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.

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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.

September 22, 2016

Employees Speaking Up: The TechCo Wiki

Read an excerpt from THE CONVERSATIONAL FIRM: RETHINKING BUREAUCRACY IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, by Catherine Turco, which delves into the positives and negatives of the way that TechCo’s internal wiki is used.

September 21, 2016

A Conversational Firm for a Conversational Age

Catherine J. Turco explains her concept of the “conversational firm” in this excerpt from her new book.

September 20, 2016

Introducing "The Conversational Firm"

Read an excerpt from Catherine J. Turco’s preface to her new book, THE CONVERSATIONAL FIRM: RETHINKING BUREAUCRACY IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA!

September 16, 2016

Resistance Against Criminal Identities

Read an excerpt from the third chapter of EXILED IN AMERICA: LIFE ON THE MARGINS IN A RESIDENTIAL MOTEL, by Christopher Dum.