The Podcast for Social Research

By The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

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Episodes: 100

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From Plato to quantum physics, Walter Benjamin to experimental poetry, Frantz Fanon to the history of political radicalism, The Podcast for Social Research is a crucial part of our mission to forge new, organic paths for intellectual work in the twenty-first century: an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring members of the Institute, and occasional guests, conversing about a wide variety of intellectual issues, some perennial, some newly pressing. Each episode centers on a different topic and is accompanied by a bibliography of annotations and citations that encourages further curiosity and underscores the conversation’s place in a larger web of cultural conversations.

Episode Date
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 77: Revolution and Counterrevolution — Klee's Angelus Novus and Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History
Apr 25, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 76: Translation is Art — A Conversation on Autonomy, Power, Responsibility, and Making Meaning
Apr 12, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 75: The Piano Teacher
Mar 15, 2024
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 10: It’s Not Easy Being Green (Under Capitalism)
Mar 09, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 74: The Exhausted of the Earth — A Conversation
Mar 01, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 73: How to Blow Up a Pipeline – Extractive Capitalism, Political Violence, and Eco-Thriller Cinema
Jan 03, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 72: At Year’s End with the Angel of History — 2023 in Review
Dec 29, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 9: Things of the Year 2023
Dec 22, 2023
Practical Criticism, No. 67: 2023 Algorithmically "Wrapped"
Dec 16, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 71: Cooking is Thinking — Rebecca May Johnson in Conversation
Dec 08, 2023
Practical Criticism No. 66/(Pop) Cultural Marxism Ep. 8: This Must Be The PC/PCM Crossover
Nov 22, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: Sophie Lewis on Second Wave Feminism, Incipient Queerness, Auto-Analysis, and the Life of the Critic (ft. Paige Sweet)
Nov 17, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library Dystopia
Oct 14, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 70.5: But I’m a Cheerleader—A Brief Film Guide
Sep 22, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 70: Critical Theory and the 21st Century
Aug 18, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 69: The Worst of Times? The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Culture
Aug 11, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 68: Critical Theory from Below—Race, Gender, and the Frankfurt School
Aug 04, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 67: What is Critical Theory?
Jul 28, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 7: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — Baroque Beauty and Mourning Play
Jul 21, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 66: Dear Prudence—Danny Lavery on the Art and Ethics of Advice-Giving
Jul 07, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 65: Wendy Eisenberg—Process, Performance, and Musical Power from Below
Jun 23, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: Joseph Earl Thomas on Memoir, Realism, Gayl Jones, and the Philadelphia Difference
May 26, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 64: Lucy Dhegrae—Music and Trauma
May 19, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 63: What is Cop City?
May 12, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 62.5, Shortcast: Fellini Satyricon Brief Film Guide
May 05, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 62: On Weak Writing—Lucy Ives's "Life Is Everywhere"
Apr 13, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 6: Everyone Enjoying Everything All the Time
Mar 31, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: Andy Battle on Capitalism and Urbanization, Eric Adams, Cop City, and the Right to the City
Mar 24, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 61.5, Shortcast: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Mar 17, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 61: Narrating Black Life—Joseph Earl Thomas's "Sink"
Mar 03, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 5: Avatar: Cinema's Watery Grave
Feb 25, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 60: Tangled Legacies—Jünger's Marble Cliffs
Feb 17, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 59: BISR Buddies
Feb 11, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 58: The Kafka Diaries—A Reading and Conversation with Translator Ross Benjamin
Feb 03, 2023
Faculty Spotlight: Bruce King
Jan 27, 2023
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 4: 2022 Cultural Year in Review
Jan 20, 2023
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 57: At Year’s End with the Angel of History—2022 in Review
Dec 30, 2022
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 3: Elden Ring: Endless Purgatorio
Dec 09, 2022
Practical Criticism No. 65—Dark Side of the Moon
Nov 22, 2022
Faculty Spotlight: Paige Sweet
Nov 11, 2022
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 2: Stellan Skarsgårdian
Nov 04, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 56: Virology—A Reading, Conversation, and Celebration with Joseph Osmundson
Oct 27, 2022
Faculty Spotlight: Türkan Pilavci
Oct 14, 2022
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 1: Elves and Dragons
Sep 30, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 55.5, Shortcast: Heathers
Sep 23, 2022
Practical Criticism No. 26—György Ligeti
Aug 29, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 55: The Last Emperor
Jul 29, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 54: Night of Ideas—Security Hoarding: Moving Beyond the Culture of Constant Vigilance
Jul 15, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 53: Night of Ideas—Against Resilience: Exhaustion, Ecology, and Emancipation
Jun 10, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 52: the End of Abortion
May 27, 2022
Practical Criticism No. 60—Lingua Ignota
Apr 22, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 51: Dream of the Divided Field
Apr 08, 2022
Practical Criticism No. 63—Waltzing to War
Mar 04, 2022
Practical Criticism No.58—Pavement
Feb 18, 2022
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 59: At Year's End with the Angel of History—2021 in Review
Dec 27, 2021
Practical Criticism No.57—Nala Sinephro + Pharoah Sanders/Floating Points
Oct 15, 2021
Practical Criticism No.47—Nirvana
Aug 27, 2021
Practical Criticism No. 48—Björk
May 18, 2021
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 48: Christine Smallwood's The Life of the Mind
May 13, 2021
Practical Criticism No. 41—One Big Country Song
Mar 23, 2021
Practical Criticism No. 11—Claude Debussy
Mar 23, 2021
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 47: Who Needs A World View? Raymond Geuss in Conversation
Mar 05, 2021
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 46: At Year's End with the Angel of History--2020 in Review
Dec 25, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 45: Empire and Capital
Nov 13, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 44: The Overdetermined Election
Oct 30, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 43: A Short Course in Neoliberalism
Sep 24, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 43: From Racial Capitalism to Prison Abolitionism: A BISR Teach-In
Aug 19, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 42: Night of Philosophy and Ideas--On Earthly Delights
Jul 01, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 41: Escapism
May 29, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 40: Night of Philosophy and Ideas--Life on the Edge: Guns, Terror, and the Culture of Constant Vigilance
May 09, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 39: Practical Criticism--Threepenny Opera
Apr 14, 2020
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 38: Night of Philosophy and Ideas--We Are Not All in This Together
Mar 06, 2020
At Year's End with the Angel of History: 2019 in Review
Dec 21, 2019
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 36: Difficult Pleasures
Dec 13, 2019
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 35: Capitalism’s Hidden Crises
Nov 09, 2019
On (Not) Guilty Pleasures
Jun 28, 2019
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 33: Ecology, Community, Prosperity: a Conversation with Eliza Griswold
Jun 01, 2019
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 32: Another Odicy: On the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Keats' Odes of 1819
Mar 20, 2019
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 31: Night of Philosophy and Ideas 2019
Mar 06, 2019
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 30: At Year's End with the Angel of History: A 2018 Cultural Retrospective
Dec 18, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 29.5, Shortcast: Phenomenology of the Holidays
Dec 18, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 29: The Fall that Wasn’t: A Decade Since the Financial Crisis
Dec 18, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 28: Theory on the Radio
Dec 18, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 27, Unnatural Disaster: Puerto Rico One Year after Hurricane Maria
Nov 09, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 26.5, Shortcast: The Dialectic of HGTV
Oct 19, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 26: Mandatory Separation--Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine
Oct 05, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 25.5, Shortcast: Bicentennial Frankenstein
Aug 03, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 25: Borders, Migration, and Crisis
Jul 20, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 24: Perennial Fashion--Music and Criticism
Apr 23, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 23: Dire States
Mar 23, 2018
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 22: Seeing Red--On the Centenary of the Russian Revolution
Nov 03, 2017
The Podcast for Social Research, Special Minicast Episode
Sep 13, 2017
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 21: Science and Society – Education, Access and the Question of Boundaries
Aug 18, 2017
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 20: The People's Summit
Aug 03, 2017
The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 19: Biopolitics in Bloomberg's New York
Mar 31, 2017
The Podcast for Social Research: Episode 18, "BISR Public Conversations--Uses of Poetry"
Mar 03, 2017
The Podcast for Social Research: Episode 17, "Reading Donna Haraway in the Anthropocene"
Feb 11, 2017
The Podcast for Social Research: Episode 16, "What Rough Beast? Contending with Trumpism"
Dec 23, 2016
The Podcast for Social Research: Episode 15, "Slouching Towards Election Day"
Nov 04, 2016
The Podcast for Social Research: Episode 14, "Violence and Resistance--Frantz Fanon"
Aug 24, 2016