The New York Review of Books - USA (2022-06-23)

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

My Life as an

Artifi cial Creative

Intelligence

Mark Amerika

SENSING MEDIA:

AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY,

AND CULTURES OF MEDIA

“Th is book explains how our society

is turning into a mechanical paradise,

and how we’re doomed.”

—GPT-3

Koreatown,

Los Angeles

Immigration, Race, and the

“American Dream”

Shelley Lee

ASIAN AMERICA

“Meticulously researched and

crisply written, Koreatown,

Los Angeles is a richly layered

chronicle of K-town’s history.”

—Nadia Y. Kim,

Loyola Marymount University

Reinventing

Human Rights

Mark Goodale

STANFORD STUDIES IN

HUMAN RIGHTS

“Reinventing Human Rights captures

the emergent conditions we must

address [and] opens us up to settings

often overlooked, but that increasingly

signal their presence.”

—Saskia Sassen,

author of Expulsions: Brutality and

Complexity in the Global Economy

Badiou by Badiou

Alain Badiou

Translated by Bruno Bosteels

CULTURAL MEMORY

IN THE PRESENT

“With this clear entry point

into his metaphysical project, Badiou

demonstrates the dangerously

transformative character

of philosophy.”

—Jodi Dean,

author of Comrade

Religion

Rereading What Is Bound Together

Michel Serres

Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise

“A stunning book by one of the most

profound and original philosophers

of science of the twentieth century,

written in the fi nal moments that

separate life from death.”

—Jean-Pierre Dupuy,

Columbia University,

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy,

École Polytechnique, Paris

Th e Baron

Maurice de Hirsch and the

Jewish Nineteenth Century

Matthias B. Lehmann

STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH

HISTORY AND CULTURE

“A new look at the history of modern

European Jewry and a fresh

understanding of modern Europe itself...

Lehmann has created a fi rst-rate

intellectual experience that is also a fi nely

wrought and compelling narrative.”

Th e Souls of White Jokes

How Racist Humor Fuels

White Supremacy

Raúl Pérez

“Th eoretically astute and historically rich,

this unique study depicts the racial joke

as being inseparable from the cementing

of white solidarity, from the spreading of

racist commonsense, and from easy

disavowal of the damage being done.”

—David Roediger,

author of Th e Wages of Whiteness

Recording History

Jews, Muslims, and Music across

Twentieth-Century North Africa

Christopher Silver

“Masterfully orchestrating the sounds

of the North African music industry,

Recording History provides a fresh and

unique tune to North African history.

Analyzing the silences, echoes, and

sounds of Jewish-Muslim relations, this

delightful book is a classic in the making.”

—Eli Lederhendler,

Th e Hebrew University of Jerusalem

—Aomar Boum,

University of California, Los Angeles,

editor of Wartime North Africa

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