Channel Spotlight: New Books in Critical Theory

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Every week, we’ll feature an NBN channel, along with a playlist of some of our most popular episodes. This week’s channel is New Books in Critical Theory.

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Episodes:

• Eva von Redecker, "Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2021)

• Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt Now" (Polity, 2018)

• Matthew Flisfeder, "Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

• Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

• Matthew McManus, "The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

• Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)

• Vivek Chibber, "Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It" (Verso, 2022)

• Bernard E. Harcourt, "Critique and Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action" (Columbia UP, 2020)

• Elinor Carmi, "Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media" (Peter Lang, 2020)

• Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)

• Himani Bannerji, "The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender" (Brill, 2020)

• Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)

• Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)

• Graham Harman, "Architecture and Objects" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

• Domenico Losurdo, "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet" (Haymarket Books, 2021)

• Nina Power, "What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents" (Penguin, 2022)

• Ben Burgis, "Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left" (Zero Books, 2019)