New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Yves Citton, “The Ecology of Attention” (Polity Press, 2017)
Yves Citton
The Ecology of Attention

Polity Press, 2017

NBN SeminarNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society August 13, 2018 Carla Nappi

We are arguably living in the midst of a form of economy where attention has become a key resource and value, labor, class, and currency are being reconfigured as a result. But how is this happening, what are the consequences, and is “economy” necessarily the most productive frame in which... Read More
Dorothy H. Crawford, “Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dorothy H. Crawford
Deadly Companions
How Microbes Shaped our History
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network August 9, 2018 Jeremy Corr

The history of mankind is interlinked with microbes. As humans evolved and became more advanced, microbes evolved right along with us. Through infection, disease, and pandemic they have helped shape human culture and civilization. In her book Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History (Oxford University Press, 2018), Dorothy H. Crawford... Read More
Casey Walsh, “Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico” (U California Press, 2018).
Casey Walsh
Virtuous Waters
Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network August 2, 2018 Lance C. Thurner

Water politics have long figured prominently in Mexico, and scholars have addressed such critical topics as irrigation, dam and canal building, and resource management, but few have examined how everyday people think about and use the waters in the daily lives. Casey Walsh‘s Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in... Read More
Courtney Fullilove, “The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Courtney Fullilove
The Profit of the Earth
The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
University of Chicago Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network July 31, 2018 Lance C. Thurner

The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (University of Chicago Press, 2017) examines the social and political history of how agricultural knowledge was created in the 19th century.  Over the course of the 19th century, rural America transformed into the familiar arrangement of large scale, mechanized... Read More
Sabina Leonelli, “Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Sabina Leonelli
Data-Centric Biology
A Philosophical Study
University of Chicago Press, 2016

New Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network July 27, 2018 Mikey McGovern

Commentators have been forecasting the eclipse of hypothesis-driven science and the rise of a new ‘data-driven’ science for some time now. Harkening back to the aspirations of Enlightenment empiricists, who sought to establish for the collection of sense data what astronomers had done for the movements of heavenly bodies, they... Read More

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