Princeton Report on Knowledge (PROK), Issue 3. Spin.
http://prok.princeton.edu
FOR PRESS RELEASE June 14,
2006
Princeton professors John Borneman and Gyan Prakash are pleased to
announce the publication of Issue 3 of P-ROK, Princeton Report on
Knowledge (http://prok.princeton.edu). Issue 3 is "SPIN: What is it? What
does it do? What is it good for?"
Special features in this issue:
INTERVIEW: with Ralph Nader on spin, civic education, Donald Rumsfeld at
Princeton, and corporate power, "Spin is an ideology attached to
myth, greased by raw power."
FORUM: with Anthony Grafton (History), Lee Silver (Molecular Biology), and
Harry Frankfurt (Philosophy, author of "On Bullshit")
INVENTIONS, INNOVATIONS, IDEAS: Patricia Crone on her book series "Makers
of the Muslim World," "[The experience of editing is] not
very different from marking undergraduate essays."
Plus Student Responses to the humor of professors
COMPTES RENDUS: Sadik al-Azm on humor, satire, and political cartoons,
""[Arab leaders] are not good at spinning, they lie, they
deceive."
Mary Douglas on cross-cultural interpretation, "What am I supposed to say
about that? I didn't sign up for this to reveal intimate things."
Steve Kotkin on corruption and spin in Russia
Plus in Rants and Raves: Near Eastern Studies 101: An Exchange
4Q & 4A: Robert George (Politics), Stanley Corngold (German and Comparative
Literature), Ruben Gallo (Spanish and Portuguese), and
Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Council of the Humanities) on the Miss Universe
pageant, sexual politics, street politics, and the silent majority.
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