Think in Public: A Public Books Reader

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Think in Public

A Public Books Reader

Edited by: Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom
With contributions by: Judith Butler , Fred Turner , Lilly Irani , Stacey Balkan , Imani Perry , Frances Negrón-Muntaner , Nathan Connolly , Matthew Engelke , Philip Gorski , Kim Phillips-Fein , Max Holleran , Najwa al-Qattan , Jeremy Adelman , Destin Jenkins , Andrew Perrin , Kieran Setiya , Shannon Mattern , Jill Lepore , Suzy Hansen , James Vernon , Lynn French , Salamishah Tillet , Matthew Clair , Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Ursula K. Le Guin , John Plotz , Christopher Schaberg , Eli Rosenblatt , Barbara Cassin , Rebecca Falkoff , Haruo Shirane , Karl Ashoka Britto , Joseph Jonghyun Jeon , Marah Gubar , Anne E. Fernald , Namwali Serpell , Tess McNulty , Mark McGurl , Nicholas Dames , Jan Mieszkowski , Karen Dunak , Daegan Miller and John R. McNeill

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Think in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today’s leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change.

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Marcus Sharon :

Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London(California, 1999) and Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton, 2007), and Editor-in-Chief of Public Books.Zaloom Caitlin :

Caitlin Zaloom is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and a senior fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London(Chicago, 2006) and Editor-in-Chief of Public Books.Butler Judith :

Judith Butler (PhD, Philosophy, Yale) is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and
Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory (of which she was the Founding Director) at the University of California at Berkeley. Among her many works are Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (Columbia, 2012), Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (Columbia, 2012), Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia, 2002), and (with Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West) The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia, 2011).Perrin Andrew :

Andrew J. Perrin is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of American Democracy: Toqueville, Town Halls, and Twitter (Polity 2014) and Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life (Chicago 2006).Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty :

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (PhD, Comparative Literature, Cornell) is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Among her many books are Death of a Discipline (Columbia, 2003) and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (Harvard, 1999); her influential article "Can the Subaltern Speak?" was published in the volume Marxism and Contemporadry Cultuere (Illinois, 1988). Her interests include the politics of culture, postcolonial theory, 19th and 20th-century literature, and globalization.Dames Nicholas :

Nicholas Dames (PhD, English, Harvard) is Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and Brigtish Fiction, 1810-1870 (Oxford, 2001) and The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Oxford, 2007). I chose him as a reader for his broad interests, publications on contemporary fiction in popular media (Atlantic, n+1, New Left Review, New Yorker, and The Nation), and coeditorship of the Rereadings series (Columbia) and Public Books.Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom are the founders and editors in chief of Public Books. Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her books include Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2007) and The Drama of Celebrity (2019). Zaloom is associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (2006) and Indebted: How Families Make College Work At Any Cost (2019).

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Lisa Wade, author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus:
This book is a call to arms. We must tear down the ivory tower, discard attachments to credentials and prestige, and share ideas across borders, disciplines, and party lines. Think in Public does just this, engaging readers in conversations between today’s top scholars, the works that inspire them, and the watershed issues of our day.

Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor:
An astonishing collection. Eloquent, expansive, provocative, and essential.

Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom:
This timely, innovative, and important collection represents the best of public scholarship. The stunning essays in this volume demonstrate the significance of Public Books as a crucial online space for anyone committed to engaging ideas that shape the world in which we live. The sheer brilliance and vitality of this digital platform boldly shine through every page of this book.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART I. ASK IN PUBLIC
On Accelerationism Fred Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Justice for Data Janitors Lilly Irani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Anthropocene and Empire Stacey Balkan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
Changing Climates of History J. R. Mcneill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
The Year of Black Memoir Imani Perry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
Pop Justice Frances Negrón-Muntaner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
A Black Power Method N. D. B. Connolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
Soft Atheism Matthew Engelke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Where Do Morals Come From? Philip Gorski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
The Alchemy of Finance Kim Phillips-Fein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
How Gentrifiers Gentrify Max Holleran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Syria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass” Najwa Al-Qattan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
The Mortal Marx Jeremy Adelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Who Segregated America? Destin Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
The Invention of the “White Working Class” Andrew J. Perrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
Going Deep: Baseball and Philosophy Kieran Setiya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
The World Silicon Valley Made Shannon Mattern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
PART II. THINK IN PUBLIC
Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview B. R. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
James Baldwin’s Istanbul Suzy Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
When Stuart Hall Was White James Vernon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
An Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French Salamishah Tillet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Black Intellectuals and White Audiences Matthew Clair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Can There Be a Feminist World? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
The Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin John Plotz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking Christopher Schaberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
If You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley Eli Rosenblatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin Rebecca L. Walkowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
My Neighbor Octavia Sheila Liming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
Stop Defending the Humanities Simon During Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
Painting While Shackled to a Floor Nicole R. Fleetwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
PART III. READ IN PUBLIC
To Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante Rebecca Falkoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
What Global English Means for World Literature Haruo Shirane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
The Stranger’s Voice Karl Ashoka Britto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
Can’t Stop Screaming Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
The Model- Minority Bubble Joseph Jonghyun Jeon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
Free Is and Free Ain’t Salamishah Tillet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
The Mixed- Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg Marah Gubar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism Anne E. Fernald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	421
Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing Namwali Serpell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Chick Lit Meets the Avant- Garde Tess Mcnulty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	439
Feeling Like the Internet Mark Mcgurl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	453
The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction Nicholas Dames Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463
Kafka: The Impossible Biography Jan Mieszkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	469
Shirley Jackson’s Two Worlds Karen Dunak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	479
Reading to Children to Save Ourselves Daegan Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	487
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	495

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