Farah Bakaari talks about Trace, a core concept in deconstruction, that denotes an absent presence, a mark of something that is no
Teletherapy
Hannah Zeavin talks about teletherapy, from Freud’s letters to suicide hotlines to therapy apps. If therapy is always mediated, teletherapy is any
Sextuality
Stephen Guy-Bray talks about sexuality, a concept that brings together the the use of sexual metaphors in the description of textual production
Cognitive Cultural Studies
Torsa Ghosal talks about Cognitive Cultural Studies, a field that entails methodologies that situate the human mind in historical and cultural contexts,
WikiVictorian
Helena DiGiusti talks about @WikiVictorian, the Twitter account that she runs. More than a traditional wiki, it embodies the randomness and miscellaneous
Archives
Matt Poland talks about the meaning of archives, the nature of their construction, the physical environments that archives engender, and their emancipatory
Lust
Eric Wade speaks with Saronik about lust. They discuss how depictions of sexuality in medieval literature have persisted through literary traditions and
Drone Life
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
