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In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history

Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a

In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar, author of Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Eco

Risk

2024/11/16

In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in eco

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Pre

Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philos

How to think about the contradictory figure of R. Murray Schafer? A renegade scholar who used sound

Non-literary Fiction

2024/11/9

In this episode of High Theory, Esther Gabara talks with us about Non-Literary Fiction, that is, wor

R. Murray Schafer recently passed away on August 14th 2021. If you’re someone who works with sound o

Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton UP, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated global

On Listening In

2024/10/28

Today, in honor of World Listening Day, we rebroadcast our story on renowned Australian sound compos

In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lucy Benjamin.Dr Lucy Benjamin is a researcher in architectural t

What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a ca

Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Dr. Rochelle Gurstein set out t

In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 202

It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adapt

In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024)

For Some Odd Reason

2024/10/7

Today’s guest, Kate Carr, is an accomplished sound artist and field recordist whose recent work grap

Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. T

We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks display