Recent thinking as bibliography

Being in France gives one lots of ideas for reading — after going to “Versailles”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0521599598/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link to realizing how “French Theory”:http://www.amazon.com/French-Theory-Foucault-Transformed-Intellectual/dp/0816647321/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product spread “in the United States”:http://www.amazon.com/French-Theory-America-S-Lotringer/dp/0415925371/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product. At the same time one of the recent scandals here about “students prostituting themselves”:http://www.amazon.fr/prostitution-%C3%A9tudiante-nouvelles-technologies-communication/dp/2353410294/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214249456&sr=8-1 in order to pay their way through college which of course would never happen in the United States… uh… or “would it”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/23/stripper?

At the same time, there are the usual projects that continue to follow me around: “Early Kinship”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405179015/ref=pe_5050_9414170_pe_snp_015 edited by Wendy James looks interesting, as does the new edition of “Identity and Control”:http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8672.html. Over at Savage Minds I’ve been turned on to “Malcolm McCullough”:http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mmmc/ and I have to admit I’m curious to see what Habermas has to say about “religion and science”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0745638252/ref=s9sims_c2_img1-rfc_g1-2991_g1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0E52FKZ118AKSTTM5QHA&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=320448701&pf_rd_i=507846 — apparently this is a topic he’s taken up with the “Pope”:http://www.amazon.com/Dialectics-Secularization-Reason-Religion/dp/1586171666/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b. There are other things, further afield. I am not sure how successful this book on “taxidermy and colonialism”:http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/W/wakeham_taxidermic.html will be, although this “collection on consumption in the 17th and 18th century”:http://www.amazon.com/Consumption-World-Goods-Culture-Centuries/dp/0415114780/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product fields a lot of winners.