140 Episodes

  1. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 80: On Realism, World-Building, Violence, and Desire—Joseph Earl Thomas, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Vinson Cunningham, and Paige Sweet in Conversation

    Published: 7/24/2024
  2. Faculty Spotlight: Jenny Logan on the Supreme Court and the Crime of Being Homeless

    Published: 7/12/2024
  3. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79.5: My Beautiful Laundrette — a Brief Film Guide

    Published: 6/21/2024
  4. Practical Criticism No. 68—Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter

    Published: 6/14/2024
  5. (Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 11: Civil War

    Published: 5/21/2024
  6. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79: CYBORG — A Conversation on Technology, Feminism, and the Future of a Concept

    Published: 5/17/2024
  7. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 78: Student Protests, Faculty Solidarity

    Published: 5/10/2024
  8. Faculty Spotlight: Danielle Drori on Exile, Erich Auerbach, and Returning to Tel Aviv

    Published: 5/3/2024
  9. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 77: Revolution and Counterrevolution — Klee's Angelus Novus and Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History

    Published: 4/25/2024
  10. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 76: Translation is Art — A Conversation on Autonomy, Power, Responsibility, and Making Meaning

    Published: 4/12/2024
  11. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 75: The Piano Teacher

    Published: 3/15/2024
  12. (Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 10: It’s Not Easy Being Green (Under Capitalism)

    Published: 3/9/2024
  13. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 74: The Exhausted of the Earth — A Conversation

    Published: 3/1/2024
  14. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 73: How to Blow Up a Pipeline – Extractive Capitalism, Political Violence, and Eco-Thriller Cinema

    Published: 1/3/2024
  15. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 72: At Year’s End with the Angel of History — 2023 in Review

    Published: 12/29/2023
  16. (Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 9: Things of the Year 2023

    Published: 12/22/2023
  17. Practical Criticism, No. 67: 2023 Algorithmically "Wrapped"

    Published: 12/16/2023
  18. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 71: Cooking is Thinking — Rebecca May Johnson in Conversation

    Published: 12/8/2023
  19. Practical Criticism No. 66/(Pop) Cultural Marxism Ep. 8: This Must Be The PC/PCM Crossover

    Published: 11/22/2023
  20. Faculty Spotlight: Sophie Lewis on Second Wave Feminism, Incipient Queerness, Auto-Analysis, and the Life of the Critic (ft. Paige Sweet)

    Published: 11/17/2023

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From Plato to quantum physics, Walter Benjamin to experimental poetry, Frantz Fanon to the history of political radicalism, The Podcast for Social Research is a crucial part of our mission to forge new, organic paths for intellectual work in the twenty-first century: an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring members of the Institute, and occasional guests, conversing about a wide variety of intellectual issues, some perennial, some newly pressing. Each episode centers on a different topic and is accompanied by a bibliography of annotations and citations that encourages further curiosity and underscores the conversation’s place in a larger web of cultural conversations.