Get down with PPP

In between building sandcastles and playing wave breaker, I’m enjoying every word of Dominic Boyer’s Understanding Media: a popular philosophy. I have a soft spot for popular science books, let alone those “committed to the unconventional, in anthropology, critical theory, philosophy, politics, and more” and just love the way Prickly Paradigm frames their rationale.

The old-time pamphlet is back, with some of the most challenging intellectual work being done today. Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC is devoted to giving serious authors free rein to say what’s right and what’s wrong about their disciplines and about the world, including what’s never been said before. The result is intellectuals unbound, writing unconstrained and creative texts about meaningful matters.

My wish list includes the following Prickly Paradigm titles:

• Deirdre McCloskey – The Secret Sins of Economics (PDF download here)
• Michael Silverstein – Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to “W” (PDF download here)
• Susan McKinnon – Neo-Liberal Genetics: The Myths and Moral Tales of Evolutionary Psychology
• Grant Farred – Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA