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Theoretical times - accelerated culture

These theoretical times are also accelerated times.  What is the role of momentum and speed in our understanding of identity and popular culture?  Tara and Steve talk about accelerated culture and accelerationism, and the countervailing forces of slow culture and slow food.

Theoretical times - reproletarianization

What happens to a working class when there is no longer work?  How do we think about middle class in relation to a digitized, globalized, casual workplace?  Steve and Tara talk about reproletarianization and its relationship with Guy Standing's Precariat.

Theoretical times - foreclosure

How did the Global Financial Crisis impact on our understandings of social relationships and identity?  Has foreclosure become a 'global condition'?  Tara and Steve probe the concept of foreclosure and its relevance to theoretical times.

Theoretical times - Bunker anthropology

Why are methods so boring in the contemporary university?  How can the theories of method be enlivened and enlivening in the humanities and social sciences?  Steve and Tara translate and transform Paul Virilio's Bunker Archaeology to develop a new way of thinking about space, identity, ethnography and surveillance.

Theoretical times - claustropolitan sociology

Does sociology have a future?  How does the discipline - and the scholars within it - manage neo-liberalism, xenophobia, terrorism and gated communities?  Steve and Tara explore the concept of 'claustropolitan sociology' as part of their 'Theoretical times' series.

Research planning in difficult times

How can you create a research plan?  How can early career, mid career and senior scholar managed research policies demanding high levels of productivity and accountability?  Tara and Steve talk about how to develop a research career in difficult times for higher education.  Strategies are offered for scholars throughout their career.

A guide through "Mary, egg and croissant"

Tara introduces an assignment exploring the role of food in art.  The image is titled "Mary, egg and croissant" and was photographed by William Klein.  The image is located at these urls:  http://www.pinterest.com/pin/30117891231012175/ and
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-F-2005-107-360

Mick Winter 12 - Mythic Mick speaks

Steve, Tara and Mick review Mick's endorsement of candidature event.  They explore why it was so successful, offering strategies for other doctoral students who follow him.

Theoretical times - Louis Althusser

We need - right now - a complex and intricate theorization of power and the state.  Louis Althusser provides scholars and citizens with that theorization.  Steve and Tara, in this sixth podcast in Theoretical Times, discuss Louis Althusser and why he is returning to intellectual fashion.

Indigenous sky stories with Nicholas Ruddell

How do we align and enhance conventional scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledges?  Nicholas Ruddell has taken on this challenge for his PhD.  His goal is to help students and teachers align and combine world views to create an intellectual environment of excitement, motivation, knowledge and social justice.