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I’m disappointed to hear that WordPress posts will no longer be able to be shared to Twitter automatically. It’s of course possible to do this manually, but it’s still frustrating for me, as someone who has used this blog for … Continue reading →

Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States – University of Chicago Press, November 2023 A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two … Continue reading →

Has anyone written about the history of publishing Festschrift ? There doesn’t seem to be an obvious English equivalent term. They are/were books dedicated to an author at the time of a significant birthday or retirement. Books of celebration, homage or tribute, … Continue reading →

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science – Cornell University Press, 2023 In The Will to Predict, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the conceptual and institutional history of … Continue reading →

Tim Simpson, Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023 Update: there is a New Books discussion with Michael O. Johnston here. Betting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was … Continue reading →

Shiloh Krupar, Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers – University of Minnesota Press/Forerunners, March 2023 Health Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates … Continue reading →