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NB Critical Theory New Books in Critical Theory is an author-interview podcast channel showcasing new books informed by critical theory. http://www.newbooksnetwork.com/

The channel has a back catalog of over 150 podcast episodes. New Books in Critical Theory is part of the New Books Network author-interview podcast consortium.

In OBJECT ORIENTED DIALECTICS: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman (Mimesis, 2022), Charles William Johns, in the style of Derrida,...
04/10/2022

In OBJECT ORIENTED DIALECTICS: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman (Mimesis, 2022), Charles William Johns, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the signifier ‘dialectic’ in both Martin Heidegger and Graham Harman’s work, arguing that such a negation of the term turns out to be more of an intentional repression than any passive act of neglection. Johns insists that such repression finds its way into their writing as an alternative interpretation of their core concepts altogether. Less a Hegelian critique of such thinkers and more a Heideggerian and Harmanian resuscitation of the dialectic in Hegel as a realist method capable of integration into contemporary philosophy, this book will be invaluable to anyone interested in the crossroads of contemporary strands of idealism, materialism and realism and the place of the dialectical method today. Listen in 👇
https://newbooksnetwork.com/object-oriented-dialectics

01/08/2022

Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could neither be taken nor granted, a sacred concept upon which the nation was established. The concept and actualization of freedom are also to be defended by the state. However, when such a concept has been arrogated, litigated, and delegitimized by a state that ignores its very definition, the concept of freedom comes under critical examination. Political theorist Elisabeth R. Anker has a new book dissecting the core of this conception of freedom.

UGLY FREEDOMS (Duke University Press) explores who defined and continues to define freedom, she also examines freedom’s rhetorical capacity, and thus its potential for weaponization. Anker illuminates how the tainted gestation of freedom birthed a status quo based on the individualistic and conditional conception of ‘freedom’ that has long been tangoing with white supremacy, colonialism, climate destruction, capitalism, and exploitation. Such a dance is by design and has been constant throughout U.S. history. Delve deeper on the author-interview podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/elisabeth-r-anker-ugly-freedom-duke-up-2022

01/08/2022

Who runs American politics?

In PRODUCING POLITICS: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us (Beacon Press), Daniel Laurison explores the hidden world of campaign professionals to offer a new sociological perspective on how contemporary politics works. The book explores how ‘politicos’ get their jobs, how they judge work and worth, and the importance of their actions to political campaigns, showing the inequalities at the heart of the profession. Alongside new theorizations of campaigning and of politics itself, the book offers essential reading across social sciences and arts and humanities, as well as to anyone interested in politics today. Laurison is our guest on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/producing-politics

As we lose more individual animals and entire species to catastrophic climate change, habitat destruction, toxic dumping...
20/07/2022

As we lose more individual animals and entire species to catastrophic climate change, habitat destruction, toxic dumping, and other human activities, it becomes increasingly difficult to register the full scope of the crisis.

In ANIMAL CRISIS: A New Critical Theory (Polity), Alice Crary and Lori Gruen reinvigorate the discourse of animal ethics with a critical theoretical approach that gives us new ways of thinking about what is owed to animals. By theorizing the links between human and non-human animal liberation, they offer ways of understanding why it can be so hard to see, hear, or feel the value and dignity of the animals right in front of us. Offering practices of interspecies solidarity, Crary and Gruen show us that we can transform the crisis we are in, but we must dismantle human supremacism to even connect with the need. Learn more on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/animal-crisis

It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is ...
06/07/2022

It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The self-image of art as a social good is collapsing under the weight of capitalism’s dysfunction.

In ART in the AFTER-CULTURE: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (Haymarket Books), art critic Ben Davis makes sense of our extreme present as an emerging "after-culture"—a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future. Tune in as Davis joins us on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/making-art-in-terrible-times

Labour has taken an about-turn. From Adam Smith’s proposal for specialisation which saw the factory line reorganised so ...
01/07/2022

Labour has taken an about-turn. From Adam Smith’s proposal for specialisation which saw the factory line reorganised so that each worker needed to understand only a small aspect of the production process, many industries now rely on access to specialised skills and resources that are commanded at-hoc in discrete, time- and output-bound chunks.

This is the logic of projects. The workforce no longer dedicates itself to the making of a singular commodity, as it was the case with Smith, but bids for discrete pieces of work when those are in demand. In some industries, for example, in the art world, the workforce is also charged with building the demand for their work by initiating the project which would then employ them.

THE ABC of the PROJECTARIAT: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World ( Manchester University Press) by Kuba Szreder contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in contemporary art. It is both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide. Kuba Szreder speaks to Pierre d’Alancaisez about the artistic project, and the effects of projectarisation on workers’ solidarity, communal governance, and the precarity of artistic activity. Tune in 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-abc-of-the-projectariat

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