140 Episodes

  1. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 58: The Kafka Diaries—A Reading and Conversation with Translator Ross Benjamin

    Published: 2/3/2023
  2. Faculty Spotlight: Bruce King

    Published: 1/27/2023
  3. (Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 4: 2022 Cultural Year in Review

    Published: 1/20/2023
  4. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 57: At Year’s End with the Angel of History—2022 in Review

    Published: 12/30/2022
  5. (Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 3: Elden Ring: Endless Purgatorio

    Published: 12/9/2022
  6. Practical Criticism No. 65—Dark Side of the Moon

    Published: 11/22/2022
  7. Faculty Spotlight: Paige Sweet

    Published: 11/11/2022
  8. (Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 2: Stellan Skarsgårdian

    Published: 11/4/2022
  9. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 56: Virology—A Reading, Conversation, and Celebration with Joseph Osmundson

    Published: 10/27/2022
  10. Faculty Spotlight: Türkan Pilavci

    Published: 10/14/2022
  11. (Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 1: Elves and Dragons

    Published: 9/30/2022
  12. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 55.5, Shortcast: Heathers

    Published: 9/23/2022
  13. Practical Criticism No. 26—György Ligeti

    Published: 8/29/2022
  14. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 55: The Last Emperor

    Published: 7/29/2022
  15. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 54: Night of Ideas—Security Hoarding: Moving Beyond the Culture of Constant Vigilance

    Published: 7/15/2022
  16. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 53: Night of Ideas—Against Resilience: Exhaustion, Ecology, and Emancipation

    Published: 6/10/2022
  17. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 52: the End of Abortion

    Published: 5/27/2022
  18. Practical Criticism No. 60—Lingua Ignota

    Published: 4/22/2022
  19. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 51: Dream of the Divided Field

    Published: 4/8/2022
  20. Practical Criticism No. 63—Waltzing to War

    Published: 3/4/2022

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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.