Social Interaction

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Roland Barthes Reports from the Sanatorium

A new collection examines how institutions infantilize society

December 7, 2018 • by and
Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts, recently published by Columbia University Press, provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes' life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as ...
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Roland Barthes Reports from the Sanatorium
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Confronting the Human Condition and the Pressing Problems of the Day

An introduction to a course on social interaction (syllabus included)

August 24, 2018 • by
I have been teaching courses on social interaction for my entire career, most often indirectly, most recently, directly. In the past, I taught a wide variety of topical courses: on bureaucracy, the arts, culture, politics, media, publics and much more, and while I reviewed with the students the relevant literatures, ...
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Confronting the Human Condition and the Pressing Problems of the Day
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Do Digital Technologies Enhance the Speed of Our Lives?

A conversation with Judy Wajcman

May 31, 2018 • by and
Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism and the editor of The Sociology of Speed: Digital, Organisational and Social Temporalities. In the following interview, she talks to Public Seminar about ...
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Do Digital Technologies Enhance the Speed of Our Lives?
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Deweyan Response to Hyperdemocracy

October 2, 2016 • by
This piece is part of the OOPS Series, "Social Interaction." This past May, Andrew Sullivan -- political blogger extraordinaire -- made his much anticipated return to the land of talking heads with an essay on hyperdemocracy and the rise of tyranny. In it, he argued that the overexpansion of direct democracy ...
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Deweyan Response to Hyperdemocracy
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Social Interaction: Where the action is!

September 6, 2016 • by
Trying to understand the major problems of our times, or enduring problems of the human condition? Consider very carefully social interaction: the theme of this OOPS course. Classical sociology, the sociology of the founders of the academic discipline of the late 19th and early 20th century, offered competing visions of ...
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Social Interaction: Where the action is!
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