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High Theory Podcast
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two tired academics trying to save critique from itself

Hosts Kim Adams and @saronikbosu.bsky.social

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NEW EPISODE: ACTION WITHOUT HOPE

NATHAN K. HENSLEY (@nathankhensley.bsky.social) reveals the prehistory of the contemporary feeling of powerlessness while inhabiting a world omnivorously captured by capital.

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@uchicagopress.bsky.social #BookSky #PodSky #AcademicSky
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If you like ums & sort-ofs, this could be the podcast for you! 🌿

(Grateful to @saronikbosu.bsky.social & @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social for this chance. I promise the core point of the book is that history can be changed: no disastrous process, however apparently total, is ever set in stone.)
NEW EPISODE: ACTION WITHOUT HOPE

NATHAN K. HENSLEY (@nathankhensley.bsky.social) reveals the prehistory of the contemporary feeling of powerlessness while inhabiting a world omnivorously captured by capital.

hightheory.net/2025/03/17/a...

@uchicagopress.bsky.social #BookSky #PodSky #AcademicSky
March 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW EPISODE: ACTION WITHOUT HOPE

NATHAN K. HENSLEY (@nathankhensley.bsky.social) reveals the prehistory of the contemporary feeling of powerlessness while inhabiting a world omnivorously captured by capital.

hightheory.net/2025/03/17/a...

@uchicagopress.bsky.social #BookSky #PodSky #AcademicSky
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I recently got the chance to talk to Kim Adams, from @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social, to talk about the history of alcohol and my book "The Hour of Absinthe". The episode is now out: hightheory.net/2025/03/03/a... #DrinkingStudies #Colonialism #History #NorthAfrica 🗃️🍸
Alcohol – High Theory
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March 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
NEW EPISODE: ALCOHOL

NINA STUDER (@drninastuder.bsky.social) tells us what discourses surrounding alcohol reveal about a society in a historical moment, like colonial North Africa.

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@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social #booksky #podsky #alcoholsky #historysky #academicsky
March 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Loved this conversation and feel inspired to try to read poetry every day 🌹
NEW EPISODE: POETRY

RYAN RUBY (@ryanruby.bsky.social) argues that this indefinable thing humans have been doing well nigh forever is better understood as a medium than a form.

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@sevenstories.bsky.social #booksky #academicsky #podsky #poetrysky #books #podcasts
February 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
NEW EPISODE: POETRY

RYAN RUBY (@ryanruby.bsky.social) argues that this indefinable thing humans have been doing well nigh forever is better understood as a medium than a form.

hightheory.net/2025/02/20/p...

@sevenstories.bsky.social #booksky #academicsky #podsky #poetrysky #books #podcasts
February 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
NEW EPISODE: FAILED PASSING

IAN FLEISHMAN (@ianfleishman.bsky.social), talking about his new book Flamboyant Fictions, reimagines free will in queer literature and film.

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@nupress.bsky.social #BookSky #AcademicSky #FilmSky #MovieSky #QueerLiterature #QueerTheory
February 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
NEW EPISODE: CHANDIGARH

VIKRAMADITYA PRAKASH talks about the #modernist and #brutalist #architect #LeCorbusier, the city #Chandigarh, emblematic of the #postcolonial Indian state.

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#AcademicSky #BookSky #ArchitectureSky #Modernism #Brutalism #midcentury #modernart
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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CONGRATS on the great numbers!

It was an honor to join @saronikbosu.bsky.social to talk about 'aesthetic conversions' on the @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social this past fall.

hightheory.net/2024/12/16/a...

check out the episode!
January 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
At the end of last year, the fourth year of the podcast, our total listenership was

634k downloads!

This year, in the first week, we have crossed

10k downloads!

High Theory is a labor of love, run by two precariously employed scholars. They would like to say thank you! 🙏🏽

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January 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thank you so much! FYI you can listen to at least TWO of our episodes during an average laundry cycle.

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One of the immense benefits of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and especially @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social is helping spark connections with books I wouldn’t immediately pick up.
January 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW EPISODE: NEGATIVE LIFE

STEVEN SWARBRICK ( @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social ) and JEAN-THOMAS TREMBLAY ( @jttremblay.bsky.social ) name the misalignment of individual and species survival, as condition of thought and film.

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@nupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PodSky
January 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
NEW EPISODE: LONELINESS

In our last episode of 2024, LAURA MARRIS says that loneliness can entail the shadow work for understanding how a society based on capital and on growth, creates profound isolation.

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#AcademicSky #PodSky #BookSky #Books #Podcasts #NewYearsEve
December 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
area short-form podcast in awe of magisterial long-form thinking closing out the year
Laura Heffernan & @rbuurma.bsky.social on HBCU teaching archive!

Tressie M. Cottom on academic clickbait!

@annakornbluh.bsky.social & @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social on pastness in classes!

@ecourtem.bsky.social on apocalypticism!

Jelani Favors & @samfr.bsky.social on student newspapers & more!!!
December 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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In this episode of High Theory podcast Saronik Bosu and I speak about 'aesthetic conversions', a concept I develop in my recent book Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global

Thanks for the great chat, Saronik!

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NEW EPISODE: AESTHETIC CONVERSIONS

PALOMA CHECA-GISMERO (@palomacg.bsky.social) talks about processes that designate an object as art, particularly in the context of art biennials.

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@dukepress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PodSky #ArtSky #BookSky
December 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM
NEW EPISODE: AESTHETIC CONVERSIONS

PALOMA CHECA-GISMERO (@palomacg.bsky.social) talks about processes that designate an object as art, particularly in the context of art biennials.

hightheory.net/2024/12/16/a...

@dukepress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PodSky #ArtSky #BookSky
December 16, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Our sibling @mid-theory.bsky.social has burst upon the scene with so much amazing writing in such a short time, it's not even funny! You're missing out if you're not reading them already.

#AcademicSky #Book #BookSky #CriticalTheory #CulturalCriticism
we’re still figuring ourselves out, but i’m loving that at @mid-theory.bsky.social we’re really finding our stride in conversations. consider reading this and all the interviews we published the last 2 months 😇
Today at MTC, we have an amazing artist interview with Berlin-based scholar & theatre practitioner Olivia Maria Schaaf, who discusses the status of musical theatre in Germany, the politics of mass enjoyment, & how to get laughter out of the basement.
mid-theory.com/2024/12/13/a...
December 13, 2024 at 2:59 PM
NEW EPISODE: BUG

By stopping things from working as expected, says MARCELLO VITALI-ROSATI, the computer bug is a veritable Socratic demon.

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#AcademicSky #PodSky #BookSky #PhilosophySky #CSSky #EngineeringSky #book #podcast #digitalpublishing
December 8, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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A humble request: THANK YOU all for reading & engaging with MTC. We are delighted to see that we are reaching people, but we could always use your help in spreading the word. So feel free to share our pieces online or offline with your many brilliant circles!
December 6, 2024 at 2:50 PM
NEW EPISODE: BIOPIC

By portraying lives damaged by inconceivable loss in the AIDS crisis, says LAURA STAMM, queer filmmakers challenged the illusion of a coherent self presumably reinforced by the biopic genre.

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#AcademicSky #BookSky #PodSky #FilmSky #WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Tune in to this episode of @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) hosted by @saronikbosu.bsky.social and listen to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay discuss her new book Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire. hightheory.net/2024/11/23/r...
November 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM
NEW EPISODE: REQUIRED READING

PRIYASHA MUKHOPADHYAY talks about the functional archive of empire, from licenses and other bureaucratic documents to manuals and almanacs.

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@princetonupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Books #BookSky #PodSky #SouthAsia #Postcolonial
November 23, 2024 at 3:41 PM
If you want to hear Hannah and her friends talk about this wonderful resource, we did an episode about it too!

hightheory.net/2022/09/13/f...
November 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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