/tags/book/ Recent content in Book on Keren Wang Hugo en-us Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:36:41 +0000 /blog/2025/08/new-research-project-artificial-intelligence-and-human-sacrifice/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:36:41 +0000 /blog/2025/08/new-research-project-artificial-intelligence-and-human-sacrifice/ <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><!-- Copyright Banner --></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:tadv/classic-paragraph --> <div style="margin: 1em auto; max-width: 760px; background: #fff3cd; color: #856404; border: 1px solid #ffeeba; border-radius: 4px; padding: 0.6em 1em; font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.35; text-align: center;"> </div> <!-- /wp:tadv/classic-paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"dropCap":true} --> <p class="has-drop-cap">On December 4, 2024, news broke that a lone gunman had assassinated UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive officer, Brian Thompson, outside the company’s headquarters.^{<a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">1</a>} The killing itself was shocking, but what unsettled many observers was the wave of sympathy that quickly coalesced around the perpetrator—donations, online tributes, and statements of support that revealed a raw seam in America’s collective experience of health care.^{<a href="#fn2" id="fnref2">2</a>} This dramatic act of killing is entangled with the dark trajectory in the devolution of the marketized healthcare industry in the United States: normalizing traumatic acts of takings, with increasingly unsustainable industry practices justifying the suspension of pre-existing taboos concerning the sanctity of life and the boundaries of wealth transfer.^{<a href="#fn3" id="fnref3">3</a>}</p> /blog/2018/11/announcing-upcoming-book-legal-and-rhetorical-foundations-of-economic-globalization-an-atlas-of-ritual-sacrifice-in-late-capitalism-in-press-with-routledge/ Sat, 03 Nov 2018 14:57:12 +0000 /blog/2018/11/announcing-upcoming-book-legal-and-rhetorical-foundations-of-economic-globalization-an-atlas-of-ritual-sacrifice-in-late-capitalism-in-press-with-routledge/ <!-- wp:html --> <p>(December 2nd, 2019)</p> <p> I am very pleased to announce that my academic monograph with Routledge | Taylor &amp; Francis Group <em>has now been published</em>: <a href="/blog/2018/11/announcing-upcoming-book-legal-and-rhetorical-foundations-of-economic-globalization-an-atlas-of-ritual-sacrifice-in-late-capitalism-in-press-with-routledge/">Keren Wang, </a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429198687"><em>Legal and Rhetorical Foundations of Economic Globalization: An Atlas of Ritual Sacrifice in Late-Capitalism</em></a>. It is available in both hardback and digital formats. </p> <p> This book was developed from my doctoral dissertation, “<a href="/blog/2018/05/presentation-at-2018-psu-social-thought-conference-three-studies-of-ritual-sacrifice-in-late-capitalism/">Three Studies of Ritual Sacrifice in Late Capitalism</a>.” I would like to extend my special thanks to <a href="http://cas.la.psu.edu/people/sxb17">Stephen H. Browne</a>, my dissertation supervisor, and to members of my dissertation advising committee: <a href="https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/faculty/backer">Larry Catá Backer</a>, <a href="http://cas.la.psu.edu/people/khw2">Kirt H. Wilson</a>, and <a href="http://cas.la.psu.edu/people/jde13">Jeremy David Engels</a>. This project would not have been possible without their guidance and mentorship. I would also like to express my gratitude to members of the <a href="http://cas.la.psu.edu">Department of Communication Arts and Sciences</a> at Penn State University for their generous, ongoing support of my Ph.D. study and related postdoctoral research. </p>