May 9, 2012

Michael Marder — Is Plant Liberation on the Menu?

Michael Marder answers questions and criticisms of his first NYTimes article on plant thinking.

May 8, 2012

Interview with Pierre Bourdieu on Picturing Algeria

“Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.”—Pierre Bourdieu We continue our week-long focus on Picturing Algeria with an excerpt from an interview with Pierre Bourdieu included in the book. In the interview with Franz Schultheis, Pierre Bourdieu discusses his...

May 8, 2012

New Book Tuesday: The Beach, Vampires & Existentialism

Our weekly list of new titles: The Beach Book: Science of the Shore Carl Hobbs The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema Jeffrey Weinstock Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context Edited by Jonathan Judaken and Robert Bernasconi Europe and China: Strategic Partners...

May 7, 2012

Anat Pick — Pt. II of Fleshing out the Morality of Meat: Thoughts on the New York Times’s contest “Calling All Carnivores"

Professor Anat Pick takes issue with the implications of the recent “Calling All Carnivores” contest in The New York Times.

May 4, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly look at the best articles from the academic press blogosphere.

May 4, 2012

Interview with Ross Melnick, author of American Showman: Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935

We conclude our week-long feature on American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935 with an interview with the book’s author of Ross Melnick. For more on the book, read excerpts from the book looking...

May 4, 2012

Anat Pick — Fleshing out the Morality of Meat: Thoughts on the New York Times’s contest “Calling All Carnivores"

The following is the first half of a post by Anat Pick, author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film. Pick is, in part, responding to Calling All Carnivores, a contest from The Ethicist, a feature in...

May 3, 2012

Michael Marder Responds to Criticism

“Dietary ethics attuned to vegetal life does not imply that we should start eating more animal flesh, or, for those who are neither vegans nor vegetarians, continue consuming it in good conscience.” — Michael Marder

May 3, 2012

The Birth of Radio City Music Hall and the Figurative Death of Roxy's Career

“Unfortunately for Roxy … Radio City’s opening night on December 27, 1932, was a critical disaster.” The excerpt from Ross Melnick’s American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935 in yesterday’s post looked at Rothafel’s...

May 2, 2012

Aaron Belkin – "This Is Not Who We Are": Contradictory Expectations in the US Military

“While the military does not avowedly embrace cruelty, and while most service members follow the rules most of the time, a more plausible, if radioactive, explanation for the consistency of stories about misconduct is that U.S. troops sometimes engage in brutal, sadistic behavior because of how they are trained.” — Aaron Belkin

May 2, 2012

Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel, the Roxy Theatre, and the Roxyettes

In the following excerpt from American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, Ross Melnick explains the explosive growth of the Roxy Theatre, the birth of the “Roxyettes,” and the reaction against it as a symbol...

May 2, 2012

New Book Tuesday (Wednesday Edition)

Our weekly list of new titles. You can save 50% on all these books by using the sales code SALE in your shopping cart: Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Now available in paper) Paul W....