Amy Gaeta uses the relationship between humans and technology, non-military use of drones being a prime example, to rethink concepts of passivity
The Hyperlocal
Nicholas Birns talks about ‘the hyperlocal’, a modality of American journalism in the early 1990s that he adapts to characterize a flexible
Care Ethics
Merel Visse and Inge van Nistelrooij talk with Kim about Care Ethics. Over the course of the episode, we discuss works by
Fandom
andré carrington talks about the origins of contemporary fandoms, race and gender as its determinants, and its emancipatory potential in the face
Economics
Matt Seybold talks about the development of economics as a discourse inside and outside the academy, its success in making itself felt
Theory from the South with Borderlines
Olga Verlato and Antara Chakrabarti, contributing editors at Borderlines, talk about the concept of theory from the south, which critiques the notion
Ghazal
Manan Kapoor talks about the Ghazal, the medieval Arabic poetic form which travelled to the Indian subcontinent in the 12th century and
Deindustrialization
Gabriel Winant talks with Kim about the decline of the industrial working class and the rise of the health care industry. Gabriel
Decolonial Queerness
Sandeep Bakshi (@sandeepbak on Twitter) talks to Saronik about understanding queerness and its emancipatory politics through transnational solidarity building, the persistent inclusion
Racial Affect
Oishani Sengupta talks about the felt experiences of racism, especially as they are represented in Victorian literature and its contemporary readership, which
Modernization
Varsha Venkatasubramanian discusses the many trajectories of modernization as a theoretical concept. She focuses mainly on the history of development in the
Sexual Difference
Emma Heaney talks about the social organization of the supposedly biologically derived terms of the sex binary into a hierarchy of persons
Resonance
Kim speaks with Julie Beth Napolin about Resonance. Julie Beth’s book The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (Fordham UP,
Experimental Life
Travis Chi Wing Lau talks about the notion that one can experiment on the fundamental conditions and nature of life in order
Realism
William Ghosh talks to Saronik about Realism, and how it can both be subtly conservative and effectively radical, depending on its use.
Diaspora with Diasporastan
In our second crossover episode, Saronik talks to Maryyum Mehmood and Aditya Desai, the hosts of Diasporastan, a podcast for discussions on
