Princeton UP Ideas Podcast · New Books Network
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
·41 min·4 clips
Wendy Brown reveals how identity politics lost its emancipatory force and became bound to injury.
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A political-theory conversation about how identity and power are made through language, not fixed foundations.
Wendy Brown frames States of Injury as a study of how identity politics, racism, sexism, and left theory disputes are shaped through language, interpretation, and contest. She does not treat truth as a fixed outside ground.
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Press play if you want identity politics argued from first principles, not slogans.
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