High Theory Podcast
two tired academics trying to save critique from itself
Hosts Kim Adams and @saronikbosu.bsky.social
hightheory.net
- Kim Adams, one half of High Theory, has written about @eramalam.bsky.social's new book, "The Care of Foreigners", for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social . Check out our episode with Eram here: hightheory.net/2023/07/07/s... #academicsky #booksky #HealthCare #medicalhumanities
- Look who’s back in the New Year!
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- 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...
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- 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
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- 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...
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