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January 21, 2011

Start Worrying – Details to Follow: A Post by Geoffrey Kabat

Geoffrey Kabat is a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology (Columbia University Press, 2008). Over the past thirty years we...

January 20, 2011

Daniel Bensaid on Democracy

“The widely trumpeted victory of democracy soon yielded a crop of new Tocquevilles voicing their ill-concealed dislike of it…”—Daniel Bensaid Continuing our series of excerpt from Democracy in What State? (for excerpts by Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou), we feature...

January 19, 2011

Alain Badiou on Democracy — From "Democracy in What State?"

“We will only ever be true democrats, integral to the historic life of peoples, when we become communists again. Roads to that future are gradually becoming visible even now.”—Alain Badiou Yesterday we posted an excerpt from Giorgio Agamben’s contribution to...

January 19, 2011

What do Americans Think of China?

With Hu Jintao visiting the United States this week, Barack Obama will have to navigate a variety of both international and domestic issues. How does China’s rise as an economic and military power affect the American public? Conventional wisdom often...

January 18, 2011

Giorgio Agamben on Democracy

“Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?” In the recently published Democracy in What State? , a group of iconic and iconoclastic thinkers responded to the above question. This timely...

January 14, 2011

Olivier Roy Talks to the New Humanist about Holy Ignorance

“The more you believe the less you know – or the less you want to know [and that] is the exact definition of holy ignorance.”—Olivier Roy The above quote comes from a recent interview with the New Humanist and Olivier...

January 13, 2011

New York City Mayors and Snow

Having recently published biographies of New York City mayors—America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York and Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City—we’ve been following Mayor Bloomberg’s recent battles with snow storms. While the...

January 12, 2011

Clare Palmer on Animal Ethics in Context

In a fascinating essay published in Rorotoko, Clare Palmer recently wrote about the aims and arguments of her new book Animal Ethics in Context . As the title of her book suggests, Palmer is interested in exploring the argument that...

January 10, 2011

Barthes after Barthes — Sylvère Lotringer on The Preparation of the Novel

In the current issue of Frieze Sylvère Lotringer offers an uncommonly perceptive and thoughtful assessment of Roland Barthes’s life’s work and his attempt to prepare for and write a novel after the death of his mother. Barthes’s thoughts about writing...

January 6, 2011

Guobin Yang: On the Persistence of Online Activism in China

Tonight Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online will be part of a panel discussion on China’s new media landscape at the Asia Society. The event coincides with the paperback edition of The...

January 5, 2011

J. P. Singh Takes The Page 99 Test

J. P. Singh, author of Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity, recently took the page 99 test as a way to describe some of the central themes of his book. Here are some excerpts from his essay for...

January 4, 2011

Interview with Stephen Penman, author of Accounting for Value

Q. What’s an extroverted accountant? A. One who looks at your shoes while he is talking to you instead of his own. The above joke comes from a recent interview on Ideas at Work with Stephen Penman, author of the...

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