Everything is Ideology: A Cultural Studies Podcast is a collection of interviews hosted by Dr. Lee Caplan, featuring conversations with scholars, writers, and thinkers whose recent work contributes to the broad and interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies. Each episode centers on a newly published article, book, or research project, using it as a starting point to explore larger questions about power, ideology, culture, and everyday life.
Everything is Ideology: a Cultural Studies Podcast
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Everything is Ideology: A Cultural Studies Podcast is a collection of interviews hosted by Dr. Lee Caplan, featuring conversations with scholars, writers, and thinkers whose recent work contributes to the broad and interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies. Each episode centers on a newly published article, book, or research project, using it as a starting point to explore larger questions about power, ideology, culture, and everyday life.
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June 22, 2026
Fanon and Glissant on Breaking with the Colonial Past with David Ventura
<html><p>Show notes: In this episode, I'm joined by David Ventura, Associate Res earcher at Newcastle University, whose work engages the Black Radical Tradition, colonial temporality, and practices of refusal. We discuss his recent article, "History and Histories: Fanon and Glissant on Breaking with the Colonial Past," which revisits an enduring question within decolonial thought: What relationship should struggle for liberation have to the past?</p><p>Drawing together the work of Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant, Ventura challenges readings that position the two thinkers in opposition. Instead, he argues that both provide indispensable resources for thinking about how colonial histories continue to structure contemporary life, while also illuminating the traces of resistance, invention, and fugitivity that make decolonized futures imaginable.</p><p>Our conversation explores Fanon's psychiatric practice in Algeria, Glissant's distinction between History with a capital "H" and plural histories, the political significance of creolization, debates surrounding Negritude, and competing interpretations of revolutionary rupture, historical memory, and the possibility of invention. Along the way, we consider what it means to read Fanon and Glissant together, not as rivals, but as complementary thinkers whose work helps us better understand the temporalities of colonialism, the persistence of its afterlives, and the poetic and ethical practices through which they might be refused.</p><p></p><p>Biography: David Ventura is an Associate Researcher at Newcastle University (UK), where he recently completed a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship focused on Édouard Glissant. Broadly speaking, David’s work engages the Black radical tradition to interrogate how the history of transatlantic slavery continues to structure the political coordinates of today’s world, as well as the radical practices and poetics through which that structuration might be displaced and refused. David’s research has featured in Philosophy & Social Criticism, The C.L.R. James Journal, and with German Primera, he recently co-edited a special issue of Paragraph on the topic of time and refusal. David is currently working on a book project, titled Poetics of Refusal: Refiguring Fugitivity with Édouard Glissant, which expounds Glissant’s imaginary of refusal by examining a series of figures of refusal that appear in his fictional writings. </p><p></p><p>Links: <a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase26?openform&fp=clrjames&id=clrjames_2024_0030_0001_0221_0248" target="_blank">https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase26?openform&fp=clrjames&id=clrjames_2024_0030_0001_0221_0248</a></p></html>
June 16, 2026
Western Civilization in Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism with Zeyad el Nabolsy
<html><p><a href="https://Patreon.com/everythingisideology" target="_blank">Patreon.com/everythingisideology</a></p><p><a href="https://Buymeacoffee.com/everythingisideology" target="_blank">Buymeacoffee.com/everythingisideology</a></p><p>Show Notes: In this episode of I sit down with philosopher Zeyad el Nabolsy to discuss his article, "The Concept of Western Civilization in Black Marxism: Cedric Robinson as an Ethnophilosopher." Together, we explore one of the most influential and debated texts in Black Studies and political theory: Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.</p><p>Our conversation examines Robinson's conception of Western civilization as a transhistorical formation structured by racism, his account of the Black Radical Tradition, and his critique of Marxism. We discuss whether racism can be understood as a continuous essence running from classical antiquity to the modern world, the relationship between capitalism and racial domination, and the historical development of concepts such as equality, human rights, slavery, and dehumanization.</p><p>Along the way, we explore the Valladolid debate, Aristotle's theory of natural slavery, the Haitian Revolution, liberalism and its emancipatory possibilities, the influence of Western intellectual traditions on anti-colonial thinkers such as C.L.R. James and Amílcar Cabral, and the methodological debates surrounding ethnophilosophy and African philosophy. We also consider Robinson's treatment of Islam, Orientalism, and the broader question of how intellectual traditions travel, transform, and become tools for liberation in new historical contexts.</p><p>Biopgraphy: Zeyad el Nabolsy has a Ph.D. in Africana Studies at Cornell University. He has an M.A. in philosophy and a B. Eng. (in chemical engineering) from McMaster University. Zeyad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University. His main area of focus is modern African Intellectual History. His dissertation "Science, Modernity, and Progress in Nineteenth Century West and North Africa: A Comparative Study of Africanus Horton and Rifa’a al-Tahtawi" seeks to answer the question: how does our understanding of the role of modern science in African societies change when we cease to ignore the early reception of some of the modern sciences by nineteenth century African intellectuals such as Africanus Horton (1835–1883) in West Africa and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801 - 1873) in North Africa, prior to the Scramble for Africa?</p><p>Links: <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08935696.2025.2516348" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08935696.2025.2516348</a></p></html>
June 10, 2026
“Fueling Masculinity: How Ads for Plant-Based Burgers and Electric Trucks Reinforce Gender Norms and Resist Sustainable Imaginaries" with Emily Contois
<html><p><a href="https://patreon.com/everythingisideology" target="_blank">patreon.com/everythingisideology</a> </p><p><a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/everythingisideology." target="_blank">buymeacoffee.com/everythingisideology.</a></p><p>Show notes: In this episode, I sit down with Emily Contois to discuss her recently published article, “Fueling Masculinity: How Ads for Plant-Based Burgers and Electric Trucks Reinforce Gender Norms and Resist Sustainable Imaginaries.” We explore the politics of food, masculinity, consumer culture, and advertising.</p><p>Drawing on her work in food studies, media studies, and public health, Contois examines how everyday objects—from Impossible Burgers to Ford F-150s—become powerful cultural symbols through which ideas about gender, identity, expertise, and citizenship are constructed and contested.</p><p>Together, we discuss the hidden ideologies embedded in food marketing, the relationship between meat consumption and hegemonic masculinity, the rise of alternative proteins, the gendered history of dieting, and the surprising parallels between the advertising of electric vehicles and plant-based meat. Along the way, we explore concepts such as petromasculinity, food anxiety, and carno-nostalgia, as well as the ways advertising simultaneously reflects and shapes our collective visions of the future.</p><p>Biograhpy: Emily Contois researches media within consumer culture, focusing on how identities are formed at the vital intersection of food, the body, and ideas about health. She is the author of Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) and co-editor of Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation (University of Illinois Press, 2022). A richly interdisciplinary scholar, her academic work has been published in Advertising & Society Quarterly, American Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Gastronomica, and Fat Studies, among others. She has also written for NBC News, Jezebel, and Nursing Clio; been interviewed on podcasts, such as The Sporkful, Gastropod, and Good Food; and appeared on CBS This Morning and Ugly Delicious on Netflix. She is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa, where she also serves as Faculty in Residence. She holds a PhD and an MA in American Studies from Brown University, an MLA in Gastronomy from Boston University, and an MPH focused in Public Health Nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. </p><p></p></html>
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