New Books in Critical Theory
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Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 23, 20261h 23m
Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 22, 202643 min
Beth Weinstein, "Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 22, 202653 min
Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Aug 21, 20261h 33m
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
A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin
Aug 19, 202656 min
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
Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)
Aug 15, 20261h 2m
The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller
Aug 13, 202645 min
Michael R. Griffiths, "The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Aug 12, 202651 min
Oli Mould, "Postcapitalist cities: Towards a common urban future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202640 min
Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 8, 202651 min
Leopoldina Fortunati, "The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital" (Verso, 2025)
Aug 8, 20261h 15m
Andres Saenz de Sicilia, "Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society" (Brill, 2024)
Aug 7, 202643 min
Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 7, 20261h 26m
Katharina Stevens, "The Ethics of Argumentation" (Routledge, 2025)
Aug 5, 20261h 1m
Valena Beety, "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity" (New Press, 2026)
Aug 4, 202625 min
Lisa Blaydes and Samuel Helfont eds., "Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Jul 29, 202641 min
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 28, 202651 min
Toby Miller and Joan Pedro Carañana, "Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Jul 26, 202644 min
Todd McGowan, "Self-Sabotage: How We Try Not to Flourish" (Polity Press, 2026)
Jul 25, 20261h 9m
Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UNC Press, 2026)
Jul 24, 20261h 3m
Elad Lapidot, "State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Jul 22, 20261h 11m
Timothy Mitchell, "The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow" (Verso, 2026)
Jul 21, 20261h 0m
Kurt Warner, "False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy" (Vernon Press, 2024)
Jul 21, 202638 min
Caste as a Material Question with Rahul Sonpimple
Jul 20, 20261h 5m
Martin Fitzgerald, "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk about When We Talk about the JFK Assassination" (Biteback Publishing, 2026)
Jul 19, 202639 min
Luna Sabastian, "Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Jul 16, 202636 min
Recall This Book x The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian
Jul 16, 20261h 0m
Heidegger in Ruins
Jul 13, 2026
Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, "Freedom to Know: Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Jul 9, 202655 min
Alexandre Frenette, "Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 6, 202643 min
Gajendran Ayyathurai, "Tamil Buddhism and Brahminism in Modern India: Deep Resistance Against Caste" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 4, 20261h 36m
Joseph Turow, "The Problem with Personalization: How Advertisers Learned to Make and Break Us from Ancient Times to the AI Age" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jul 3, 20261h 7m
Kate Bayliss, "Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Jul 1, 202648 min
The Once and Future Republic: On Cicero, Locke, and the Making of America with Michael C. Hawley
Jul 1, 20261h 19m
Charles J. Stivale, "Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970–1987: Summaries and Commentary" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Jun 25, 20261h 43m
The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest
Jun 25, 202649 min
Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 24, 20261h 7m
Hilary R. Buxton, "Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jun 24, 20261h 13m
Robin Dembroff, "Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jun 22, 2026
Jean-Philippe Deranty, "The Case for Work" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 22, 202635 min
Steven Segal, "Mandela’s Leadership Legacy: Emotional and Existential Wisdom" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 19, 202658 min
Michael D. Nichols, "Batman and the Classics: Echoes of Mythology, Literature and Philosophy in the Comics and Films" (McFarland, 2026)
Jun 18, 202643 min
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober
Jun 17, 2026
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 14, 202654 min
Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)
Jun 13, 20261h 16m