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New Books in Critical Theory
Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need” (MIT Press, 2020)
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Design Justice
Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
MIT Press, 2020

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in Technology July 27, 2020 Jasmine McNealy

In Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (MIT Press, 2020), Sasha Costanza-Chock, an associate professor of Civic Media at MIT, builds the case for designers and researchers to make the communities they impact co-equal partners in the products, services, and organizations they create. This requires more than... Read More
Andrew Kettler, “The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Andrew Kettler
The Smell of Slavery
Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society July 27, 2020 R. Grant Kleiser

In his new book, The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Dr. Andrew Kettler charts the impact that smell had on the making of race and justifications for enslavement in the Atlantic world. Western European defined the African subject as a scented object,... Read More
Marika Rose, “A Theology of Failure: Žižek Against Christian Innocence” (Fordham UP, 2019)
Marika Rose
A Theology of Failure
Žižek Against Christian Innocence
Fordham University Press, 2019

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network July 27, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

Christian theology has a long and at times contradictory history, riddled with tensions that make it difficult (if not impossible) to develop a single systematic account of what Christianity is. However, rather than see this as a shortcoming, one can instead try and see this as a productive philosophical and... Read More
Ari Linden, “Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity” (Northwestern UP, 2020)
Ari Linden
Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity

Northwestern University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society July 24, 2020 Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

In Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity (Northwestern University Press, 2020), Ari Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the conversation about modernism and modernity, which is shaped and conditioned by the already post-postmodern condition. This perspective opens up the exploration of modernist projects and allows a discussion... Read More
Raluca Soreanu, “Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Raluca Soreanu
Working-through Collective Wounds
Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & Technology July 20, 2020 Christopher Russell

Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) formulates a theory of collective trauma, drawing on the work of Sándor Ferenczi. Dr. Soreanu takes Ferenczi into the public square to answer a series of questions. What does it mean to understand the operation of the... Read More
Christina Dunbar-Hester, “Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Christina Dunbar-Hester
Hacking Diversity
The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
Princeton University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in Technology July 20, 2020 Jasmine McNealy

In Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton University Press, 2020), Christina-Dunbar Hester, an associate professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, explores the world of open technology – communities centered on knowledge sharing. In particular, she investigates how these communities are considering... Read More
Kevin Escudero, “Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law” (NYU Press, 2020)
 Kevin Escudero
Organizing While Undocumented
Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law
New York University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology July 20, 2020 Jonathan Cortez

Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement. This is especially true surrounding the activism of the recent SCOTUS decision on DACA issued on June 18, 2020. Professor Kevin Escudero’s book, Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law (New York University Press, 2020), depicts just... Read More
Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, “Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia” (Utah State UP, 2019)
Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs
Presumed Incompetent II
Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia
Utah State University Press, 2019

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EducationNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 16, 2020 Christiana Gessler

The courageous and inspiring personal narratives and empirical studies in Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2019) name formidable obstacles and systemic biases that all women faculty—from diverse intersectional and transnational identities and from tenure track, terminal contract, and administrative... Read More
Martin Jay, “Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations” (Verso, 2020) 
Martin Jay
Splinters in Your Eye
Frankfurt School Provocations
Verso, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 15, 2020 Ryan Tripp

Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the school’s history and reading its work in unexpected... Read More

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