The Critical Lede

This week we get a chance to discuss facial recognition technology and its cultural implications with Kelly Gates.

We discuss Raka Shome's new article on the ideology of global motherhood (Princess Di, Angelina Jolie, etc.) and how it fixes whiteness at the center of that identity.

We are talking with Joan Scott this week about whether or not feminist history is possible.

This week we chat with Orin Starn about his new book about Tiger Woods' scandal and the aftermath. He has some interesting things to say about race in contemporary society, celebrity scandals, and the value of anthropology to our every day lives.

This week we are sitting down with folks who contributed to the recent Text and Performance Quarterly forum on the Performative Possibilities of New Media for scholarship. We discuss what new media allows us to do and how new media scholars should present their work.

Creepy, crawly, scary monsters. In this interview with Scott Poole, we talk about why we are drawn to the monsters we are. What does our obsession with the frightful tell us about ourselves?

We get a chance to discuss Dustin Goltz's new article in Text and Performance Quarterly about how to ethically do critique in academia.

What is the state of the printed scholarly word? How does the interactivity of the internet change the idea of blind review? What is the value of new media in creating scholarship? These are questions that Fitzpatrick discusses with us in this fascinating interview.

What ethical obligations do we have when we encounter others' stories? What about when we try to write them? These are some of the questions we tackle in this week's episode.

In this episode we discuss the contested nature of space and monuments. Who says what monuments mean? What are the options for "Queering" these spaces?