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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, “Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Automating Finance
Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network July 22, 2019 Dave O'Brien

How are markets made? In Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, an assistant professor in sociology at the University of California, San Diego, explores the history of the finance industry to understand the role of markets and technologies in... Read More
Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, “Reading Lacan’s Écrits” (Routledge, 2018)
Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, eds.
Reading Lacan’s Écrits

Routledge, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network July 15, 2019 Jordan Osserman

Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching. Notoriously difficult to read, the editors of the book we’re discussing today describe the Écrits as “an unwieldy, conglomerate ‘urtext’ … not a book at all … but ‘the waste’... Read More
Jinah Kim, “Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas” (Duke UP, 2019)
Jinah Kim
Postcolonial Grief
The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Asian American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 11, 2019 Laura Ha Reizman

In Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2019), Jinah Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics. Through a close analysis of seminal cultural works that range from theory, short stories, film noir, documentaries, plays,... Read More
Eric Blanc, “Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics” (Verso, 2019)
Eric Blanc
Red State Revolt
The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
Verso, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology July 9, 2019 Heath Brown

Eric Blanc is the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso, 2019). Blanc is a former teacher, journalist, and doctoral student in sociology at New York University. He has written for The Nation, The Guardian, and Jacobin magazine. Red State Revolt explains the emergence... Read More
M. L. Mitma and J. P. Heilman, “Now Peru is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist” (Duke UP, 2016)
Manuel Llamojha Mitma and Jaymie Patricia Heilman
Now Peru is Mine
The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist
Duke University Press, 2016

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 8, 2019 Elena McGrath

Now Peru is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist (Duke University Press, 2016) tells the remarkable story of a campesino and indigenous political activist whose career spanned much of Peru’s twentieth century and whose achievements at the local and national level transformed Peruvian peasant politics. Structured as... Read More
Bhakti Shringarpure, “Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital” (Routledge, 2019)
Bhakti Shringarpure
Cold War Assemblages
Decolonization to Digital
Routledge, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network July 3, 2019 Lilly Goren

Bhakti Shringarpure has written a fascinating, multidimensional analysis of the Cold War and decolonization and the often-under-explored connections between these events. In her book, Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (Routledge, 2019), she integrates a variety of disciplinary perspectives while also weaving together the encounters and reverberations between the Cold... Read More
David Beer, “The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception“ (Sage, 2019)
David Beer
The Data Gaze
Capitalism, Power and Perception
Sage, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in Technology July 2, 2019 Dave O'Brien

What is the social role of data? In The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception (Sage, 2019), David Beer, a professor of sociology at the University of York, considers this question by introducing the concept of the data gaze. The book is the third in Beer’s loose trilogy of work... Read More