Think in Public
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Edited by:
Sharon Marcus
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With contributions by:
Judith Butler
About this book
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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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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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CONTENTS
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Introduction
1 - PART I. ASK IN PUBLIC
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On Accelerationism
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Justice for Data Janitors
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Anthropocene and Empire
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Changing Climates of History
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The Year of Black Memoir
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Pop Justice
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A Black Power Method
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Soft Atheism
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Where Do Morals Come From?
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The Alchemy of Finance
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How Gentrifiers Gentrify
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Syria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass”
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The Mortal Marx
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Who Segregated America?
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The Invention of the “White Working Class”
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Going Deep: Baseball and Philosophy
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The World Silicon Valley Made
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Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview
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James Baldwin’s Istanbul
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When Stuart Hall Was White
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An Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French
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Black Intellectuals and White Audiences
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Can There Be a Feminist World?
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The Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
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Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking
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If You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley
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Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin
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My Neighbor Octavia
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Stop Defending the Humanities
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Painting While Shackled to a Floor
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To Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante
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What Global English Means for World Literature
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The Stranger’s Voice
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Can’t Stop Screaming
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The Model- Minority Bubble
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Free Is and Free Ain’t
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The Mixed- Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg
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In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism
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Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing
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Chick Lit Meets the Avant- Garde
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Feeling Like the Internet
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The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction
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Kafka: The Impossible Biography
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Shirley Jackson’s Two Worlds
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Reading to Children to Save Ourselves
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List of Contributors
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