Marcus / Zaloom Think in Public

A Public Books Reader
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54871-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Public Books Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marcus, Sharon

Zaloom, Caitlin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Butler, Judith

Turner, Fred

Irani, Lilly

Balkan, Stacey

Perry, Imani

Negrón-Muntaner, Frances

Connolly, Nathan

Engelke, Matthew

Gorski, Philip

Phillips-Fein, Kim

Holleran, Max

al-Qattan, Najwa

Adelman, Jeremy

Jenkins, Destin

Perrin, Andrew

Setiya, Kieran

Mattern, Shannon

Lepore, Jill

Hansen, Suzy

Vernon, James

French, Lynn

Tillet, Salamishah

Clair, Matthew

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

Guin, Ursula K. Le

Plotz, John

Schaberg, Christopher

Rosenblatt, Eli

Cassin, Barbara

Falkoff, Rebecca

Shirane, Haruo

Britto, Karl Ashoka

Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun

Gubar, Marah

Fernald, Anne E.

Serpell, Namwali

McNulty, Tess

McGurl, Mark

Dames, Nicholas

Mieszkowski, Jan

Dunak, Karen

Miller, Daegan

McNeill, John R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom
Part I. Ask in Public
On Accelerationism, by Fred Turner
Justice for Data Janitors, by Lilly Irani
Anthropocene and Empire, by Stacey Balkan
Changing Climates of History, by J. R. McNeill
The Year of Black Memoir, by Imani Perry
Pop Justice, by Frances Negrón-Muntaner
A Black Power Method, by N. D. B. Connolly
Soft Atheism, by Matthew Engelke
Where Do Morals Come From?, by Philip Gorski
The Alchemy of Finance, by Kim Phillips-Fein
How Gentrifiers Gentrify, by Max Holleran
Syria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass”, by Najwa al-Qattan
The Mortal Marx, by Jeremy Adelman
Who Segregated America?, by Destin Jenkins
The Invention of the “White Working Class”, by Andrew J. Perrin
Going Deep: Baseball and Philosophy, by Kieran Setiya
The World Silicon Valley Made, by Shannon Mattern
Part II. Think in Public
Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview, by B. R. Cohen
James Baldwin’s Istanbul, by Suzy Hansen
When Stuart Hall Was White, by James Vernon
An Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French, by Salamishah Tillet
Black Intellectuals and White Audiences, by Matthew Clair
Can There Be a Feminist World?, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by John Plotz
Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking, by Christopher Schaberg
If You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley, by Eli Rosenblatt
Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin, by Rebecca L. Walkowitz
My Neighbor Octavia, by Sheila Liming
Stop Defending the Humanities, by Simon During
Painting While Shackled to a Floor, by Nicole R. Fleetwood
Part III. Read in Public
To Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante, by Rebecca Falkoff
What Global English Means for World Literature, by Haruo Shirane
The Stranger’s Voice, by Karl Ashoka Britto
Can’t Stop Screaming, by Judith Butler
The Model-Minority Bubble, by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Free Is and Free Ain’t, by Salamishah Tillet
The Mixed-Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg, by Marah Gubar
In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism, by Anne E. Fernald
Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing, by Namwali Serpell
Chick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde, by Tess McNulty
Feeling Like the Internet, by Mark McGurl
The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction, by Nicholas Dames
Kafka: The Impossible Biography, by Jan Mieszkowski
Shirley Jackson’s Two Worlds, by Karen Dunak
Reading to Children to Save Ourselves, by Daegan Miller
List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

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).