Graham Meikle on social media, deep fakes, the internet of things, and social movements You can read about Graham's work here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/meikle-graham
May 03, 2024•59 min•Ep. 314
Richard Allen on Arabian Nights, Indian stories and films, Muslim influences, double identities, oral traditions, Alfred Hitchcock, psychoanalytic film theory, analytic philosophy, and ukiyo-e prints You can read about Richard here: https://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/people/allen-richard-william
May 03, 2024•58 min•Ep. 313
Daniel Fisher on indigenous Australians, the Northern Territory, fire, country music, radio, and media ethnography You can read about his work here: https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/daniel-fisher
May 02, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 312
Heather Ashley Hayes on rhetoric, violence, the ‘war on terror,' cartography, Martin Luther King internationally, civil rights, and The Teach Out You can read about her work here: https://www.heatherashleyhayes.com/ https://www.theteachout.com/
May 01, 2024•48 min•Ep. 311
Stuart Cunningham on semi-enforced semi-retirement, the relevance of research, cultural criticism and policy, creative industries, Griffith University, the humanities, grad school, Sylvia Plath, Frederick Wiseman, Charles Chauvel, writing poetry, innovation, René Girard, and Joseph Schumpeter You can read about Stuart’s work here: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/s.cunningham...
May 01, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 310
Juan Cole on Gaza, white nationalism, US foreign policy, Israeli colonialism, 19th-century European nationalism, race, the Quran, peace studies and Islam, public intellectuals, and area studies You can read about Juan’s work here: https://www.juancole.com/ https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/jrcole.html https://tomdispatch.com/authors/juancole/...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 309
Phaedra Pezzullo on plastics and crisis, impure politics, toxic tourism, climate justice, colonialism, conjunctural analysis, and gender You can read about Phaedra’s work and interests here: https://phaedracpezzullo.com/ https://www.stopformosa.org/ https://twitter.com/ecorethink?lang=en
Apr 30, 2024•57 min•Ep. 308
Jo Caust on local political funding of sports, arts funding, cultural policy, creative industries, cultural work, management, gender, and ethnicity You can read about Jo’s work here: https://jocaustarts.com/ https://www.routledge.com/Art-and-Politics-Government-and-the-Arts-in-Australia-A-Historical-and-Critical-Analysis/Caust/p/book/9781032040721...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 307
Karen Lee Ashcraft on the global rise of the far right and the role of gender, aggrieved manhood, affect, communication, organization, work, race, trans issues, evangelical families You can read about her work here: https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/communication/karen-ashcraft
Apr 29, 2024•56 min•Ep. 306
Gabriella Coleman on x/Twitter, Palestine, US politics, group chats, hacking, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, and ethnography You can read about her work here: https://gabriellacoleman.org/ https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/gabriella-coleman
Apr 26, 2024•53 min•Ep. 305
Jara Fernández Meneses sobre el cine Español, las políticas fílmicas y genero, el intento de crear un nuevo cine post-dictadura, los lenguajes nacionales, y la exportación Se puede leer sobre su obra aquí: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/629p5t/doctor-jara-fernandez-meneses
Apr 26, 2024•50 min•Ep. 304
John Quiggin on the threat of US dictatorship, the end of neoliberalism, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, financial markets, privatization, economics, Australia, the environment and technology, the state, the positive future, and cultural struggles You can read about John’s work here: https://substack.com/@jquiggin
Apr 26, 2024•57 min•Ep. 303
Wendy Su on China and the US, Chinese youth culture, nationalism, interviewing as a journalist versus scholar, China and Hollywood, co-production, US racism, and cultural studies You can read about Wendy’s work here: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wendysu
Apr 25, 2024•54 min•Ep. 302
Kelly Gates on artificial intelligence, data centers, drone photography, facial recognition, communications and energy and water use, police video, media forensics, and personal history You can read about Kelly’s work here: https://communication.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/gates-kelly.html
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 301
Ned Randolph on Louisiana petro-politics, the environment, New Orleans, the Mississippi River, mud and capitalist extraction, and grassroots movements You can read about his work and interests here: https://www.nedrandolph.net/ https://www.ucpress.edu/search.php?q=Ned+Randolph#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Ned%20Randolph&gsc.page=1 https://labucketbrigade.org/...
Apr 24, 2024•47 min•Ep. 300
Ruth Rentschler on artistic diversity, inclusion, disability, marketing, management, and funding You can read about Ruth’s work here: https://people.unisa.edu.au/Ruth.Rentschler https://www.facebook.com/connect2abilities/
Apr 24, 2024•49 min•Ep. 299
Helen Lenskyj and Ali Greey on writing, justice in sports, trans athletes, epistemic justice, health, science, anti-trans activism, ethnography, dialog, and boxing You can learn about their work here: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781802629859 https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80262-985-920221001/full/html https://spknmedia.podbean.com/e/sl-lenskyj-greey/ https://helenlenskyj.ca/ https://www.aligreey.com/...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 298
Nicole Archer on the upcoming US elections, right-wing material culture, textile and needle labor, fast fashion, gender, race, consumption, art history, institutional aura, and flags versus banners You can read about Nicole’s interests here: https://www.narcher.com/ https://garmentworkercenter.org/ https://artjournal.collegeart.org/ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20201208STO93327/the-impact-of-textile-production-and-waste-on-the-environment-infographics https://fashionhistory.f...
Apr 22, 2024•55 min•Ep. 297
Barbara Browning on ficto-criticism, Caetano Veloso, The Miniaturists, linked short stories, Covid-19, war, environment, Clarice Lispector, raising quail, the body, dance, and Randy Martin You can read about Barbara’s work here: https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/performance-studies/3015339 https://www.youtube.com/@barbarabrowning https://barbarabrowning.info/...
Apr 22, 2024•57 min•Ep. 296
Mark Deuze on the wellbeing of media workers and Faculty, journalism, precarity, Skinflower, Denis McQuail, and labor You can read about Mark’s work here: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/e/m.j.p.deuze/m.j.p.deuze.html?cb https://skinflower.bandcamp.com/
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 295
Ian Hunter on philosophy and history, Kant, religion, cultural studies, Foucault, EP Thompson, Rawls, terrorism, colonialism, and reason You can read about Ian here: https://iash.uq.edu.au/profile/151/ian-hunter https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/forschung/forschungsgruppen-und-stellen/forschungsstellen/forschungsstelle-fuer-fruehneuzeitliches-naturrecht/natural-law-1625-1850...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 294
Lilith Mahmud on Italy, immigration, liberalism, freemasonry, the Mediterranean, the EU, whiteness, Berlusconi, Meloni, fascism, Libya, Eritrea, slavery, energy, citizenship, and gender and anthropology You can read about her interests here: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5546 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mg_AiPGw-0
Apr 19, 2024•56 min•Ep. 293
Judith Levine on COVID-19, poverty, US welfare, the Great Society, and higher education You can read about her work here: https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/levine-judith https://liberalarts.temple.edu/ppl
Apr 19, 2024•58 min•Ep. 292
Carolina Bandinelli on hybridized writing, Italian-English, Umberto Eco, creative work, entrepreneurialism, small fashion businesses, sustainability, and digital love and sex You can read about her work here: https://carolinabandinelli.com/
Apr 19, 2024•53 min•Ep. 291
Dennis Broe on film noir, Maverick, television, his detective novels, and Los Angeles You can read about Dennis here: https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/ https://dennisbroe.substack.com/ https://www.laprogressive.com/author/dennis-broe https://dennisbroe.substack.com/p/i-fought-the-law-new-podcast-on-the https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/DennisBroe/text.html...
Apr 17, 2024•58 min•Ep. 289
David Pellow on Academics for Justice in Palestine, environmental justice, electronic toxicity, social movements, workers, garbage in Chicago, environmental colonialism, diverse activism, immigrants, and prisons You can read about his work and concerns here: https://es.ucsb.edu/david-n-pellow https://icrt.co/ https://www.cccjn.org/...
Apr 16, 2024•56 min•Ep. 288
Kerrie Foxwell-Norton on coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, communications and anthropocentrism, research priorities, gender, and the urgency of action You can read about her work here: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/7251-kerrie-foxwellnorton
Apr 16, 2024•42 min•Ep. 287
Bruce Robbins on Gaza, atrocity, Columbia University, Social Text, Jewish activism, Thomas Mann, Raymond Williams, Matthew Arnold, Alexander Kluge, Edward Said, and cosmopolitanism You can read about Bruce’s work here: https://english.columbia.edu/content/bruce-robbins
Apr 15, 2024•54 min•Ep. 286
Sivamohan Valluvan on international right-wing hegemony, nationalism, post-colonialism, pubs, Brexit, diversity, class, race, immigration, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and populism You can read more about his work here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/valluvan/
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 285
Jonathan Portes on immigration, Brexit, xenophobia and racist sentiment and policies, health, education, civil service, and the UK economy You can read about Jonathan here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-jonathan-portes https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
Apr 15, 2024•52 min•Ep. 284