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Kristin Ross's "The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life"
Friday, 6 February, 2026
In this week's episode from the archives, Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak to the author Kristin Ross about her book, "The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life," a collection of essays that examine how everyday life emerges as a vantage point for understanding and transforming our social world. The book represents three decades of Ross’s writing about the everyday in French political, social, and cultural theory and history, including the commune form and current autonomous zones in France, the romance and memory of the May 1968 protests, and the present predicaments both faced and created by the Macron government. Featuring a long interview with the pioneering philosopher Henri Lefebvre, the book also invokes the work of Fredric Jameson, Jacques Ranciere, Emile Zola, and many others, to explore the intersections of political transformation and cultural representation as resources for thinking opposition and liberation in the present.
