{"product_id":"think-in-public-a-public-books-reader-public-books-series-9780231190091","title":"Think in Public A Public Books Reader Public","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThink 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis timely, innovative, and important collection represents the best of public scholarship. The stunning essays in this volume demonstrate the significance of \u003ci\u003ePublic Book\u003c\/i\u003es 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. -- Keisha N. Blain, author of \u003ci\u003eSet the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn astonishing collection. Eloquent, expansive, provocative, and essential. -- Rob Nixon, author of \u003ci\u003eSlow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eThink in Public\u003c\/i\u003e does just this, engaging readers in conversations between today’s top scholars, the works that inspire them, and the watershed issues of our day. -- Lisa Wade, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat splendid cover image underlines the fact that this book is meant for everyone, not just residents of ivory towers. * Toronto Star *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Ask in Public\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Accelerationism, by Fred Turner\u003cbr\u003eJustice for Data Janitors, by Lilly Irani\u003cbr\u003eAnthropocene and Empire, by Stacey Balkan\u003cbr\u003eChanging Climates of History, by J. R. McNeill\u003cbr\u003eThe Year of Black Memoir, by Imani Perry\u003cbr\u003ePop Justice, by Frances Negrón-Muntaner\u003cbr\u003eA Black Power Method, by N. D. B. Connolly\u003cbr\u003eSoft Atheism, by Matthew Engelke\u003cbr\u003eWhere Do Morals Come From?, by Philip Gorski\u003cbr\u003eThe Alchemy of Finance, by Kim Phillips-Fein\u003cbr\u003eHow Gentrifiers Gentrify, by Max Holleran\u003cbr\u003eSyria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass”, by Najwa al-Qattan\u003cbr\u003eThe Mortal Marx, by Jeremy Adelman\u003cbr\u003eWho Segregated America?, by Destin Jenkins\u003cbr\u003eThe Invention of the “White Working Class”, by Andrew J. Perrin\u003cbr\u003eGoing Deep: Baseball and Philosophy, by Kieran Setiya\u003cbr\u003eThe World Silicon Valley Made, by Shannon Mattern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Think in Public\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview, by B. R. Cohen\u003cbr\u003eJames Baldwin’s Istanbul, by Suzy Hansen\u003cbr\u003eWhen Stuart Hall Was White, by James Vernon\u003cbr\u003eAn Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French , by Salamishah Tillet\u003cbr\u003eBlack Intellectuals and White Audiences, by Matthew Clair\u003cbr\u003eCan There Be a Feminist World?, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u003cbr\u003eThe Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by John Plotz\u003cbr\u003eThinking Critically About Critical Thinking, by Christopher Schaberg\u003cbr\u003eIf You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley, by Eli Rosenblatt\u003cbr\u003eTranslating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin, by Rebecca L. Walkowitz\u003cbr\u003eMy Neighbor Octavia, by Sheila Liming\u003cbr\u003eStop Defending the Humanities, by Simon During\u003cbr\u003ePainting While Shackled to a Floor, by Nicole R. Fleetwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Read in Public\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante, by Rebecca Falkoff\u003cbr\u003eWhat Global English Means for World Literature, by Haruo Shirane\u003cbr\u003eThe Stranger’s Voice, by Karl Ashoka Britto\u003cbr\u003eCan’t Stop Screaming, by Judith Butler\u003cbr\u003eThe Model-Minority Bubble, by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon\u003cbr\u003eFree Is and Free Ain’t, by Salamishah Tillet\u003cbr\u003eThe Mixed-Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg, by Marah Gubar\u003cbr\u003eIn the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism, by Anne E. Fernald\u003cbr\u003eAfrofuturism: Everything and Nothing, by Namwali Serpell\u003cbr\u003eChick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde, by Tess McNulty\u003cbr\u003eFeeling Like the Internet, by Mark McGurl\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe People v. O. J. Simpson\u003c\/i\u003e as Historical Fiction, by Nicholas Dames\u003cbr\u003eKafka: The Impossible Biography, by Jan Mieszkowski\u003cbr\u003eShirley Jackson’s Two Worlds, by Karen Dunak\u003cbr\u003eReading to Children to Save Ourselves, by Daegan Miller\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400335925591,"sku":"9780231190091","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231190091.jpg?v=1730470424","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/think-in-public-a-public-books-reader-public-books-series-9780231190091","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}