Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 503 Seiten)
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1 b&w illustration
ISBN:
9780231548717
Series Statement:
Public Books Series
Content:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction / Marcus, Sharon / Zaloom, Caitlin -- PART I. ASK IN PUBLIC -- On Accelerationism / Turner, Fred -- Justice for Data Janitors / Irani, Lilly -- Anthropocene and Empire / Balkan, Stacey -- Changing Climates of History / Mcneill, J. R. -- The Year of Black Memoir / Perry, Imani -- Pop Justice / Negrón-Muntaner, Frances -- A Black Power Method / Connolly, N. D. B. -- Soft Atheism / Engelke, Matthew -- Where Do Morals Come From? / Gorski, Philip -- The Alchemy of Finance / Phillips-Fein, Kim -- How Gentrifiers Gentrify / Holleran, Max -- Syria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass” / Al-Qattan, Najwa -- The Mortal Marx / Adelman, Jeremy -- Who Segregated America? / Jenkins, Destin -- The Invention of the “White Working Class” / Perrin, Andrew J. -- Going Deep: Baseball and Philosophy / Setiya, Kieran -- The World Silicon Valley Made / Mattern, Shannon -- PART II. THINK IN PUBLIC -- Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview / Cohen, B. R. -- James Baldwin’s Istanbul / Hansen, Suzy -- When Stuart Hall Was White / Vernon, James -- An Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French / Tillet, Salamishah -- Black Intellectuals and White Audiences / Clair, Matthew -- Can There Be a Feminist World? / Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty -- The Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin / Plotz, John -- Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking / Schaberg, Christopher -- If You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley / Rosenblatt, Eli -- Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin / Walkowitz, Rebecca L. -- My Neighbor Octavia / Liming, Sheila -- Stop Defending the Humanities / During, Simon -- Painting While Shackled to a Floor / Fleetwood, Nicole R. -- PART III. READ IN PUBLIC -- To Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante / Falkoff, Rebecca -- What Global English Means for World Literature / Shirane, Haruo -- The Stranger’s Voice / Britto, Karl Ashoka -- Can’t Stop Screaming / Butler, Judith -- The Model- Minority Bubble / Jonghyun Jeon, Joseph -- Free Is and Free Ain’t / Tillet, Salamishah -- The Mixed- Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg / Gubar, Marah -- In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism / Fernald, Anne E. -- Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing / Serpell, Namwali -- Chick Lit Meets the Avant- Garde / Mcnulty, Tess -- Feeling Like the Internet / Mcgurl, Mark -- The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction / Dames, Nicholas -- Kafka: The Impossible Biography / Mieszkowski, Jan -- Shirley Jackson’s Two Worlds / Dunak, Karen -- Reading to Children to Save Ourselves / Miller, Daegan -- List of Contributors
Content:
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large.Think in Public: A Public Books Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the magazine’s distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered here are Public Books contributions from today’s leading thinkers, including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, Nathan Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231190084
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231190091
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Think in public New York : Columbia University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780231190084
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231190091
Language:
English
Subjects:
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