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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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March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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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March 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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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February 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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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February 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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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February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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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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January 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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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December 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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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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December 16, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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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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The image for this episode shows a black line drawing of a moth on a purple and black patterned background. It was created by Saronik Bosu by manipulating public domain photograph of the circuitry of IBM 7030 and a drawing from a nineteenth century entomology textbook, also in public domain.
December 8, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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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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December 1, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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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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November 23, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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If you want to hear Hannah and her friends talk about this wonderful resource, we did an episode about it too!

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November 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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NEW EPISODE: RISK

FAYE RAQUEL GLEISSER tells us that risk has become a socially constructed danger that changes who we are and how we move through the world.

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November 17, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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November 16, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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NEW EPISODE: NON-LITERARY FICTION

ESTHER GABARA tells us about works of fiction that belong to the world of contemporary art, rather than the world of contemporary literature.

#academicsky #criticaltheory #theory #art #artsky #books #newbook #booksky

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November 10, 2024 at 4:39 PM