July 17, 2012

Aaron Belkin on Military Masculinity

“Americans have been encouraged to understand military masculinity as an archetypal expression of democracy. But there is something profoundly undemocratic about military masculinity and the way in which public adulation of it is premised on a disavowal of its blemishes.”—Aaron...

July 17, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Poetry of the Taliban and The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

Poetry of the Taliban Edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City Dung Kai-cheung; Translated by Dung Kai-cheung, Anders Hansson, and Bonnie S. McDougall The Science of the Oven (Now available in...

July 16, 2012

Richard Betts on "American Force" and Current Threats to the United States

Earlier this summer, Richard Betts talked with BookTV in a fascinating discussion about the issues raised in his recent book American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security. In the interview, Betts discussed how his approach to national security...

July 13, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

July 13, 2012

What Steve Jobs Did Not Know About Apps

“Apple’s iPhone and App Store has, thus, proven that walled gardens are not necessarily a bad thing, at least not for a successful digital marketplace to emerge.”—Pelle Snickars The following post is by Pelle Snickars, co-editor of Moving Data: The...

July 12, 2012

Event Alert: A Celestial Angle on the Greatest Grid

Join the Museum of the City of New York for “A Celestial Angle on the Greatest Grid!”

July 12, 2012

Patrick Vonderau on What Can Be Learned from an iPhone Bill

The following post is by Patrick Vonderau, co-editor of Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media. For more on the book, you can read the introduction. In 2007, blogger Justine Ezarik uploaded a video on YouTube, titled 300-page...

July 11, 2012

New Books Tuesday (Wednesday Edition!): Judith Butler, China, and the Matrix

Our newly released titles for the week.

July 10, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Hospitality of the Matrix, by Irina Aristarkhova

Our featured cover for this week is Irina Aristarkhova’s Hospitality of the Matrix.

July 10, 2012

Capitalism and the History of the iPhone — An Excerpt from Moving Data

We continue our week-long focus on Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media with an excerpt from the book’s introduction by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau. In this section, Snickars and Vonderau explore what makes the iPhone distinct...

July 6, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

July 5, 2012

Hannah Gurman Will Discuss "The Dissent Papers" on the FireDogLake Book Salon

We are very excited that Hannah Gurman will be discussing The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond on the FireDogLake Book Salon. The discussion will take place 5:00 (EST) pm this Sunday, July 8....