January 30, 2013

VIDEO: W. Bradford Wilcox on Gender and Parenthood

In the following video, W. Bradford Wilcox, the co-editor with Kathleen Kovner Kline of Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives, discusses the different ways in which fathers and mothers parent. While recognizing that a variety of familial structures...

January 29, 2013

Rewiring the Real with Mark C. Taylor

Check out our new Pinterest board for Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real!

January 29, 2013

Mark C. Taylor on the interrelation of art, philosophy, and religion

Read the introduction, “Nexus,” from Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real.

January 29, 2013

New Book Tuesday: A Play by Alain Badiou, Plant Rights, and More New Books

The Incident at Antioch/L’Incident d’Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes Alain Badiou Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life Michael Marder; Foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives...

January 25, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

January 25, 2013

Roland Barthes on How to Live Together

We conclude our week-long feature on How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces. As a reminder for more on the book, you can also read Kate Briggs’s essay on translating Barthes and our visual tribute to the...

January 24, 2013

Buy Breakast — A Post by Kara Newman, author of "The Secret Financial Life of Food"

The following post is by Kara Newman, author of The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. The post was originally published on the blog A Life of Spice: Few people can claim to have had a...

January 24, 2013

The Many Faces of Roland Barthes; or Rolling with Roland

With our recent publication of the first-ever English translation of How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces” by Roland Barthes, we thought a visual tribute was in order. Visit our board on Pinterest for more photos of...

January 23, 2013

Howard Marks's "Cold-Shower" Letter

One of the most important voices on Wall Street is Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital Management and author of The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor. As reported by Robert Lenzer at Forbes, Howard Mark’s most...

January 23, 2013

Kate Briggs — On Table-making and Translation

In the following post, Kate Briggs, the translator of How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces, discusses the challenges and joys of translating Roland Barthes. “If I identify with Robinson Crusoe it’s not only because it took...

January 23, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith — Poet Laureate of the Museum of Modern Art

Congratulations to Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, on being named the Museum of Modern Art’s first poet laureate. In connection with this, Goldsmith will be delivering a special lecture on March 13th. Goldsmith...

January 22, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Gypsy "Menace" and More

The following titles are now available: The Gypsy “Menace”: Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics Edited by Michael Stewart Virilio and Visual Culture Edited by John Armitage and Ryan Bishop The Poetry of Jack Spicer Daniel Katz Global Solidarity Lawrence...