State Of The Theory

This is Episode 2 of the State of the Theory Podcast. Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. In this episode, we focus on the fight for the legalization of homosexuality in India. Using the work of Eric Hobsbawm, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, we explore the ways in which the nation-state uses the various wings of government in order to perpetuate marginalization. The theoretical texts we refer to are: "T