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Think in Public : A Public Books Reader / ed. by Sharon Marcus, Caitlin Zaloom.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Public Books SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource : 1 b&w illustrationContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231190084
  • 9780231548717
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 081 23
LOC classification:
  • AC5
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. ASK IN PUBLIC -- On Accelerationism -- Justice for Data Janitors -- Anthropocene and Empire -- Changing Climates of History -- The Year of Black Memoir -- Pop Justice -- A Black Power Method -- Soft Atheism -- Where Do Morals Come From? -- The Alchemy of Finance -- How Gentrifiers Gentrify -- Syria's Wartime Famine at 100: "Martyrs of the Grass" -- The Mortal Marx -- Who Segregated America? -- The Invention of the "White Working Class" -- Going Deep: Baseball and Philosophy -- The World Silicon Valley Made -- PART II. THINK IN PUBLIC -- Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview -- James Baldwin's Istanbul -- When Stuart Hall Was White -- An Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French -- Black Intellectuals and White Audiences -- Can There Be a Feminist World? -- The Story's Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin -- Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking -- If You're Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley -- Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin -- My Neighbor Octavia -- Stop Defending the Humanities -- Painting While Shackled to a Floor -- PART III. READ IN PUBLIC -- To Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante -- What Global English Means for World Literature -- The Stranger's Voice -- Can't Stop Screaming -- The Model- Minority Bubble -- Free Is and Free Ain't -- The Mixed- Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg -- In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism -- Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing -- Chick Lit Meets the Avant- Garde -- Feeling Like the Internet -- The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction -- Kafka: The Impossible Biography -- Shirley Jackson's Two Worlds -- Reading to Children to Save Ourselves -- List of Contributors
Summary: Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large.Think in Public: A Public Books Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the magazine's distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered here are Public Books contributions from today's leading thinkers, including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, Nathan Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. ASK IN PUBLIC -- On Accelerationism -- Justice for Data Janitors -- Anthropocene and Empire -- Changing Climates of History -- The Year of Black Memoir -- Pop Justice -- A Black Power Method -- Soft Atheism -- Where Do Morals Come From? -- The Alchemy of Finance -- How Gentrifiers Gentrify -- Syria's Wartime Famine at 100: "Martyrs of the Grass" -- The Mortal Marx -- Who Segregated America? -- The Invention of the "White Working Class" -- Going Deep: Baseball and Philosophy -- The World Silicon Valley Made -- PART II. THINK IN PUBLIC -- Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview -- James Baldwin's Istanbul -- When Stuart Hall Was White -- An Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French -- Black Intellectuals and White Audiences -- Can There Be a Feminist World? -- The Story's Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin -- Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking -- If You're Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley -- Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin -- My Neighbor Octavia -- Stop Defending the Humanities -- Painting While Shackled to a Floor -- PART III. READ IN PUBLIC -- To Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante -- What Global English Means for World Literature -- The Stranger's Voice -- Can't Stop Screaming -- The Model- Minority Bubble -- Free Is and Free Ain't -- The Mixed- Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg -- In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism -- Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing -- Chick Lit Meets the Avant- Garde -- Feeling Like the Internet -- The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction -- Kafka: The Impossible Biography -- Shirley Jackson's Two Worlds -- Reading to Children to Save Ourselves -- List of Contributors

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Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large.Think in Public: A Public Books Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the magazine's distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered here are Public Books contributions from today's leading thinkers, including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, Nathan Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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