Books
There are 18 publications in this collection, published between 2012 and 2023.
Curry, Fitz-Roy; Wandzilak, Ted; Berglund, Lars: UC Davis School of Medicine History of the Research Program, 2023
Sawyer, Suzana: The Small Matter of Suing Chevron, 2022
Abstract: Suzana Sawyer traces Ecuador’s lawsuit against the Chevron corporation for the environmental devastation resulting from its oil drilling practices, showing how distinct legal truths were relationally composed of, with, and through crude oil....
Subialka, Michael J.: Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature, 2021
Abstract: Offering a new approach to the intersection of literature and philosophy, Modernist Idealism contends that certain models of idealist thought require artistic form for their full development and that modernism realizes philosophical idealism in aesthetic...
Maoz, Zeev; Henderson, Errol A.: Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics: Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era, 2020
Abstract: The effect of religious factors on politics has been a key issue since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of religious terrorism. However, the systematic investigations of these topics have focused...
McCourt, David M: American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54, 2020
Abstract: Between December 1953 and June 1954, the elite think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) joined prominent figures in International Relations, including Pennsylvania’s Robert Strausz-Hupé, Yale’s Arnold Wolfers, the Rockefeller Foundation’s William Thompson, government adviser...
Siegel, Adam P: Slovenian Periodical Publications on Grape-Growing and Wine-Making, 1850-1945, 2020
Smoodin, Eric: Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950, 2020
Abstract: In Paris in the Dark Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing...
Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research, 2020
Abstract: How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional academic imperative to “publish or perish” is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of “impact...
Cogdell, Christina: Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design, 2019
Abstract: Toward a Living Architecture? examines the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Based on Christina Cogdell’s field research in architecture studios and biological labs, this book critiques generative...
Fallon, Kris: Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11, 2019
Abstract: In this book Kris Fallon traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. He examines the emergence of several key media...
Freeman, Elizabeth: Beside You in Time, 2019
Abstract: In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human...
Klima, Alan: Ethnography #9, 2019
Abstract: As Alan Klima writes in Ethnography #9, “there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought.” In this experimental ethnography of capitalism, ghosts, and numbers...
U, Eddy: Creating the intellectual: Chinese communism and the rise of a classification, 2019
Abstract: Creating the Intellectual redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. Under the Chinese Communist Party, “the intellectual” was first and foremost a widening classification of individuals based...
Bloom, Gina: Gaming the Stage, 2018
Abstract: Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of...
Milburn, Colin: Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life, 2018
Abstract: In <I>Respawn</I> Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of games, from <I>Portal</I> and <I>Final Fantasy VII</I> to <I>Super...
Siegel, Adam P: Literaturmagazin (Rowohlt): An Index, 2018
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