In this episode, I cover Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
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Nov 2025
Eunsong Kim's "The Politics of Collecting" (Interview)
*Note: The Getty was meant to collect pre-20th century Western European art, not just 19th century Western European art, as per Paul Getty's will* In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Eunsong Kim, Associate Professor of English at Northeastern, to discuss her new book, "The Politic ... Show More
1h 19m
Nov 2021
Tearing at Myself: Interview with Judith Butler (part I)
In this episode we host the renowned philosopher, Judith Butler. She has been invested in psychoanalytic thought from early on in her career, but this dialogue received little attention. In this episode, Butler openly talks about her initial encounter with psychoanalysis as a que ... Show More
23m 57s
Dec 2021
The Surface is Rippled: Interview with Judith Butler (part II)
In this episode, we excitingly continue our conversation with the renowned Judith Butler. She takes us through her objection to the so-called opposition between surface reading and the hermeneutics of suspicion, describes what she calls “the relational move,” and animates for us ... Show More
27m 16s
Apr 2024
Human Conditions: ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt
In the fourth episode of Human Conditions, the last of the series with Judith Butler, we fittingly turn to The Human Condition (1956). Hannah Arendt defines action as the highest form of human activity: distinct from work and labour, action includes collaborative expression, coll ... Show More
12m 34s