Cancer-Industrial Complex: a Book Launch and Conversation with Nafis Hasan

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 85.5: Mulholland Drive — a Brief Film Guide

Practical Criticism, No. 70: Roy Hargrove and the RH Factor

Faculty Spotlight: Nazism is Not the Past — Hannah Leffingwell on Dagmar Herzog, Sex After Fascism, and Why Donald Trump is Not Camp

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 85: Assessing the Aftermath — Gaza, the Ceasefire, and Beyond

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 14: Things of the Year 2024 — Part II

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 13: Things of the Year 2024 — Part I

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 84: Paradise Lost and Its Revolutionary Afterlives — Orlando Reade in Conversation

Practical Criticism No. 69 — 2024 Algorithmically "Wrapped"

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 83: Big Bend in Concert

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 12: Megalopolis — or, the Decline and Miraculous Resurrection of American Empire

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 82: The Worst Laid Plans — Initial Reflections on the U.S. 2024 Election

Faculty Spotlight: Bohemia Is An Imaginary City — Jude Webre on Dawn Powell, the Lady Wit, and the American Mid-Century

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81.5: Romeo + Juliet — a Brief Film Guide

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81: Medium Cool — or, "Jesus, I Love to Shoot Film"

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

Faculty Spotlight: Jenny Logan on the Supreme Court and the Crime of Being Homeless

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79.5: My Beautiful Laundrette — a Brief Film Guide

Practical Criticism No. 68—Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 11: Civil War

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79: CYBORG — A Conversation on Technology, Feminism, and the Future of a Concept

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 78: Student Protests, Faculty Solidarity

Faculty Spotlight: Danielle Drori on Exile, Erich Auerbach, and Returning to Tel Aviv

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 77: Revolution and Counterrevolution — Klee's Angelus Novus and Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 76: Translation is Art — A Conversation on Autonomy, Power, Responsibility, and Making Meaning

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 75: The Piano Teacher

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 10: It's Not Easy Being Green (Under Capitalism)

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 74: The Exhausted of the Earth — A Conversation

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 73: How to Blow Up a Pipeline – Extractive Capitalism, Political Violence, and Eco-Thriller Cinema

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 72: At Year's End with the Angel of History — 2023 in Review

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 9: Things of the Year 2023

Practical Criticism, No. 67: 2023 Algorithmically "Wrapped"

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 71: Cooking is Thinking — Rebecca May Johnson in Conversation

Practical Criticism No. 66/(Pop) Cultural Marxism Ep. 8: This Must Be The PC/PCM Crossover

Faculty Spotlight: Sophie Lewis on Second Wave Feminism, Incipient Queerness, Auto-Analysis, and the Life of the Critic (ft. Paige Sweet)

Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library Dystopia

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 70.5: But I'm a Cheerleader—A Brief Film Guide

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 70: Critical Theory and the 21st Century

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 69: The Worst of Times? The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Culture

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 68: Critical Theory from Below—Race, Gender, and the Frankfurt School

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 67: What is Critical Theory?

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 7: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — Baroque Beauty and Mourning Play

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 66: Dear Prudence—Danny Lavery on the Art and Ethics of Advice-Giving

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 65: Wendy Eisenberg—Process, Performance, and Musical Power from Below

Faculty Spotlight: Joseph Earl Thomas on Memoir, Realism, Gayl Jones, and the Philadelphia Difference

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 64: Lucy Dhegrae—Music and Trauma

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 63: What is Cop City?

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 62.5, Shortcast: Fellini Satyricon Brief Film Guide

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 62: On Weak Writing—Lucy Ives's "Life Is Everywhere"

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 6: Everyone Enjoying Everything All the Time

Faculty Spotlight: Andy Battle on Capitalism and Urbanization, Eric Adams, Cop City, and the Right to the City

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 61.5, Shortcast: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 61: Narrating Black Life—Joseph Earl Thomas's "Sink"

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 5: Avatar: Cinema's Watery Grave

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 60: Tangled Legacies—Jünger's Marble Cliffs

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 59: BISR Buddies

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 58: The Kafka Diaries—A Reading and Conversation with Translator Ross Benjamin

Faculty Spotlight: Bruce King

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 4: 2022 Cultural Year in Review

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 57: At Year's End with the Angel of History—2022 in Review

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 3: Elden Ring: Endless Purgatorio

Practical Criticism No. 65—Dark Side of the Moon

Faculty Spotlight: Paige Sweet

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 2: Stellan Skarsgårdian

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 56: Virology—A Reading, Conversation, and Celebration with Joseph Osmundson

Faculty Spotlight: Türkan Pilavci

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 1: Elves and Dragons

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 55.5, Shortcast: Heathers

Practical Criticism No. 26—György Ligeti

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 55: The Last Emperor

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 54: Night of Ideas—Security Hoarding: Moving Beyond the Culture of Constant Vigilance

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 53: Night of Ideas—Against Resilience: Exhaustion, Ecology, and Emancipation

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 52: the End of Abortion

Practical Criticism No. 60—Lingua Ignota

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 51: Dream of the Divided Field

Practical Criticism No. 63—Waltzing to War

Practical Criticism No.58—Pavement

Podcast for Social Research, Episode 59: At Year's End with the Angel of History—2021 in Review

Practical Criticism No.57—Nala Sinephro + Pharoah Sanders/Floating Points

Practical Criticism No.47—Nirvana

Practical Criticism No. 48—Björk