March 27, 2012

New Book Tuesday: The New Ecology of Leadership, Addicted to Profit, and More

The following books are now available: The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World David K. Hurst Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind Dan Arnold The Colonial...

March 26, 2012

The Science of Cotton Candy and More from The Kitchen as Laboratory

The editors of The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking have put together a great slide show on Huffington Post that underscore some of the aims of their book. In the slideshow, the authors describe...

March 23, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our semi-regular roundup of recent blog posts and features from other university presses: The Hurst Blog has reprinted an article detailing important new clues to the death of Dag Hammarskjold in 1961, written by Christopher Merrett. Working with Robin Barnes,...

March 23, 2012

Mark C. Taylor on Andy Goldsworthy

We conclude our week-long feature on Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell and Goldsworthy, with an excerpt from Mark C. Taylor’s chapter on Andy Goldsworthy: Goldsworthy’s preoccupation with place is often misunderstood. Some critics summarily dismiss him as a druidic...

March 22, 2012

Mark C. Taylor on James Turrell and Roden Crater

“Roden Crater is the most ambitious work and might well turn out to be the most important artwork of our time. For pilgrims fortunate enough to journey into Turrell’s work, the world is, indeed, transformed.”—Mark C. Taylor In his chapter...

March 22, 2012

Michael Mann Responds to the Wall Street Journal's Review of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"

“Our national dialogue about climate change remains broken. The Journal‘s decision to publish Ms. Jolis’s review has done nothing to repair it.”—Michael Mann Perhaps not surprisingly, the Wall Street Journal‘s review of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches...

March 21, 2012

Happy Birthday to Slavoj Žižek

Today, March 21, is the birthday of perhaps the most talked-about figure in academia today, Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, born in Slovenia and now a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana (among many other positions), is famous for his incisive...

March 21, 2012

Is Matthew Barney the Most Religious Artist Working Today? — Mark C. Taylor Explains

As he explains in Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy, Mark C. Taylor was initially skeptical of Matthew Barney. However, as he became more familiar with Barney’s work, his opinion changed. In the following excerpt he explains the religious...

March 21, 2012

Interview with Nicoli Nattrass, author of "The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back"

The following is an interview with Nicoli Nattrass, author of The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back Question: What is AIDS conspiracy theory? Nicoli Nattrass: The central AIDS conspiracy theory is that HIV was created in a laboratory (perhaps with the...

March 20, 2012

Mark C. Taylor on "Fat Chair" by Joseph Beuys

“It’s all about the fat.”—Mark C. Taylor on Fat Chair, by Joseph Beuys In Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy, Mark C. Taylor explores these four artists’, whose work, unlike that of Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, or Takashi Murakami,...

March 19, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Animals, Cinema, and More

Animals and the Human Imagination: A Companion to Animal Studies Edited by Aaron Gross and Anne Vallely Critical Cinema Edited by Clive Myer Contextualising Jihadi Thought Edited by Jeevan Deol and Zaheer Kazmi Bollywood in the Age of New Media:...

March 16, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our semi-regular roundup of recent blog posts and features from other university presses: Just in time for March Madness, Princeton University Press provides an interview with Tim Chartier on how math can be used to predict the winners of “March...