January 16, 2015

University Press Roundup

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

January 15, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: "The Tingling, Tangling Tango as 'tis Tripped at Coney Island," by Djuna Barnes

Read “The Tingling, Tangling Tango as ’tis Tripped at Coney Island,” a short peace originally published in the Eagle in 1914, by Djuna Barnes, excerpted from A CONEY ISLAND READER.

January 15, 2015

Discouraging North American and European Citizens from Foreign Jihad

Read a guest post from Neil Krishan Aggarwal, author of MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WAR ON TERROR, in which he discusses a recent New York Times article on efforts to “stem the flow of their citizens traveling to fight in war zones in Muslim countries.”

January 14, 2015

An interview with Daniel Yacavone, author of "Film Worlds"

Read a Q&A with Daniel Yacavone, the author of FILM WORLDS: A PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS OF CINEMA.

January 13, 2015

National Security Above Mental Health — Neil Aggarwal

Neil Krishnan Aggarwal, author of “Mental Health in the War on Terror: Culture, Science, and Statecraft,” on the Senate report on CIA torture and the role of psychiatrists.

January 13, 2015

Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror

Read an excerpt from “Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror,” the first chapter of MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WAR ON TERROR, by Neil Krishan Aggarwal.

January 13, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Post-Blackness, Plastic Reality, and More New Books!

Our weekly list of new books now available!

January 9, 2015

University Press Roundup

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

January 9, 2015

The Evolution of Signals

Read the third chapter of Daniel Cloud’s THE DOMESTICATION OF LANGUAGE, in which Cloud looks at different accounts of how meaning and language conventions remain stable in human communities over time, and wonders why more animals don’t have similarly complex communication systems.

January 8, 2015

But if I try to explain it…

Read a guest post on the evolution of the meanings of words by Daniel Cloud, author of THE DOMESTICATION OF LANGUAGE!

January 7, 2015

Two interviews with Daniel Cloud on "The Domestication of Language"

Listen to two podcast interviews with Daniel Cloud, author of THE DOMESTICATION OF LANGUAGE!

January 6, 2015

Humans Aren't Influenced by Culture–We Create It

Read an interview with Daniel Cloud, author of THE DOMESTICATION OF LANGUAGE, originally featured on Quartz.