
Eric Klinenberg
Professor of Sociology and Director, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University
Eric Klinenberg is a sociology professor and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. The author of, most recently, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, his other best-sellers include Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media and Modern Romance. Klinenberg is editor of Cultural Production in a Digital Age and the journal Public Culture, and his scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Ethnography. He has also contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and “This American Life.”
Previously

2019 Festival
The Poetics of Space: Why Space Matters
Audio — 43m

2019 Festival
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Audio — 49m

2016 Festival
Deep Dive: The State of Sex in America—Changing Mores, Changing Morality?
Video — 1h 26m 29s

2016 Festival
Living Alone and the Rise of Women
Audio — 21m

2016 Festival
What Is Technology's Toll on Intimacy?
Audio — 44m