Something Ordinary
By Ben Highmore
Kathleen Stewart. Ordinary Affects. Duke University Press, 2007.
The Trouble with Creativity
By Sarah Brouillette
Andrew Ross. Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. New York University Press, 2009.
Professor, Heal Thyself!
By Heather Zwicker
Frank Donoghue, The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. Fordham University Press, 2008.
Back to the Slaughterhouse
By Tristan Sipley
Nicole Shukin. Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times. University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
The Citizenry of Photography
By John M. Woolsey
Ariella Azoulay. The Civil Contract of Photography. Zone Books, 2008.
The Measures Taken
By Hunter Bivens
Benjamin Robinson. The Skin of the System: On Germany’s Socialist Modernity. Stanford University Press, 2009.
Adorno’s Non-Waking Life
By Ian Balfour
Theodor W. Adorno. Dream Notes. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Polity, 2007.
It’s The End of The World as They Know It, and They Feel Fine
By Michael Truscello
The Invisible Committee. The Coming Insurrection. Semiotext(e), 2009.
The Depths of Design
By Melissa Aronczyk
Guy Julier and Liz Moor, eds. Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice. Berg, 2009.
Marxism as Science Fiction
By Gerry Canavan
Mark Bould and China Miéville, eds. Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2009.
Rebuilding the Machine
By Matthew MacLellan
Gerald Raunig. A Thousand Machines: A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as a Social Movement. Trans. Aileen Derieg. Semiotext(e), 2010.
Modernism’s Lost Causes
By Evan Mauro
Seth Moglen. Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism. Stanford University Press, 2007.
Power of the People?
By Justin Paulson
Mark Fenster. Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (revised and updated edition). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 400 pp.
War, Modernity, Critical Theory
By Rich Daniels
Nelson Maldonado-Torres. Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity. Duke University Press, 2008. 360 pp.
Querying Transnationalism
By Emily Johansen
Inderpal Grewal. Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Duke University Press, 2005. 296 pp.
The Indelible Mark of Exile
By Veronica Thompson
F. Elizabeth Dahab. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature. Lexington Books, 2009. 246 pp.