Monthly Archive: February, 2011

February 14, 2011

Roland Barthes — The Preparation of the Novel

This week we will be featuring the recently published The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980). Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical...

February 11, 2011

Gary Francione Interviewed in The Believer

“The best justification that we have for killing billions of animals every year is that they taste good. That simply cannot suffice as a moral justification.”—Gary Francione This month’s issue of The Believer includes an excellent interview with Gary Francione,...

February 10, 2011

Columbia University Press Authors on Egypt

Yesterday on the Al Jazeera website, Larbi Sadiki, author of The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses, wrote an op-ed that considers the potential successors to Mubarak in Egypt. Her article is just one of many by Columbia University...

February 9, 2011

David Kang on Asian International Relations Past and Present

Recently David Kang, author of East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute, has written about relations between Asian both as it developed from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries and the current situation between China and...

February 8, 2011

Interview with Grzegorz W. Kolodko, author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World

The following is a Q&A between Grzegorz W. Kolodko, author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World and William R. Brand, the book’s translator. William Brand: This is an exceptionally wide-ranging book that looks far...

February 8, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Pica, Carl Schmitt, and the University

The following books are now available: Craving Earth: Understanding Pica–the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk Sera Young Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty Paul W. Kahn Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the...

February 3, 2011

Matthew Effects and Hypereffects — A Post by Daniel Rigney

The following post is by Daniel Rigney, Professor Emeritus of sociology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio and currently a Complimentary Visiting Scholar in the humanities at Rice University in Houston. He is the author of The Matthew Effect:...

February 3, 2011

Vote for Your Favorite Title in Asian Studies

The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is currently running a colleagues choice book contest from now until March 20th. They are asking people to vote for recent books in Asian Studies that they most appreciate. The winner will be...

February 2, 2011

Grzegorz W. Kolodko on Tour for Truth, Errors, and Lies

             Tonight Grzegorz W. Kolodko will be discussing his new book Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World at the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Tonight’s event is part of speaking tour Kolodko will...

February 1, 2011

Slavoj Zizek: From Democracy to Divine Violence

“Instead of perceiving what goes on in today’s China as an oriental-despotic distortion of capitalism, one should see in it the repetition of the development of capitalism in Europe itself.”—Slavoj Zizek With an excerpt from Slavoj Zizek’s “From Democracy to...