Conversations with artists, writers, intellectuals, workers--you choose the designation--about the politics of culture
Gabriella Coleman on x/Twitter, Palestine, US politics, group chats, hacking, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, and ethnography
You can read about her work here:
https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/gabriella-coleman
Jara Fernández Meneses sobre el cine Español, las políticas fílmicas y genero, el intento de crear un nuevo cine post-dictadura, los lenguajes nacionales, y la exportación
Se puede leer sobre su obra aquí:
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/629p5t/doctor-jara-fernandez-meneses
John Quiggin on the threat of US dictatorship, the end of neoliberalism, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, financial markets, privatization, economics, Australia, the environment and technology, the state, the positive future, and cultural struggles
You can read about John’s work here:
Wendy Su on China and the US, Chinese youth culture, nationalism, interviewing as a journalist versus scholar, China and Hollywood, co-production, US racism, and cultural studies
You can read about Wendy’s work here:
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wendysu
Kelly Gates on artificial intelligence, data centers, drone photography, facial recognition, communications and energy and water use, police video, media forensics, and personal history
You can read about Kelly’s work here:
https://communication.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/gates-kelly.html
Ned Randolph on Louisiana petro-politics, the environment, New Orleans, the Mississippi River, mud and capitalist extraction, and grassroots movements
You can read about his work and interests here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/search.php?q=Ned+Randolph#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Ned%20Randolph&gsc.page=1
Ruth Rentschler on artistic diversity, inclusion, disability, marketing, management, and funding
You can read about Ruth’s work here:
Helen Lenskyj and Ali Greey on writing, justice in sports, trans athletes, epistemic justice, health, science, anti-trans activism, ethnography, dialog, and boxing
You can learn about their work here:
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781802629859
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80262-985-920221001/full/html
Nicole Archer on the upcoming US elections, right-wing material culture, textile and needle labor, fast fashion, gender, race, consumption, art history, institutional aura, and flags versus banners
You can read about Nicole’s interests here:
https://garmentworkercenter.org/
Barbara Browning on ficto-criticism, Caetano Veloso, The Miniaturists, linked short stories, Covid-19, war, environment, Clarice Lispector, raising quail, the body, dance, and Randy Martin
You can read about Barbara’s work here:
https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/performance-studies/3015339
https://www.youtube.com/@barbarabrowning
Mark Deuze on the wellbeing of media workers and Faculty, journalism, precarity, Skinflower, Denis McQuail, and labor
You can read about Mark’s work here:
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/e/m.j.p.deuze/m.j.p.deuze.html?cb
Ian Hunter on philosophy and history, Kant, religion, cultural studies, Foucault, EP Thompson, Rawls, terrorism, colonialism, and reason
You can read about Ian here:
https://iash.uq.edu.au/profile/151/ian-hunter
Lilith Mahmud on Italy, immigration, liberalism, freemasonry, the Mediterranean, the EU, whiteness, Berlusconi, Meloni, fascism, Libya, Eritrea, slavery, energy, citizenship, and gender and anthropology
You can read about her interests here:
Judith Levine on COVID-19, poverty, US welfare, the Great Society, and higher education
You can read about her work here:
https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/levine-judith
https://liberalarts.temple.edu/ppl
Carolina Bandinelli on hybridized writing, Italian-English, Umberto Eco, creative work, entrepreneurialism, small fashion businesses, sustainability, and digital love and sex
You can read about her work here:
https://carolinabandinelli.com/
Dennis Broe on film noir, Maverick, television, his detective novels, and Los Angeles
You can read about Dennis here:
https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/
https://dennisbroe.substack.com/
https://www.laprogressive.com/author/dennis-broe
https://dennisbroe.substack.com/p/i-fought-the-law-new-podcast-on-the
David Pellow on Academics for Justice in Palestine, environmental justice, electronic toxicity, social movements, workers, garbage in Chicago, environmental colonialism, diverse activism, immigrants, and prisons
You can read about his work and concerns here:
https://es.ucsb.edu/david-n-pellow
Kerrie Foxwell-Norton on coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, communications and anthropocentrism, research priorities, gender, and the urgency of action
You can read about her work here:
Bruce Robbins on Gaza, atrocity, Columbia University, Social Text, Jewish activism, Thomas Mann, Raymond Williams, Matthew Arnold, Alexander Kluge, Edward Said, and cosmopolitanism
You can read about Bruce’s work here:
https://english.columbia.edu/content/bruce-robbins
Sivamohan Valluvan on international right-wing hegemony, nationalism, post-colonialism, pubs, Brexit, diversity, class, race, immigration, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and populism
You can read more about his work here:
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