ATTN Geopolitics geeks

[Cain]

Asia Times' Pepe Escobar has a new book out.

And its been released under a creative commons licence.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13670230/Pepe-Escobar-Globalistan

[Elder Iptuous]

awesome...
thanks!

[Cain]

Apologies, this isn't his latest book, but his previous one.  Still worth reading though.

[Elder Iptuous]

So a quick search for his latest "Obama does Globalistan" + "creative commons" didn't immediately turn anything up....
i wonder if he perceived it as biting his sales excessively?

[Cain]

Maybe.  Or he might have only released this Creative Commons version once sales of the hard copy dropped off.  I know a few artists and authors who do that, which is pretty cool of them.

[MMIX]

Maybe.  Or he might have only released this Creative Commons version once sales of the hard copy dropped off.  I know a few artists and authors who do that, which is pretty cool of them.

Still looks like a worthwhile read even if it is off the boil as a money maker

[Cain]

Any book that references Wallerstein, Bauman, Foucault, Virilio, Giddens, Brzeziński and Trotsky in the first thirty pages is a winner as far as I'm concerned.

[MMIX]

Any book that references Wallerstein, Bauman, Foucault, Virilio, Giddens, Brzeziński and Trotsky in the first thirty pages is a winner as far as I'm concerned.

be still my beating heart - ex-social theory wonk in another lifetime  . . .

[Cain]

I wish there had been more social theory when I was studying.  I started to get into Historical Sociology in the final year, but the department was geared mostly towards Realism/Liberalism/Constructivism, and the final one only at the upper levels.  There was a certain...poverty of theoretical thinking which I didn't like.

But given it wasn't a postgrad course, maybe I was expecting too much.

[MMIX]

I wish there had been more social theory when I was studying.  I started to get into Historical Sociology in the final year, but the department was geared mostly towards Realism/Liberalism/Constructivism, and the final one only at the upper levels.  There was a certain...poverty of theoretical thinking which I didn't like.

But given it wasn't a postgrad course, maybe I was expecting too much.

mutter mutter - rampant grade inflation - bums on seats - edubusiness - aaaagh

my partner just chipped in that theory has become something to frighten people with not the vital structural underpinning of the learning process - she felt like she was learning in a vacuum as an undergrad - they were trying to tell us what to think not how to think.

By the time I graduated Social Theory, which had been a key compulsory in my Degree programme [Behavioural Sciences] when I signed up, had been dropped from the curriculum.
We both went on to teach and believe me