Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
"O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!" As readers of Keats will recognise from its title, Shadidha Bari's book takes as its cue the poet's famous exclamation to his friend Benjamin...
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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power
Richard Bosworth ponders the four types of humans and the problems of business hegemony
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Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
Debt. Every day we are exposed to media accounts of the crushing consequences of debt for nations, for families and for individuals. National economies require growth, and growth depends on citizens...
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In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Terror is indefensible and this book is not a defence of the Terror nor, despite the hints and murmurings in Slavoj ?i?ek's unhelpful introduction, a defence of terrorism. The oddly translated title...
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Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
David Revill lends an ear to a modern composer's invaluable survey of art's aural frontiers
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In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
At school in Philadelphia in the 1960s, I was taught that "America" was "discovered" by Christopher Columbus in 1492. No one mentioned the statue of the Icelander Thorfinn Karlsefni erected in...
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Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
Harvey Molotch is a sociologist. His intentions are good: "For each realm taken up in this book, I make suggestions for ways in the here and now to generate collateral benefits - to respond to the...
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1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica
Robert Mayhew discusses a timely evaluation of heroic science's contemporary relevance
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Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change that Shape Life
Charalambos Kyriacou commends a study into the fundamentals of biological organisation
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Designing Antiquity: Owen Jones, Ancient Egypt and the Crystal Palace
The 19th century saw widespread education of the public in all manner of fields, not least architecture, history and art, and one of the most extraordinarily lavish attempts to present the past to...
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Number crunching
Simeon Underwood argues that the data requirements imposed on universities have got out of hand - and there's no let-up in sight
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Have you seen our vice-chancellor?
Following the discovery from a recent staff survey that 35 per cent of Poppleton academics had never seen our current vice-chancellor, we learn of a new university initiative to increase his...
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Accounting tricks and pension deficits
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
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Peer and present dangers (1 of 3)
I agree entirely with Stephen Mumford's timely critique of the peer-review process for academic journals and the system's lack of transparency ("Peer pressure", Opinion, 13 September).I have been...
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Peer and present dangers (2 of 3)
"Peer pressure" struck a chord with me. While colleagues in the academy increasingly find themselves with diverse and complex workloads to manage, professionalism and respect for peers should...