March New Releases from NYU Press
March 1, 2022
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Tag: Cultural Studies
Highlighting Black Voices: Distributed Blackness
January 17, 2022
To honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month, NYU Press is highlighting Black voices in literature with excerpts and free and discounted eBooks. This week, read an… READ MORE
Feeling Pretty: West Side Story and U.S. Puerto Rican Identity
December 11, 2021
Read an excerpt from Boricua Pop by Frances Negrón-Muntaner.
We Need Algorithmic Transparency
May 15, 2017
—Kelly Gates
Understanding what’s inside the black box of cloud computing matters. We need transparency in the weird experience of being human.
All (Dis)Quiet on the Cultural Front: Culture Jamming in the Age of Trump
March 23, 2017
—Moritz Fink and Marilyn DeLaure
In opposition to Trump’s ad hoc and authoritarian politics, the last four months have seen a surge in creative forms of resistance known as “culture jamming.”
Cheap attacks on Trump undermine progressive values
March 10, 2017
—Thomas A. Foster
Anti-Trump discourses have too often reverted to tropes as old as the nation and as antithetical to a progressive agenda as President Trump himself.
Black History Month in the Age of Trump: How We Remember Now
February 28, 2017
—Aida Levy-Hussen
Commemorating Black History Month with extemporized non-sequiturs, Trump’s rejoinder to African American appeals for remembrance and recognition is a turn away from the foundational social premises—good faith, the valuing of history, the idea of a public sphere—that make such desire speakable in the first place.
Political Culture after Democracy
February 23, 2017
—Eva Cherniavsky
Donald Trump did not create the world of “alternative facts.” Rather, the possibility of his election is the culmination of twinned processes: the dismantling of representational democracy in the U.S., and the de-realization of politics. From the point of view of the elites who rule us, the real problem with Trump is the risk his fascist agenda might foster the resurrection of the people as an oppositional, anti-elite political power.