very intetesting #Georgia
The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921 (Harvard University Press, 2026) is the definitive history of a government that should inspire social democrats today.
very intetesting #Georgia
The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921 (Harvard University Press, 2026) is the definitive history of a government that should inspire social democrats today.
What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist? What if we read his nonfiction philosophically? What can Baldwin help us understand and do now? In So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic (Northwestern UP, 2025), John Drabinski takes up this project to give a sustained philosophical reading of Baldwin’s nonfiction. Drabinski does so to understand the event of Baldwin’s contributions in the context of the Black Atlantic. Baldwin was a thinker who looked to the United States, even when in exile. But he was also in the broader context of the mid-twentieth century Black Atlantic, of which he was surely aware but wrote little—what if we read for what was absent from Baldwin’s texts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
A Concise History of #Serbia
Dejan Djokić
Hosted by Iva Glisic
Radiophilia
Carolyn Birdsall
#SoundStudies
@carobirdsall
Prof of Media Studies, Uni of Amsterdam know for her monograph Nazi Soundscapes
phantom power podccast
https://www.mackhagood.com/podcast/radiophilia/
Today’s guest is Carolyn Birdsall, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. If you’re a scholar of sound or radio, you likely know her work, particularly her monograph Nazi Soundscapes (AUP, 2012) which was the recipient of the ASCA Book Award in 2013. Her new book, Radiophilia
Kashmir Crisis #newbooksnetwork
features Nitasha Kaul, Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), University of Westminster, London, UK.
musical solidarities #poland #podcast #newbooksnetwork
finding way a little further into Asian modern, literary & political — thanks to Yale’s Sam Hodgkin doing podcasts
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/31-dec-24-persianate-twentieth-century-samuel-hodgkin/
#Persianate #Iran #Russia #SovietEmpire #SovietUnion #centralAsia #SamuelHodgkin #NewBooksNetwork #AjamMedia #AjamMediaCollective #PriyaSatia #PankajMishra
2024 Wrap-Up: Podcasts
Thanks to all of the #podcasts that invited me on this year!
My "Looking Back on Genre History" #ScienceFiction segment ran each month on #StarShipSofa.
I talked to #Potterversity about my book chapter "Dark Arts & Secret Histories: Investigating #DarkAcademia"; to #TrashCompactor & #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away; & to #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier.
I also talked #Tocqueville with the #VitalRemnants podcast & #MaryShelley twice with #TheMcConnellCenter podcast.
Links to all of these: https://www.amyhsturgis.com/?page_id=9
this is really good, if every people would work on themselves with agency, I'd have hope more for us humans #newbooksnetwork #books #vietnam
🎧👁️ https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/new-books-in-intellectual-history/id615393843?i=1000681218027