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.