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Reading The Thibaults (Les Thibault) was one of my highlights of 2024. Published originally in serial form between 1922 and 1940, the novel tells the story of a family—their historical context, their relationships, and their movements across the private and public spheres. World War I also casts a heavy shadow over the story, but du Gard keeps us guessing, drawing out the suspense and urges us not to think the war was simply inevitable. The…

Re-Discovering the Richness of Everyday Life

By Davood Gozli | 04/05/202317/05/2023 by Davood Gozli

Over the past two years, I have created a series of videos based on the book, Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life by Svend Brinkmann. I posted the final part a few days ago. In this post, I want to discuss the book’s importance and who can benefit from it. Why is this book important? First, it removes the boundary between “doing research” and living a human life. The book shows that so much of what…

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James Baldwin’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain”

By Davood Gozli | 06/04/2023 by Davood Gozli

The feeling of existential unease, of not being at home in the world, is present in James Baldwin’s novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, to a painfully concentrated degree. The novel takes that feeling of unease as its starting point and goes on to explore broader themes related to family, history, and religion. The story is set in Harlem, New York City of the 1930s, centered on a day in the life of John…

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Review of “More than a Glitch” by Meredith Broussard

By Davood Gozli | 07/03/202307/03/2023 by Davood Gozli

In her book “More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability in Tech,” Meredith Broussard explores how various tech fields, including AI, user-interface design, surveillance, and predictive coding, perpetuate social biases on the basis of race, gender, and ability. She covers topics such as face recognition software, predictive policing, predictive grading in education, and medical diagnosis, and identifies problems in these fields that are exacerbated by blind faith in technology. Broussard uses the term…

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Review of ‘the Tyranny of Metrics’ by Jerry Z. Muller

By Davood Gozli | 20/07/202221/07/2022 by Davood Gozli

Among the books I have recently borrowed from the library, Jerry Muller’s (2018) book, the Tyranny of Metrics, has been the one I’d like to purchase a copy of and keep at hand for future reference. Muller is a historian who has written books on Adam Smith, various aspects of capitalism, and the history of conservative political thought. The initial seed for the Tyranny of Metrics, he writes in the introduction, was a series of…

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‘The Thibaults’ by Roger Martin du Gard: Reflections on a Masterpiece

Re-Discovering the Richness of Everyday Life

James Baldwin’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain”

Review of “More than a Glitch” by Meredith Broussard

Review of ‘the Tyranny of Metrics’ by Jerry Z. Muller