rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Jul. 23rd, 2021 04:19 pm)
Zara Stone, Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons: hunh )
Emmanuel Probst, Brand Hacks: How to Build Brands by Fulfilling the Human Quest for Meaning (rev. ed.): good luck! )
Eric Cervini, The Deviant’s War: stubborn and right )
Ken Ellingwood, First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery: also stubborn and right )
Davarian L. Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: univer-city as bad guy )
Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States: painful and powerful )

Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil: doomed to repeat it )

Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Futureyikes )
Jennifer Taub, Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crimeanger-making )
Tim Hwang, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internetseems right but may not make a difference )
Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum AmericaBaltimore and citizenship  )
Ashley Mears, Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuitconspicuous consumption takes gendered work )

Brad Stone, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empireyou paid for this )
Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] talitha78 for the holiday card!

Via Naked Capitalism:
Nietzsche… has a description… of the disgust and disdain which consume him at the sight of the common people with their common faces, their common voices, and their common minds. … When he makes us feel that he cannot endure the innumerable faces, the incessant voices, the overpowering omnipresence which belongs to the mob, he will have the sympathy of anybody who has ever been sick on a steamer or tired in a crowded omnibus. Every man has hated mankind when he… has had humanity in his eyes like a blinding fog, humanity in his nostrils like a suffocating smell. But when Nietzsche has the incredible lack of humour and lack of imagination to ask us to believe that his aristocracy is an aristocracy of strong muscles or an aristocracy of strong wills, it is necessary to point out the truth. It is an aristocracy of weak nerves.
G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)

Adrian Johns, Ashley Mears )
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