October 7, 2016

University Press Roundup

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

October 7, 2016

Is “Democracy” Nothing More Than a Slogan Now?

Read an article on the uses and misuses of the concept of “democracy” by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, coauthors of THROUGH VEGETAL BEING.

October 6, 2016

Plant Lessons

Read an article by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder on the need for an “environmental pedagogy,” including some of the lessons that plant life can teach us.

October 5, 2016

Toward an Ecology of Sharing

Read “Toward an Ecology of Sharing,” by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, coauthors of THROUGH VEGETAL BEING, an article that originally appeared on The Philosophical Salon.

October 4, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Frontier Markets, How Art Transforms Us, a New Theory of Imperialism, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

October 4, 2016

Introducing "Through Vegetal Being"

Read prologues by both Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, authors of THROUGH VEGETAL BEING: TWO PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES!

September 29, 2016

Eric Kandel on Mark Rothko

Read an excerpt from Eric Kandel’s “Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures”

September 28, 2016

William Guynn on Film's Depiction of Historical Trauma

“Recovery of experience can be harrowing and is particularly so in films that speak about traumatic events in the catastrophic twentieth century. All the films evoke unresolved historical situations—unresolved for the communities that experienced them and for the historians who...

September 28, 2016

This is Your Brain on Jackson Pollock — Eric Kandel on Art

The following are highlights from a recent “Science Friday” interview with Eric Kandel, author of “Reductionism in Art and Brain Science”

September 27, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Entrepreneurship, Dispossession & The Environment, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and More.

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

September 27, 2016

Eric Kandel on "What Is Art For?"

Video: Eric Kandel on the relationship between neuroscience and art.

September 23, 2016

A Look Inside a “Conversational Firm”

Read an excerpt from an interview with Catherine J. Turco, author of THE CONVERSATIONAL FIRM: RETHINKING BUREAUCRACY IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, conducted by Kara Baskin for MIT Sloan School’s Newsroom.