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
Faculty Spotlight: Lauren Wolfe, Paige Sweet, and Miranda Trimmier on Writing, Translation, and the Uses of Theory
Jul 31, 2026
Episode 98: Sophie Lewis's Femmephilia, Gender, Pleasure, and the Politics of Girly Things
Jul 03, 2026
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 97: Slop Machine Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner on the Aesthetics of Contemporary Fascism
Jun 12, 2026
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 96: Here Where We Live Is Our Country, An Evening with Molly Crabapple
Jun 05, 2026
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 95: On Crisis and the Origins of Modern Iran
Apr 15, 2026
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 94.5: B.F. Skinner Plays Himself — a Brief Film Guide
Apr 03, 2026
Political Humiliation, Collective Struggle: A Conversation with Roxanne Euben
Dec 19, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 93: Nature's Value — Alyssa Battistoni in Conversation with Nafis Hasan and Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Nov 26, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei - A Specter is Haunting Ezo
Oct 31, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 92.5: Hangmen Also Die! — a Brief Film Guide
Oct 24, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 18: I Don't Know What You Did Last Summer
Sep 19, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 92: No Borders: Folk, Fusion, and Tradition — Ghost Peppers in Concert
Aug 29, 2025
Faculty Spotlight: Alfred Lee and Xafsa Ciise on AI, Big Tech, Race, and Histories of Trauma
Aug 21, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 91: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 Years Later
Aug 15, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 90: TRANSgressions — Rights, Wrongs, and Liberal Pieties
Jul 25, 2025
Practical Criticism No. 72: Brian Wilson (God Only Knows What We'll do Without You...)
Jul 04, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 17: I Have Friends Everywhere
Jun 27, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 89: Eyes Wide Shut — a Film Guide
May 02, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 16: Shine Bright Like a TIE Fighter
Apr 25, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 88: The Sound of Lispector
Apr 18, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 87: Deviant Matter
Apr 03, 2025
Practical Criticism No. 71: Neko Case
Mar 28, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 15: Vampires!
Mar 21, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 86: The Cancer-Industrial Complex: a Book Launch and Conversation with Nafis Hasan
Mar 14, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 85.5: Mulholland Drive — a Brief Film Guide
Feb 28, 2025
Practical Criticism, No. 70: Roy Hargrove and the RH Factor
Feb 21, 2025
Faculty Spotlight: Nazism is Not the Past — Hannah Leffingwell on Dagmar Herzog, Sex After Fascism, and Why Donald Trump is Not Camp
Feb 14, 2025
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 85: Assessing the Aftermath — Gaza, the Ceasefire, and Beyond
Feb 13, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 14: Things of the Year 2024 — Part II
Feb 07, 2025
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 13: Things of the Year 2024 — Part I
Dec 31, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 84: Paradise Lost and Its Revolutionary Afterlives — Orlando Reade in Conversation
Dec 27, 2024
Practical Criticism No. 69 — 2024 Algorithmically "Wrapped"
Dec 20, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 83: Big Bend in Concert
Dec 13, 2024
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 12: Megalopolis — or, the Decline and Miraculous Resurrection of American Empire
Nov 15, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 82: The Worst Laid Plans — Initial Reflections on the U.S. 2024 Election
Nov 08, 2024
Faculty Spotlight: Bohemia Is An Imaginary City — Jude Webre on Dawn Powell, the Lady Wit, and the American Mid-Century
Oct 25, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81.5: Romeo + Juliet — a Brief Film Guide
Sep 26, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 81: Medium Cool — or, "Jesus, I Love to Shoot Film"
Aug 23, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 80: On Realism, World-Building, Violence, and Desire—Joseph Earl Thomas, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Vinson Cunningham, and Paige Sweet in Conversation
Jul 24, 2024
Faculty Spotlight: Jenny Logan on the Supreme Court and the Crime of Being Homeless
Jul 12, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79.5: My Beautiful Laundrette — a Brief Film Guide
Jun 21, 2024
Practical Criticism No. 68—Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter
Jun 14, 2024
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 11: Civil War
May 21, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 79: CYBORG — A Conversation on Technology, Feminism, and the Future of a Concept
May 17, 2024
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 78: Student Protests, Faculty Solidarity
May 10, 2024
Faculty Spotlight: Danielle Drori on Exile, Erich Auerbach, and Returning to Tel Aviv
May 03, 2024
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