Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be m ...Show more
Sex Drugs & Rock n Roll - The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science by Zoe Cormier
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Wikileaks Files - The World According to US Empire by WikiLeaks
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
When WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010, releasing millions of top secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies. It also discovered the dark truths of national policies, human rights vi ...Show more
The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In the tradition of On Beauty, On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling and erudite illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages. From the epic poems of Homer to contemporary science fiction, from the Holy Scriptures to modern myth ...Show more
The Politics of Myth by Stephen Knight
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In The Politics of Myth, Stephen Knight studies nine figures still vividly alive, all of them appearing in twenty-first century film and television. Analysing how they relate to the major themes of Power, Resistance and Knowledge, he shows how fact and fiction mix to help us explore and understand the c ...Show more
Twelve Who Don't Agree by Valery Panyushkin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles 12 Russians from across the country's social spectrum who have one thing in common: participation in the historic March of the Dissidents in 2007. In flagrant violation of increasingly stringent laws, they shared a belief that the government of Vladmir Putin was bet ...Show more
Bad New Days - Art, Criticism, Emergency by Hal Foster
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Bad New Days looks back at the last 25 years of artistic practice in Western Europe and North America, positioning it in relation to a general condition of emergency that neoliberalism and the war of terror have brought with them. Foster argues that art has actually anticipated this condition, at times ...Show more
Gay Berlin - Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Winner of Randy Shilts Award In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, th ...Show more
Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
At the behest of Emma Goldman, Rocker wrote Anarcho-Syndicalism in 1937 to introduce the world to the ideas fuelling the Spanish Revolution and resistance to both capitalism and Russian state communism. It was then, and remains now, a political and philosophical masterpiece.
Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine's cadre of charming, wisecracking ...Show more
The Reproach of Hunger - Food, Justice and Money in the 21st Century by David Rieff
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In a groundbreaking book, based on six years of on the ground reporting, expert David Rieff offers a masterly review about whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as increasingly promised.Can we provide enough food for 9 billion (2 billion more than today) in 2050, espec ...Show more
Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Crowds and Party extends the energies of the riotous crowds of the last five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting emphases on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized by capital and the ...Show more