The Podcast for Social Research
by The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
July 5, 2025 3:50 am
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.
Recent Episodes
Practical Criticism No. 72: Brian Wilson (God Only Knows What We'll do Without You...)
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3 months ago(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 16: Shine Bright Like a TIE Fighter
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3 months agoPodcast for Social Research, Episode 87: Deviant Matter
4 months agoPractical Criticism No. 71: Neko Case
4 months ago(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 15: Vampires!
4 months agoPodcast for Social Research, Episode 86: The Cancer-Industrial Complex: a Book Launch and Conversation with Nafis Hasan
4 months agoPodcast for Social Research, Episode 85.5: Mulholland Drive — a Brief Film Guide
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