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Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)

New Books in Systems and Cybernetics

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The Role of Analyzing Isomorphism in Art History

David Frum: I was struck by the just my association as an intellectual historian thinking about the role that analysis of isomorphism plays in a lot of the scholarly writings of canonical neoliberal thinkers. He says he could have done much more work kind of unfolding the historiographies, but it was critical to identify or at least tie this notion to von Bertolonfie first and foremost. "I'm curious just as a kind of let's call this a curio really," writes Frum. 'Did you think dislike or not care about the fact that isomorphism was equally prominent among many of the folks you analyze'

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