Look who’s back in the New Year!

If you like ums & sort-ofs, this could be the podcast for you! 🌿 (Grateful to @saronikbosu.bsky.social & @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social for this chance. I promise the core point of the book is that history can be changed: no disastrous process, however apparently total, is ever set in stone.)

NEW EPISODE: ACTION WITHOUT HOPE NATHAN K. HENSLEY (@nathankhensley.bsky.social) reveals the prehistory of the contemporary feeling of powerlessness while inhabiting a world omnivorously captured by capital. hightheory.net/2025/03/17/a... @uchicagopress.bsky.social #BookSky #PodSky #AcademicSky

I recently got the chance to talk to Kim Adams, from @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social, to talk about the history of alcohol and my book "The Hour of Absinthe". The episode is now out: hightheory.net/2025/03/03/a... #DrinkingStudies #Colonialism #History #NorthAfrica 🗃️🍸

NEW EPISODE: ALCOHOL NINA STUDER (@drninastuder.bsky.social) tells us what discourses surrounding alcohol reveal about a society in a historical moment, like colonial North Africa. hightheory.net/2025/03/03/a... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social #booksky #podsky #alcoholsky #historysky #academicsky

Loved this conversation and feel inspired to try to read poetry every day 🌹

NEW EPISODE: POETRY RYAN RUBY (@ryanruby.bsky.social) argues that this indefinable thing humans have been doing well nigh forever is better understood as a medium than a form. hightheory.net/2025/02/20/p... @sevenstories.bsky.social #booksky #academicsky #podsky #poetrysky #books #podcasts

NEW EPISODE: FAILED PASSING IAN FLEISHMAN (@ianfleishman.bsky.social), talking about his new book Flamboyant Fictions, reimagines free will in queer literature and film. hightheory.net/2025/02/12/f... @nupress.bsky.social #BookSky #AcademicSky #FilmSky #MovieSky #QueerLiterature #QueerTheory

NEW EPISODE: CHANDIGARH VIKRAMADITYA PRAKASH talks about the #modernist and #brutalist #architect #LeCorbusier, the city #Chandigarh, emblematic of the #postcolonial Indian state. hightheory.net/2025/02/04/c... #AcademicSky #BookSky #ArchitectureSky #Modernism #Brutalism #midcentury #modernart

CONGRATS on the great numbers! It was an honor to join @saronikbosu.bsky.social to talk about 'aesthetic conversions' on the @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social this past fall. hightheory.net/2024/12/16/a... check out the episode!

At the end of last year, the fourth year of the podcast, our total listenership was 634k downloads! This year, in the first week, we have crossed 10k downloads! High Theory is a labor of love, run by two precariously employed scholars. They would like to say thank you! 🙏🏽 #AcademicSky

Thank you so much! FYI you can listen to at least TWO of our episodes during an average laundry cycle. #AcademicSky #Podcasts #PodSky

NEW EPISODE: NEGATIVE LIFE STEVEN SWARBRICK ( @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social ) and JEAN-THOMAS TREMBLAY ( @jttremblay.bsky.social ) name the misalignment of individual and species survival, as condition of thought and film. hightheory.net/2025/01/08/n... @nupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PodSky

NEW EPISODE: LONELINESS In our last episode of 2024, LAURA MARRIS says that loneliness can entail the shadow work for understanding how a society based on capital and on growth, creates profound isolation. hightheory.net/2024/12/30/l... #AcademicSky #PodSky #BookSky #Books #Podcasts #NewYearsEve

area short-form podcast in awe of magisterial long-form thinking closing out the year

in november, i had this great interview with @saronikbosu.bsky.social and Kim Adams of @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social for @mid-theory.bsky.social (high theory meets mid theory!) mid-theory.com/2024/11/01/o...

In this episode of High Theory podcast Saronik Bosu and I speak about 'aesthetic conversions', a concept I develop in my recent book Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global Thanks for the great chat, Saronik! @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social @saronikbosu.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE: AESTHETIC CONVERSIONS PALOMA CHECA-GISMERO (@palomacg.bsky.social) talks about processes that designate an object as art, particularly in the context of art biennials. hightheory.net/2024/12/16/a... @dukepress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PodSky #ArtSky #BookSky

Our sibling @mid-theory.bsky.social has burst upon the scene with so much amazing writing in such a short time, it's not even funny! You're missing out if you're not reading them already. #AcademicSky #Book #BookSky #CriticalTheory #CulturalCriticism

NEW EPISODE: BUG By stopping things from working as expected, says MARCELLO VITALI-ROSATI, the computer bug is a veritable Socratic demon. hightheory.net/2024/12/08/b... #AcademicSky #PodSky #BookSky #PhilosophySky #CSSky #EngineeringSky #book #podcast #digitalpublishing

A humble request: THANK YOU all for reading & engaging with MTC. We are delighted to see that we are reaching people, but we could always use your help in spreading the word. So feel free to share our pieces online or offline with your many brilliant circles!

NEW EPISODE: BIOPIC By portraying lives damaged by inconceivable loss in the AIDS crisis, says LAURA STAMM, queer filmmakers challenged the illusion of a coherent self presumably reinforced by the biopic genre. hightheory.net/2024/12/01/b... #AcademicSky #BookSky #PodSky #FilmSky #WorldAIDSDay

Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social ! #AcademicSky #Book #BookSky #podcast #PodSky

NEW EPISODE: REQUIRED READING PRIYASHA MUKHOPADHYAY talks about the functional archive of empire, from licenses and other bureaucratic documents to manuals and almanacs. hightheory.net/2024/11/23/r... @princetonupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Books #BookSky #PodSky #SouthAsia #Postcolonial

If you want to hear Hannah and her friends talk about this wonderful resource, we did an episode about it too! hightheory.net/2022/09/13/f...

We did that thing! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Podsky go.bsky.app/KWN6tDn

Mid Theory decided to join you in the blue skies! Check us out! mid-theory.com

NEW EPISODE: RISK FAYE RAQUEL GLEISSER tells us that risk has become a socially constructed danger that changes who we are and how we move through the world. hightheory.net/2024/11/17/r... #AcademicSky #criticaltheory #books #booksky #interview

Mid Theory Collective’s first reading group (on Percival Everett’s JAMES, hosted by Farah Bakaari and Bekah Waalkes) meets TOMORROW over zoom at 7:30pm ET. details in the link below! hope to see some of you there! mid-theory.com/reading/

We came back from hibernation and here is @oliviastowell.bsky.social writing all about it for Mid Theory Collective. We have NEVER felt so seen! mid-theory.com/2024/11/01/o... #academicsky #criticaltheory #books #bookssky #interview

NEW EPISODE: NON-LITERARY FICTION ESTHER GABARA tells us about works of fiction that belong to the world of contemporary art, rather than the world of contemporary literature. #academicsky #criticaltheory #theory #art #artsky #books #newbook #booksky hightheory.net/2024/11/09/n...

#resurrecting here with our latest episode GHOSTS IN OUR FIELDS with Abhishek Avtans, Angelina Eimannsberger, @travisclau.bsky.social, Mackenzie Cooley, @bakaari.bsky.social, Emma Heaney, @seeshespeak.bsky.social, Sritama Chatterjee, and @johnlinstrom.bsky.social hightheory.net/2024/11/01/g...