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Interchange – Writing Radicals: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:02 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is a somewhat altered version of a program that first aired on November 3rd, 2015, called Tracking Subversives with the noted scholar of the “literary Left,” Alan Wald. According to Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” Wald has …

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Interchange – Politics Lost: The Academic Left and Posthumanism

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:14 — 43.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTim Brennan joined me in the WFHB studio when he was in Bloomington to deliver the lecture “Biopolitics: The Limits of the Liberal Imagination” as a guest of the Contemporary Africa Seminar Speaker Series. The conversation ranged from the aforementioned biopolitics to seeing the state as a …

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