July 3, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

From time to time, we like to showcase one of our covers. The above is from Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity, by Lauren Rabinovitz. The cover was designed by Julia Kushnirsky.

July 3, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Amusement Parks, Badiou, and Deleuze

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity Lauren Rabinovitz Disaster Deferred: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (Now available in paper) Seth Stein Politics and...

July 2, 2012

Henry Kissinger Exposed and More from The New York Times Op-ed Page

Now available in paper, All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some that Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page, by Jerelle Kraus, reveals the crucial role that art work has played in establishing the Times‘s op-ed page...

June 29, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

June 29, 2012

Olivier Assayas and Sonic Youth

We conclude our week-long focus on Olivier Assayas and the recently published A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord and Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones, with a look at the director’s collaborations with Sonic Youth. Sonic Youth were one...

June 28, 2012

Olivier Assayas, 1968, and The Situationists

In a Film Comment interview on the occasion of the release of his film Carlos, Olivier Assayas discussed some of the politics that shaped the film as well. In particular, Assayas discusses how the Guy Debord and the Situationists affected...

June 27, 2012

Geoffrey Heal: Planetary Economics

Geoffrey Heal, in his keynote address to the Rio+20 conference, discusses sustainability and how economics can help us get there.

June 27, 2012

The Films of Olivier Assayas

This week we are featuring a book by and about famed French director Olivier Assayas: A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord by Olivier Assayas and Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones. Assayas’s films have been hailed by critics and...

June 26, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Military Masculinity in America and the Aesthetics of American Literature

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001 Aaron Belkin American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions Edited by Cindy Weinstein and Christopher Looby Dekalog 5: On Dogville Edited by...

June 26, 2012

Michael Marder: Do plants have their own form of consciousness?

Michael Marder addresses the controversy stirred up by his recent NYTimes articles and addresses how new advances in botany should impact our ethical thinking.

June 25, 2012

Jacqueline Stevens: Political Scientists Are Lousy Forecasters

Jacqueline Stevens argues that political scientists should not receive National Science Foundation grants, as political science is not a generally successful predictor of important events.

June 22, 2012

Patron-Driven Acquisitions: #AAUP12 and Beyond

The online conversation about PDA at #AAUP12.