Monthly Archive: April, 2014

April 30, 2014

Why I Am Such a Good Christian, by Gil Anidjar

“[B]efore or aside from all that, there is the task of measuring or marking the boundaries and limits of Christianity. How far does Christianity go? How wide does it spread, and what depths does it reach? What divisions does it...

April 30, 2014

Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst Debate Tolerance

The Power of Tolerance: A Debate was inspired by a conversation between Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst. In the the debate the two discussed different discourses of tolerance, their normative premises, limits, and political implications. The main focus was on...

April 29, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Creating a Learning Society by Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald and More New Titles!

New books now available: Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht The Inner Life of the Dying...

April 28, 2014

A Q&A with Matthew Akester, translator of Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

Read a Q&A with Matthew Akester, translator of Tubten Khetsun’s Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule.

April 25, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing.

April 24, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Library of Korean Literature Series

Publicity assistant Esther Kim explains why Dalkey Archive’s new Library of Korean Literature series is so important in today’s Thursday Fiction Corner.

April 24, 2014

Camcorders, Democracy, Authenticity — from Video Revolutions

In Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium, Michael Z. Newman examines the ways in which video has been both valued and denigrated. While some associated it with the low standards of television and contributing to to the decline...

April 23, 2014

Images from the Video Revolution

In Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium, Michael Z. Newman examines how video has been seen in both a utopian and a negative light in terms of its cultural impact. Newman also includes a variety of images that...

April 23, 2014

RV-topia: Gatornationals at the Gainesville Raceway

The following post is by James Twitchell, author of Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture: “The democracy of the RV parking lot may be the last of the much-eulogized American Exceptionalism.”—James Twitchell Every March the small north Florida town...

April 22, 2014

Live Video, Then and Now — Michael Z. Newman

The following post is by Michael Z. Newman, author of Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium: “The non-linearity of videotape, digital recording, and services like Netflix and its rivals also speak to a long-standing fantasy, of media that...

April 22, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Power of Tolerance, The Cinema of Agnes Varda and More New Books!

The following books are now available: The Power of Tolerance: A Debate Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (Now available in paper) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o The Cinema of Agnès Varda: Resistance and Eclecticism Delphine...

April 21, 2014

Upcoming Umami Events

Over the next week, Ole Mouritsen will be appearing coast-to-coast to talk about his new book: Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste. Below is a list of upcoming events for Umami, a book which Harold McGree calls “a...