Published Work

Policing // Medicine // State Violence

On Method

Seth, P. (2026). “The Diagnostic State: Police Discretion and the Securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States.Punishment & Society.

Seth, P. (2025). “A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critical Fabulation.Transforming Anthropology.

Seth, P. (2024). “Condensed Eulogies: On Biology, Brutality, and Blame.Qualitative Inquiry.

Seth, P. (Forthcoming). “The Grammar of Seeing and Being Seen: Stuart Hall on the Coloniality of Black Pain.” In Rethinking British Sociology: Postcolonial and Decolonial Transformations. Routledge.

Racial Capitalism // Histories of Slavery

On the Archive

Seth, P. & Alexandre White. (2025). “Anticolonial Action across the Black Atlantic: Black Feminist Approaches to Insurrection at Sea.” In Anticolonialism and Social Thought. Cambridge University Press.

Seth, P. (Forthcoming). “The Cartography of the Pulse: Haptic Geography and the Digital Intimacies of the Caribbean.” CENTRO, CUNY Hunter.

Sound Studies // Cultural Studies

On Popular Media

Seth, P. (2025). “Black Screens, Real Dreams: Love, Hip Hop, and the Streaming Economy of Difference.Journal of Black Sexuality & Relationships.

Seth, P. (2025). “Wisdom Beats: To Stay Black in the South.” Southern Cultures.

Harrison, C.K. & Pyar Seth. (2024) “Hip Hop Entrepreneurship.” Culture and Organization.

Seth, P. (2024). “When We First Began: New Sonic Histories of Hip Hop.” Journal of Popular Music Studies.

Seth, P. (2023). “The First Time I Heard: Black Feminist Approaches to Hip Hop Methodologies.” Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies.

Seth, P. (Forthcoming). “Making a Black World Audible: D’Angelo and the Proximity of Temporal Intimacy.” Southern Cultures.

Interviews & Reviews

On Community

Seth, P. (2021). “Nikki Giovanni on Rest, Love, and Care.” Public Books.