A critical synthesis of the work of Lauren Berlant, Moishe Postone, and Michael Silverstein.

'On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. W...

Irony and satire in the contemporary American moment.

How do we think about population in the Anthropocene?

As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, ec...

'Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundam...

'First edition published as Waiting for Foucault in 1993 by Prickly Pear Press; second edition, 1...

In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are incr...

As George W. Bush's Iraq mission unravelled, U.S. policy elites revived counterinsurgency doctrin...

As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what it...

'With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donn...

Brazilian anthropologist Manuela Carneiro da Cunha examines here the complex meaning--and anthrop...

Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always ...

What can you say after you say that the world--or at least human life on it--looks like it's near...

An Experiment in Modal Anthropology.

'The most interesting human beings, so far as talk is concerned, are anthropologists, farmers, pr...

'A spectre is haunting literature today- the spectre of patacriticism. Nowhere is the threat more...

President Bush was roundly criticized for likening America's antiterrorism measures to a 'crusade...

'Pasta and pizza are inextricably connected to Italian identity. In this book, Franco La Cecla te...

In this pamphlet, the renowned anthropologist Bruce Kapferer revists Stanley Kubrick s classic fi...

In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth...

Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance.

Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offered a blueprint for mobilizing...

For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims...

''The Confucius Institute is an appealing brand for extending our culture abroad. It has made an ...

The Iran depicted in the headlines is a rogue state ruled by ever-more-defiant Islamic fundamenta...

An argument against the idea of the indigenous chief as a liberal political figure.Across Africa,...

A Short Introduction to the AntiUtilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences.

How can economics become genuinely quantitative? This is the question that French sociologist Gab...

'Data is too big to be left to the data analysts! Here, Prickly Paradigm brings together five res...

Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accel...

Anti-Semitism is on the rise. How is this still possible? Once again, we are witness to a surge i...

A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read.

Art criticism was once passionate, polemical, and judgmental; now critics are more often interest...

We live in an age of 'popular culture'--another term, to some, for an organic mess of marketing s...

Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an 'instrument of knowledge,'...

In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by wh...

What kind of meaning can machines make--and why does it matter that it's not the same as ours?

'Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life o...

The apparent resurgence of hostility toward Jews has been a theme in discussions of Europe; at th...

In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketb...

Academics would not think of pursuing research without being aware of what colleagues in the fiel...

Contemporary popular science and related genres repeatedly invoke science and myth as opposites: ...

'Why do we understand media the way we do? Sometimes we think about media simply as means of comm...

What is ethics? Is it a system of transcendent moral imperatives or can it be produced by ordinar...