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The Corporate Professor
Spring 2012 (14.1)
In 2000 we asked, “What’s the University for?” The question is even more pressing now than it was a decade ago. In this issue, we explore the following conundrum: if anyone should be able to articulate the purposes of higher education, it should be professors themselves, and yet they seem to be just as caught up in the system as anyone else.
The Roots of the Arab Spring
Fall 2011 (13.3)
The toppling of a political order through war or revolution is often little more than a circulation of elites. There are important reasons to see in the ongoing Arab Spring the flowering of something truly new.
Humanism Amidst Our Machines
Summer 2011 (13.2)
How can our techniques and technologies serve rather than subvert human purposes? It's a weighty question, but one at the heart of the changing nature of contemporary culture.
From our Recent Issues
From Spring 2012 (14.1)
Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart
by Chad Wellmon
The history of the mutual constitution of humans and technology has been obscured as of late by the crystallization of two competing narratives about how we experience all of this information. On the one hand, there are those who claim that the digitization efforts of Google, the social-networking power of Facebook, and the era of big data in general are finally realizing that ancient dream of unifying all knowledge. On the other hand, less sanguine observers interpret the advent of digitization and big data as portending an age of information overload. We are suffering under a deluge of data. Many worry that the Web’s hyperlinks that propel us from page to page, the blogs that reduce long articles to a more consumable line or two, and the tweets that condense thoughts to 140 characters have all created a culture of distraction. | Read article >>>
From Spring 2012 (14.1)
Under the Sign of Satan: William Blake in the Corporate University
by Mark Edmundson
Imagine waking up in a world gone wrong. You can feel it: things are out of joint. The center’s not quite holding and all the rest. Yet imagine that world as being more agreeable—more secure, more organized, more civilized (in a certain sense)—than any world you had ever imagined inhabiting. One has a wealthy sponsor. One is sheltered, valued. There is the matter of prestige. | Read article >>>
From Summer 2011 (13.2)
The Theological Roots of Liberalism in Turkey: “Muslimism” from Islamic Fashion to Foreign Policy
by Neslihan Cevik
Many social theorists, especially in international relations and sociology, assume that there is a divide both between religion and modernity and between politics and culture. These divides are then used in depictions of Islamic revivalism, portraying Islam as intrinsically anti-modern and Islamic movements as reactions against modernity, in the form of either private cultural escape or violent political mobilization. | Read article >>>
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