New Books in Critical Theory
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Think of England: Nation, People, and Race in the English Imagination with Paul Kléber Monod (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Oct 7, 20261h 7m
To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian with Zahi Zalloua (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Oct 7, 202649 min
Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children with Stacey Patton (Beacon Press, 2026)
Oct 6, 202656 min
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice with Federica Coppola (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Oct 3, 202629 min
Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)
Oct 2, 20261h 7m
Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism with Jeffrey Champlin (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Oct 1, 202650 min
How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos
Sep 30, 20261h 4m
Do We Really Need To Choose Between Jobs and the Environment?
Sep 29, 202634 min
Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891-1931 with Edward Baring (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Sep 28, 202648 min
How Real Is Race?: Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture with Carol C. Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary Henze (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Sep 28, 20261h 35m
The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism with Max Haiven (MIT Press, 2026)
Sep 28, 202658 min
Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature with Matthew Leggatt (SUNY Press, 2026)
Sep 27, 202650 min
Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities with yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (U Virginia Press, 2026)
Sep 26, 202646 min
Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe with Sophie Lewis
Sep 26, 20261h 22m
Assemblage Theory and Affect with Ian Buchanan (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Sep 25, 20261h 28m
Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe with Sophie Lewis
Sep 25, 20261h 22m
Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics with Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 25, 202656 min
The Nature of Freedom: On the Republican Tradition with Philip Pettit
Sep 23, 202657 min
Angela Last, "Tainted Tools: New Materialisms As a Decolonial Project" (Manchester University Press, 2026)
Sep 22, 202634 min
Joe Jackson, "Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Sep 20, 20261h 11m
Abi Bae and Hamza Hamouchene eds., "Towards Palestinian Liberation: Global Perspectives on Anti-Colonial Resistance and Solidarity" (Daraja Press, 2026)
Sep 19, 202642 min
Catherine A John, "Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice" (Duke UP, 2026)
Sep 15, 202642 min
John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian, "Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026)
Sep 12, 20261h 7m
Robert A. Wilson, "Kin Matters: Relational Beings in the Fragile Sciences" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Sep 10, 20261h 10m
Leonhard Emmerling, "The Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus" (Seagull Books, 2026)
Sep 9, 202658 min
Kevin Van Meter and Robert Ovetz eds. "Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: the Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver" (Common Notions, 2026)
Sep 7, 20261h 9m
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
Sep 5, 20261h 2m
Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Sep 4, 202655 min
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, "Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Sep 4, 202658 min
Jonathan Quong, "Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Sep 3, 20261h 1m
Michael Diniscia and Ellyn M Toscano eds. "Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value" (NYU Press, 2026)
Sep 3, 20261h 2m
Duty, Banality, and Hopefulness with Alex Cain
Sep 1, 202631 min
Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering
Aug 31, 202636 min
Raf de Bont et al eds., "Globalizing Wildlife" (UNC Press, 2026)
Aug 31, 202646 min
María Angélica Thumala Olave, "The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Aug 30, 202641 min
Prakash Kashwan, "Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Aug 30, 20261h 8m
Stefan Collini, "Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 29, 20261h 15m
Paul Johnson, "Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 26, 202650 min
Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 25, 202657 min
A.J.A. Woods, "The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West" (Verso, 2026)
Aug 24, 202653 min
Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 23, 20261h 23m
Beth Weinstein, "Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 22, 202653 min
Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 22, 202643 min
Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Aug 21, 20261h 33m
A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin
Aug 19, 202656 min
Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026)
Aug 19, 202659 min
Roderick Beaton, "Europe: A New History" (Allen Lane, 2026)
Aug 19, 20261h 4m
Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Aug 17, 20261h 3m
Gregorio Astengo and Davide Spina eds.,"Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital" (gta Verlag, 2026)
Aug 16, 202647 min
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology" (T&T Clark, 2021)
Aug 15, 202636 min