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On our Front Table this week, weigh contradictory impulses, from artists negotiating contested motherhoods to fractious communities formed in prison. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com

The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (W. W. Norton & Company)
Julie Phillips

With fierce empathy, Julie Phillips evokes the intimate and varied struggles of brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. These mothers had one child, or five, or seven. They worked in a studio, in the kitchen, in the car...

On May 23rd, at noon, The Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "Visualizing Planetary Urbanization: Critical Spatial Media and the Critique of Urban Ideologies" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Workshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Alexander Arroyo, Grga Basic & Neil Brenner.

This presentation will take place both online in person at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge (5737 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637).

REGISTER FOR THE ONLINE EVENT HERE
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Henry A. Giroux, the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy and Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University, was kind enough to share this reading list of works that feel in conversation with or informed his latest book, Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured Ignorance, published by Bloomsbury last month. Find Professor Giroux's introduction and the list of titles below.

In the post-Trump era, the politics of historical amnesia, disappearance and disposability continue to thrive. Trump may have lost the election in 2020, but his influence is everywhere, and one consequence is that public values are continually denigrated and undermined by the politicians who...

2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the MIT Press, born in 1962 out of expansion efforts from MIT’s original publishing arm, the Technology Press. In the years since, the MIT Press has grown into one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading global publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. Below, find a few of our favorite MIT titles.

Returning to Reims (2013)
Didier Eribon

"Didier Eribon is currently a professor of Sociology at the University of Amiens. His memoir is the story his coming to terms with the working class community and family...