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Countering recent arguments that we should "unbundle" or "disrupt" higher education, Jason Owen-Smith argues that research universities are unique gems that deserve our financial and social support. While they are complex and costly, their enduring value is threefold: they simultaneously act as sources of new knowledge, anchors for regional and national economies, and hubs that connect disparate parts of society. Based on his stellar research, he offers a fresh and stirring defense of an endangered class of institutions just in time.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Automation 2.0 -- 1. A Little History of Automation -- 2. The Robot and the Zombie -- 3. Army of Shadows -- 4. Approaching Zero -- 5. Circulation and Control -- 6. The Servant Economy -- 7. An Absolute Law -- References -- Acknowledgments.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Identity -- 2. Implosion -- 3. Collaboration -- 4. Innovation -- 5. Culture -- 6. Work Flow -- 7. People -- 8. Format -- 9. Change -- Final Word -- List of Transferable Principles -- Glossary -- Suggested Reading -- About the Author

"As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, sea power derived not from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context"--

A global depression -- Saving capitalism, 1933-1934 -- The New Deal at high tide, 1934-1936 -- Society and culture in the 1930s -- Opposition and backlash, 1937-1939 -- Legacies of the New Deal

The interview that follows revisits some of the theses developed by Alain Badiou concerning the revolts of the Arab Spring in his 2011 book Le Réveil de l'Histoire in light of subsequent events. The interview touches on a number of themes, including the relation between recent revolts and the on-going global economic crisis, and the way the reconfiguration of global value circuits impacts upon both tactical and strategic questions for rioters in Europe, North America and beyond. It also examines the way an analysis of the class composition of those involved in contemporary mass movements offers keys to understanding their failures and successes.

This article examines an often-mentioned but largely undeveloped concept in the work of Giorgio Agamben and in particular his Homo Sacer project: form-of-life. What is at stake in this concept is, I attempt to show, a way of thinking "politics" outside of the space of sovereignty. By examining a short text on this notion published just before the opening installment of the Homo Sacer sequence, this article demonstrates the way this early formulation of the concept is indebted to certain strains of Italian workerist and post-workerist thought. The fundamental question this analysis poses, however, is whether the concept of form-of-life, being to some extent "beyond" the classical space of politics, should in fact be understood as fundamentally aesthetic in nature.