The Prestige
Can we break the spell of mesmeric technologies?
The Hedgehog’s Array: March 6, 2015
Posted on March 6, 2015
in THR Web Features
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
Toward an Attentional Commons
Posted on March 9, 2015
in THR Web Features
Image: © Lee Woodgate
"Attention is a resource; a person has only so much of it. And yet we’ve auctioned off more and more of our public space to private commercial interests..."
The Hedgehog’s Array: March 13, 2015
Posted on March 13, 2015
in THR Web Features
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
Media Excess, Disruption, and the Future of the University
In his new book, Chad Wellmon argues against those who claim that the research university is an outmoded, bureaucratic institution ripe for disruption.
Status Elites
Within the literature on elites, status tends to be relatively ignored or neglected in favor of economic and political power.