Provocations

In this 2018 iteration of the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Provocations series, participants in our 2018 conference will toss ideas onto the page to provide a reference point for opening up  debates and discussions on the theme of “Who do we think we are?”

Dimitry Bykov

Well…Wells

 

Jill Lepore

No Man’s Land

 

Jonathan Taplin

The End of Internet Plutocracy

 

Douglas Kearney

MANESOLOGY

 

Annette Gordon-Reed

Identity and Supremacy

 

Hua Hsu

Pledging Allegiance to a New America

 

Mark Trahant

Undemocratic Democracy

 

Junko Terao

First Tragedy – Then, Farce

 

Craig Calhoun

Forgetting the Social in the Age of Social Media?

 

Provocations began as a LARB series produced in conjunction with “What Cannot Be Said: Freedom of Expression in a Changing World,” a conference cosponsored by UCI, USC, and UCLA in January of 2016.