Bird’s Eye View: Jonathan Franzen Looks Down on Climate Activism - Los Angeles Review of Books
9 days ago by tsuomela
"The End of the End of the Earth By Jonathan Franzen Published 11.13.2018 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 240 Pages"
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review
essay
environmental
activism
9 days ago by tsuomela
Can Stoicism Make Us Happy? | The Nation
11 days ago by tsuomela
A strong critique that ancient Greek stoicism cannot be applied to 21c life because the Greek view was strongly connected to a divine and providential world as created by Zeus.
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review
stoicism
philosophy
religion
ontology
11 days ago by tsuomela
A Sadistic Master Storyteller | The New Republic
13 days ago by tsuomela
"THE COLLECTED STORIES OF MACHADO DE ASSIS by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, edited by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin PattersonLiveright, 960 pp., $35.00"
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review
fiction
19c
country(Brazil)
13 days ago by tsuomela
Book Review: 'Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music' - The Atlantic
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music From Stockhausen to Skrillex by David Stubbs Faber & Faber "
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review
electronic
music
history
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
Relationship Counseling for the Apocalypse - Los Angeles Review of Books
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Sustainability A Love Story By Nicole Walker Published 08.17.2018 Mad Creek Books 288 Pages"
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review
anthropocene
climate-change
relationship
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power By Shoshana Zuboff Published 01.15.2019 PublicAffairs 704 Pages"
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internet
technology-effects
social-media
surveillance
business-model
capitalism
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
Feasting on Precarity - Los Angeles Review of Books
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Uberland How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work By Alex Rosenblat Published 10.23.2018 University of California Press 296 Pages"
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work
labor
technology
arbitrage
regulation
rhetoric
law
4 weeks ago by tsuomela
Why Are Conservatives So Afraid of Higher Education? - Los Angeles Review of Books
5 weeks ago by tsuomela
"The Diversity Delusion How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture By Heather Mac Donald Published 09.04.2018 St. Martin’s Press 288 Pages"
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academia
conservative
declension-narrative
5 weeks ago by tsuomela
Understanding Society: The research university
5 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Jason Owen-Smith's recent Research Universities and the Public Good: Discovery for an Uncertain Future "
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university
research
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5 weeks ago by tsuomela
What Does Literary Studies Know? - Los Angeles Review of Books
9 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Paper Minds Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness By Jonathan Kramnick Published 09.07.2018 University of Chicago Press 208 Pages"
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literary-criticism
philosophy
9 weeks ago by tsuomela
Retirement in America? Too Expensive. | The New Republic
12 weeks ago by tsuomela
"GRINGOLANDIA: LIFESTYLE MIGRATION UNDER LATE CAPITALISM by Matthew HayesUniversity of Minnesota Press, 276 pp., $26.00"
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retirement
economics
foreign-policy
immigration
poverty
12 weeks ago by tsuomela
Science’s Freedom Fighters - Los Angeles Review of Books
november 2018 by tsuomela
"Freedom’s Laboratory The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science By Audra J. Wolfe Published 11.18.2018 Johns Hopkins University Press 312 Pages"
book
review
sts
science
history
cold-war
propaganda
november 2018 by tsuomela
The Gospel According to Mark Fisher
november 2018 by tsuomela
"A review of k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016), edited by Darren Ambrose (Repeater Books, 2018)"
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review
cultural-theory
criticism
politics
november 2018 by tsuomela
Time for Another Reinvention | Dissent Magazine
november 2018 by tsuomela
"Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism by Stephanie L. Mudge Harvard University Press, 2018, 524 pp"
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leftism
socialism
history
november 2018 by tsuomela
The Limits of Liberal History | Current Affairs
november 2018 by tsuomela
Review of 'These Truths: A history of the United States' by Jill Lepore
book
review
history
america
labor
november 2018 by tsuomela
Almost Too Sober: On the Appeal of Stoicism - Los Angeles Review of Books
november 2018 by tsuomela
"How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life By A. A. Long, Epictetus Published 10.30.2018 Princeton University Press 232 Pages"
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stoicism
philosophy
history
november 2018 by tsuomela
Wageless Life - Los Angeles Review of Books
november 2018 by tsuomela
"Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict By Phil A. Neel Published 05.15.2018 Reaktion Books 192 Pages"
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precarity
captitalism
poverty
work
labor
november 2018 by tsuomela
The Value of W, or, Interdisciplinary Engagements on Culture - Los Angeles Review of Books
november 2018 by tsuomela
"Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind By Kevin Laland Published 03.07.2017 Princeton University Press 464 Pages"
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review
culture
evolution
biology
humanism
interdisciplinary
november 2018 by tsuomela
The Supernatural as Natural, Healthy, and Banal - Los Angeles Review of Books
november 2018 by tsuomela
"Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World By Clay Routledge Published 07.02.2018 Oxford University press 240 Pages"
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religion
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november 2018 by tsuomela
Dear Reader, Are You Reading? - The Scholarly Kitchen
october 2018 by tsuomela
"MaryAnne Wolf’s Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (2018) "
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reading
psychology
cognitive-science
october 2018 by tsuomela
Will a robot take your job? | Inside Story
september 2018 by tsuomela
"2062: The World that AI Made By Toby Walsh | Black Inc. | $34.99 | 336 pages Made by Humans: The AI Condition By Ellen Broad | Melbourne University Press | $29.99 | 277 pages The Future of Everything: Big, Audacious Ideas for a Better World By Tim Dunlop | NewSouth | $29.99 | 272 pages"
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artificial-intelligence
work
labor
september 2018 by tsuomela
Same Difference — Real Life
september 2018 by tsuomela
"Against Creativity, Oli Mould"
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creativity
capitalism
selling-out
appropriation
marginal
september 2018 by tsuomela
The Fight for Our Eyeballs - Los Angeles Review of Books
september 2018 by tsuomela
"Stand Out of Our Light Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy By James Williams Published 05.31.2018 Cambridge University Press 144 Pages"
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technology-critique
social-media
attention
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september 2018 by tsuomela
Divided We Stand : Democracy Journal
september 2018 by tsuomela
"The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era By Sam Rosenfeld • University Of Chicago Press • 336 pages • $30"
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review
history
political-science
partisanship
september 2018 by tsuomela
Humanity’s Halting Problem, Adam Riggio « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
september 2018 by tsuomela
"Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger have written Re-Engineering Humanity as a sustained and multifaceted critique of how contemporary trends in internet technology are slowly but surely shrinking the territory of human autonomy. Their work is a warning, as well as a description, of how internet technologies that ostensibly make our lives easier do so by taking control of our lives away from our self-conscious decision-making."
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technology
technology-critique
big-data
september 2018 by tsuomela
A Pioneer of Paranoia | The New Republic
august 2018 by tsuomela
"PALE HORSE RIDER: WILLIAM COOPER, THE RISE OF CONSPIRACY, AND THE FALL OF TRUST IN AMERICA by Mark JacobsonBlue Rider Press, 384 pp., $27.00"
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conspiracy
american-studies
ufos
august 2018 by tsuomela
What Makes Hunting So Divisive | The New Republic
august 2018 by tsuomela
"THE FAIR CHASE: THE EPIC STORY OF HUNTING IN AMERICA by Philip DrayBasic Books, 416 pp., $32.00"
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american-studies
sports
environmental
history
august 2018 by tsuomela
Taking Philosophy Forward - Los Angeles Review of Books
august 2018 by tsuomela
"Taking Back Philosophy A Multicultural Manifesto By Bryan W. Van Norden Published 12.05.2017 Columbia University Press 248 Pages"
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philosophy
multiculturalism
august 2018 by tsuomela
Assembling a New Left - Los Angeles Review of Books
august 2018 by tsuomela
"Assembly By Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri Published 09.01.2017 Oxford University Press 368 Pages"
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politics
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august 2018 by tsuomela
Media democratization and the rise of Trump | ROUGH TYPE
august 2018 by tsuomela
"The following review of the book Trump and the Media appeared originally, in a slightly different form, in the Los Angeles Review of Books."
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august 2018 by tsuomela
A Tale of Two States - Los Angeles Review of Books
august 2018 by tsuomela
"The Fall of Wisconsin:The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics By Dan Kaufman Published 07.10.2018 W. W. Norton & Company 336 Pages State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future By Manuel Pastor Published 04.03.2018 The New Press 288 Pages"
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political-science
state
august 2018 by tsuomela
The American Scholar: Too Much Information - Howard P. Segal
august 2018 by tsuomela
"The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do by Edward Tenner; Knopf, 282 pp., $27.95"
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efficiency
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august 2018 by tsuomela
The True Shape of a Society of Friends, Adam Riggio « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
july 2018 by tsuomela
"Sassower, Raphael. The Quest for Prosperity. London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017."
book
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political-science
ethics
philosophy
critical-theory
prosperity
july 2018 by tsuomela
I’ll Be Watching You
july 2018 by tsuomela
Review of Dragonfly Eyes by Xu Bing. A film made up of surveillance footage.
review
surveillance
film
movie
cinema
july 2018 by tsuomela
American Scientist
july 2018 by tsuomela
"MARKETING THE MOON: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program. David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek. xiv + 130 pp. MIT Press, 2014. $39.95."
book
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space
history
technology
marketing
nasa
july 2018 by tsuomela
The Author Is Not as Dead as Claimed - Los Angeles Review of Books
july 2018 by tsuomela
"The Varieties of Authorial Intention Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy By John Farrell Published 03.18.2017 Palgrave Macmillan 274 Pages"
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literature
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intention
july 2018 by tsuomela
The American Academic Mistaken for a Spy | The New Republic
july 2018 by tsuomela
"MY LIFE AS A SPY: INVESTIGATIONS IN A SECRET POLICE FILE by Katherine VerderyDuke University Press Books, 344 pp., $27.95"
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cold-war
history
anthropology
spying
july 2018 by tsuomela
The Remaking of Class | The New Republic
june 2018 by tsuomela
"AMITY AND PROSPERITY: ONE FAMILY AND THE FRACTURING OF AMERICA By Eliza Griswold Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pp., $27 CLASS MATTERS: THE STRANGE CAREER OF AN AMERICAN DELUSION By Steve Fraser Yale University Press, 288 pp., $25 HINTERLAND: AMERICA’S NEW LANDSCAPE OF CLASS AND CONFLICT By Phil A. Neel Reaktion, 192 pp., $20"
boos
review
american-studies
class
politics
labor
rural
inequality
june 2018 by tsuomela
The 200-Year Legal Struggle That Led to Citizens United | The New Republic
june 2018 by tsuomela
"WE THE CORPORATIONS: HOW AMERICAN BUSINESSES WON THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS by Adam Winkler Liveright, 496 pp., $28.95"
corporation
law
people
supreme-court
book
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june 2018 by tsuomela
Down and Out in Silicon Valley - Los Angeles Review of Books
june 2018 by tsuomela
"Live Work Work Work Die A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley By Corey Pein Published 04.24.2018 Metropolitan Books 320 Pages"
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review
silicon-valley
technology-critique
work
labor
june 2018 by tsuomela
The Ashtray Has Landed: The Case of Morris v. Kuhn - Los Angeles Review of Books
june 2018 by tsuomela
"The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) by Errol Morris"
book
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philosophy
science
realism
relativism
june 2018 by tsuomela
The Seymour Hersh Weekly | The New Republic
june 2018 by tsuomela
"REPORTER by Seymour M. HershKnopf, 368 pp., $27.95"
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journalism
autobiography
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june 2018 by tsuomela
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