Social Text Book Series Launch Party

On November 21, Duke Press and Social Text will celebrate the launch of the first two books in the Social Text Books Series at a party at the NYU Tisch School of Arts. The public is welcome. For more information, please visit the Social Text Launch Party Web page.

Announcing a New Series

Experimental Futures:
Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit, series editors

Two Bits:
The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Christopher M. Kelty

“I know of no other book that mixes so beautifully a deep theoretical understanding of social theory with a rich historical and contemporary ethnography of the Free Software and free culture movements. Kelty’s book speaks to many audiences; his message should be understood by many more.”—Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School

Visit our News Page for links to the author's site and opportunities to discuss/modulate the book online.

Networking Futures:
The Movements against Corporate Globalization
Jeffrey S. Juris

“Networking Futures is a terrific, deeply informed ethnographic account of the origins and activities of the anti–corporate globalization movement. Jeffrey S. Juris’s identity is as much that of an activist who happens to be doing first-rate anthropology as vice versa, and there is much for anthropologists to reflect on in the way that this work is set up and narrated through these dual identities.”—George E. Marcus, coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

(separate keywords with
commas e.g., smith, john)

Our Spring 2009 catalog is now available online.

Visit the Duke Press blog.
For up-to-date news about our books and journals, and links to reviews, interviews, and author events, please visit our blog.