Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.

Traces the rise of the Molly Maguires from Ireland's devastating potato famine to the turbulent dawn of the American labor movement. With a heavy emphasis on the folk culture that underpinned the Mollies, the book documents the group's Civil War rebirth in Pennsylvania, and its lasting influence.

A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies, and for the study of modern Jewish culture, that identifies—in Yiddish and beyond—how cultures intertwine, how they become implicated in world systems and empire, and how they might escape such limiting and oppressive structures.