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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Grace Lee Boggs

Hélène Cixous

Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, & Stephen Merchant The Office

Jacques Derrida

Rikki Ducornet The Fountains of Neptune

Frantz Fanon

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