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SUMMARY:Arne Höcker on paranoia and the totalitarian drift of modernity\, in conversation with Lilla Balint and Benjamin Kunkel
DESCRIPTION:Arne Höcker is Associate Professor of German Studies at CU Boulder. His publications include The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka (Cornell UP 2020)\, and Paranoia and the Totalitarian Drift of Modernity (Cornell UP 2026). \n\n\n\nLilla Balint is Associate Professor of German at the University of California\, Berkeley. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century German literature\, culture\, and thought in its transnational European contexts. Her work has appeared in venues such as Critical Quarterly\, German Quarterly\, Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Year Book\, and Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature\, among others. She is coeditor of Text + Kritik 244—Judith Schalansky (2024). Her monograph The Contemporary: History and Temporality after 1989 is forthcoming with De Gruyter. \n\n\n\nBenjamin Kunkel is the bestselling author of Indecision and Utopia or Bust\, and a co-founder of n+1. His writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. \n\n\n\nThis event is made possible by CU Boulder’s 2026 Kayden Book Award.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/arne-hocker-on-paranoia-and-the-totalitarian-drift-of-modernity-featuring-lilla-balint-and-ben-kunkel/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rodrigo Nunes on the global far-right\, in conversation with Júlia Martins Rodrigues
DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Nunes is an associate professor in philosophy at PUC-Rio\, Brazil and a visiting fellow at the University of Essex\, UK. His most recent book\, Anatomy of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right\, was published in English by Haymarket in 2026. He is also the author of Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation and Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks. His articles have appeared in Boston Review\, Les Temps Modernes\, Radical Philosophy\, Jacobin\, and The Guardian. He lives between London and Rio de Janeiro. \n\n\n\nJúlia Martins Rodrigues\, PhD\, is a Research Associate and the Associate Director of the Media Economies Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her areas of expertise include cooperative law\, multi-stakeholder cooperative networks\, shared ownership and collective governance. Júlia earned her PhD in Legal and Social Sciences from the Università Degli Studi di Camerino\, Italy. She also holds a Master of Law in Human Rights and Innovation from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora\, Brazil\, where she received her Juris Doctor and served as an Assistant Professor of Law. Additionally\, she has obtained a professional certificate as a “Third Sector Operator: Serving Nonprofit Causes & Communities” from the Bottega del Terzo Settore in Ascoli Piceno\, Italy. As a Latin woman born and raised in Brazil\, she is dedicated to advancing economic democracy and social justice\, viewing both as essential pathways to achieving shared prosperity and sustainability.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/rodrigo-nunes-on-the-global-far-right-in-conversation-with-julia-martins-rodrigues/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bhaskar Sunkara on socialism and America
DESCRIPTION:Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor of Jacobin and the publisher of The Nation. He’s the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality and co-author of The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/bhaskar-sunkara-on-socialism-and-america/
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SUMMARY:Marcia Chatelain on the women who made the March on Washington\, in conversation with Claire Kelley
DESCRIPTION:Marcia Chatelain is a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of South Side Girls and Franchise\, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History\, the James Beard Foundation Book Award for Writing\, the Hagley Prize for Business History\, and the Lawrence W. Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians. Her latest book is How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington.  \n\n\n\nClaire Kelley is a library specialist substitute at the Boulder Public Library\, a contributor to Library Journal\, and works in book publishing\, currently at Seven Stories Press.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/marcia-chatelain-on-the-women-who-made-the-march-on-washington-in-conversation-with-claire-kelley/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich on our ecological vulnerabilities\, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel
DESCRIPTION:Ben Ehrenreich is a journalist and novelist. He is the author of the novels The Suitors (Counterpoint 2006) and Ether (City Lights Books 2011)\, and of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine (Penguin 2016). His new book His journalism\, essays\, and criticism have since appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Nation\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Believer\, and the London Review of Books. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Haiti\, Cambodia\, El Salvador\, Mexico\, and all over the United States. His new book is forthcoming with Seven Stories Press. \n\n\n\nBenjamin Kunkel is the bestselling author of Indecision and Utopia or Bust\, and a co-founder of n+1. His writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books\, New Left Review\, Granta etc.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/ben-ehrenreich-in-conversation-with-benjamin-kunkel-on-our-ecological-vulnerabilities/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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