Ajay Singh Chaudhary joins us to discuss his new book The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. Ajay will be joined in conversation with Daniel Aldana Cohen.

Ajay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on social and political theory, Frankfurt School critical theory, political economy, political ecology, media, religion, and post-colonial studies. He has written for The Guardian, The Nation, The Baffler, n+1, Los Angeles Review of Books, Quartz, Social Text, Dialectical Anthropology, The Hedgehog Review, Filmmaker Magazine, and 3quarksdaily, among other venues. Ajay’s book on the politics of climate change, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World, is forthcoming from Repeater Books in February, 2024.

Daniel Aldana Cohen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2. He's also Founding Co-Director of the Climate and Community Project. He's the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019).