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'The Mind Sound: Yoko Ono's Creative, Resilient Thinking'
No full textAn essay on Yoko Ono's art, music and use of text, reviewing her show 'Music of the Mind' at Tate Modern in 2024
'O Pioneers!' The Times Literary Supplement Podcast
No full textPeter Maber in conversation about Yoko Ono's radical art and music
'Mapping the Origins of West End Theatre in London'
Get PDFThis public-facing 'lightning talk' was hosted by Northeastern's NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks and focused on a digital mapping project mapping the history of West End theatre in London
Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey
Get PDFAn excerpt from the final chapter of my book, describing five years in which I taught literature classes in New Jersey prisons, and how it changed the way I understood literature. In particular, it advances an argument about the reasons why readers might want to respond to canonical texts in a disobedient way
Can Patterns of Household Purchases Predict the Outcome of US Presidential Elections?
Get PDFWe use NielsenIQ US retail scanner data to show that changes in sales patterns can be used to predict US presidential
election results at the county level. Using a probit model, we regress 2016 election results against sales of various
products six months prior to the election. We employ the results and the sales data for 2020 to forecast presidential
election results in the same year. Comparison to actual election outcomes shows that our work correctly predicts
election results in 86.47% of cases across 2,602 US counties. We further study how changes in the consumption of certain goods influences voter turnout as well as Democrat and Republican votes
Taking up Space: The Case of the Ether
Get PDFIn this paper, we obtain some methodological lessons in theory construction and modification (generally called ‘theory choice’), using the ether as a test case. We focus on this posit both because it has a long history but also because it is associated with some spectacular theories and
theorists. In view of the fact that the ether has been expunged from contemporary science, we ask why it survived as long as it did, whether its discussion was a waste of space, and where we do go from here. The last of these questions concerns not just the ether but also similar posits currently in circulation or those that will enter circulation in years to come
An Ideological Divide? Political Parties’ Discourse in Italy’s Migration Cooperation with Libya and Albania
Get PDF'Enguerrand de Coucy, Princess Isabella and the Order of the Garter: Evidence from a Great Wardrobe Livery Roll'
No full textWhat Lies Ahead? The Political Crisis for Post-Trump America, in APG Roundtable: Scholarly Perspectives on the American Right
Get PDFAre Mediterranean Societies “Cultures of Honor?”: Prevalence and Implications of a Cultural Logic of Honor Across Three World Regions
Get PDFMediterranean societies are often labeled as “honor cultures,” in contrast with presumed “dignity” and “face” cultures of Anglo-Western and East Asian societies. We measured these cultural logics in two large-scale surveys (Studies 1 & 3: N = 2,942 students from 11 societies; Study 2: N = 5,471 adults from 14 societies). Middle Eastern and North African groups perceived honor values as the most normative in their societies, followed by Southeast European, and then Latin-European groups (who were comparable to Anglo-Western and East-Asian groups). East-Asian and Anglo-Western groups, respectively, perceived face and dignity values as most normative. Culture-level variation in perceived normative honor values, but not personal values, accounted for previously reported differences between Mediterranean and non-Mediterranean samples in several (but not all) measures of social cognitive tendencies. We conclude that a cultural logic of honor plays a role in Mediterranean societies, but labeling these societies as “honor cultures” is oversimplistic