Jacqueline Rose concludes her recent LRB review of Rana Husseini’s Murder in the Name of Honour, Unni Wikan’s In Honour of Fadime, and Ayse Onal’s Honour Killing with the following (… more →
Test Societytypewritten wrote 1 week ago: Jacqueline Rose concludes her recent LRB review of Rana Husseini’s Murder in the Name of Honou … more →
typewritten wrote 1 month ago: Another comparison: try this. … more →
typewritten wrote 1 month ago: Comparing something to something else (say, today’s France to the Vichy Regime) does not mean … more →
typewritten wrote 2 months ago: Will Davies is the author of Reinventing the Firm, a Demos report made available today. A praise for … more →
typewritten wrote 3 months ago: Readers of Nature got the chance of hitting a very nice review of Robert Paarlberg’s Starved f … more →
typewritten wrote 4 months ago: Howie Becker’s revolutionary (hopefully) clarification on how the sciences in general, social … more →
typewritten wrote 5 months ago: Jan Assmann’s quick point on René Girard: “We owe to René Girard the idea that religion … more →
typewritten wrote 8 months ago: This blog’s lasting advice: in times of crisis, learn Spanish with El Roto. This month’s … more →
typewritten wrote 8 months ago: Christophe de Margerie, CEO of Total, expresses the following opinion on today’s strikes in Fr … more →
soulshkdwn wrote 9 months ago: So today at Meeting for worship the idea of not following a calling and it eating away at me was pre … more →
typewritten wrote 10 months ago: Nassim Taleb and Nouriel Roubini (formerly economists, now financial sociologists, apparently) have … more →
typewritten wrote 10 months ago: Online petitions are quite useless. That said, it doesn’t hurt signing one once in a while. So … more →
typewritten wrote 11 months ago: Readers interested in the fate of quantified performance can have a look here at the performance tar … more →
typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Just one quick snapshot from the battlefield of the war for the financialization of everything. Here … more →
typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Many like to think that the trouble with finance is that it often goes irrational. But here is a cle … more →
typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a good one on transparency: “If each time we actually are transparent we get such … more →
typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Water is not good around the Tricastin nuclear power site in France since early July’s uranium … more →
typewritten wrote 1 year ago: Robert Peston blogs here about a document leaked from the UK government (authored by DeAnne Julius, … more →
typewritten wrote 1 year ago: The purpose of this post is to quickly insult the guy who destroyed Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in to … more →