foureyedsoul wants to read Sorting Things Out by Geoffrey C. Bowker

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A multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy that spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil …
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Actually I want to re-read this, having read it about 10 years ago. I remember it being excellent for discussing how the current narrative of the late-1960s uprisings having been mostly university-affiliated young adults profoundly misrepresents the broad coalition behind the uprisings. This story of how generational narratives mislead us seems very pertinent to the continual intergenerational tensions repeated throughout current lazy media.
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
What does it mean to “queer” the world around us? How does the radical refusal of the mainstream codification of …
Peer review processes in scholarly publishing are often hidden behind layers of opacity, leaving authors—and even reviewers—with many questions …