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
awesome...
thanks!
Apologies, this isn't his latest book, but his previous one. Still worth reading though.
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?
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.
Quote from: Cain on July 27, 2009, 05:49:32 PM
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
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.
Quote from: Cain on July 27, 2009, 08:29:10 PM
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 :) . . .
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.
Quote from: Cain on July 28, 2009, 12:03:28 PM
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