Housing and tenants rights advocate Jay Forth comes on to talk about why reading both critical theory and poetry are so helpful in thinking about and interacting with the world around you.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Episode artwork: Frantz Fanon at a press conference during a writers' conference in Tunis, 1959 (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, & Stephen Merchant The Office
Rikki Ducornet The Fountains of Neptune
Julian Forth "Jean-Luc Nancy"
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Rumepstiltskin
Richard Hofstadter Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno Dialectic of Enlightenment
Henri Lefebvre Hegel, Marx, Nietszsche: or the Realm of Shadows
Herman Melville Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Jean-Luc Nancy Sexistence
Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Slavoj Žižek On Belief
