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GalleryBook Review: Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy by Rachel O’Neill
In Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, Rachel O’Neill examines the construction of intimacy under neoliberalism through an ethnographic exploration of […]
GalleryBook Review: Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation by Imani Perry
In Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation, Imani Perry offers a powerful historical analysis of patriarchy and domination that draws on […]
GalleryBook Review: Metric Culture: Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices edited by Btihaj Ajana
In Metric Culture: Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices, editor Btihaj Ajana brings together contributions that investigate the motivations behind as well as […]
GalleryBook Review: The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception by David Beer
In The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception, David Beer explores how we are being put under the extractive, analytic and predictive lens […]
GalleryBook Review: Robot Rights by David J. Gunkel
In Robot Rights, David J. Gunkel explores the question of whether rights should be extended to robots, examining the philosophical foundations of four […]
GalleryLSE RB Year in Review: The Top 12 Book Reviews of 2018 (Part Two)
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What were you reading in 2018 on LSE Review of Books? Following Part One, which counted down from […]
GalleryBook Review: Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate by Andrew Paxman
In Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate, Andrew Paxman offers a biography of William […]
GalleryBook Review: Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya by Nanjala Nyabola
In Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya, Nanjala Nyabola challenges existing scholarship on ‘tech in Africa’ […]
GalleryBook Review: The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist by Carol A. Stabile
In The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist, Carol A. Stabile explores the 41 women working in US […]
GalleryBook Review: New Female Tribes by Rachel Pashley
In New Female Tribes: Shattering Female Stereotypes and Redefining Women Today, Rachel Pashley presents the results of a survey […]
GalleryBook Review: Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz
In Nihilism and Technology, Nolen Gertz aims to circumvent the binary discussions that characterise contemporary popular discourses surrounding technology, instead […]
GalleryBook Review: Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue by Sohail Daulatzai
In Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue, Sohail Daulatzai not only offers an ode to The Battle of Algiers, exploring […]
GalleryBook Review: The Book by Amaranth Borsuk
In The Book, Amaranth Borsuk explores our ever-changing definitions and conceptions of the book in light of shifting social, financial and technological factors. […]
GalleryBook Review: Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan
In Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, Siva Vaidhyanathan explores the paradoxically disconnective and antisocial character of social media, […]
GalleryBook Review: The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation by Ravish Kumar
The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation, journalist Ravish Kumar presents an incisive critique of the contemporary state of […]
