Many Academies

"The proliferation I see everywhere": Sophie Lewis on the praxis and theory of utopia and abolition

Lette Bragg talks with Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms, about actualizing care and thinking. 

Incognito Academic: Pia Deas on How Intellectuals Meet the World

One of the challenges to thinking or being otherwise is naming what you do. On this episode of Many Academies, we name the practices and values that orient Pia Deas within the Black tradition.

The Poets Made All the Words: Talking about Borg Diem with Cy Weise

On this episode, Lette Bragg and The Cyborg Jillian Weise talk about Borg Diem, a new dictionary edited and curated by Cy Weise and others. The dictionary begins (and stays) a game for disabled people by disabled people, and its format requires changing the rules of academic publishing and thinking about the importance of language.

Studying at Night School Bar

In this episode, Lindsey Andrews and D.M. Spratley talk about Night School Bar, a faculty collective offering evening classes in the arts and humanities. We talk about the school's origins, Marxism, study, and the connections between learning and life, trying to work through the push and pull of the university.

What the Seagrass Said

In this episode, I talk to Kriti Sharma and Michal Osterweil about their new book, co-authored with Arturo Escobar. Their book, Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human, moves away from conventional knowledge practices to make legible the possibility of a politics and future removed from our "toxic loops of existence." 

Thinking out loud with punctum books

On the first episode of Many Academies, Eileen Fradenburg Joy and Vincent van Gerven Oei, co-directors of punctum books, talk about the origin and mission of punctum, building an infrastructure to get books out, and how to infiltrate existing structures of knowledge production.