Tune in to the Always Already Podcast for indulgent conversations about critical theory (in the broadest read of the term!). Our podcast consists of two episode streams. The first is a discussion of texts spanning critical theory, political theory, social theory, and philosophy. We work through and analyze main ideas, underlying assumptions, connections with other texts and theories, and occasionally delve into the great abyss of free association, ad hoc theory jokes, and makeshift puns. The second stream, entitled Epistemic Unruliness, consists of interviews and discussions with activists, artists, and academics whose âdisobedientâ work builds upon the themes of that arise in the texts we discuss and in our ongoing podcast conversations.
In the first stream we also entertain the questions of friends and strangers and dole out slapdash advice about everything from massaging a head of Brooklyn kale to sweet talking a nebechy philosopher and dealing with the vagaries of academic life. We also put on our Freud-Klein-Lacan-Irigaray hats as we provide dream analysis to (always already anonymized) listener dreams.
Be a part by sending us text suggestions, interview ideas, advice questions to answer, and dreams to analyze.
The Always Already Podcast is created by B Aultman, Rachel Brown, Emily Crandall, John McMahon, and James Padilioni, Jr.
The text discussion episodes also entertain the questions of friends and strangers as we dole out slapdash advice to audience queries on everything from how to massage a head of Brooklyn kale to how to sweet talk a nebechy philosopher to how to deal with the vagaries of academic life. We also put on our Freud-Klein-Lacan hats as we provide dream analysis to (always already anonymized) listener dreams.
Tune in, and send us text suggestions, interview ideas, advice questions to answer, and dreams to analyze.
The Always Already Podcast is created by B Aultman, Rachel Brown, Emily Crandall, John McMahon, and James Padilioni, Jr.
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#98
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#61
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Interview: Dr. Vincent Lloyd on Black Dignity and the Struggle Against Domination â Epistemic Unruliness 38
lundi 9 janvier 2023 ⢠Duration
Weâre back! After a not-so-brief hiatus, weâre excited to bring you a very special and energizing episode. James and Sid talk with Dr. Vincent Lloyd about his latest book, Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination. In this lively conversation, your hosts and Vincent explore the new moral and political vocabulary of contemporary Black racial justice. [âŚ]
Interview: Breea Willingham on Incarceration, Higher Ed, and Abolition â Epistemic Unruliness 37
jeudi 16 septembre 2021 ⢠Duration
In this episode, John is joined by his colleague, Dr. Breea Willingham, to discuss her multiple forms of work on higher education in prisons, both within and without academia. Their conversation about the new Journal of Higher Education in Prison, the Jamii Sisterhood, the States of Incarceration Project, and being a Black woman abolitionist in [âŚ]
Interview: Mutual Aid and Black Queer Futurities, with Empty Your Venmo Fund â Epistemic Unruliness 33
lundi 14 septembre 2020 ⢠Duration
In this Epistemic Unruliness interview, James features Savanna TourĂŠ, Lincoln Mondy, and Amirio Freeman â the activists-creatives at the Empty Your Venmo Mutual Aid Fund for Black LGBTQ+ youth. The collective details their coming together within Washington, D.C. activist networks and highlights the distinction of their mutual aid/collective care mobilizations and their historic models from [âŚ]
Interview: Joanna Steinhardt and Tehseen Noorani on the Psychedelic Revival â Epistemic Unruliness 32
lundi 24 aoÝt 2020 ⢠Duration
In this episode, James welcomes back friend of the podcast Joanna Steinhardt and introduces Tehseen Noorani, co-editors of the recent âThe Psychedelic Revivalâ series published by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. From PTSD and opiate rehabilitation therapy, legalization and decriminalization initiatives, to âtech broâ microdosing and New Age spirituality eco-tourism, it seems that psychedlics are all [âŚ]
Interview: Joel Schlosser on Herodotus in the Anthropocene â Epistemic Unruliness 31
mardi 11 aoÝt 2020 ⢠Duration
In this episode, James and John interview Joel Alden Schlosser about his new book Herodotus in the Anthropocene (University of Chicago Press, 2020). The trio accompany Herodotus on his inquiry through the Ancient Mediterranean world to run headfirst into a conversation about the urgency of twenty-first century climate catastrophe. What are the stakes of earthly [âŚ]
Ep. 67 â Joel Olson, The Abolition of White Democracy
mardi 4 aoÝt 2020 ⢠Duration
In this episode, John and Sid are joined by friend of the podcast Danielle Hanley of Rutgers University to discuss Joel Olsonâs The Abolition of White Democracy (2004). Our discussion weaves through a number of pressing questions: How does Olson center Du Bois in political theory debates about American democracy and citizenship? In what ways are [âŚ]
Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human â Epistemic Unruliness 30
jeudi 2 juillet 2020 ⢠Duration
In this episode, Emily is delighted to talk with Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson about her new book Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Turning to African diasporic literature, Jackson theorizes the relationship between blackness and animality, bringing black critical theory and posthumanism to bear on one another. Our conversation traces Jacksonâs intellectual [âŚ]
Interview: Michael Sawyer on the Political Philosophy of Malcolm X â Epistemic Unruliness 29
lundi 1 juin 2020 ⢠Duration
In this episode, Sid and John have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Michael Sawyer about his new book, Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X. Offering a systematic account of Malcolm Xâs philosophy, Sawyer surfaces the distinctive radical humanism suffusing Malcolm Xâs thought. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Black state and vigilante violence, [âŚ]
Interview: Frank B. Wilderson III on Afropessimism â Epistemic Unruliness 28
lundi 11 mai 2020 ⢠Duration
In this very special episode, Sid and James sit down with Dr. Frank B. Wilderson, III for a lively and wide-ranging conversation about his new highly-anticipated book Afropessimism. Culminating much of Wildersonâs critical theoretical ouevre of the last twenty years, the trio discuss this coming-of-age narrative that chronicles Wildersonâs youthful journey via radical political movements [âŚ]
Ep. 66 â Juliet Hooker, Race and the Politics of Solidarity
mardi 28 avril 2020 ⢠Duration
In this episode, Emily, John, and Sid are joined by friend of the podcast Danielle Hanley of Rutgers University for a discussion of the first half of Juliet Hookerâs 2009 book Race and the Politics of Solidarity. We ask, what is the promise of solidarity and how is it achieved? How does this argument sit [âŚ]
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