From the latest issue of The Commoner, Massimiliano Tomba (Padova): Differentials of surplus-value in the contemporary forms of exploitation; Ferruccio Gambino (Padova): A critique of Fordism and the Regulation School; and Mariarosa Dalla Costa (Padova): Reruralizing the World.
A new issue of Colloquy is out, including David Lane (Monash): On Truth and Lie in a Rhetorical Sense; Semantic Perils in Nietzschean Thought; and a review of Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. An Unresolved Conversation, 1951 - 1970 by James K. Lyon. From Naked Punch, an interview with Richard Shusterman, author of Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture. From Radical Society, Aristotle in America: Joseph Lough reclaims a classic.
Peter A. Hall (Harvard): The Dilemmas of Contemporary Social Science. A review of Freedom and Determinism. A review of The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod. Chimpanzees, as well as 18-month-old children, will assist strangers even when getting no personal reward, suggesting that human altruism has deep evolutionary roots. Ain't misbehaving: Adultery yields benefits to females as well as males. Recent studies suggest that labeling and talking about it — literally, just getting it out in the open — can help us deal with intense emotional experiences.
From the latest issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, a review of Applied Evolutionary Economics and the Knowledge-Based Economy by Andreas Pyka and Horst Hanusch; a review of Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory by Koen Frenken; and a review of I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter.
The first chapter from The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor. A Golden Sales Pitch: A design incorporating the golden ratio makes blue jeans aesthetically pleasing, or so the manufacturer claims. What are the top 10 science pop songs? From the threat of nuclear war to the wonder of heterosexual love the pop song reaches places other science fears to tread – namely, the intimate headspace of a brooding teen.
From Harvard Magazine, A Scholar in the House: A profile of President Drew Gilpin Faust. Who killed Antioch? Womyn: The college went from liberal bastion to PC laughingstock with its sex and dating policy. An article on how law schools are also ranked by blogs now.
