Paul Adler, "No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Paul Adler's No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) is a history of the hardworking but understudied public interest progressives who...
26 Aug 20221h 42min
Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
In Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (Routledge, 2021), Ruben Espinosa explores the works of the early modern dramatist in the context of Trump-era immigration policies, anti-Black police violence, ...
26 Aug 202257min
Kareem Rabie, "Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank" (Duke UP, 2021)
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestin...
26 Aug 20221h 1min
Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization
The term “metaverse” was coined in a 1993 science fiction novel. Since then, it’s grown from a dystopian literary concept to a reality that corporations want to sell you. Strap on some VR goggles and ...
25 Aug 202246min
Ben Rhodes, "After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made" (Random House, 2021)
Ben Rhodes visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that are tearing America apart. Along the way, he discusses the gro...
24 Aug 202254min
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited ...
24 Aug 202258min
Gamify Everything: Turning Work Into Play . . . for Better and for Worse
Setting goals for the new year? Learning a language? Going for a run? Delivering food? Picking packages off a warehouse shelf for delivery? There’s a game for that. Or, at least, a gamified system des...
24 Aug 202251min
Reality TV
In this episode of High Theory, Olivia Stowell speaks with Saronik about Reality TV. In the episode she talks about the genesis of the genre in Candid Camera, An American Family, COPS and America’s Mo...
23 Aug 202216min
