By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses her new book about what she sees as widespread misconceptions about the state of race relations in higher education. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Sociologist discusses his critical book about visual arts M.F.A. programs, based on his close observations of them. He laments a lack of focus on beauty. More...
In On the Future: Prospects for Humanity, Martin Rees encourages us to think beyond the new norms of diminished and collapsing expectations, writes Scott McLemee. More...Scott McLemee reviews two new scholarly books on the American electorate and its discontents. More...Scott McLemee reviews John Cleese's new book, Professor at Large: The Cornell Years, a selection of lectures and colloquies from his time moonlighting as an Ivy League don. More...The expression “low-information voter” always amounts to tacit self-flattery. Everyone using it implicitly exempts themselves. But almost a century has passed since Walter Lippmann denounced “the myth of the omnicompetent citizen,” and the problems facing any electorate have in the meantime kept on growing in scale, variety and complexity. More...L'anthropologue David Graeber, également professeur à la London School of Economics, vient de publier un essai intitulé "Bullshit Jobs" ("boulots à la con") dans lequel il explore les racines de ce phénomène. S'il explique que ces emplois considérés comme inutiles par ceux qui les exercent ont toujours existé, il précise qu'ils se sont "multipliés de façon exponentielle ces dernières années", provoquant un manque de sens au travail et un fort sentiment d'inutilité sociale.
Source : http://www.gref-bretagne.com/Actualites/Revue-de-presse/Travail.-Un-essai-sur-les-emplois-inutiles
Lord of the Rings Domain Fight Enters Realms of Fantasy
J.R.R. Tolkien's books will not pass into the public domain for decades, and the movies will take even longer, but the studio's and publisher's assertion that they own the rights to the word 'Shire' ought not last much beyond next Tuesday. More...
Review of Don Tapscott's, New Book Grown Up Digital
Curt Bonk reviews - and loves - Tapscott's Grown Up Digital. Yet as I read this, I can't help thinking o the Digg story. More...
MIT Press and the University of Michigan Press have both announced plans to start selling their e-book collections directly to libraries by creating their own distribution platforms, writes Lindsay McKenzie for Inside Higher Ed. Previously they did not have a mechanism for selling to institutions directly. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
