Books

Book reviews (non-fiction literature about media, public, big tech and film).

  • A nuanced take on Boko Haram

    During the past three years, Hilary Matfess has interviewed a number of women who have been freed from Boko Haram captivity in northern Nigeria.…

  • In power for eight years

    Barack Obama’s eight years as America’s first black president indirectly paved the way for the country’s «first white president», according to one of America’s…

  • The structural cruelty of American prisons

    Marc Morjé Howard’s book provides a shocking picture of America’s treatment of convicts through a detailed comparison of the European and American Prison systems.

  • Nuanced about Boko Haram

    AFRICA: Over the past three years, Hilary Matfess has interviewed a number of women who have been liberated from Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.…

  • The devil is in the distractions

    Solitude is an occasionally interesting reflection on the many qualities of loneliness in a time where we’re almost always connected with others.

  • Varoufakis’ magical realism

    By cutting the principles of capitalism to the bone and by using language that is straightforward, Yanis Varoufakis pulls out the essence of modern…

  • Agamben and the Ethics of Abnegation

    The Coming Community is a rich, complex and at times impenetrable text drawing you into the realm of the profane before finally presenting us…

  • Heretics the fun way

    The new cartoon and graphic narrative Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, offers a smooth beginning to some of the wisest…

  • The conqueror of the useless

    A genuine democracy must be open to dissent, the different and the useless. Only through this “conquest of the useless” can we get closer…

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