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Leslie Barnes
Associate Professor of French Studies, Australian National University
Australian National University
Episode: Leslie Barnes, "Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Michaela Hulstyn
Author of Unselfing, Associate Director of and Lecturer in the Structured Liberal Education Program at Stanford University
Stanford University
Episode: Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Andrew Lister
Author of Justice and Reciprocity, Oxford University Press (2024)
Oxford University Press
Episode: Andrew Lister, "Justice and Reciprocity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Amir Saemi
Author of Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond, A New Problem of Evil
Oxford University Press
Episode: Amir Saemi, "Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Eivind Røssaak
Research professor at the National Library of Norway, author of The Cory Arcangel Hack
National Library of Norway
Episode: Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice" (MIT Press, 2025)
Daniel Rachel
Author of This Ain't Rock and Roll, Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich
Author, Akashic Books
Episode: Daniel Rachel, "This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich" (Akashic Books, 2026)
Ainehi Edoro
Assistant Professor of English and African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Founding Editor of Brittle Paper
University of Wisconsin–Madison; Brittle Paper
Episode: Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Milan Terlunen
Literary scholar with a focus on novels, narrative, and reading practices
Episode: Pre-Reading
Mark Pennington
Professor of Political Economy, King's College London; author of Foucault and Liberal Political Economy, Power, Knowledge, and Freedom (Oxford University Press)
King's College London
Episode: Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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    Really enjoyed this conversation with Dr Welch.

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  • Learn to use a microphone

    Trying to listen to Wolin’s discussion of his new Heidegger book. Not sure if it’s Wolin or his interlocutor who keeps touching his microphone, but good grief. Unlistenable, even beyond Wolin’s tedious prolixity.

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  • More 2 Author Discussions

    Absolutely engaging and informative discussion between Slobodian and Stern and the kind of format change that will set the pod apart. Hope you decide to continue in this direction.

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    carterfrancis
    United States10 months ago
  • Insightful research about capitalism + whack picks

    Hit or miss episodes. The episodes hosted by Dr. Miranda Melcher recently are the best, with researchers who apply pretty diverse methodologies to building our understanding of history of labor, science / philosophy, finance, and institutions under capitalism and imperialism. Other episodes are wild, typical virtue-signaling masturbatory culture-war-fetishizing types of content that don’t seem to understand what capitalism is or that we operate within it. Gotta pick the ones worth listening to.

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    I used to listen to this podcast regularly, but I will no longer be doing so. The episode with genocide apologist Susie Linfield was offensive, racist, unserious and smug. The usual Zionist qualities. Susie poses as a leftist, but is anything but. She attacks the real left in patronizing fashion, without any substantive critique of her own, positioning herself as an expert in the Middle East and “Terrorism” while ignoring or dismissing the real experts in the field. The host coddles her rac... more

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Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Q: How do you treat the ethics of care as an alternative to empathy-centric ethics in your conclusion?
Care ethics shift the focus from individual self-transcendence to human vulnerability and collective action, suggesting that ethical understanding arises from decentering the autonomous self and attending to interdependent needs across communities and non-human actors.
Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Q: Could you explain the distinction between unselfing in experience and unselfing in narrative, and how these play out in your authors?
Unselfing in experience refers to a moment of altered consciousness, while unselfing in narrative is about emplotting that experience over time; different writers use narrative to either illuminate or complicate the limits of consciousness across diverse contexts.
Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Q: What is your understanding of the self as shaped by phenomenology, and who are some philosophers whose work shape your approach here?
Phenomenology treats the self as something to be explored in a literary mode, with thinkers like Merleau-Ponty guiding attention to the body and perception, while others like Sartre and Beauvoir, along with Bettel's discussions of the gaze, show how external others and social dynamics shape self-concept.
Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Q: So could you tell us a bit about the genesis of this project and the way you established your corpus, and in particular about your choice of a global French framework?
The global French approach bridges European modernism and post-colonial perspectives, aiming to move beyond the national literature model by attending to form and power across the French-speaking world, with unselfing emerging from the interaction of limit experiences and the ruptures it creates in selfhood.
Leslie Barnes, "Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Q: How do you handle terminology and imperial legacies in your analysis?
Barnes explains she uses sex work as the preferred term while acknowledging contexts where prostitution appears; she discusses imperialist and colonial frameworks, aiming to avoid referential inequalities and to be precise about local terms and conditions in Cambodia and Vietnam.

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This show features in-depth conversations with scholars about recently published theory-heavy books across philosophy, political theory, literature, and related fields. Episodes often explore topics like critical theory, state power, memory, language, and globalization through rigorous intellectual discussion, sometimes blending archival anecdotes, pedagogical reflections, and cross-disciplinary perspectives. A standout trait is the sustained emphasis on how theory translates into public understanding, with guests ranging from translation philosophy to autotheory and the politics of memory, all aimed at researchers, students, and curious, academically inclined listeners. Notable strengths include long-form, conversation-heavy formats that p... more

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